We had an amazing 2025 edition with a lot of great bands and activities in 3 days of sickness!
2026 full lineup and program
For the first timers - get to know us!
This isn’t just another gig or your usual festival experience. It’s a small community doing a non-profit event in a part of Croatia and Europe where not much happens, so please be respectful towards the locals, your fellow visitors, and the crew, who put thousands (!!) of collective hours into making this happen - completely voluntarily and because of pure love for what we do.
Sick As We Are is an annual gathering of the Balkan hardcore punk community in Zupanja, Croatia.
We're a small, intimate festival with a friendly atmosphere and a strong do-it-yourself spirit. Over the past 17 years, we've hosted 208 different bands on our stage. They've come to our little shithole from five different continents, and every year anywhere from a few hundred to around a thousand visitors show up - mostly from across Eastern Europe, with the occasional fly-ins from further away. But for us, it’s never really been about the numbers - we like to think that it’s about the community we get together and the friendships we make and nourish during these three days, packed with noisy underground music is what makes this gathering special.
Our crew comes together as a non-profit collective of punks, and enthusiasts who are trying to educate, connect, and push for change - locally and beyond.
We don’t do this for money and we prove that on every front. Everyone involved works entirely voluntarily and free of charge. Same goes for the bands and artists involved - no headliners and big names with big sponsorships and budgets. The festival is donation-based, but that doesn’t mean it’s free to run. We pour in a lot of time and our own resources, just to make it all happen. There are no corporate sponsors, no local or state funding, no shady branding deals and no bullshit. No fences. No entrance fee. No minimum donations. No queues. Pure freedom for all, hardcore punk in your face - the way it should be. What we stand for is what we do.
“Our crew is always around if you need help with anything or anyone - just ask. We wish you a wonderful time at our gathering, take care of each other and have an amazing stay in Županja.”
2026 LINEUP
THURSDAY // 16.07. // 21h
CITY SPEAK (Mainz, DE)
melodic punk rock
cityspeakband.bandcamp.com
MILOVAN(Novi Sad, RS)
punk rock
⤑ milovans.bandcamp.com
CRNA ZUC (BeLGRADE, RS)
post punk
⤑ doomtownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-9
ODPADKI CIVILIZACIJE (Ljubljana, SI)
80s old schoold hardcore punk
⤑ iritator.bandcamp.com/album/iritator-odpadki-civilizacije-split
FRIDAY // 17.07. // 17:30h
Nuclear Altar (POZEGA, HR)
d-beat cruelty and crust apocalypticism
⤑ nuclearaltar.bandcamp.com
Killing Yield (Zagreb, HR)
full throttle raw hc punk
⤑ killingyield.bandcamp.com
astris Lapsus (Bratislava, SK)
emo post punk
⤑ astrislapsus.bandcamp.com
Disznótor (Belgrade, RS)
psych post punk
⤑ disznotor.bandcamp.com
U.B.T. (Zagreb, HR)
furious hardcore punk offensive
⤑ ubtnoise.bandcamp.com
Antigen (Prague, CZ)
melodic crust punx
⤑ antigen.bandcamp.com
Pasja Kola (Zagreb, HR)
punk n roll attack!
Kriva IStina (ZG/sB, HR)
melodic hardcore punk
⤑ krivaistina.bandcamp.com
Shock Troopers (Skopje, MK)
raw metalized crust and short grindcore bursts
⤑ shocktroopers1.bandcamp.com
Barräkas (San José, CR)
anarcho raw punk
⤑ barrakas.bandcamp.com
SATURDAY // 18.07. // 18h
Giht (KArlovac, HR)
psych punk
⤑ giht.bandcamp.com
Smola (Barcelona, ES)
hc punk satarash
⤑ discospinya.bandcamp.com/album/smola
Human Needs (Milan, IT)
anarcho post punx
⤑ humanneeds.bandcamp.com
Identity Shock (Atlanta, USA)
straight edge hardcore
⤑ designatedmoshersunit.bandcamp.com/album/dmu-020-identity-shock-traces-e-p
Razlog Za (Kutina, HR)
special reunion show of the 90s legendary hc band
⤑ youtube.com/watch?v=-hM65MifydA
Ta2reeban (Beirut, LB)
melodic hardcore punk
⤑ ta2reeban.bandcamp.com
Oust (Amsterdam, NL)
hardcore punk blizzard
⤑ oustpunx.bandcamp.com
Alarm (Stockholm, SE)
hardcore punk d-beat, ex Victims & Outlast
⤑ alarmhardcore.bandcamp.com
Ostraca (Richmond, USA)
screamo
⤑ ostraca.bandcamp.com
OCtopoulpe (MExico City, MX)
one man core band
⤑ octopoulpe.bandcamp.com
Exact running timetable available only on festival site.
You’ll have to show up early to support them all!
24 bands in 3 days
Listen to all the bands playing at the festival this year!
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM
✚ Exhibition: In The Pit vol.2 + Smak Press
✚ Workshop: Screen print your shirts
✚ Performance: Tricycle Trauma - Dark Circus
✚ Sick After Parties
DISTROS AND MERCHANDISE
⤑ Active Distribution
⤑ Autsajder Produkcija
⤑ Biking Metal Punx
⤑ Free shop - Uzmi ili Ostavi
⤑ In the Pit - vol.2
⤑ MAZ - Mreža Antifašistkinja Zagreba
⤑ Screenprint your T-shirt (workshop)
⤑ Second hand band T-shirts (solidarity action)
⤑ Smak Press
Movie Screenings
⤑ Farewell AKAB Okretnica
⤑ Pank na Salašu
⤑ '48: Resisting the Big Settlement
Screenings start every night at 21:00h in Movie Tent
FOLLOW AND STAY UPDATED
✪ sickasweare.com
✪ facebook.com/sickasweare
✪ instagram.com/sickasweare
Come join us for the final week of DIY preparations with SAWA Crew in Županja (10.-16.07.2026.) - food and drinks sickured!
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