Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
If you’re heading to the iconic Bloodstock Festival this weekend (7-10 August), you have an opportunity to discover some standout new British metal talent led by recent Metal 2 The Masses winners tealdeer and Surya.
If you’ve read any of our recent articles, you’ll have seen us reference discovering new bands through Groover, a music submission and discovery platform. With that in mind, we wanted to drill down into what Groover is and summarise a few of the most recent submissions we’ve received.
Hertfordshire band Defences promised us “the launching point for a brand new sound” that would be “heavier, more experimental and soulful, more personal and intimate” when we interviewed them about their single In Eclipse back in April 2019. Fast-forward five years, and we’re seeing them settle into and flourish in that thrilling new sound.
Music is widely acknowledged to reduce stress and anxiety for people suffering with drug or alcohol addiction. However, conventional music scenes can present challenges and triggers for people in drug and alcohol recovery.
Our latest Music Industry post focuses on Quadri Haruna, the Creative Director of QH Sound, a Kent-based music startup that aims to promote unsigned musicians.
We delve into the “dark facts” of being a metal musician in Iran by interviewing the founder of Iran’s first metal label Tough Sounds.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a massive impact on businesses and industries all over the world, many of which are still struggling to stay afloat. Musicians, in particular, have endured a real struggle.
Throughout the current pandemic, life as we know it has drastically changed, and we’ve all had to adapt to a new ‘normal’. Consequently, the music industry is suffering badly, affecting artists and bands worldwide, alongside teams working behind the scenes, and many other areas of support.
A few years ago we headed along to see our friends in Defences play a gig at The Crowndale Club in Camden. The headline act that evening saw the six members of As Everything Unfolds pile onto the tiny stage and blow our minds, led by what we described as “the incredible vocals of Charlie Rolfe.”
Subscribe to our new music playlist, which we started back in June. Every week, we add a batch of new songs from new bands all over the world, some of which we’ve previously covered on the website but others that are even brand new to us.
Today, we have reached the milestone of the 1,000th article to be published on GigRadar. Since setting the site up from scratch in August 2016, we’ve covered new bands from all over the world and I’m pleased to say that numbers are only on the rise.
Two university students are on a mission to empower and support independent musicians. So we invited Josh Murphy and Lewis Daggers-Smith to write a guest blog on the Infinite Vibrations project.
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