Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
North Carolina quartet Obsidian Darling have gone through a rebrand and launched a new video that honours their darker new persona. The band was first formed by vocalist Logan Christopher, … Continue reading Introducing: Obsidian Darling
When asked to describe their fuzzy pop-rock sound to us, London / Brighton-based Beach Riot summarise it as “loud, hooky and sweaty,” which sounded pretty damn good to us. The … Continue reading New Band of the Week: Beach Riot
“Really fucking loud,” says Creature frontman Sam Avery when asked to describe his band’s sound, and he’s not far wrong. If you’ve been craving a fuzzy, grungey Nirvana-like sound for … Continue reading New Band of the Week: Creature
Tribute bands can divide opinion. For every duff Oasis, Robbie Williams or Kylie Minogue pretender that frequents University graduation dos up and down the country (speaking from experience), there’s a … Continue reading UK Foo Fighters and the role of Tribute Bands
When a band describes themselves to me as ‘loud, energetic, melodic’ they essentially tick all three boxes in my musical listening criteria. This much goes for London-based rockers Vertebrae. The … Continue reading Introducing: Vertebrae
When Tennessee rockers Rusty Shipp were introduced to us as a combination of Beatles-esque songwriting and riff-heavy rockier influences like Muse and Nirvana, you can forgive us for getting a … Continue reading Introducing: Rusty Shipp
Last night (Friday) we witnessed one of the best, most energetic nights of metal you’re likely to see in London, including three fantastic up-and-coming British metal bands. We headed down … Continue reading Gig Review: wars, Acres, Create To Inspire & He Is Legend at Boston Music Room
We’re going all old school punk on you for this week’s New Band of the Week, with South London rockers Pretty Pistol. The quartet of Laura (vocals), Billy (guitar), Rich (bass) … Continue reading New Band of the Week: Pretty Pistol
We hear about some weird and wacky stuff from bands sometimes, but when it comes to random musical influences they don’t come much wackier than those of awesome new rock … Continue reading Introducing: Space Church
A lot of bands will tell you they’re built on friendship and brotherhood, but Surrey rockers Brightlight City probably have a better claim to this than most. Not only are … Continue reading Introducing: Brightlight City
University has a funny knack of throwing together people that inspire each other to achieve things that aren’t necessarily related to their studies. After all, the founders of Google met … Continue reading Introducing: Hyla
Bristol-based rockers The Vigil are the perfect embodiment of the trend of modern bands getting involved in every process of making, releasing and promoting their music. The quartet only recently … Continue reading New Band of the Week: The Vigil
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