Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
In recent months, we've been using music discovery platform Groovr to find new rock and metal bands from all around the world. However, sometimes the bands don't respond to our requests, so we put together a quick review of those that go unanswered.
If you have the urge to feel crushed by a filthy, violent yet strangely beautiful world, then the deathcore sound of French/Swiss band Sielkanker will be just the place for you.
We're back with another round-up of new tracks by previously featured GigRadar artists in our On The Radar feature. This round-up brings you a wide variety of new music, from blues rock, hard rock and metal to a taste of 90s rock and some thrashing metalcore.
Stepping out of a post-apocalyptic Earth in the year 2064, a world where Machines rule the roads, but the Blues still breathe, humanoid Howlin' Chip roams a scorched world armed with a guitar and the assistance of his mechanical wolf. The futuristic blues lover keeps fragments of human memory alive through funky music that he describes as "raw, cinematic and soulful."
French band Ghost Anthem started out with an obsession with Scandinavian metal and has developed into a delicious modern metalcore meets death metal sound that they describe as "melodic, positive and honest."
From deep within the Savoie region in the heart of the French Alps comes a dark fusion of drum'n'bass and nu-metal that the exciting duo KEVA describe as "violent, tormented, and hybrid."
French band Karvane have crafted an alternative metal sound that fuses filthy riffs and heavy bass with rapped vocals, which they describe as "groovy, massive, and sharp."
Creeping out of the dungeons somewhere near Marseille we discover the intriguing psychedelic punk-metal sound of Joe La Truite, who introduce us to the concept of Zguen.
French band VISAVIS take us on a wild groove metal ride that flows through catchy riffs and vocals with unexpected electronic elements along the way, in a sound they describe as "Fresh Heavy Sludge."
French band Xystenz offers up a fascinating metal meets punk sound that fuses pure metal intensity with more melodic moments.
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