In a Barcelona home pulsing with the early sounds of DJ Sisu, Dany BPM, and Javi Boss, a young Nekrohard learned that intensity in music is more than volume.
“Those artists were literally the soundtrack of my home… Sisu taught me feeling within electronic music, Dany BPM the power of clear, addictive rhythm, and Javi Boss that intensity that breaks through walls,” he recalls. The lessons were subtle but profound: rhythm, emotion, and narrative could hit harder than any speaker. It was the foundation for a lifetime obsession with sound.
His first experiments with transforming feeling into music came through a childhood rap group. Vulnerability became rhythm, and words became release. “It was my first school of artistic honesty… there is no sound without emotion behind it,” he reflects. Life, however, had other plans. Responsibilities, work, and study pulled him away from music. The obsession became a memory, dormant yet unbroken.
Years later, in the heat of a personal low, music returned not as entertainment but as survival. At Monegros, walking through the desert, he followed rhythms that seemed to rise from the sand itself. “I arrived disconnected from music, with no expectations, and ended up walking through the desert following rhythms that seemed to rise from the ground itself. There, something that had been asleep for years awoke. The music had never left; it was I who had disappeared from it.” That awakening marked the start of a rebirth, where loops of certain sets became refuge, each build-up a breath, each drop a release.
Returning as a raver first, rather than a DJ, shaped his perspective on music entirely. “Returning as a raver gave me the perspective that gives meaning to everything: feeling without thinking… I returned through the body, through the skin, through emotion.” From that immersion, discipline emerged. Months of training at Plastic Academia Barcelona sharpened his DJing—three- and four-deck mixing, phrase control, long progressive structures—and his production skills, from kick design to industrial atmospheres. Mentorship from DJ Madlo pushed him into the technical extremes, mixing four CDJs and a V10 after only months of playing, forcing rapid growth and precision.
The stage became his proving ground. Early Barcelona gigs taught him intimacy and tension; Eden Ibiza exposed him to the pressure of a major club; Voltage Fest, where paddle courts were transformed into raves, showed him the power of controlled chaos.
Nekrohard’s sound emerged from these experiences as a fusion of schranz velocity, industrial texture, and dark-pop emotion. “Schranz is the engine. Industrial is the texture. Dark pop is the soul. Together, they create an aggressive yet emotional sound.” Releases like Schranz Bastards, Loser, and Industrial Hell reveal this duality, blending merciless kicks, acid aggression, and cinematic atmospheres. “Loser… it’s confession and aggression; light and shadow.”
Influences from Indira Paganotto, DNNS, Sara Landry, Cristobal Pesce, Reinier Zonneveld, Klangkuenstler, and Kobosil shaped his high-energy, ritualistic, and cinematic aesthetic. Alongside his partner and collaborator Aura, he forged a sound that is both personal and confrontational, a statement of presence in an increasingly crowded European scene.
Professional milestones reinforced his artistic vision. Working with NWO Records demanded that each track not only hit hard but be identifiable, tailored for warehouses, clubs, and festivals. Upcoming work with Nachtsieger promises a sharper, darker, tribal edge. “It will be my darkest and sharpest work yet… fast, emotional, aggressive, and tribal,” he says, hinting at a deeper connection to European hard-techno and schranz traditions.
On stage, Nekrohard becomes something other than his introverted self. “I don’t seek to ban phones; I seek to make picking one up meaningless… I want to create moments so intense people prefer to feel them rather than record them.” His mantra—“Healing dead hearts with hard beats”—summarizes his approach: music as transformation, a chance to revive what life has broken. Each performance is ritual, each track a chapter in a universe of fall, fracture, fire, and rebirth.
Looking toward 2026, Nekrohard promises speed, symbolism, mysticism, and emotional density. “I want to capture what I experienced at Monegros, Verknipt, Blackworks, and Fury: dust, trance, sweat, ritual.” He is no longer chasing space in the scene – he is defining the edges.
