Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Our second new EP of 'exciting release review day' is the excellent second EP from Rugby rockers wars As Within // So Without, their first longer form release since debut album around three years ago. And it's been well worth the wait.
Today is exciting release review day - yep, that might not catch on - which kicks off with a preview of Glow, the launch of the second EP from East London's finest Chapter and Verse.
It's easy to see why the up-tempo guitars and funky synth-dominated sound of Bristol's The Rupees is attracting a swiftly growing reputation.
HARMED fuse brutally heavy, low-tuned guitar riffs with furiously savage vocals in their wild and wonderful hardcore sound, which they describe as "angry, chaotic, noisy" - and who are we to disagree.
Expect plenty of energetic riffiness in the straight-up rock'n'roll sound of Irish garage rockers Collides.
In addition to an exciting alt-rock meets post-rock sound Glasgow's Atlas : Empire have deepened the intrigue with a concept album focusing on the human race's growing reliance on technology.
Their band name may imply the ending of sight, but a whole new awakening is taking place for Manchester punk rockers Dead Retinas.
Newcastle quartet Holding Out have honed an exciting punk fuelled rock sound that they describe as "unpredictable, shouty and fun" - which should have you hooked already.
One country that we've neglected in the last couple of years of writing about new bands is the Netherlands, but that's about to change with the emergence of Utrecht punky-metalcore act Two And A Half Girl
NEWMEDS offer up an intriguing 'genre-bending' sound that fuses its members' previous involvement in everything from black metal and Mathcore through to punk, emo and garage indie
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