Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Ukrainian/Portuguese duo IMAGICA have honed a fascinating sound that refuses to be constrained to specific styles or genres. IMAGICA is as much a band as it is an art, filmmaking and storytelling project with a strong visual base that they intriguingly describe as "surrealistic cinematic arena dance metal."
Emerging from the deep south of France is the engaging post-hardcore meets metalcore sound of The Ghost I See, who describe their music as "catchy, open and powerful."
Norwegian band MAKTKAMP offer up a hard-hitting musical entity that aims to fight injustice, idiocy and inhuman behaviour with a sound they describe as "piercing, persistent and playful."
Canadian purveyors of "Dark.Sexy.Loud." The Fixer offer up a dark, melodramatic and deeply engaging fusion of hard rock and metal with a playful edge.
Hate Ritual describe their fusion of death metal, groove and thrash to us as "PURE FUCKING MEXICAN HATRED."
Norwegian trio :BOLVERK: have cooked up a deliciously wild and ferocious sound that challenges the boundaries of extreme metal and they delightfully describe as "extreme, melodic and ferocious."
Bath trio Redshift have cooked up an epically diverse, genre-bending progressive rock meets metal sound that they describe as "eclectic, technical and quirky."
London duo The Survival Code offer up a deliciously riff-heavy and catchy rock sound that they describe as "powerful, melodious and energetic." And the band has plenty of content to treat your ears to, as they trickle their new album out with one song released every month of 2023.
Indeed, Barcelona-based melodic death metal band Worth is only the sixth Spanish band we've covered and the first since March 2021 - but it's been well worth the wait (pardon the pun).
Italian masked collective Hurricane On Saturn combine metal, rap and electronic elements in a sound they describe as "unpredictable, unconventional and solid" and with which they "just want to destroy peoples' brains."
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