Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
This week Fort Hope dropped an awesome new single as well as announcing brand new album The Flood Flowers: Volume 1, which is due to be released on 16 June and available for pre-order here. The trio of Jon Gaskin (vocals and guitar), Simon Rowlands (bass) and Jamie Nicholls (drums) will be releasing a new song every week before... Continue Reading →
They may be approaching a decade together as a band but Black Country-hailing rockers Liberty Lies are only just getting started. Lead vocalist Shaun Richards, guitarists Josh Pritchett and Liam Billings and drummer Adam Stevens have just been joined by a new bassist, who they believe is the catalyst to bigger and better things for the... Continue Reading →
Having burst onto the scene with an excellent debut EP last year, Midlands hardcore punk act Last Hounds have already promised "bigger and better" with this year's follow-up Old Dreams. This fact alone should be enough to have us excited but, fresh from speaking to the band this week, we're struggling to contain ourselves at... Continue Reading →
We've got something a little bit different for this week's New Band of the Week in the form of Glasgow's instrumental progressive rockers Dialects. This is probably the first band we've featured on the site that largely doesn't use vocals, but in their case vocals are not required thanks to the brilliance of their instrumentalism.... Continue Reading →
We've got an early challenger for best British album of the year from Harrogate heavyweights Blood Youth, who release the huge Beyond Repair next Friday (7 April). The band's debut album sees the trio make a solid statement of intent to their being the next big thing in British metal. However, it could all have been very different... Continue Reading →
You can't beat a bit of raw, energetic punk rock and that's what Glasgow's Miami Monroe deliver in an abundance - it's loud, fast, big and hugely entertaining. The five-piece of Brendan McAleer (lead vocals), Jordan Daly (vocals and guitars), Stuart MacDonald (guitars), Jamie Balsillie (bass) and Jonathan Mollins (drums) have taken the classic sound of the... Continue Reading →
The Berkshire town of Reading seems to be emerging as a hotbed for awesome new bands, with the latest off its conveyor belt being six-piece rockers Veridian. Having only played their debut gig a year ago, the band has already enjoyed huge success with their brand of ridiculously catchy rock. Veridian was formed after members of... Continue Reading →
This week's New Band of the Week is one of the most exciting, powerful yet melodically proficient bands on the UK metal scene. Southampton has once again produced another outstanding band in the form of Our Hollow, Our Home, who follow in the footsteps of Bury Tomorrow in perfectly combining full-on brutal metal with moments... Continue Reading →
We're taking the heaviness up to maximum with this week's New Band of the Week, as we introduce you to brutally brilliant Sheffield metalcore / deathcore band Arkdown. The quintet of vocalist Kyle Dawson, drummer Alex Roberts, bassist Ed Morley and guitarists Mike Dyson and Ben Freestone have taken influence from the likes of Parkway Drive,... Continue Reading →
The city of Stoke-on-Trent is probably best known for being the home of the pottery industry and - personally speaking - a pretty horrible football team. But all that is about to change with the emergence of the city's very own rockers Alter Eden. The quartet of enigmatic frontman Nick Pilgrim, guitarist Alex Coleman, bassist Aled... Continue Reading →
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