Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Step into the future of metal with the cyberpunk, electronica metal sound of Bristol-based Drip Fed Empire. The quartet blends hardcore metal and post-hardcore with industrial, EDM, drum & bass elements to form a genre-bending, energy-fuelled dystopian sound.
Bath quartet Medway have honed a powerful, emotional and engaging sound that floats between pop-punk, rock and emo.
Allow your musical senses to soar with the bouncy, thrilling sound of Bristol band Kite Thief. The band describe their brand of alternative rock meets prog metal Gutter Candy Metal - "sweet and full of grit, like dropping your favourite candy in the gutter and still wanting to put it in your mouth."
Blending classic heavy metal with influences of grunge and progressive rock, Nottingham's Cottonmouth are very much onto a winning formula. The quartet have honed an engaging sound that they describe as "thunderous metal riffage," which we love.
Glasgow band The Rhubarb have honed an intoxicating dark and doomy stoner rock sound that fuses dual vocals with deliciously heavy fuzzy riffs.
Blending the elements of hardcore and deathcore is only going to result in a pretty damn heavy concoction, and that's exactly the case with Swindon band TYRANTS who offer up what they describe as "stupidly heavy slams."
We may have a little GigRadar first today as we introduce a first intergenerational band in Berwick-upon-Tweed rockers Not Now Norman. The Northumberland band have honed a feisty rock sound that's gained them a reputation for in-your-face lyrics and direct delivery.
If a band name could aptly summarise the current events in the world then that would surely be Sadness & Complete Disappointment.
Manchester band The Hyena Kill are venturing on a journey into unfamiliar territory, bringing listeners into their world of turmoil with an album that seeks to reconcile personal trauma and pain.
There seems to be a strange disdain from some parts for bands formed of just two members. That's pretty hard to understand when it comes to a duo like Broozer, who refuse to conform to one genre and are more than happy to mix things up from song to song.
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