Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
In addition to an exciting alt-rock meets post-rock sound Glasgow's Atlas : Empire have deepened the intrigue with a concept album focusing on the human race's growing reliance on technology.
Their band name may imply the ending of sight, but a whole new awakening is taking place for Manchester punk rockers Dead Retinas.
Newcastle quartet Holding Out have honed an exciting punk fuelled rock sound that they describe as "unpredictable, shouty and fun" - which should have you hooked already.
One country that we've neglected in the last couple of years of writing about new bands is the Netherlands, but that's about to change with the emergence of Utrecht punky-metalcore act Two And A Half Girl
They may not have released any music yet but we're excited about the prospect of Irish rockers The Elective
A background in music theory has fuelled the intriguing, unconventional and truly exciting sound of Leeds rockers Edited People. The quartet of Alisha Vickers (vocals), Josh Ellinor (guitar), Thomas Whitaker (bass) and Laura Bentley first began with the former three meeting at college studying music, then went to the same University where Alisha and Josh began playing as an... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago we gave you a taster of the savage tech-metal sound of French deathcore five-piece FRCTRD, and we were so excited by their brutality that we followed it up by having a chat with the band. The Parisians first formed back in 2014, brought together by their shared love for the same music.... Continue Reading →
If you like your rock dark and mysterious, heavy and distorted, twisted yet beautifully melodic then Swedish newcomers The Heard will be just the ticket. The Stockholm band formed of three former Crucified Barbara members - Ida (bass), Klara (guitar) and Nicki (drums) - who, when the previous band split, knew they wanted to continue... Continue Reading →
While speaking to French rockers Rise People, Rise we not only uncovered a really exciting new band, but also discovered the need for a French revolution, if you will. The beginnings of the band came from a pretty unusual place. Drummer and vocalist Lucas de Geyter had been playing in several bands over several years,... Continue Reading →
Ready for something very different? Denmark's Deadpan are certainly that, with their 1980s-esque dark electronica vibe. Copenhagen-based Deadpan formed out of the ashes of previous project Deadpan Interference, with long-time friends Martin Emil Daa Funder, Max Cosnier and Sofie Westh continuing to carry the torch, and adding Arsene Survie then Christian Skibdal earlier this year. As... Continue Reading →
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