Now introducing: your new favorite artist at the #SXSW2026 Music Fest.

Join Ryan as he chats with Howard and Jun from PH0, a Brooklyn-based band blending traditional Chinese instruments with electronic and metal influences. Discover their journey, creative process, and upcoming performances at South By, along with insights into their unique sound and cultural fusion.

P.H.0 fuse the raw intensity of metal, the cyberpunk intensity of techno and drum & bass, and the visceral punch of modular synths with the ritualistic atmosphere of East Asian religious ceremonies, all channeled through the haunting melodies of the Chinese erhu.

Brooklyn’s P.H.0 [“P-H-zero”] describes itself as “silkpunk/cyber-metal,” crediting the former term to sci-fi horticulturalist Ken Liu, while elaborating on a teeth-rattling crucible of trad-Asian elements and instrumentation, plus “the fragmented chaos of analog modular synthesizers.” Howard Ouyang, Pierre Pi, and Jun Guo core the current quintet’s crossover from clean, ambient melodicism – rain falling on city rooftops – to harsh, dystopian mosh incitement in the streets on October EP Gore: DLC. Somebody get P.H.0. the opening slot on a Melt-Banana tour. – Raoul Hernandez

“For the distant future, if I may dream ambitiously, I want our music to no longer be called Chinese music, but just music.”

RADII met with P.H.0 in their small Brooklyn studio for a conversation about cultural identity, authenticity, and what it means to be “Silkpunk.”