Back in 2014, sometime during the summer holidays, Paula and Karlo played together for the first time in Karlo’s parents’ house in Mihovljan, a suburban settlement just outside of Čakovec, with Paula being on the drums, and Karlo playing the guitar.
They wrote two songs in two days, and those songs sounded like a mix of Sonic Youth and the Pixies, which were some of their favorite bands at the time (and still are). They were only doing this for fun and there was nothing serious about those sessions, also, none of the songs ever got recorded.

In 2015, Karlo connected with a drummer; Mario (Mac), a cool and chill guy from the neighboring city of Varaždin. They wrote about an album's worth of songs and recorded a short demo, rehearsing their material every Saturday. The music they were making could have been classified as a mixture of grunge, '90s alternative, and punk rock. The duo arranged their first gig at a local bar/nightclub, and needed a name in order to perform. Since they were in a rush, they were going through Karlo’s music library on the Windows Media Player, looking for a song or an album with a cool title they could steal for a band name. There were a couple of other candidates, but eventually they settled for “Revirgin”, which was the name of the second album by a scottish Death Metal band, Korpse.
That first incarnation of Revirgin played their first show on January 29, 2016, which was unfortunately also their last - Karlo and Mac parted ways soon after the concert and spoke only a few times in the following years.

Karlo discarded all the songs he wrote with Mac, and after a six-month break from music, he started working on his own album from scratch. Since he was also doing illustrations and writing short stories about a socially-inept loner weirdo character who often found himself in surreal and unusual situations, a character loosely based on his own personality in situations that reflected his own real-life experiences, he came to an idea about creating some sort of a multimedia project, incorporating illustrated short stories with his music. He spent the rest of 2016 working on the project, which was finally released on April 11, 2017 on Bandcamp and YouTube. Since the project also needed a name and Karlo was both reluctant about using his own birth name, or coming up with a new project name (which also meant creating all the social and music platform profiles), he stuck with “Revirgin”, hoping Mac wouldn’t mind (though he never asked if Mac was okay with it lol).
He continued writing music and having fun with it solely for his own amusement, never doing live shows or participating in any live events, nor trying to promote it on the music scene. He published a couple of albums, short stories and illustration collections from 2017 to 2019 - with the only reason being him not wanting the songs to stay locked in his room, and no promotion was done whatsoever.

Throughout the years he asked Paula a couple of times if she was up for forming a real band, which she never quite showed interest for, so he eventually gave up on the idea. All changed on All Saints' Day 2019, when Paula and Karlo were driving in a car with a friend, Dominik (who was a photographer for the local news portal), while on their way from a movie theater to the Varaždin cemetery, where their friend planned on taking pictures of thousands of people paying their respects to their deceased loved ones. The trio had just seen “Doctor Sleep” (which was supposed to be a sequel to “The Shining” but turned out to be an utter disappointment), and out of nowhere, Paula expressed she wanted to form a band - this time for real - and Dominik agreed that would indeed be pretty cool.

The next day Paula and Karlo started working on new songs, with Paula playing the bass, and Karlo sticking to the guitar and vocal duties. Initially, Karlo was against going under the name “Revirgin” again, but Paula insisted they stick with it because it’s a cool name. In the next couple of months and into the new year, all while in search for a drummer, the duo wrote an album's worth of songs and recorded a three song demo which was released on Bandcamp and YouTube under the name “Revirgin 2.0”, which could have been classified as a mixture of grunge, '90s alternative, punk and post-punk, combined with strong influences from the early albums of the Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party.
As Čakovec is a small city and there aren’t that many drummers around in general - and those that are around are usually already “taken” - the drummer was never found. After playing for 5 months with no luck finding a drum-playing person interested in alternative music, Paula and Karlo became discouraged, and out of frustration, in March 2020 finally called it quits.

They took a three-month break pursuing other activities, during which time Karlo recorded another solo album accompanied by illustrated short stories.

In June 2020, they reformed again - and it was probably out of boredom because that’s about time when covid hit and they had nowhere to go and nothing else to do - but this time they had a rule that they only ever stay a duo and do everything by themselves, which gave them freedom by not having to rely on other people, but also meant they had to find a way to replace live musicians they couldn’t find with electronic machines in some way. That proved to be quite a challenge for them - they never dabbled in electronic music before - they knew nothing about synthesizers or drum machines since they grew up listening to Grunge, Alternative rock and Punk.

So they were just kinda winging it really, they bought their first synthesizer/sequencer in that same month of 2020, and made a list of bands who (they thought) used synthesizers, to listen to, for inspiration. Some of the artists on the list (Iggy Pop, Bowie, La Femme, Tom Waits, Ciccone Youth and Ministry) who had more in common with Punk and Alternative genres Paula and Karlo already had listened to in the past, while others, more associated with New Wave and Goth, were completely new to them at the time.
Since recreating the rock/punk sound they knew well with synths and electronic beats they knew nothing about wasn’t a good idea and the duo wasn’t happy with the results they were initially getting, they started leaning more and more towards the New Wave genre, eventually completely immersing themselves into that 80s synth madness, by also embracing other 80s genres like Gothic rock and Darkwave.

Artists like Talking Heads, Ambitious Lovers, Grace Jones, The Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ekatarina Velika, Falco, Jean-Michel Jarre (and many others) greatly inspired the early works of the band, and basically all the songs made throughout the rest of the year 2020 and the year 2021. Those songs will later appear on their albums “Simulations” and “Moderna Rješenja”. But hey, we’re still in 2021, more about albums later.

During fall of 2021, after a little more than a year of writing and rehearsing new songs, the duo decided they were ready for a live show, so they started looking for options, writing e-mails to music clubs and venues they knew were dealing with alternative artists. Since they had nothing released yet, except for that demo from January 2020 which had nothing in common anymore with the music they were currently making, they decided they needed a music video for some of the newer songs, to represent them for the events coming. In September 2021 they filmed their first music video for their song “Coldest City”, which they wrote back in November 2020, while sick and isolated in their flat with covid-19. The video for “Coldest City”, and also the video for “Luggage” that came a few months later, were inspired by a bunch of 80s music videos like Jean-Michel Jarre’s “Zoolookologie”, Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing”, Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime”, Grace Jones’ “Slave to the Rhythm” and many more.

Revirgin played their first (at the time still illegal… covid) live show at a bar called Pikač, which was owned by a friend of Karlo’s dad, for a small number of people consisting mostly of their families and a few friends. Their first actual live performance for the general public was on the 20th of November, 2021, at Palach, Rijeka, at a Ri-Rock “warm-up” event. The show was well received by the people of Rijeka, and was the first of many to come the next year of 2022 (we will not go through every show we played here in this text, but here you can see all the places we ever played if you’re interested in that kind of stuff).

The songs Paula and Karlo wrote in late 2020 and first half of 2021 were released on their debut album, “Simulations”, on April 15, 2022.
In that same April of 2022, they filmed a music video for a song called “The Trial”. The video was inspired by the movie of the same name directed by Orson Welles, while the song was inspired by a novel of the same name, written by Franz Kafka.
The band played numerous shows throughout the year of 2022, in order to promote the album.

Back in mid-2021, when all the songs for “Simulations” were finished, Karlo and Paula kind of separated creatively, so eventually, all the songs were being written by Karlo from then on, and in the period between August 2021 and September 2022 he wrote about 40 songs, 12 of which appeared on their second album, “Moderna Rješenja”, mainly drawing inspiration from 80s King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, and in the later period, even from Black Metal bands like Emperor and Gorgoroth.

In 2023, playing only a few live shows, Revirgin was taking it slow performing-wise, taking their time rehearsing the songs for their upcoming album which was scheduled for release in October 2023., and also filming 5 music videos in order to promote the album.
“Moderna Rješenja” was released on October 20, 2023.

In early 2024 the duo decided it was time for a change, and since they’ve long grown tired of the New Wave genre and 80s synthesizers, Paula picked up the bass guitar again, Karlo got hooked onto game soundtracks and Jungle/Drum ‘n’ Bass music while working on his solo side-project, Coordinatore Marketing, and Revirgin consequently headed again into a new (or better say - their old(?), pre-Simulations) direction. Paula and Karlo reunited creatively again, and from March to September 2024 they wrote the songs for their upcoming album "Nadam se da se dobro zabavljaš", which marks a stylistic departure from their previous efforts, and style-wise more of a return to their Alternative/punk roots, with a touch of electronic, jungle and D'n'B, along with the jazz-fusion sounds influenced by Coordinatore Marketing.

"Nadam se da se dobro zabavljaš", Revirgin's third studio album, is out on Halloween, Oct 31, 2024.