A round-up of the best new music from new rock and metal bands around the world

Floodlit

New Music Round-Up: Bastion’s Wake, Dead Villains, floodlit, GAMBO HEMP, Mortez, Ray of Light, Saint City Orchestra, Tamagotchi Bay & Tiny Ships

Our latest batch of new music from bands using music discovery platform Groover sees us kick off 2026 with tracks from eight new bands. We begin the new year with a fusion of rock, metal, nu-metal, punk and rap metal by bands from Germany, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

Heroes For Ghosts

New Music Round-Up: Betrayed, Cevret, Duplexity, Hallucinophonics, Heroes For Ghosts, The Journey Back, Los Angers, Nothing But Real & Wave Station

This month, we’ve got an intriguing mix of rock, metal, pop-punk and visionary psychedelic music by nine bands from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

Lafayette

August New Music Round-Up: CF98, DoorShan, LAFAYETTE, LohArano, Nordstahl, True Devil & Zatokrev

This August music round-up features bands from France, Germany, a brand new country for us in Madagascar, Poland, Switzerland and the United States. So get your weekend started early with a batch of everything from pop-punk and rock to extreme metal from these seven exciting new bands.

ONE FALL

July New Music Round-Up: BeastKiller, Don’t Tell John, Faeser, Giant’s Knife, Horizons Demise, HRFTR and ONE FALL

We’ve been using music discovery platform Groover to find new rock and metal bands from all around the world for several months now. In order to carry out interviews for our articles, we have to send an email to the bands and, sometimes, they don’t respond to our requests. So we routinely put together a review of those that go unanswered.

Augmented Hearts

June New Music Round-Up: Augmented Hearts, ADORE, A.D.A.M. Music Project, Big Band Of Boom, Foot, Gender Crisis, Local Hero, motionyear. & Sophia Mengrosso

In recent months, we’ve been using music discovery platform Groovr to find new rock and metal bands from all around the world. However, sometimes the bands don’t respond to our requests, so we put together a quick review of those that go unanswered.

April New Music Round-Up: The Hi-Sides, Imperishable, Inconvenience, Jonas & The Jaguar Moon and NOAPOLOGY

Our ongoing discovery of new music through discovery platform Groover leads us to interview bands from all over the world. However, some don’t respond to our requests, so we do regular round-ups of new bands that have submitted tracks to us.

French metal band Disconnected

February New Music Round-Up: JAW, Disconnected, Twisted Faith, ETHMEBB, The Hollowmen Project, Chemical Vision, Ray Of Light & Hemwick

We recently began discovering new rock and metal bands through music discovery platform Groover. Some bands don’t respond to our requests for interviews, so we’ll likely be doing semi-regular round-ups of new artists we’ve discovered through the site.

GigRadar Fresh Tunes: Our New Music Friday Spotify Playlist Is Back!

We thought it was high time we revived our Fresh Tunes Spotify playlist, which collates up to 30 of our favourite new tracks from some of our favourite new rock and metal bands.

Acres

New Music Friday Round-Up: 26 April

We’ve got some cracking new music for you this week with new tracks from two of Britain’s finest new bands from the same record label, a debut indie-rock EP and … Continue reading New Music Friday Round-Up: 26 April

New Music Friday Round-Up: 12 April

We’ve got some cracking new music for you today, including new tracks from several brand new exciting British bands, plenty of manic punk and metal, an exciting new Australian band and, potentially, a final track from one band as we know them.

New Music Friday Round-Up: 5 April

We’ve got some excellent new music for you to wrap your ears around this week, and from new fewer than four of our former New Bands of the Week, our … Continue reading New Music Friday Round-Up: 5 April