Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
After more than four years of running GigRadar, we've finally found our first Mexican metal band in Mexico City-based metalcore quartet After Silence. And it's been well worth the wait as, probably a little bit offensively, the band reveal that "people are shocked when they realise that we are Mexican."
Eindhoven band Another Now have honed a thrilling metalcore sound that's laced with violent guitars and unrelenting rhythms, alongside tech metal influences, electronic noises and plenty of intense shredding. And they're yet another band to add to the list of exciting new Dutch metal bands.
Prepare to cast aside any preconceptions you might have of what 'Christian music' sounds like by exploring Australian Christian metalcore duo A Sight In Veracity.
Let us transport you to a dark place fuelled by chaos and desperation with Newcastle quartet Creak. The band's savage sound fuses groove metal, nu-metal and post-hardcore intensity with moments of eerie atmosphere and distortion.
Nashville newcomers Lonelyouth offer up an exciting, diverse sound that sits somewhere between nu-metal, metalcore and melodic rock. They've honed a sound that offers plenty of aggression and its fair share of groove, with booming guitar riffs fused with powerful vocals engaging melodies.
Belgium is one of the most exciting new hotbeds of metal that we've only recently discovered, and we've found another great new band to add to it in hard-hitting metal quintet Moments.
Arkansas' Census are a metal band that falls outside the scope of what you might typically expect from a metal band. They've honed an intriguing sound that fuses metal elements with delicious yet powerful vocals, modern metalcore instrumentals, synth fusions, and emotionally-driven lyrics.
Every now and again we come across a band that's doing something completely different to anything else we've heard before. Florida's Steps of Odessa are one such example, fusing intensely heavy deathcore with scintillating synths and classical and jazz inspirations in their "progressive metalcore" sound. The Orlando six-piece is formed from an alternative rock and... Continue Reading →
If, like us, you never grew out of your emo phase then you're very much in luck with exciting Yorkshire band Realms. The quintet have honed a sound that transports us to the good old post-hardcore and emo days of the early 2000s or, as they put it, "music for people who never grew out of their emo phase."
If you've been pining after a bit of angsty, hard-hitting British metal then Essex newcomers When Nothing Works well and truly have you covered. They've honed a heavy, yet engaging metalcore sound that fuses powerful vocals and lyrics with big riffs and pounding rhythms.
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