Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Throughout the current pandemic, life as we know it has drastically changed, and we've all had to adapt to a new ‘normal’. Consequently, the music industry is suffering badly, affecting artists and bands worldwide, alongside teams working behind the scenes, and many other areas of support.
New music podcast GigRadio Episode 13 features an interview with British metal band Defences and great new music from all around the world.
If you happened to be on the lookout for the heaviest new UK metal band then Monasteries would probably be a good place to start.
Hungarian band Before We Fall offer up an intriguing modern metal sound that fuses metal with classical music influences and orchestral instruments.
Get your weekend off to an epic start with the powerful metal sound of Thorium, who hail from Belgium and the Netherlands.
Turkish band Alkera offer up a thrilling progressive metal sound that fuses lively vocals with dramatic, diverse instrumentals, which they describe as "energetic, powerful, soulful."
This may be a bold statement, but we firmly believe Louisiana metallic hardcore band Capra are the most exciting American band we've discovered in five years of running this site.
Prepare yourself for some "sexy old school doom metal deliciousness" from exciting, rebellious new London band Them Bloody Kids.
RUINA's diverse sound is built on an arsenal of riffs and big breakdowns and draws on a wide range of influences, leading them to describe it to us as "random, huge and genre-fluid."
Southern Germany's modern metal meets post-hardcore outfit VENUES have honed an exciting sound that fuses lively riffs and screamed vocals with delicious melodies, which they summarise as "diverse, unique and self-contained."
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