Spanish trio Automatic Ape bring us a thrilling brand of energetic, experimental progressive metal that's powerful, intense and, well, just a bit awesome.
Discover This: Automatic Ape
Discover This: Mirrelia
Canadian progressive rockers Mirrelia have honed an intriguingly diverse brand of rock meets metal meets R&B, which jumps between laid-back melody and intense heaviness.
Discover This: All Miles Gone
Emerging from the Ruhr area in the south of Germany is brand new sextet All Miles Gone, who combine heavy male vocals and clean female vocals alongside a backdrop of brutal guitars and atmospheric melodies.
Introducing: The Soap Girls
We've finally found out what all the fuss was about with French-born sister rock duo The Soap Girls.
New Band of the Week: Standing Like Statues
This week's New Band of the Week is a band I've been aware of from a distance for some time. The band have been through some thrills and spills, including even a spell where there wasn't a band, but I'm delighted they are back together and better than ever.
Discover This: CHIOPS
German band CHIOPS have honed a catchy punk-fused pop-rock sound that they describe to us as "alternativ poprock."
Discover This: Yellow Pages
Fusing post-hardcore with the catchiness of punk is always going to be a winning combination, and Swedish newcomers Yellow Pages only confirm this assumption.
Discover This: Demonicera
The intense sound of Austrian band Demonicera is as terrifying as the band's name suggests it ought to be. And it's the realisation of the band's attempts to hone their own unique death metal sound over the last few years.
Remote Year Month 2 – Lima: Grey But Great!
Month two of Remote Year took us to Lima, the capital city of Peru, which saw us encounter some debatable weather, another dodgy political situation, illness, mad roads, good food, and a disparate group dynamic.
New Band of the Week: Clashmute
We're unashamedly aware of the fact that we always bang on about how great the British metal scene is at the moment. But we only do so because there are so many great new metal bands out there to fuel it. The latest reminder of this is Manchester metalcore newcomers Clashmute.
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