Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Sweden has a strong legacy of producing some awesome metal bands. The likes of In Flames and Meshuggah, to name but two, have flown the flag in years gone by, but Gothenburg's Miseria are part of a whole host of exciting bands emerging from the Scandinavian nation. The five-piece of Alexander Buhaj (vocals), Johan Olsson and Andre... Continue Reading →
It's hard not to love bands that successfully fuse huge metal riffs with awesome female-led vocals. Dutch five-piece Veil of Delusions are a superb example of this, fleeting between melodic death metal and dark symphonic overtones that bring the likes of Nightwish to mind. The band, who hail from Oss, Eindhoven and Amstelveen in the Netherlands,... Continue Reading →
One thing you can count on the Americans for is some amazing town names, when they're not copying ours that is. One of the things that grabbed our attention with this Massachusetts hardcore act was not only the amazing band name Bottomfed, but the brilliantly named town from which they hail, Buzzards Bay. We had a... Continue Reading →
It's hard to imagine that a band could exist when members live at opposite ends of the country, but Rob Jarvis & The Mercury Sons haven't let the inconvenience of being split between Essex and Newcastle - a cool 300 miles or so - hold them back. The quartet of frontman Rob Jarvis (lead singer... Continue Reading →
East London rockers Chapter And Verse only released their first song in April, but they sold out their first ever show in two weeks and already look set to take the UK rock scene by storm in 2017. Debut EP The Wolves Back Home is a raw blast of massive riffs and addictively piercing vocals that... Continue Reading →
A lot of bands will tell you they're built on friendship and brotherhood, but Surrey rockers Brightlight City probably have a better claim to this than most. Not only are they headed up by the vocalist double act of brothers Jamie and Justin Giarraputo, who also plays guitar, but lead guitarist Jono Staunton is Jamie's... Continue Reading →
This week's New Band of the Week is one of the most exciting new bands I've had the joy of bringing you. Berkshire-based quartet The Final Clause of Tacitus not only have an amazing band name, they also make fantastic rap-meets-rock that I can't help but hope is Britain's answer to Rage Against The Machine. Lead singer Matt spits... Continue Reading →
After a few weeks away over Christmas it'd only be apt to begin 2017 with a bang. And that is duly delivered in the form of 'online sensations' Dorje. We were first introduced to the Brighton-based rockers as being 'the biggest band you won't have heard of,' and from that moment on we were desperate to... Continue Reading →
There's not many things I love more than an awesome Scandinavian rock band, so it brings me great pleasure to introduce Sweden's Orbit Culture. The quartet of Niklas Karlsson (guitar and vocals), Richard Hansson (guitar), Fredrik Lennartsson (bass) and Markus Bladh (drums) emerged from Eksjö, in the deep forests of southern Sweden, in 2013. After previously... Continue Reading →
University has a funny knack of throwing together people that inspire each other to achieve things that aren't necessarily related to their studies. After all, the founders of Google met each other at Stanford University and still haven't graduated, nor will they ever need to. While this may be a tenuous link, the members of female-fronted... Continue Reading →
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