Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
What better way to welcome in the weekend than with a seriously heavy new metal band that aims to bring a bit of good to the world and "break the mold of a digital age where the music industry seems to be becoming increasingly formulaic."
New York-based singer/songwriter Ian McFarland has honed a lively rocky sound with an impressive back catalogue of music released over the last couple of years.
When emerging London band Mouth of Ghosts tell us that their latest track was "their best attempt" at writing a James Bond theme tune, we rightfully got our hopes for something pretty epic.
We're dropping the pace down a little from our usual focus today to bring you the delicious sound of California band Echo Hill.
If you like your music eclectic in style, then you're in the right place with North Carolina singer/songwriter Velcro Mary.
ennsylvania band Danger Barry - which is an awesome band name - tell us that they're heavily involved in the "student house show scene" at Penn State - which sounds interesting, if not dangerous and, most likely, very messy.
An impressive back catalogue of independent songwriting by Andrew Spittle - totalling some 40 or so albums - has evolved into new three-piece Charcoal Burners.
The San Francisco Bay area's punk and ska scenes are somewhat legendary within modern music history. Its latest iteration, the so-called 'fourth wave' ska scene sees the emergence of Oakland sextet Jokes For Feelings.
Aberdeen rockers Casper Heyzeus bring an element of comedy and novelty to their brand of 80s sounding synth-fused rock.
There's a brilliant British TV comedy called Peep Show in which two of the main characters discuss starting a band called Various Artists "just to fuck over people with iPods." And that kind of sneaky trick is, we assume, what Virginia band UNKNOWN was going for, as it took us bloody ages to find them on Spotify...
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