Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Manchester rockers Oxbloods have honed an intriguing sound that balances heavy rockiness and soaring vocals with more melodic, almost pop-infused undertones. The band release their debut EP Collisions on Friday (20 April) and it's an impressive introduction. Instrumentalists Matt Lunn and Chris Horrocks (guitars), Matty Ashton (bass) and Alex Binnington (drums) met either by being... Continue Reading →
Durham rockers Edenthorn's mission is simple yet effective. "Our main aim is to make sure that our listeners never get bored," bassist and backing vocalist Faiba Gardner tells us, and they achieve it in style with second album Exist, which is self-released on Friday (20 April). As Faiba explains: "There is nothing worse than listening... Continue Reading →
Imagine two guys who spend their time acting like fools and getting drunk together then, during one of those boozy conversations listening to one of their favourite bands, decide to make music together and you have Liverpool duo Crapsons down to a T. The pairing of Markey (bass and vocals) and Gilbert (drums and vocals),... Continue Reading →
Italian gothic rockers Deeper Down bring us an intriguing, mysterious sound that combines doominess, wailing vocals and string instruments. The quintet of vocalist Elisa Cesarino, guitarist Luca de Cesare, bassist Roberto Alfieri, violinist Alessandro, and drummer, guitarist and keyboard player Giuseppe Parisi hail from the town of Campobasso in southern Italy which, interestingly, shares the... Continue Reading →
These days it's harder than ever to catch peoples' attention. If it's not the fascinating latest activities of Kim Kardashian and her equally talentless friends or the real-time delights of Instagram and Snapchat, then it's the never-ending stream of content from the likes of Sky Sports and Netflix. People are so busy doing nothing that they just... Continue Reading →
Hereford rockers KinStrife bring all that's good about classic rock and metal and smash them together with influences of more modern rock, which they hope will break down their hometown's inhabitants love for cover songs. The band, whose name comes from a disastrous civil war in Gondor in Lord of the Rings, was founded back... Continue Reading →
My first thought when I encountered Long Island-based band Hold Fast Hope was whether they took their name from the Thrice song of the same title. My second, far more important thought upon listening to the band's recently launched debut EP, was that the New Yorker rockers are truly outstanding. To very quickly deal with... Continue Reading →
Intense nudity and Capri Suns, stagnating water and chicken blood, witches and... mist. These wild and wonderful talking points sound like the musings of a madman, which they may very well be, but they're also a few of the more random topics that come up when we spoke to 'damaged sludge metal two-piece hog punching... Continue Reading →
The idea of marrying goth music with the adjective "life-affirming" may seem contradictory to many, but that's exactly the label that's been laid against Totnes post-punk band Council of Giants. How apt the label of goth music is, however, is up for debate. The quartet began life when Tai Chi and Kung Fu teachers Luke... Continue Reading →
Riding a wave of praise from the Norwegian media Ondt Blod (which translates to Evil Blood) are launching their fusion of Satanic metal and feel-good punk rock upon the unsuspecting British public. This exciting, unique sound, which they term, somewhat oxymoronically, as "catchy death music," sees heavy metal verses counteracted by catchy punky choruses, with massive... Continue Reading →
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