Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
South Wales newcomers Miles From Home have honed an intense yet infectious modern metal sound that combines full-throttle riffs, vicious vocals and engaging melodies, and they describe as "catchy, harsh and modern."
Swiss band Windshelter have honed an intoxicating sound that fuses the intensity of post-hardcore with more melodic, almost emo elements that they describe as "deep, energetic and mindful."
We're back with our now monthly update to the GigRadar Fresh Tunes Spotify playlist, which brings you the latest and greatest new tracks from new rock and metal bands around the world.
Liverpool band Beneath The Ruin offer up an intriguing fusion of aggressive metal, Djent grooves and huge breakdowns with engaging vocals, melancholy shoegaze and clean post-rock elements, which they describe as "progressive, melodic and melancholic."
As someone going through a significant grief process, I can testify that seriously soul-destroyingly heavy music can often be just the tonic. Birmingham trio Grief Ritual offer that in abundance with a fusion of death and black metal, hardcore and metalcore that they describe as "miserable, unrelenting and crushing." Perfect.
We thought it was high time we revived our Fresh Tunes Spotify playlist, which collates up to 30 of our favourite new tracks from some of our favourite new rock and metal bands.
Hungarian newcomers Wires offer up a vicious and intense industrial metalcore sound that they summarise as "anger, discomfort and most certainly frustration." Intriguingly, the band is big on experimentation and uses electronics and, specifically, analog synths to finetune their unique industrial sound.
Utah band New Habits formed with a purpose to inspire listeners to develop new habits and better their lives and relationships.
Imagine being a rock or metal band in a country where the creation of such music forms is considered "evil, satanic, demonic and heretic" by your ruling elite.
Tampa Bay and Cincinnati-based collective Coldharbour offer exactly that in a brutal melodic deathcore meets metalcore sound they describe as "aggressive, melodic and emotional."
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