Press kit.
Post-hardcore from Graz. First single "Wanted" is out now – the number on the flyers still rings: phone. Next single "Happy" on 4 December 2026. Video: cursedandcalling.com/wanted-video. Everything on this page may be used for editorial coverage.
Facts
Playlists & coverage
Playlists
- VISIONS – Best New Songs DE · peak #2
- V13 – Punk US
- Metalcore Nerds US
- Top 100 Metal CA
- Hardcore Holiday CA
- Kleine Zeitung – So klingt Graz AT
- NeverGrownUp – Emerging Punk DE
- Folk Rock Alchemist – Pop Rock MX
- Non Stop Rock 14.5k
- Alternative Rock Anthems 2026 US · Apple Music
- Jesea Lee’s New Music Friday US
- Avondale Records – Post Punk Trunk UK
- Avondale Records – Spotify Radio UK
Press
- Kleine Zeitung AT
- ganzgraz AT · Newsletter #106
- X-Act Music Magazine DE
- Underdog Fanzine DE
- Pressure Magazine DE
- Randalefunk DE
- Punkadeka IT
- Metal Devastation Radio US · Battle of the Bands
- IDIOTEQ PL · feature
- The Indy Review US · New Music Friday
- Punkeando! MX · review coming
Radio
- Radio TFSC DE
- RhyRock Radio CH
- Punk Rock Demonstration Radio Show US
- SLC Punkcast US
- The Chris Court Show US
- Alternativa HUB – Rádio Alternativa Rock BR · 6 Nov
- WAIF 88.3 FM US
- The Ledge – Real Punk Radio US
- BOROs Rockshow – Radio Darmstadt DE
- no!pop DE · 7 Nov
- Deviations – Radio ARA LU · interview, 21 Nov
- Jake's Inferno – Real Punk Radio US · Jan 2027
Live
- 15 Nov 2026 · ppc, Graz AT · Local Heroes Styria – final
- 4 Dec 2026 · Explosiv, Graz AT · single release show "Happy"
- 26 Feb 2027 · Music House, Graz AT · EP release show "Hello" · with Tomorrow First (AT), Furiosa (CZ)
- 13 Mar 2027 · Schlot, Linz AT · with Perlock Holmes, Lurch
- 2 Apr 2027 · album release "Feel the Sun", Graz AT · location tba
Press kit PDF · A4 Press kit PDF · US Letter 2 pages, 0.8 MB – facts, bio, photos, QR to the phone.
Cover
On the street
107 flyer photos from Prague, Berlin, Graz, Weiz and Sheffield – city under every picture, free to use with credit: cursedandcalling.com/wall
Photos
Click to open full size. Credit: Cursed and Calling. Cover: grizzlydeerart. Black & white with orange – that is the look, please keep it.
Short bio
Cursed and Calling are four people from four countries in one rehearsal room in Graz. Post-hardcore with weight and melody, produced by Kurt Ebelhäuser (Donots, Blackmail, T.S.O.L.).
The first single "Wanted" came out on 23 October 2026 – before that, it existed only on the phone: flyers with a number are hanging in New York, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Graz, Sheffield, Malta and Ohio, and counting. Call or scan, hear the song. cursedandcalling.com/call
The album "Feel the Sun" follows on 2 April 2027.
Long bio
Cursed and Calling is born from songs nobody planned. Hardcore was never a phase – more like a base frequency, what's left when you strip everything else away. Shows, basements, rehearsal rooms, the whole DNA. At some point nothing seemed to work anymore. And then, out of nowhere, these songs were there. Unasked, unplanned. And that feeling of finally being home again.
Kurt Ebelhäuser heard the demos and got it right away. No long explanations, no pitch – he took them and said: let's do it. In the end, both walked out of the studio grinning.
It didn't take long before it got contagious. Miklos from Hungary, Ehren from Malta, Chris from Austria – everyone understood immediately what this was about. No casting, no masterplan. Four people, four countries, one rehearsal room in Graz, now bringing Cursed and Calling to the streets. To where hardcore belongs: small stages, in the pit, eye to eye.
"Feel the Sun" is the record all four of them had been missing before it existed. No pressure, no calculation. An album that starts in the dark and finds its way into the light. Sadness writes the songs – but the light keeps us alive.
Audio
Press and radio get the broadcast files (WAV 24 bit / MP3 320) in the mail we send – or just ask: press@cursedandcalling.com.
Links
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