New Band of the Week: Quiet Neighbours

These Northern Irish newcomers may go by the name Quiet Neighbours, but we suspect you’d be issuing your fair share of noise complaints if you had them living next door to you.

New Band of the Week: Fates Messenger

Prepare to be slapped around the face with a slab of metal savagery from Fates Messenger, who’ve harnessed their metal and hardcore experience to craft a sound they describe as “thrashy groove fusion.”

New Band of the Week: We Are Sovereign

East Midlands metalcore synth band We Are Sovereign bring us a delicious taste of the 2000s alongside a core focus on resilience in a sound they describe as “raw, emotional, hard-hitting, relatable and nostalgic.”

New Band of the Week: Within Reach

In sport, it’s common to hear talk of “the next generation of talent” coming through the ranks to continue a club or nation’s success. That kind of chatter isn’t so common in musical circles, but Within Reach are aiming to shape the next generation of heavy music in the UK with an engaging but complex modern metalcore sound they describe as “unhinged, resonant and evolving.”

New Band of the Week: State Of Deceit

Welsh band State Of Deceit have crafted a deliciously powerful yet engaging thrash and groove metalcore sound that they describe as “intense, heavy and mosh-able.”

New Band of the Week: Miles From Home

South Wales newcomers Miles From Home have honed an intense yet infectious modern metal sound that combines full-throttle riffs, vicious vocals and engaging melodies, and they describe as “catchy, harsh and modern.”

New Band of the Week: Beneath The Ruin

Liverpool band Beneath The Ruin offer up an intriguing fusion of aggressive metal, Djent grooves and huge breakdowns with engaging vocals, melancholy shoegaze and clean post-rock elements, which they describe as “progressive, melodic and melancholic.”

New Band of the Week: Grief Ritual

As someone going through a significant grief process, I can testify that seriously soul-destroyingly heavy music can often be just the tonic. Birmingham trio Grief Ritual offer that in abundance with a fusion of death and black metal, hardcore and metalcore that they describe as “miserable, unrelenting and crushing.” Perfect.

New Band of the Week: Sixth Wonder

Sixth Wonder fuse engaging vocals and choruses with dark, djenty guitars in an infectious progressive metalcore sound they describe as “ethereal, intuitive and technical.”

New Band of the Week: The Escape Artist

Hull band The Escape Artist have honed an intense and immersive yet extremely diverse melodic hardcore sound , which they describe as “aggressive, atmospheric and emotional.”