French collective USQUAM offer up intoxicating, vicious blackened death metal melodies that will penetrate your soul in a sound that they describe as "dark, melodic and powerful."
Introducing: USQUAM
New Band of the Week: The Escape Artist
Hull band The Escape Artist have honed an intense and immersive yet extremely diverse melodic hardcore sound , which they describe as "aggressive, atmospheric and emotional."
Introducing: Wolftopia
Finnish band Wolftopia offer up a thrillingly dark melodic death metal sound that perfectly marries aggression with emotion.
Introducing: Threads
International musical collective Threads sees musicians from Australia, Chile, Greece and New Zealand combine in Berlin. The result is a delicious groove-laden yet melodic post-rock meets metal sound that they describe as "atmospheric, progressive and groovy."
Introducing: Invisible Control
Brazilian band Invisible Control came kicking and screaming out of the pandemic in 2020 with an electrifying technical death metal sound that they describe as "heavy, technical and versatile."
Introducing: April 21st
Brazilian band April 21st have honed a gripping, intense metalcore sound that they describe as a mission to "sound heavy, play fast, and be as aggressive as we can" while spreading a positive message.
Introducing: Awake The Dreamer
Swedish band Awake The Dreamer burst onto the scene with a post-hardcore meets metalcore sound they describe as "energetic, keen and heavy," but offer us an intriguing curveball with their latest release.
Introducing: Voidfallen
Finnish melodic death metal band Voidfallen have honed an epic sound that will "slap your socks off" and is equally dark and crushing as it is engaging and melodic.
Introducing: Billie Rogue
Canadian metal solo artist Billie Rogue aims to "break the norms of metal and look cute while doing it" with an intriguing, diverse sound that Billie describes as "anti-elitist, genre-fluid, BadBitch."
Introducing: Nest of Plagues
Some of the most exciting discoveries we've made during the last five years of running GigRadar have been from the Hungarian metal and hardcore scene. And we've got another monster of a heavy Hungarian band to add to the list in Nest of Plagues.
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