Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
With Halloween around the corner, you'd be wise to be wary of all things nightmarish and villainous coming your way. But we fully recommend you allow Bath band The Fangs Of The Dodo to guide you through their dystopian fairground of ghoulish monstrosity.
If the Boy Scouts dished out badges for rocking hard then Boulder, Colorado, band Boy Scouts of Destruction would be keeping their mums busing sewing for months. Or, more likely, they'd be too badass to be allowed into the Scouts full-stop.
Virginia Beach rockers Dead Friends aren't ones to pussyfoot around their music with grandiose claims. As they tell us: "We just say 'rock.' If people ask us to elaborate we say 'heavy rock.' If that’s still not enough, we explain how heavy our rock is."
Hooky rock with the delicious catchiness of pop-punk means that young Montgomery County, Texas, trio JunkBunny are a force to be reckoned with.
We're not really sure where to begin when Newcastle, Australia, duo Skitz NPCs regularly refer to themselves as "the Semen Wizards." Do wizards conjure up semen-based spells? Frankly, we think we'd be safer never finding out.
With their debut EP ready to keep our ears warmly entertained, it's finally time to give what we believe is Britain's most exciting new rock band the love they deserve.
Energetic, angsty pop-punk in all its finery is coming your way with the launch of Perth punks Nautical Mile's debut album tomorrow (25 October).
Satisfy your urge for riff-driven guitar music with the heavy rock meets alternative metal sound of brand new San Francisco trio intentiontremor..
Prepare yourself for an assault on your musical senses with diverse Los Angeles via Arizona quintet Remember The Monsters, who summarise their electronic heavy pop-rock sound as "fierce, energetic and catchy."
Expect earworms aplenty with the thrilling sound of exciting up-and-coming Isle of Wight trio Reminders' big and bold, catchy and hooky 'beach punk' sound.
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