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In last week's New Music Friday round-up we brought you the latest taster of the unmistakable sound of Hungarian act Faminehill and their new single Ruin. The metalcore crew - who are on Famined Records, which also brought us the superb Vietnamese band Windrunner - beautifully fuse moments of melodic calm with utterly savage metal... Continue Reading →
It's Friday the 13th but we're feeling pretty lucky as we've got a host of awesome new music to wrap our ears around. Here's our latest instalment of the latest, greatest new music, including a superb new album from one of Britain's finest metal bands, new tracks from some up-and-coming British rockers and an EP... Continue Reading →
Sit back if you will and envisage Birmingham trio Crimson Star's description of their hard-hitting rock sound as "the kind of music you need when driving a beautiful car, extremely fast across the Californian desert." It's loud and riff-heavy, but it'll also have you screaming your lungs out to their huge singalong choruses. The band's... Continue Reading →
Coming out of York we've discovered a very exciting new band who've crafted an aggressive brand of heavy metal packed with attitude but also plenty of melody. InVisions started back in January 2016 when Ben Ville (vocals) approached Lucas Gabb (guitars) about starting a new project after the demise of their previous bands, then recruited... Continue Reading →
Last night (Friday) we witnessed one of the best, most energetic nights of metal you're likely to see in London, including three fantastic up-and-coming British metal bands. We headed down to Boston Music Room, in Tufnell Park, to check out Rugby rockers wars opening up for south coast five-piece Acres, Essex's Create To Inspire and the... 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 →
There was a time not too long ago when there were so many great Welsh rock bands around it was difficult to keep track of them all. The likes of Funeral For A Friend, Bullet For My Valentine and Lostprophets (I'll say that one quietly) shaped my love for rock music, but Cardiff rockers Calling... Continue Reading →
It's not very often you discover a new band that not only sound fantastic, but are so new that they've never played a live show. And it's not very often you hear an awesome metalcore song about Pokémon Go. However, German metal duo Breakdown Bros are not your regular metalcore band. The German duo has never... Continue Reading →
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