We've met a couple of great new bands from New Zealand recently, but they're being a serious run for their money by awesome Auckland rockers Dead Favours.
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New Music Friday Round-Up: 26 April
We've got some cracking new music for you this week with new tracks from two of Britain's finest new bands from the same record label, a debut indie-rock EP and a debut metal EP, along with a second EP from our favourite Kiwi rockers and a debut album from France's finest purveyors of post-hardcore. Read... Continue Reading →
Introducing: Filth Wizard
If the name Filth Wizard alone didn't have you intrigued, then the New Zealand band's self-descriptor surely will: "Imagine a sorcerer in the middle of a swamp, surrounded by a forest filled with strange, lurking creatures. It’s a little bit sludgy, a little bit doomy, pretty heavy, melancholic and just a touch psychedelic." The instrumental... Continue Reading →
Introducing: Crooked Royals
We're ticking another country off the map today by introducing you to an awesome new metalcore band out of New Zealand, Crooked Royals. The Auckland five-piece are everything you could want from a metalcore band - a combination of screamed and clean vocals, huge crushing riffs, and a generally delightful combination of intense heaviness and... Continue Reading →
Introducing: System Corporation
It's definitely not every day we receive great music from New Zealand in the inbox, but we did this week in the form of System Corporation. The five-piece project combines the rich musical background of their various parts in previous and existing indie bands, including two members of The Datsuns. Having first formed while in Sweden on tour a few years back the exciting... Continue Reading →
Gig Review: Eva Plays Dead, Sumo Cyco and Devilskin at Camden Underworld
On a day that will be remembered in history for all the wrong reasons, three female-fronted rock bands from across the globe gave Londoners an evening to remember for all the right reasons. Last night England's Eva Plays Dead, Canadian rockers Sumo Cyco and the fiendish New Zealand band Devilskin put on a special display... Continue Reading →
Gig Review: 48Hours, City of Ashes, LoveLess and Hyla at O2 Academy Islington 2
Three years ago, I went along to a random gig at The Barfly in Camden with my mate before he flew out to live in New Zealand with his girlfriend. That night we met the lead singer of a band called City of Ashes, with whom I discussed my plans to start a blog about new bands.... Continue Reading →
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