Our ongoing discovery of new music through discovery platform Groover leads us to interview bands from all over the world. However, some don’t respond to our requests, so we do regular round-ups of new bands that have submitted tracks to us.
This month, we’ve got a quick round-up of five bands from five different countries – Canada, Italy, Sweden, the UK and Ukraine – with very different sounds, ranging from indie rock to metalcore. So read on and listen to all of them on our GigRadar Groover Spotify playlist.
The Hi-Sides – The Boy
Indie rock/punk band The Hi-Sides hail from Brighton but have a tour planned across northern Spain next month before touring the east coast of the USA over the summer. They sent us the lively The Boy from their debut 2022 album Out of the Sun. It opens up with stabs of guitar over a cheeky bassline, which continue under laid-back vocals. The pace picks up through a chorus of “Where did the boy go, Where is the boy” and drops back into a verse that intensifies with drawn-out vocals and guitars, leading into another catchy extended chorus. The cheeky bassline takes centre stage and carries on as vocals come in and build up to a final chorus.
You can follow The Hi-Sides on Instagram, and check out their music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Imperishable – Riding Demons
Gothenburg band Imperishable blend Swedish and Floridian death metal in a sound that harks back to the glory days of the 1980s. They sent us recent release Riding Demons, which opens up with a cool guitar riff that kicks into life over driving drums. Gruff vocals take over supported by intense stabbing guitars, and the pace drops with the drums dropping out, before continuing with another atmospheric verse. Huge rolling drums build the intensity before dropping into an awesome guitar solo, which feeds into a huge mass of lively guitars and drums. The pace suddenly drops as vicious vocals take over before concluding with mellow guitars. if you like the sound of that, we recommend checking out Venomous from their 2023 album Come, Sweet Death. And there’s much where that came from, with Imperishable releasing their second album Swallowing The World next Friday (11 April).
You can follow Imperishable on Facebook and Instagram, and check out their music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Inconvenience – October
Italian band Inconvenience started out with a pretty heavy metalcore approach but are shifting towards more of a post-hardcore sound. Our first taste of this is October, which was released last October, which opens up with twinkling electronic sounds and a building guitar noise. It blasts into heavier guitars with a high-pitched synth that drop into light vocals. Rolling drums and a synth creep in as chunky guitar chords build the intensity and it flows into a big chorus. Another light verse follows with instrumentals creeping in and leading into a big atmospheric chorus. It suddenly explodes in intensity, with big crushing guitars and screamed vocals in a big breakdown, before building up to a final blast of the chorus. Inconvenience have a solid back catalogue of metalcore goodness, including last year’s album SILENCE and 2020 album Blackness.
You can follow Inconvenience on Facebook and Instagram, and check out their music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Jonas & The Jaguar Moon – Believer
Canadian band Jonas & The Jaguar Moon is led by vocalist Jonas Tomalty, who’s toured with the likes of Van Halen and Deep Purple. His latest project, alongside guitarist Steve Nadeau, drummer Francis Fugere and bassist Alexandre Lapointe, offers a nostalgic nod to pure rock’n’roll. They sent us debut single Believer, which was released back in September. It opens up with a funky little guitar lick that drops into light guitars supporting Jonas’ engaging vocals. We’re counted into a lively chorus of “Hear me, Now I see, Past the gates of hurt, Feel me, Leave me be, I’m more than you deserve, Cause that ain’t love,” which ends with a brief return of the lick. Another light verse with rolling drums and light guitars, and a second chorus ends with high-pitched guitars, stabbing chords before a final blast of the chorus. If you like the sound of that then you’re in luck as the single is on the debut album Jonas & The Jaguar Moon, which was released in January.
You can follow Jonas & The Jaguar Moon on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and check out their music on Spotify and Apple Music.
NOAPOLOGY – Red Light
Ukrainian rockers NOAPOLOGY fuse hard rock and melodic metal in a firey but engaging sound. The Kyiv band started out as a YouTube cover act called Sershen & Zaritskaya – formed of vocalist Daria Zaritskaya and guitarist Sergey Sershen – which gained over 200 million views and now has close to one million subscribers. But they branched out into writing original music after war broke out in their country in 2022, bringing bassist Alex Shturmak and drummer Przemek Nalazek on board.
The band sent us the huge Red Light, a track from their excellent debut album Uncovered, which was released in Janaury. It opens up with Daria’s intense vocals supported by vicious guitar stabs and haunting high-pitched synths. The pace picks up as drums come in and heavier guitars support the powerful vocals then drop back into the stabbing guitars. The pace drops with light drums and laid-back vocals and builds up with wild stabbing guitars and electronic sounds, before the heavy guitar stabs return under Daria’s engaging vocals. A cool driving riff kicks in as a big final chorus brings the track to a powerful conclusion. There’s plenty more rock-meets-metal goodness on their album so go and give it a listen.
You can follow NOAPOLOGY on Facebook and Instagram, and check out their music on Spotify, Bandcamp, Apple Music and YouTube.
We’ll be back with more new music discovered through Groover very shortly, and you can check out these bands and all of those we’ve covered from the site in our playlist below.
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