Salvation Jayne – Kent, England, United Kingdom. Kent four-piece Salvation Jayne are a band taking the female-front Hard Rock tradition further along and away from cliche, we’ve seen them before – Here – with their single ‘Burn It Down’ which saw the band build on this blueprint with their driven...
Kill The Drama Queen – Luxembourg/France/Belgium. Fresh Picks are designed to give readers all the reasons they will need to indulge in whatever facet of underground music we come across, a short – ish – take on a band or artist to entice the prospective listener with enough name-drops, genre-tags...
Sounds Of Swami – Keighley, England, United Kingdom. Sounds Of Swami are band that create intrigue before you press play. The Keighley four-piece first raise your eyebrows via who they cite as their influences, with the likes of At The Drive-In, Fugazi, The Bronx and Hot Snakes brashly and unashamedly...
And Burn – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. And Burn are a band I’ve been meaning to sit down with for quite some time. I once saw them play at one of the all-so common all-dayers that permeate the Melbourne live music scene, Melbourne being nearest locale to the band’s home. And...
Judgement Centre – Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom. The irregular line-up is becoming more and more common in our underground music scene and in doing so is injecting much needed new variety and that is something crucial. The mighty two-piece usually variates between the axe or bass-axe alongside a drummer, with...
Northern Horizon – Newcastle, England, United Kingdom. The Newcastle-based Northern Horizon have been described in the past as a band that sound as if ‘Green Day gave All Time Low a songwriting lesson’ and have released their second EP that in many ways, is pretty-well summed up by the above statement....
Tuesday’s Secret – Leeds, England, United Kingdom. Situated in Birstall near Leeds, Tuesday Secret are one of those bands whose career has been intermittent. Formed before the twen-teens we are now coming to the end of, the band have been relatively quiet since the debut 2014 full-length album, Leap Year. However,...
Black Tree Suns – Plymouth, England, United Kingdom. For our previous work on the band – Click Here. The Plymouth based Black Tree Suns are a band for those whose taste primarily sits in a sea of riffs, a sea not too metallic but rather bluesy in nature while soaring...
Malfunc Prism – Freiburg, Germany. The cover photo used is very fitting for a band who can’t decide how to describe themselves or who are further confused by those who try to describe them. Malfunc Prism of Freiburg have been compared to the likes of Pearl Jam, The Distillers, Deftones,...
The Take Down – Ashford, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit: Matthew Sutton – Click Here. Ashford in Kent is the base of a Pop-Punk band by the name of The Take Down. A band with a penchant for the past and the indispensable household names that made the genre. Alkaline Trio?...