Introducing: 4FOXSAKE
London-based band 4FOXSAKE are on a mission to challenge social barriers with an explosive sound that harnesses elements of punk, hard rock and metal, and they describe as “loud, anthemic and catchy.”
Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
London-based band 4FOXSAKE are on a mission to challenge social barriers with an explosive sound that harnesses elements of punk, hard rock and metal, and they describe as “loud, anthemic and catchy.”
Norwegian band MAKTKAMP offer up a hard-hitting musical entity that aims to fight injustice, idiocy and inhuman behaviour with a sound they describe as “piercing, persistent and playful.”
Canadian purveyors of “Dark.Sexy.Loud.” The Fixer offer up a dark, melodramatic and deeply engaging fusion of hard rock and metal with a playful edge.
Hate Ritual describe their fusion of death metal, groove and thrash to us as “PURE FUCKING MEXICAN HATRED.”
Norwegian trio :BOLVERK: have cooked up a deliciously wild and ferocious sound that challenges the boundaries of extreme metal and they delightfully describe as “extreme, melodic and ferocious.”
Bath trio Redshift have cooked up an epically diverse, genre-bending progressive rock meets metal sound that they describe as “eclectic, technical and quirky.”
In our near-seven years of running this blog, we’ve encountered a new first – a band offering up dual language Russian and English vocals. This intriguing proposition is courtesy of Lincolnshire newcomers Dire Thorns, a young, masked band offering up an old-school death metal meets nu-metal sound that they describe as “heavy, bilingual and poorly-produced.”
Having grown up in Herefordshire, it’s not too often I discover a new band that hails from the same rural location. However, the brilliantly named Your Future Is Metal is one such band, which started out back in 2011 but gradually evolved through to the current project that began in 2020.
Indeed, Barcelona-based melodic death metal band Worth is only the sixth Spanish band we’ve covered and the first since March 2021 – but it’s been well worth the wait (pardon the pun).
Intriguing new British band Swarm6ix have fused metal and trap with a sprinkling of nu-metal in an intense and engaging futuristic sound they describe as “trap, goth and primal.”
Cambridge trio Past The Fall have honed an explosive and captivating groove metal sound that they describe as “melodic, heavy and groovey.”
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.”