Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
If you're after a band that will help you lighten the mood and offers up a fresh new sound, then New Jersey band ScreenAge are the one for you. The quartet offer up an intriguing sound that fuses elements of alt-rock with neo-soul, jazz and indie.
"Unfiltered, Primal, Invigorating." These are the words that new London band After Smoke Clears use to summarise their sound, swiftly followed by "relentless, energising and unapologetic." So you'd be right in thinking they offer up something pretty damn heavy.
London band Empty Friend's approach of "doing things the old way, the hard way," has fuelled a raw, grungey hard rock sound dominated by big melodic vocals and heavy riffing.
Punk trio Trashed comes from a place that we can very much relate to. The Bristol attribute their punky sound coming from "years of being mesmerised by Kerrang! and Scuzz when bands like Green Day and Sum-41 were owning the show."
Midlands two-piece Bone Cult formed out of their shared dissatisfaction with seeing "countless guitar bands jamming rock music in their pub clothes." And it's fair to say they've well and truly bucked that trend.
Get your fix of fast-paced, no frills metal with the deliciously frantic thrash meets hardcore sound of Belgian band Basement Critters.
Reading band Flight of Eden's progressive modern metal sound is signified by a mix of heavy riffing, odd time signatures and technical exploration, which they describe as "powerful, atmospheric and emotional."
Experience the duality of classic analog rock'n'roll meets hard rock fused with electronic grooves from Indianapolis band Starve The Beast, who describe their sound as "groove, power and grit."
Expect the unexpected from South Florida band The Haunt, who deliver a different sound from song to song based on their punk, blues, industrial, and pop influences centred around soulful, powerful vocals.
We went through a spell of discovering a host of great new Italian rock bands a while back but, since then, things seem to have slowed down a bit. So we were delighted when the music of Deaf Autumn popped into our inbox.
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