Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
One of the most exciting bands we discovered last year was Reading rap-rockers The Final Clause of Tacitus. I'm delighted that our former New Band of the Week from exactly one year ago are back with a brand spanking new second EP that rocks even harder than their awesome debut effort. New EP Not Like... Continue Reading →
They may only have released their debut single last month but we're really excited by the powerful rock sound of Circus. The deliciously edgy, hard-hitting vocals of singer and rhythm guitarist Olivia Donelon are perfectly complimented by a big rock backdrop to form a ridiculously catchy sound. The Congleton quartet, completed by lead guitarist Alfie... Continue Reading →
London-based L Sicario have honed a deliciously cool brand of desert rock, which just oozes funkiness. The band is formed of London school friends Chris (guitar) and Mike (bass), who lived with Niko (lead vocals and guitar) at Leeds University. Niko joined him in the capital, they started jamming together, realised they were onto something... Continue Reading →
South Wales quintet Contintents are taking the term 'heavy-hitting' to the extreme with their new music, which they describe to us as "a blend of chaos and melody thrown at you like a solid right hook." Continents began as a project back in 2012 and progressed rapidly to the line-up of Phil Cross (vocals), Darryl... Continue Reading →
Ten years ago I began my fledgling journalism career as a junior reporter in the sleepy Gloucestershire hills of the Cotswolds. The idyllic village of Chipping Campden was one of my more interesting sources of news and one of the places that I remember with fondness, partly as it brought me two of my favourite... Continue Reading →
A feast of the finest up-and-coming metal bands that Britain has to offer is coming your way as the second edition of ProgMetalMadness Live rocks the New Cross Inn, in south-east London, next month. The lineup is packed with a cross-section of great new metal acts, including our former New Band of the Week in... Continue Reading →
An evening of impressive female vocalists was topped off by the emergence of an exciting new rock band as Elswhere and Finding Kate provided support for Italian rockers Halflives at The Black Heart in Camden on Tuesday (9 January). The evening began in great fashion as Enfield, north London, quartet Elswhere took to the stage to... Continue Reading →
South London rockers Hey Gigantic are a great example of making music for the fun of jamming with your mates. Their catchy alternative rock sound harnesses their love for contrasting quiet with loud, with moments of calm blasted away by big hard-hitting rockiness. The quartet of Jonathan Bateman (lead vocals and bass), Matt Nicholson (backing... Continue Reading →
Bristol rockers From Idols To Ashes' exciting hard-hitting post-hardcore sound is back with the release of new single Justified. The track, which in typical FITA style is built around big guitar riffs from Aaron Daniel, builds on the success of this year's EP Scare Tactics, which we featured when they were our New Band of... Continue Reading →
The pure dark metal heaviness that's launched upon us in the form of Grantham, Lincolnshire's Miscreant is truly terrifying, yet utterly brilliant. The quartet of Harvey Jaffrey (vocals), Craig Massie (guitar), Jake Bilton (bass) and George Topham (drums) have fused an intense sound of huge screamed vocals built around booming guitar riffs and basslines and... Continue Reading →
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