Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Ukrainian/Portuguese duo IMAGICA have honed a fascinating sound that refuses to be constrained to specific styles or genres. IMAGICA is as much a band as it is an art, filmmaking and storytelling project with a strong visual base that they intriguingly describe as “surrealistic cinematic arena dance metal.”
Italian masked collective Hurricane On Saturn combine metal, rap and electronic elements in a sound they describe as “unpredictable, unconventional and solid” and with which they “just want to destroy peoples’ brains.”
Hungarian band Meristem have beautifully crafted huge metalcore sounds that blend heavy djent and metal influences with more electronic and melodic elements.
Portsmouth six-piece Seething Akira offer an escape from the monotony of normality with an electronic nu-core sound that they describe as “Balls.To.The.Wall.”
New solo artist SAFIRE oozes anger and rage in a sexually charged fusion of metal, pop, electro and hardcore punk.
This may surprise you but Tartu band Pridian are the fourth we’ve featured from Estonia. And this particular group of musicians is among the finest Estonia has to offer, considering the previous iteration of the band was nominated for metal album of the year at the 2022 Estonian Music Awards!
French rapcore meets neo metal is a music genre we’re fairly sure you’ve not heard too much of. But if Waking The Sleeping Bear are anything to go by, it’s something we all need a little bit more of in our lives.
We’re increasingly seeing bands using electronic elements to redefine what we know as metal with new sounds and unconventional approaches. But Irish band Neon Empire are taking that crossover to even higher levels with an “ambitious, adventurous and rule-breaking” electro metalcore sound.
Step into the future of metal with the cyberpunk, electronica metal sound of Bristol-based Drip Fed Empire. The quartet blends hardcore metal and post-hardcore with industrial, EDM, drum & bass elements to form a genre-bending, energy-fuelled dystopian sound.
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