Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
British band Cartoons Can't Die fuse everything from groove, death metal and metalcore to industrial, prog and electronic elements in a fascinatingly diverse and experimental sound that they summarise as "Shiftcore."
We’ve been using music discovery platform Groover to find new rock and metal bands from all around the world for several months now. In order to carry out interviews for our articles, we have to send an email to the bands and, sometimes, they don’t respond to our requests. So we routinely put together a review of those that go unanswered.
Belgian duo Final Affliction take a wide-open approach to creating music that's free of genre labels and restrictions. That said, the duo aims to push the boundaries of modern metal with a sound that plays heavily on technical complexity and emotion.
Edinburgh band Tiberius have crafted an engaging fusion of anthemic rock, progressive metal and hooky metalcore in a sound they describe as "thought-provoking chaos."
Italian band Mind Control aims to encapsulate harmonious melodies, personal depth, and raw intensity into a progressive death metal sound that they describe as "melodic, intimate and brutal." The band hails from Abruzzo, a region east of Rome, and is formed of Stefania Salladini on vocals, Massimo Boffa on guitars and keyboard programming, Stefano Tatasciore... Continue Reading →
Swedish band Siren have honed an engaging progressive metal sound that they describe as "melodic, atmospheric and powerful."
Thankfully, the powerful, atmospheric progressive rock and metal sound of Wyvern is far more entertaining than my local radio station of the same name.
International musical collective Threads sees musicians from Australia, Chile, Greece and New Zealand combine in Berlin. The result is a delicious groove-laden yet melodic post-rock meets metal sound that they describe as "atmospheric, progressive and groovy."
French metal band Dukkha offer up a diverse combination of brutal heavy-polyrhythmic and djent guitars with melodic ambiences, which they describe as "raw, powerful and meaningful." The Lyon band was formed in 2016 by Julien Sartorius (vocals) and Maxim Payot (guitar). They were swiftly joined by Fabien Belissard (guitar) before the band composed its first... Continue Reading →
Transport yourself back into the days of 80s thrash and death metal and strap in for an exploration into outer space with Danish/American collective Terminalist.
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