Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
This batch of tracks offers up a mix of rock, metal and nu-metal by bands from France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, listed in alphabetical order.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week's New Music Friday is on... Saturday... but, as it's a long weekend in the UK we figured it gives you plenty of time to enjoy this feast of great new music.
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