Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Bath indie-rock four-piece Farebrother offer up an intriguing sound built around intricate harmonies and exhilarating ambience, which is winning over new fans - including a certain Game Of Thrones actress. The quartet of Tom Hunt (rhythm guitar and lead vocals), Michael Vowell (lead guitar and vocals), Owen Stephens (bass guitar and vocals) and Matthew Day... Continue Reading →
Milanese rockers Killin' Baudelaire are the latest in a stream of great new rock and metal bands emerging from Italy. The quartet have honed a rock sound that is exciting and powerful yet melodically captivating and touching, which you can see yourself when they play five shows across England later this month, kicking off at... Continue Reading →
MassMatiks have mastered that difficult knack of writing songs that have you instantly hooked. The south east London trio's relatable and engaging lyrics, combined with their big rocky sound, have led them to self-label themselves as "a true band of the people" - and for good reason. To further cement that claim, the band today... Continue Reading →
Instrumental trio Toska have honed a fantastic progressive metal sound that has most recently been labelled "cinematic prog," and earned them a tour across Europe alongside Arcane Roots. The trio of childhood friends Rabea Massaad (guitar), Dave Hollingworth (bass) and Ben Minal (drums) came together over shared growing frustration at not being able to create the kind... Continue Reading →
This week's theme is clearly pop-punk, as we've got another British band making waves in the punk world in HIGHLIVES. The Bristol five-piece make what they describe as "happy music with sad lyrics," and "emotionally driven cheese." The band started in late 2012 as a three piece and has grown from there to their current... Continue Reading →
No we haven't turned into one of those conspicuous Russian websites that promises you a wife that looks like Anna Kournikova (deletes Internet history), we're actually introducing you to American punk rockers Russian Girlfriends. Despite not actually having Russian girlfriends - no, none of them, boring! - the New Mexico five-piece have honed a style... Continue Reading →
We've got bit of new punk-rock gold for you today, in the form of London-based 'shwifty' pop-punk trio No Insight. The self-confessed 'sad boys writing sad emo / pop-punk songs' Gian 'Kid' Carlo (guitar and vocals), Joe 'Grumps' Papworth (bass and vocals) and Rich Alexander (drums and vocals) all started playing in bands at a young... Continue Reading →
In the past few weeks I've been getting more and more into the awesome dirgey sound of dark doom metal. And we've found a band that epitomises everything that's great about this filthily beautiful genre in Birmingham doom-mongers Kroh. The five-piece of vocalist Oliwia Sobieszek, guitarists Paul Kenney and Paul Harrington, bassist Darren Donovan and... Continue Reading →
One of our highlights from 2000 Trees Festival in July was seeing Belgian three-piece Brutus smash the place up with their intensely powerful rock sound. Brutus are quickly gaining notoriety as one of the most exciting emerging rock acts around, with the likes of Lars Ulrich (Metallica) and Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan) championing their... Continue Reading →
Rock duos seem to be on-trend right now, and we've got another awesome new duo to add to the growing list in Scottish rockers Huxtable. The Ayrshire duo of Jordan Yates on guitar and vocals and Marc William Brown on drums and harmonies have spent the last few years honing their brand of "riff-rock." We... Continue Reading →
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