Perhaps the most amusing part of Utopia’s backstory is the fact that the duo’s guitarist John Bailey is also the guitarist for Aled Jones and Russell Watson, a style of music at total odds from what you will hear on the band’s debut record Stalker.

Following up on an excellent debut can be a daunting task. Pressure from yourselves, pressure from the label, pressure from the fans and the press. Capstan seem to have taken it all on the chin and ran with it.

If you ever wondered what a delicate punch to the face felt like, put on Underdark’s debut album.

You know how the saying goes…a band who pandemics together, stays together. And that certainly seems to be the case for London’s CRASHFACE.

Brash, raucous and unapologetically loud, Crashface are bringing back the vibe and attitude of traditional British rockstars. Prepare to get infected.

With a name like Wristmeetrazor you could be forgiven for thinking the North American four-piece were some kind of edgy emo rip off, but it's a little more complicated than that...

With a name like Throat, you might expect some fast-paced shouty hardcore – something a bit…well….throaty. Think again. The only certainty with the four-piece Finnish rock band is that nothing is certain.

A meteoric rise-to-fame saga for the modern internet era, Chicago pop-punk five-piece Action/Adventure shot to the sphere of public consciousness after a sixty second music video they’d posted up on TikTok went viral.

God’s favourite boy band grow up. Less of the punk and more of the pop on alt-giants Waterparks’ boldly titled ‘Greatest Hits’.