Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
ASKARI, led by the distinctive vocals of frontman Asher Baker, are a band that pulls no punches and are on a mission to throw, in their words, "walls of sound around any size venue and spitting vitriolic lyrics squarely in the face of absolutely every fucker ever."
Ukrainian newcomers Why So Silent? are an intriguing proposition, fusing full-on instrumental metal synthy spaciness.
Like many a good band throughout history, the story of German heavy metal act Premortal Breath begins with beer and in a pub. As frontman Tommy Greulich puts it: "It all began with beer. We met at a pub, had some beers and at the end of the evening Premortal Breath was born."
Shoegaze and metal sound like a musical oxymoron, but somehow Philadelphia collective bottomshelf merge the two together to make something jaw-droppingly brilliant.
We love to tick new countries off the new music map and today we're able to add Romania to this fairly lengthy list. Our first taste of Romanian music is the intriguingly dark and heavy yet deliciously catchy sound of Cluj-Napoca band Lurker In Light.
Expect huge intensity with a fusion of melodic atmosphere and raw energy from exciting New York post-hardcore meets metalcore act Anahata.
The thrilling sound of Norwegian band Oberst is epitomised by drummer Johan Fredrik Bolli's summary of "proggy metal music, infused with hardcore attitude and post-metal emotion." In short, there's a hell of a lot going on, and there's a hell of a lot to get excited about.
We don't recall writing about too many bands that have three guitarists but, when one lavishes in such a luxury, it's only right to expect something pretty darn heavy. And Australian metal-meets-punk-meets-hardcore newcomers DIEFM do not disappoint on this expectation.
GigRadio Episode 2 comes to you from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, where we chatted to local band Windrunner.
Our first introduction to Swiss black metal act Blackwall was a combination of their huge sound and their description of the band as "five average guys with an above-average hatred of today's world."
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