Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
When you hear a band described as being anything like Led Zeppelin you have to sit up and take notice. So that's exactly what we did when the new Tess of the Circle single landed in our inbox this week. The Oxford-based quartet is a musical collective built around the superb songwriting of Tess Jones... Continue Reading →
2016 has been quite a year for Brighton rockers City of Ashes. Not only have they released impressive second album Rise and completed five full tours, including supporting the mighty Yashin, they've also raised thousands of pounds for charity with a highly moving campaign to raise awareness of depression. We caught up with the quartet of... Continue Reading →
University has a funny knack of throwing together people that inspire each other to achieve things that aren't necessarily related to their studies. After all, the founders of Google met each other at Stanford University and still haven't graduated, nor will they ever need to. While this may be a tenuous link, the members of female-fronted... Continue Reading →
There's a refreshing and exciting air of mystery around Guillotine that has got us begging for more from this brand new band. The basics you need to know are: they have an awesome name, they've got a great new track you can - or rather have to - go and listen to right now, and they're a hot new... Continue Reading →
US rockers Tarah Who? are a fascinating flashback to 90's rock with anthemic singalong choruses and a raw, grungey edge. The trio of Tarah G. Carpenter (guitar and vocals), Matthew Peltcher (bass and backing vocals) and Paul Costanza (drums) aren't afraid to do their own thing with their unique brand of intense, engaging rock. The driving force behind... Continue Reading →
Something landed in the GigRadar inbox this week that had us utterly fascinated, the words 'Japanese space metal band.' Obviously we had to dig further and the result of said digging was the incredible rockers Esprit d'Air. Japanese rock bands aren't exactly a new phenomenon, the likes of Crossfaith, Crystal Lake and Babymetal are already well and... Continue Reading →
To lay it out from the beginning, I’m a Gecko fan and have been for some time. Through the years, I’ve gotten really drunk playing the Gecko drinking game, sweatily danced in the old 12 bar club (sad face, RIP) and watched an encore in the street when a grumpy sound man wouldn’t let them... Continue Reading →
Wednesday evening will see London music lovers given a real treat of fun indie rock meets punk as Happy Accidents, Muncie Girls and WOAHNOWS take over The Underworld in Camden. We're taking a look ahead to that show, which has tickets available here, with an introduction to Happy Accidents, and we'll also have a similar article on... Continue Reading →
French rockers Show Me Your Universe may have found it difficult getting noticed in their musical homeland, but their wonderfully intense post-hardcore sound will have UK metal fans begging for more. The lack of a strong rock and metal scene and the difficulty in finding like-minded musicians in France led to two of the band initially meeting online around... Continue Reading →
It's not very often you discover a new band that not only sound fantastic, but are so new that they've never played a live show. And it's not very often you hear an awesome metalcore song about Pokémon Go. However, German metal duo Breakdown Bros are not your regular metalcore band. The German duo has never... Continue Reading →
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