Scene Incubator #5: H4VOK, No Sleep Session, Con Cá Điện
Scene Incubator is back for round five, and the rule hasn’t changed: no safe bets, no single genre, no idea of what the night is “supposed” to sound like. We put three acts on one stage who have almost nothing in common except the nerve to play it loud. That’s the whole experiment. Come find out what happens when they collide.
On the bill this time:
H4VOK a slamming death metal band from Ho Chi Minh City, formed in December 2025 with one goal: drag a fresh wave of slam into the Saigon underground. They build their sound on the explosive end of death metal, stacking brutal slam riffs against samples, rapper and DJ collaborations, and the occasional meme dropped into the set when you least expect it. Take the savagery of Angelmaker, Ingested, and PeelingFlesh, then run it through a modern, genre-bending filter. Heavy as hell and refusing to take itself entirely seriously, which is exactly why it works.
No Sleep Session a self-produced indie trio from Ho Chi Minh City who braid indie pop, funk, R&B, and warm atmospheric soundscapes into music made as much for the heart as the ear. Three self-described insomniacs, Ann, Dden, and Biip, who first caught fire online by dissecting and rebuilding the styles of well-known Vietnamese indie acts, then turned that attention inward toward something deeper. They run a fierce DIY operation, writing, producing, mixing, and shooting nearly everything themselves, treating sound and visuals as a single closed loop. With more than 1.6 million Spotify streams, 28,000-plus YouTube subscribers, and a debut album in the works, the half-joke in the name now reads more like a manifesto.
Con Cá Điện a fresh, eclectic band from Saigon whose whole appeal lives in the friction between styles. The name translates loosely as “the electric fish,” and the music earns it, pitting traditional influences against a modern streak and letting rock, indie, groove-pop, funk, and avant-garde textures rub up against each other. They move between English and Vietnamese, between moody and kinetic, held together less by a fixed formula than by a shared instinct for groove and a taste for the unexpected. A band more interested in their own chemistry than in fitting any single shelf, and all the better for it.
As usual, tickets are 200k with one drink included