Nueva Etica begins its activities in the year 1998, by intiative of the oldest members of Straight Edge scene from Buenos Aires, whose intention was to form a band that gave back to the local scene of HC the message of Animal Liberation and the lifestyle free of intoxication, between this members are members of the legendary groups of the Buenos Aires Straight Edge scene, which played in bands like Vieja Escuela, Autocontrol, Eternidad and another present ones as Sudarshana, Los Verdaderos and Mostomalta.
In the year 1999, after playing all around Buenos Aires with important bands of local HC, Nueva Etica decides to enter to record its first demo production, wich is published by the label Firme y Alerta Discos. This one sees the light at the end of the same year and counts with six songs, influenced musically by bands as Path O Resistance and Integrity, whose letters would become in true hymns of the latinamerican HC scene with the time.
After the launching of its first production, the next step was go out to and play a lot o shows from all Buenos Aires and the provinces of the rear area of the country. The answer from the crow was immediate, receiving proposals from another countries, in that way Nueva Etica undertakes its first tour to Brazil, making shows in Rio de Janeiro, Vitoria and finishing in San Pablo, in the first edition of the festival called