Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Amid a saturated market of masses of metal bands and oodles of choice thanks to the rise of online streaming, it can seem difficult to differentiate. But Northampton-based Siderian are doing just that with their intriguing brand of thrash-infused metal, which essentially has the sole aim of making everything as heavy, fast and harsh as possible.
Metalcore might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think about China's contributions to the world but, if Beijing band Life Awaits are anything to go by, then we're well and truly missing out.
This week's New Music Friday is on... Saturday... but, as it's a long weekend in the UK we figured it gives you plenty of time to enjoy this feast of great new music.
We were treated to a cocktail of British rock and metal with a Scandinavian twist as we went along to see Griever supported by As Everything Unfolds, Noija and Palmist at The Black Heart in Camden last Friday (26 April). Palmist The evening got off to a good start as Palmist - who it took... Continue Reading →
We've got some cracking new music for you this week with new tracks from two of Britain's finest new bands from the same record label, a debut indie-rock EP and a debut metal EP, along with a second EP from our favourite Kiwi rockers and a debut album from France's finest purveyors of post-hardcore. Read... Continue Reading →
We've got some cracking new music for you today, including new tracks from several brand new exciting British bands, plenty of manic punk and metal, an exciting new Australian band and, potentially, a final track from one band as we know them.
We've got some excellent new music for you to wrap your ears around this week, and from new fewer than four of our former New Bands of the Week, our favourite Swedish metal band and a couple of brand new British rock bands. Turn it up loud and check out this feast of new, predominantly... Continue Reading →
It's a bold claim to make but Manchester's Climate Of Fear have been widely acclaimed as "the UK's angriest new metal band." So we had to, albeit tentatively, have a chat to discover just what was getting these lads so angry.
Manchester's Kaiber Koi are far from your run-of-the-mill progressive metal band, promising an ethos of 'breaking down the boundaries that lie between the generic and oversaturated.'
"Exhilarating and effervescent." These are the words that scintillating progressive metal quintet Sertraline use to summarise their tantalisingly heavy yet catchy sound. The Stoke-on-Trent five-piece fuse raw intensity with soothing melody - in their words, "big naughty riffage" meets "groovy, heavy but hella melodic." The band, who share a name with an anti-depressant drug that's... Continue Reading →
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