Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
With Halloween around the corner, you'd be wise to be wary of all things nightmarish and villainous coming your way. But we fully recommend you allow Bath band The Fangs Of The Dodo to guide you through their dystopian fairground of ghoulish monstrosity.
Having eased people into their alternative-rock meets metal sound with their debut EP, Merseyside/Chesire rockers Salt Hill have ripped the lid off their experimental edge with their superb new single Summit.
Based between Lisbon and Coventry, newcomers Ten Thousand Monsters announced their enthralling, hard-hitting rock sound on the world by dropping their first three tracks earlier this month.
Telling us that your brand new metal band is "as metal as metal gets" is a surefire way to get our musical antennae to full attention.
They may describe themselves as 'alternative rock' but Bury quartet Novustory embody the hard-hitting power and sass of their heavier rock and metal counterparts.
Fusing nihilism with hope and rage with joy, Manchester newcomers The Battery Farm offer up a viciously appealing sound that's laced with passion and pain.
London rockers District 13 introduced themselves to us as Black Sabbath meets The Ramones, while revealing that frontman Jon Wild has been described as a cross between Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious. So we, of course, had no option but to explore further.
If you like your rock grungey and laden with dirty fuzzy guitars then you are in exactly the right place with London trio Neverlanded.
Prepare to be blown away by a new force in UK hardcore music that, in their own words, is set to become "a powerhouse that will send shockwaves through the music industry."
Lincoln newcomers DLVRR summarise their latest single Caution to us as: "An absolute jamboree of cleans, screams, chugs, chords, harmonies and melodies."
