Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
What better way to kick off your weekend than some deliciously brooding and exciting instrumental post-mathcore. Salt Lake City band BLACKSHAPE describe their latest track as a "barrage of riffs, shifting time signatures, and carefully constructured textures" our interest was well and truly piqued.
Exciting Norwegian newcomers King Romeo have honed an infectious brand of anthemic, big riffing rock that we're immediately hooked on.
Canadian band SuckerTrap offer up an exciting heavy rock'n'roll sound laced with punky energy that will "sink its teeth into you and won't let go."
Thump Whistle might seem like a bit of a random name for a band and... well... it is. That's because the Pleasanton, California, quartet came up with the name using the Random Bandname Generator.
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.
We've spoken to a few solo artists in our time but Canadian thrash project Sorting Infinity is one of the coolest so far.
Oklahoma City duo Blooming offer up an intriguing mix of heavy rock and metal with elements of electronica and R&B. They're also the first band we've ever spoken to from Oklahoma!
New Cheltenham-based rockers Neptune Rain have refused to allow these strange times to restrict their creativity and have used it as an opportunity to grow their audience.
Exciting Swedish melodic death metal duo Hour of Anguish have an intense sound that they descibe as "channelling the godfathers of the Gothenburg scene."
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