New Orleans rockers Spylights have honed an exciting sound that harnesses elements of prog and post-rock with metal as well as more melodic influences.
Discover This: Spylights
Discover This: Heron
Last month we celebrated 50 years since man first stepped foot on the Moon, so it's very timely that post-rock quartet Heron should also release their space mission-themed second album just three days after that landmark.
Discover This: Miserable Noise Club
The Internet is a wonderful thing. Case in point, among other truly exciting innovations, the ability to talk to and work with anyone and anywhere has enabled the Miserable Noise Club experimental music collective to collaborate from all over the world.
Introducing: Oceans Over Alderaan
Another GigRadar first today as we introduce you to a band named after a Star Wars reference, in Blackpool's Oceans Over Alderaan - a fictional planet in the popular sci-fi movies. The band fuse atmospheric rock and shoegaze with doom-pop, math and post-rock, which they summarise as "pretentious arty nonsense." But let's start with that... Continue Reading →
New Band of the Week: Better Than Mending
For anyone who, like me, grew up on the old-school emo and post-hardcore sounds of the early 2000s, we may just have found you a nostalgic new favourite band.
Introducing: Atlas : Empire and their intriguing tech-themed concept album
In addition to an exciting alt-rock meets post-rock sound Glasgow's Atlas : Empire have deepened the intrigue with a concept album focusing on the human race's growing reliance on technology.
Introducing: Sejd
It's not too often we receive instrumental rock music in the GigRadar inbox but when we do, we generally love it. So we're really excited to introduce a Swedish band that's honed a deliciously diverse post-rock, shoegazey sound borne out of combining a multitude of instruments. Indeed, Malmö's Sejd includes... deep breath... Mårten Wiklund (electric guitar,... Continue Reading →
Introducing: Voices From The Fuselage
Northamptonshire rockers Voices From The Fuselage have honed a fascinating sound that blurs the boundaries of tech metal, progressive rock and post-rock in a delicious manner - leading some to laud them as Britain's answer to Coheed & Cambria. It's high praise indeed, and one that frontman Ashe O'Hara admits he doesn't quite see but... Continue Reading →
New Band of the Week: Junodef
Originally hailing from Sweden, the now London-based Junodef have honed an entrancing dark 'post-death' rock sound that serves up plenty of mystery and intrigue - and they're a bit of a watershed moment for us as our first ever non-British New Band of the Week. Their intrigue isn't limited to music either, with their mission... Continue Reading →
New Band of the Week: Breichiau Hir
We've got something very different for you this week in the form of Welsh rockers Breichiau Hir, the first rock band I've personally heard that sing in Welsh. The six-piece from Cardiff, whose name translates to Long Arms, first started out in their school days, honed an intense, loud rock sound and set about bringing some... Continue Reading →
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