Discover This: Antivillain
We’ve discovered something a little bit special with the emergence of brand new Los Angeles trio Antivillain.
Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
We’ve discovered something a little bit special with the emergence of brand new Los Angeles trio Antivillain.
It may appear somewhat of a broad brush statement that a psychedelic rock band is inspired by recreational drug taking but, in the case of San Francisco band The Spiral Electric, there’s nothing stereotypical about it.
If you like your music loud, fast, abrupt and to the point then in you’re in for a treat with the highly entertaining Long Beach band Melted.
Having come from heavier backgrounds, the four members of Cleveland band Brave Bones have joined up to hone a lively, catchy sound that sits somewhere between hard rock and punk. … Continue reading Discover This: Brave Bones
Fusing together big heavy riffs with elements of EDM, hip-hop and punk sounds pretty bonkers, and it’s these eclectic combinations that have led Austin, Texas band Eye Said So to label their sound as “schizo-pop.”
Asheville, North Carolina, deathrock collective Secret Shame have honed an atmospherically cathartic and emotionally-driven rock sound. It’s seriously dark but we are absolutely hooked on it.
New Orleans rockers Spylights have honed an exciting sound that harnesses elements of prog and post-rock with metal as well as more melodic influences.
What better way to welcome in the weekend than with a seriously heavy new metal band that aims to bring a bit of good to the world and “break the mold of a digital age where the music industry seems to be becoming increasingly formulaic.”
There’s a brilliant British TV comedy called Peep Show in which two of the main characters discuss starting a band called Various Artists “just to fuck over people with iPods.” And that kind of sneaky trick is, we assume, what Virginia band UNKNOWN was going for, as it took us bloody ages to find them on Spotify…
New York City rockers Grayhunter describe their music as “making you jump and dance while you question how you make life decisions.”
Last month we celebrated 50 years since man first stepped foot on the Moon, so it’s very timely that post-rock quartet Heron should also release their space mission-themed second album just three days after that landmark.
Columbus, OH, band Pray For Sleep is one of the most engaging bands we’ve discovered in a while. As soon as we fired up Spotify, searched their name and hit play on lead track Ask Us, we were gripped on their intense rock-meets-metal sound.