Yesterday (August 12th) saw the announcement of the 2025 ‘FYA Fest‘, which had been booked to go down at the Shanna and Bryan Glazer Jewish Community Center in Tampa, FL on January 04th & 05th. While that venue has hosted the annual hardcore festival for a number of years now — including the 2024 edition this past January — the decision to hold next year’s edition of the fest there has become more of a hot button issue.
Allegations of Zionism and more have been leveled against the aforementioned venue, with support for Israel (and by extension Israel’s war efforts) becoming increasingly unpopular to some as the toll of Israel’s war against Hamas since October of last year continues to rise. It seems the backlash on social media and likely from a few bands was enough for the festival’s organizers to seek out a new venue.
A statement shared earlier today (August 13th) by the festival’s organizers reads as follows:
In light of recent information, we are in the process of finding a replacement venue. Because of this, tickets for the fest most likely will not be going up on Friday. We are waiting on confirmation from another venue before releasing tickets. We will be posting updates when we have them”
The Shanna and Bryan Glazer Jewish Community Center list various pro-Israel-related causes among their vision. With the death toll continuing to rise among the Palestinian people amid the ongoing war in the region, various artists from the hardcore scene have been staging protests against music events with ties to pro-Israel causes.
The roster of artists booked for next year’s event include:
- Foundation
- Nails
- Mindforce
- Terror
- Blistered
- Fury
- Death Threat
- Kids Like Us
- The Mongloids
- Alienator
- Bad Beat
- Balmora
- Bayway
- Big Boy
- Burning Lord
- Collateral
- Conservative Military Image
- Contention
- Crush Your Soul
- Extinguish
- Face The Pain
- Final Resting Place
- Holy Blade
- Internal Bleeding
- Killing Frost
- Missing Link
- Nothing But Enemies
- Ozone
- Scarab
- Silver
- Statement Of Pride
- Sanction
- Steamroll
- Stigmatism
- Think I Care
- Torture
