Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
UK rockers Liberty Lies certainly have an impressive track record of supporting some of rock and metal's finest on the road. Fresh from touring with the likes of Shinedown, Halestorm, Max Raptor, Press To Meco and Alien Ant Farm, Liberty Lies are ready to hit the road with US giants SOiL and Saliva in November. That... Continue Reading →
Dropping the C-bomb on the second word of your debut album is quite some statement. You either have to back it up by being brilliant, or be so heavy and scary that no-one will question your outrageous lyrical choices. Thankfully, Ipswich's War Waves fall into the former category - and their self-titled debut album is a... Continue Reading →
Chasing Cadence, one of our favourite up-and-coming British bands, have released a new video for Watching The World, which is taken from the band's recent Destroy Something Beautiful EP. The video follows a similar premise as that of previous video for Everyone Relax - with gunmen hunting down. There's clearly an ongoing narrative along the gun theme,... Continue Reading →
There's a school of thought that keeping things simple can help you produce greater results than something big, complicated and elaborate. That particular thought brings us to Derby-based rockers MYOKE. You wouldn't believe it on first listen, but this up-and-coming band consists of just two members - lead singer and guitarist Nat Webb and drummer... Continue Reading →
"Renegade metallic assault." Those three words by themselves are pretty exciting, but when combined to form the battle plan for one band's quest for musical glory they become well and truly glorious. The masterminds behind this this wonderful three-word phrase are Orlando, Florida-based Devils Envy. In addition to having an awesome band name, they leaped out at me with the self-descriptive phrase:... Continue Reading →
The word 'unique' is horribly overused and frankly meaningless - I mean, we're all inherently unique right? - but, putting the philosophical debate to one side, 'uniqueness' is horribly overused in music (and we don't mind admitting we've been guilty of using it ourselves). But it's important, in this world of multi-genres dominated by truly terrible popular music, to keep... Continue Reading →
We're kicking off a new weekly feature that will bring you our tip for a hot new up-and-coming band to check out - in our New Band of the Week. Our maiden New Band of the Week is South East London-based Sidelines. Sidelines have only been together for around six months and released their self-titled EP back in... Continue Reading →
Current and former members of Norma Jean, Every Time I Die and Dead and Divine have combined in yet another example of a hugely successful crowdsourcing project. The newly formed Hundred Suns have already 100% funded their debut album, thanks to music fans having raised more than $22,000 towards a new album, which is expected to be completed... Continue Reading →
Guest blogger, and seemingly serial gig-goer, Rob Howlett is back with a review of New York trio Sunflower Bean's set at Scala, in Kings Cross, last Thursday. From the moment Sunflower Bean meandered onto the stage something seemed slightly askew. Lead singer Julia Cumming’s slender frame took to the mic with a furrowed brow that... Continue Reading →
If you love the brutality of Of Mice & Men's original material - I'm thinking epic tracks like Ben Threw on The Flood - then this may not be for you, but the Orange County five-piece's fourth album Cold World showcases a band maturing in their musical offering. Cold World is largely an enjoyable rock / metalcore record that will appeal to the... Continue Reading →
