In 1999 we recorded the first 5 track demo which was pretty shitty, but hey, we were just kids with an attitude and we loved the music. Soon after the demo was recorded our bass guitarist left the band and Mateja grabbed the bass guitar and remains there until today. IN-SANE started to play as many shows as only possible around Slovenia at this time and started to be a part of the local scene, helping out with the local youth club. In 2000 we have parted ways with our long time singer Mato, but none the less remained close

friends and Mato is still a part of the IN-SANE crew, or even better family, taking care of merchandise and the van as well as going on tours with us and being a friend . IN-SANE has been a trio ever since. The line up is still unchanged: Dario (guitar, vox), Mateja (bass, vox) and Shaggie (drums and stick ass sticker). In the next couple of years we recorded countless demos as well as an LP CD which we never published called “CEREAL KILLERS”, played loads of shows around Slovenia and our first shows abroad in Austria. In 2002 we were invited to take part in the annual EUROPEAN MUSIC MEETING in Graz, Austria where we met bands from all over Europe, enjoyed and learned a lot of things concerning music and arts and off course the D.I.Y. ethics which we still love and live by. We also met the brain Michi Merkusch

who recorded our first EP called “Revenge Against Boredom” which was published D.I.Y. in October 2002 and sold in 150 copies and is sold out. We started playing more and more shows around Slovenia and abroad, playing in countries such as Austria and Croatia. 2003 saw IN-SANE as a mature (but still a very young band – the members have been 17 and 18 years old) band and on the EMM2003 people couldn’t believe the progress the band has made. So equipped with a CD and lots of energy we started 2004 with lots of shows all around Slovenia, Austria, Croatia,… We booked our first tour completely D.I.Y. in autumn 2004 and played shows in countries such as Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania. We started 2005 with a short 4 day ITALIAN TOUR, which was followed with lots of shows

in Slovenia, Croatia and Austria. And at the end of 2005 we toured for 14 days again, booking our shows and putting our music out completely by ourselves… the November euro tour  2005 took us to places like: Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Germany. At that time we were also taking part in the Slovenian punkrock scene being one of the protagonists of the GOT PUNK? #2 tour, together with our fellow bands and friends Golliwog and Harry. The tour caravan had played ten shows in Slovenia and the bands got a lot of attention. In the beginning of 2006 we did a short Balkans tour where we played shows in Belgrade (Serbia), Bosnia and Hercegovina and Macedonia. We were also doing a lot of shows for bands and friends from all over Europe in our hometown club MD GROM. In the

end of April 2006 we did a one week Italian/French tour and had a great time and the peoples response was also awesome. At that time we were also recording our first official full length in Graz, Austria together with Tom Zwanzger the guitarist of the Austrian skardcorepunk heroes ANTIMANIAX. The album called “Keeping Ourselves Close To Our Hearts” was released in the end of June 2006, off course it was D.I.Y. The release party was followed by loads of shows around Slovenia and surrounding countries and at the end of 2006 with another Eastern Europe Tour, where we played Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland. In these years we have also become very active in our scene and are promoting a lot of shows, booking shows  for friend bands and bands we like, and promoting the punk/hc

scene in our region. We also book tours for bands from all over Europe and we are glad to be able to help our scene grow bigger and stronger and more friendly. That’s why we decided to create a platform for bands called INSANE BOOKING and PROMOTION, where we help out young bands and support them. Soon we will also finish building our own little studio in which we hope many young and talented bands from our region will be able to do their first steps in the scene. That’s the true meaning of the word hardcore for us, mutual help and support. IN-SANE are not just three people in a band, we are passionate about music, politics and the scene. We love it, sometimes we hate it, but none the less we are a part of it and we want it to stay that way. We love D.I.Y., we love hardcore and we love the people involved in it and are thankful that we can be a part of a scene that is hardcore/punk.