Having eased people into their alternative-rock meets metal sound with their debut EP, Merseyside/Chesire rockers Salt Hill have ripped the lid off their experimental edge with their superb new single Summit.
New Band of the Week: Salt Hill
New Band of the Week: Ten Thousand Monsters
Based between Lisbon and Coventry, newcomers Ten Thousand Monsters announced their enthralling, hard-hitting rock sound on the world by dropping their first three tracks earlier this month.
New Band of the Week: IO
Telling us that your brand new metal band is "as metal as metal gets" is a surefire way to get our musical antennae to full attention.
New Band of the Week: Novustory
They may describe themselves as 'alternative rock' but Bury quartet Novustory embody the hard-hitting power and sass of their heavier rock and metal counterparts.
New Band of the Week: Picsel
Picsels musical approach is about as independent and DIY as it gets - channelling the spirit of the 90s punk and grunge that inspires this exciting new band.
New Band of the Week: The Battery Farm
Fusing nihilism with hope and rage with joy, Manchester newcomers The Battery Farm offer up a viciously appealing sound that's laced with passion and pain.
New Band of the Week: The Ruptured Ducklings
It may have been a decade in the making, but Aberdeen-based punk rockers The Ruptured Ducklings have laid down a strong marker with the launch of their debut EP.
New Band of the Week: Quotes of the Dead
Glasgow newcomers Quotes of the Dead offer up a diverse rock sound that, if it were a person, would be a candidate for being locked up in a madhouse.
New Band of the Week: Sobriquet
Sheffield band Sobriquet have honed a thrilling post-hardcore sound that fuses moments of melody with eccentric, hard-hitting aggression and huge amounts of energy.
New Band of the Week: District 13
London rockers District 13 introduced themselves to us as Black Sabbath meets The Ramones, while revealing that frontman Jon Wild has been described as a cross between Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious. So we, of course, had no option but to explore further.
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