Phantom Sea – Blackpool, England, United Kingdom. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. Phantom Sea are a band that to cope with the dreary skyline of their Blackpool home, have like many of the region’s stellar bands elected to play as loud as is doable just to forget....
Our Divinity – Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. With clear influence from the days of early Linkin Park on one hand and the Metalcore early 2000’s on the other, Liverpool‘s Our Divinity and their ultimately melodic sound cumbersome Rock sound is out in force on their very well produced debut single,...
I Ignite – Long Island, New York, USA. To Long Island now for the latest from I Ignite, a band slogging it out since 2014 via their mix of Nu-Metal appreciating early 2000’s Post-Hardcore and Melodic Hardcore hybridised in style with Pop-Punk, Emo and general melodic riff-fery. In short, to...
Shorts Weather – Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. Containing members of Plymouth Punk-Rock band Super Secret Club – who you can find on bandcamp, HERE – Shorts Weather are a two-piece band pining for heavier climes where the riffs are plentiful as they cut through thick fog that fights back against...
Pile Up Festival – York, England, United Kingdom. Another of Riff Media’s festivals this year, Pile Up Festival will take place at the Fibbers in the city of York this coming June and will showcase a line-up doing its very best to provide the best both in known names and...
Thumbhole Records – Your Ears, Right Now. For our previous work on the compilation – Click Here. Above can can find our article on the stellar UK underground Punk and Alternative label Thumbhole Records and their twenty track international compilation more than doing its best to showcase some of the...
Thumbhole Records – Your Ears, Right Now. Thumbhole Records, based in Reading, United Kingdom, have recently released the first in what is soon to be a long line of compilations showcasing the best in global underground Punk-Rock, Pop-Punk, Indie and Alternative. This is the label’s first major release under their...
WRCKG – Utrecht, The Netherlands. (Above) Photo Credit: David Hup. We’re in Utrecht once more for another shining band in both the Dutch music scene and indeed European sphere, WRCKG. The band got in touch with us after our article on equally loud contemporaries , Dock 83 who you can find...
Set Before Us – Stockholm, Sweden. As you pick your way through the back catalogue of this Stockholm Metalcore five-piece, you hear a band whose sound was very much theorised and then put into practise. Over two singles and two EPs the band have taken a basic Metalcore foundation and rather...
Dock 83 – Utrecht, The Netherlands. Cover photo credit: underxposed – Click Here. With two EPs, a split, a number of singles and a recently released full-length, it’s safe to say that Utrecht natives Dock 83 are in it for the long run with their blend of Post-Hardcore and Metalcore...