Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
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.
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).
Danish project Heathe is far from your ‘usual’ rock band. For starters, it’s not a band as such, more a collective of liquid band members built around one constant, Martin Pale.
British singer-songwriter Steph Sweet freely admits she’s a “refined taste” but it’s difficult to not be intrigued by her feisty, often contentious approach to pyschy acoustic indie-rock meets punk brand of music.
We’ve covered a few exciting young musicians over the last few years, but 12-year-old metal guitarist TreBell08 is easily the youngest. Furthermore, the young Canadian believes he’s part of a thrilling new generation of metal musicians with the world at the fingertips.
Having met at 10,000-feet high in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado band Dirty Snowman Society are ready to take your musical enjoyment to new heights and believe they’re part of a major resurgence in rock music.
Dublin newcomers Brake Loose offer up a dirty, mischievous rock’n’roll sound that’s packed with energy and features a unique blend of spoken word vocals.
Get a healthy dose of good old blues-fuelled rock’n’roll and a good fix of delicious noodling guitars with Huntsville, Alabama, quartet Black Market Salesmen.
When a brand new band is working with the colossus of metal production that is Ross Robinson, you have to expect they have something about them. And that’s exactly the case with intriguing Los Angeles-based newcomers Repenter.
The term blackened sludge alone told us to expect something dark and dirty from Polish band Mary and the Highwalkers. But what we encountered was something beyond our wildest dreams.
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