Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Our final New Band of the Week of 2025 takes us to the East Midlands, where Distance Divine fuse a wide range of genres, from metal and emo to trance and rap, in a sound that they describe as "fun, eclectic and incongruous."
Our final round-up of new music from bands we've previously interviewed of 2025 brings you a tasty little collection of new rock and metal. This month, we've got new tracks by four bands from Portugal, Switzerland and the UK.
German band Norsegod blend melodic death metal with pagan and black metal influences and Viking-related themes in an epic sound they describe as "melodic, unbounded and charismatic."
Nestled in the foothills of the Alps mountain range, we encounter a female-led Pagan Army delivering powerful German-language battle cries with Austria's Nordblut.
Canadian band OMBRA explore the realities of the human condition through the form of thrash metal riffs in a sound they describe as "intense, energetic and cinematic."
French-Japanese band Re:Instinct blend different musical and cultural backgrounds and influences in a powerful but engaging metal sound that they describe as "intense, emotional and honest."
Canadian band Doom Stoned have crafted, unsurprisingly, based on the name, a doom meets stoner metal sound that they describe as "raw, ruthless and creative."
Canadian band The Velvet Supersloths blend heavy rock and groove metal in a hard-hitting sound that they describe as "heavy, groovy and uplifting."
Norwegian band LIVERUM have crafted a death metal meets progressive metal sound that fuses intense screams with hypnotic soundscapes.
Italian band BRAILLE fuse crushing riffs and intense vocals in a powerful post-hardcore meets melodic hardcore sound that they describe as "sad, reflective and tormented."
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