Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
We've got a real treat of excellent new music for you this week, including new tracks from four of our former New Bands of the Week. We kick off with well overdue music from one of our favourite bands, some superb new rap-rock, plenty of new British rock and metal, some good old hard rock... Continue Reading →
Prepare for a wild journey back to the days of big hair, scintillating guitar solos and rampant riffs with Manchester's Stormrider.
If you're on the lookout for a band that's catchy as hell with "ridiculous" guitar solos thrown in for the hell of it then Nottingham newcomers Silkrats will be just the ticket.
With a name like Bury The Traitor you're well within your rights to expect something pretty damn heavy. And luckily for you, the Derby quintet deliver it in spades.
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 20 years, you'll know that the music industry is changing. Fast. In fact, modern life generally is changing exponentially as technology evolves the way we work, live, consume entertainment and interact with one another. So with that in mind, musicians have to innovate and move... Continue Reading →
Another GigRadar first today as we introduce you to a band named after a Star Wars reference, in Blackpool's Oceans Over Alderaan - a fictional planet in the popular sci-fi movies. The band fuse atmospheric rock and shoegaze with doom-pop, math and post-rock, which they summarise as "pretentious arty nonsense." But let's start with that... Continue Reading →
London quartet Chaos Reigns freely admit that they may never make it mainstream, but they're hell-bent on showing the rest of the hardcore scene how it's done.
The riffy, intense sound of Southampton alt-rockers Minus Alive could fool you into thinking it's feel-good, upbeat and melodic. But dig a little deeper and you'll discover the band carries a darker, yet important message around mental health issues. Having worked together in various formats and projects over several years, the quartet of Ollie Butler... Continue Reading →
There's fuzzy guitars aplenty amid the highly enjoyable, popular culture reference-laden, catchy noise rock sound of Durham quartet The Yada Yada Yadas.
If you're on the lookout for music that might make you want to tap your foot and nod your head, then look away now. Because Hull sludge doom merchants Mastiff are only interested in "someone slamming their head into a concrete wall just by listening to it."
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