Oxfordshire newcomers Severed Tongues have honed a delicious modern metal sound that's somehow exceedingly dark and dramatic, yet also positive and catchy.
New Band of the Week: Severed Tongues
Discover This: Phrasing
Dutch rockers Phrasing began life as a cover band playing everything from Metallica and Queen through to Britney Spears and Spice Girls. Thankfully, they got the last two out of their system and branched out into writing their own original material in late 2018.
Discover This: HooF
Melbourne metal newcomers HooF offer up a thrilling sound that oozes intensity, unrelenting riffs and pounding drums. It's monstrously heavy yet, somehow, strangely catchy.
Introducing: Fixation
As we've mentioned several times in previous blogs, the various music discovery tools available through the likes of Spotify are great for finding new bands. And that's exactly how we discovered exciting new Norwegian rockers Fixation.
Discover This: Bipolar Architecture
The intriguingly named Bipolar Architecture hail from Berlin and Istanbul, which technically makes them only our second ever Turkish band. But they also come from an intriguing place musically, with three of their members having been a major part of the European death metal scene with previous band Heretic Soul.
Introducing: Brookline
New York band Brookline are going out with a band with an excellent, diverse EP that blends post-hardcore and alternative rock elements along with emo and punk influences.
Discover This: Lucky Lad Green
Celtic punk inspired by rock'n'roll and a love for metal with Irish jigs and a cheeky bit of accordion thrown in for good measure. There's a lot to love about the sound of Johnstown, Pennsylvania band Lucky Lad Green.
Discover This: Sharone
Denver solo artist Sharone has honed a powerful and melodramatic rock meets metal sound that's dripping with brooding darkness and intensity. It fuses her engaging vocals with heavy piano riffs and booming guitars.
Discover This: Titans
Belgian band Titans have honed a heavy yet melodic hardcore sound that aims to bring positive reflections on some of the darker aspects of life.
Introducing: Zarraza
We love nothing more than finding new bands from new countries, so when the savage sound of Kazakh death metal meets thrash band Zarraza popped into our inbox we were keen to find out more.
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