Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
Croatian band Media Stres offer up a feisty alternative rock sound that combines elements of garage and hard rock and they describe as “energetic, explosive, diverse.” Media Stres, who are … Continue reading Introducing: Media Stres
Australian project The Orphaned Bee combines elements of rock, metal and post-punk with electronica in an atmospheric sound they describe as “cinematic synth rock.”
Welsh rockers Sleazy Money are bringing back the party with a fun, filthy and fast old-school, hard-riffing sound that they describe as “abrasive, venomous and uncompromising.”
Edinburgh’s Silver Dollar Room fuse 90s grunge and thought-provoking lyrics with the influence of ‘gritty’ Scottish weather in a powerful and engaging rock sound that they describe as “raw, introspective and dynamic.”
We’re kicking off August with a bang as we bring you eight new tracks from bands previously featured on GigRadar. This edition of On The Radar brings you a mix of industrial rock and metal featuring bands from Germany, Japan, Poland, the UK and the US.
If there’s a single country we could pick out as intriguing based on not discovering any artists from the nation and lacking any understanding of their rock/metal scene, it would be South Africa. But we’re putting that right today with multi-genre music project FiveSidedDice, who describe their rock meets nu-metal sound as “colourful, enigmatic and transformative.”
Bristol band Kurbside Villain have crafted a captivating alternative rock sound that combines catchy melodies and gritty guitar riffs and they describe as “raucous, spikey and unapologetic.”
Kansas band Deflecting Ghosts have made somewhat of a family affair of their modern yet nostalgic rock sound inspired by personal pain and tragedy, which they describe as “real, passionate, and honest.”
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.
Italian band Cult Of Aurora aim to bring a touch of 2000s nostalgia with a distinctive brand of alternative rock meets modern metal that they describe as “introspective, energetic and mystic.”
Finnish band White Cloud Fire have crafted the type of thrilling rock sound that you can’t help by want to belt out at the top of your lungs, led by powerful vocals and packed with heavy riffing.
Northern England quartet Jackson Hewitt have crafted an engaging sound that was founded in folk and has progressively increased in heaviness, and they describe as “emotional, organic and driven.”
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