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As far as eye-catching band names go, Broken Girls From Affluent Backgrounds is right up there with our favourites. And our intrigue was only deepened by the first words out of their mouths being "We're the four horsemen of the sonic apocalypse - bringing beautiful chaos to the musical landscape."
Thankfully Halloween every day does not exist in real life, but New York musician Brian Kroll - aka My Son The Bum - threatens us with the prospect of it in his latest track Everyday Is Halloween (In My World).
Writing a song about murder is about as Halloween as Halloween can be. And that's exactly how Los Angeles project DARK PARTS have chosen to make their mark on the musical world.
It's been a while since we featured any Finnish rock bands, but that's all changing now with rising Helsinki quartet Primal Maze.
We're always suckers for a bit of old-school emo, but when a band goes full-on emo and covers our favourite Taking Back Sunday song well... we felt obliged to find out more about Ohio trio I Fight Fail.
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Eric Lewis has honed a ruggedly catchy rock sound that follows the simple, tried and tested method of engaging vocals, lively guitars and lots of big drums.
With Halloween around the corner, you'd be wise to be wary of all things nightmarish and villainous coming your way. But we fully recommend you allow Bath band The Fangs Of The Dodo to guide you through their dystopian fairground of ghoulish monstrosity.
If the Boy Scouts dished out badges for rocking hard then Boulder, Colorado, band Boy Scouts of Destruction would be keeping their mums busing sewing for months. Or, more likely, they'd be too badass to be allowed into the Scouts full-stop.
Virginia Beach rockers Dead Friends aren't ones to pussyfoot around their music with grandiose claims. As they tell us: "We just say 'rock.' If people ask us to elaborate we say 'heavy rock.' If that’s still not enough, we explain how heavy our rock is."
Hooky rock with the delicious catchiness of pop-punk means that young Montgomery County, Texas, trio JunkBunny are a force to be reckoned with.
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