Your guide to new rock, metal and punk bands worldwide
International band Ancient Settlers have honed an energetic and intense technical melodic death metal sound combining clean and guttural vocals with plenty of guitar solos and synths, which they describe "emotional, aggressive and melodic."
Brazilian band Invisible Control came kicking and screaming out of the pandemic in 2020 with an electrifying technical death metal sound that they describe as "heavy, technical and versatile."
Leeds melodic death metal trio Pteroglyph offer up a fascinating fusion of old school death metal and modern technical metal. It's an approach they delightfully describe to us as "feral and violently technical songs."
The thrilling sound of Chiasmata walks the tightrope between atmospheric and cinematic metal and the complexity of modern technical metal, and the result is pretty special.
Exciting Glasgow hard-hitters Godeater are a technical death metal band with melody at their core and the biggest issues facing modern society at their soul.
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 →
An element of intrigue and mystery should always surround any good tech metal, and that's certainly the case with Leeds five-piece The Mechanist. The band describe their music as "Metalcore skeleton, evolving skin," which offers a sumptuous summary of the fusion of intense, complex technical metal with moments of delicious melody, covering topics as diverse... Continue Reading →
Hull tech metal quartet Dividium are quite the metal melting pot, fusing huge mathy guitars and delicious solos with a kaleidoscope of vocal offerings, from classic metal vocals through to intense screams. Dividium began life as a project between vocalist Neil Bailey and guitarist Peter Delaney, who later added drummer James Coggin and bassist Joel... Continue Reading →
One of the genres I've really enjoyed exploring over the last year or so is technical metal aka Tech-Metal, and south coast rockers Core Of iO are an intriguing example of this emerging genre. The quartet met at a music college a few years ago and formed out of a desire to create interesting and... Continue Reading →
The perfect tonic for any Sunday evening woes is the unique sound of female-fronted technical, progressive metal band Hieroglyph. The six-piece, who hail from Newcastle and Leeds and are now based in London, have fused a style that mixes all manner of musical genres and features, from huge riffs, wild guitar solos and power choruses to mathcore, slow... Continue Reading →
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