Introducing: Ophelia’s Eye
Swiss band Ophelia’s Eye offer up a fascinatingly immersive, technical and emotional metal sound that they describe as “energetic, hard-hitting and honest.”
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Swiss band Ophelia’s Eye offer up a fascinatingly immersive, technical and emotional metal sound that they describe as “energetic, hard-hitting and honest.”
This month, we’ve got an intriguing mix of rock, metal, pop-punk and visionary psychedelic music by nine bands from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
Swiss rockers Rebel Rose fuse powerful vocals and delicious classic hard rock meets heavy metal goodness in a thrilling sound they describe as “passionate, classic and modern.”
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.
Prepare yourself for a “a dark and disturbing musical journey” with Swiss extreme ambient metal solo artist àn chu, who fuses metal elements with the use of traditional Chinese musical instruments. The result is a fascinating sound that he describes as “dark, disturbing and oppressive.”
Swiss band Cave Wolves have fused hard rock, post-grunge, punk and metal influences into a roaring and snarling sound that they describe as “high energy rock’n’roll.”
Swiss band Windshelter have honed an intoxicating sound that fuses the intensity of post-hardcore with more melodic, almost emo elements that they describe as “deep, energetic and mindful.”
Swiss death metal band Mnemocide describe the experience of listening to their music as “being hit by a tank” due to its heavy groove and pounding intensity.
If you like your rock old school and riff heavy then Swiss band Snakedeath are going to be just the ticket with a sound dripping in filthy guitar goodness. The … Continue reading Discover This: Snakedeath
Our first introduction to Swiss black metal act Blackwall was a combination of their huge sound and their description of the band as “five average guys with an above-average hatred of today’s world.”
We’ve not featured too many bands from Switzerland on the site over the last few years but, in the form of Cosmic Space Girl, we’ve certainly found a very cool one.
Rock music and scientists aren’t necessarily the most obvious companions, but Switzerland-based Greek duo Haneke Twins go to show that you shouldn’t judge the scientist by their lab coat.