Hoggs Bison

Hoggs Bison

Bristol, United Kingdom

For fans of:
Dianogah, This Town Needs Guns, Slint

Hoggs Bison play bright, fresh rock music. They have a great command of slow, crawling, melancholy sections similar to bands like Slint, and remain diversified with energetic, infectious groovy sections too. Here is a band (similar to Body Hound) with the potential to play just about any kind of rock music they please. Can't wait to hear their next release!


Influences

Simon Hewitt (Guitar):


Tim Gibbons (Bass, Guitar, Synth): 


Wil Miles (Bass, Guitar, Synth):


Tom Mallard (Drums):

The usual

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Body Hound

Body Hound

Sheffield, United Kingdom

For fans of:
The Mars Volta, Meshuggah, Botch

Body Hound play heavy, atonal, hard hitting music, with a strong rhythmic focus. At first sounding like an unusual metalcore act, this band shares a lot more in common with the likes of Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart: although there is the same lack of regard for conventional tonality, their comprehensive understanding of musical styles (past and present) is the strongest point of comparison, as shown by their ability to switch between styles with such conviction.

Influences

Calvin Rhodes (Guitar):


Joe Nicholson (Guitar): 


Joseph Thorpe (Bass):


Ryan Bright (Drums):

The usual

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Five Star Hotel

Five Star Hotel 

Michigan, USA

For fans of:
Venetian Snares, Prurient, A$AP Ferg

Wow, a really extreme electronic artist. Five star hotel dissects the structure of a lot of modern electronic genres, mixes them up and turns the gain up to 11. In my view it's beyond a gimmick, as I hear a deliberate attempt to create melody and nuance within the dense cornfields of static. This is about the closest I can get to a noise artist and still enjoy it.

Influences

Michael Jerome (All):

In his own words:

"This whole album, regardless of being relatively new, has influenced me a lot recently but this is probably my favorite track on it. To begin w/ the production here by Zaytoven is fucking amazing, and Future's hopeless writing style really completes the tour-de-force that is the track. I was listening to this album on a daily basis while coming up with Hotelseason 2 and the moods presented here are definitely things I try and hit in my own music. I'm still riding off the wave of inspiration the album has given me on some new stuff too for the album I'm working on."

The usual

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Monolith

Monolith

Torbay, United Kingdom

For fans of:
The Acacia Strain, Vildhjarta, Meshuggah

Monolith play a gory, seething type of metal. Every note and beat seem to matter in creating this powerful onslaught of screaming, downtuned guitars and polymetric drums. 'A Votive Offering's cover depicts what looks to me like a stone collosus of tremendous power. Enormous, angry, and that's precisely how the music sounds to me. Crushing, powerful, and almost disastrous, as if it were the soundtrack to buildings collapsing in the wake of something unstoppable.

Influences

Luke Ricketts (Vocals):



Rob Gibbons (Guitar): 


Lewis Hoare (Bass):


Dan Van-Delft (Drums):

The usual

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Sonance

Sonance

Bristol, United Kingdom

For fans of:
Thou, This Will Destroy You, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Sonance play a tempered mix of crushing sludge metal compounded with carefully arranged minimal movements verging on modern classical or post-rock. This band goes beyond the down-tuned dissonance of sludge metal, beyond the incessant pounding of doom, to create some of the heaviest music I've ever laid ears on. Both sides of the Like Ghosts LP, at its heaviest, sound like an old warehouse full of high powered industrial machinery tearing itself apart. The more minimal arrangements between the sludge sections do so much with so little. Sonance choose not to add layer upon layer to build to a crescendo, but rely on simple, beautiful chord progressions and their relationship to the sounds around them to create an emotional, yet distant feeling, one I hadn't heard before or since Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Influences

Nick Borrie (Live Visuals):


Ben Chappell (Guitar):


Chino Woods (Bass, Vocals): 


Will Turner-Duffin (Guitar, Vocals): 


Jamie Thompson (Drums):

The usual

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USA Nails

USA Nails 

London, United Kingdom

For fans of:
Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, The Fall

If USA Nails were a dish, they would be curry. This band has punk-rock at it's core, and is infused with a multitude of flavours including krautrock, noise rock, no wave, hardcore, and god knows what else; and when it all comes together, it knocks your socks off. The lyrics are spitefully shout-spoken, occasionally screamed, while the band hammers away making noisy, dirty punk-rock that comes fitted with psychotic guitar wailing akin to Sonic Youth. The whole thing is a tightly-wound, sweaty, pissed-off mess, and that's a good thing.

Influences

Steven Hodson (Guitar, Vocals): 


Matt Reid (Drums):


Dan Holloway (Bass):


Gareth Thomas (Guitar): 

The usual

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100 Onces

100 Onces 

Los Angeles, USA

For fans of:
Hella, Chimp Spanner, Alcest

100 Onces play high-energy, emotionally charged math-rock. Their ambitious song structures pay homage to Giraffes? Giraffes! at times, and often veer off down high-tempo heavy metal dirt roads. The metal movements come thick with distortion, almost like black metal, but the melodies themselves somehow remain positive, happy go lucky. Speaking personally, it's great to see two young people who really enjoy every second of what they're playing. They thrash the living day-lights out of their instruments, and they love it. As good as 100 Onces sound on record, I would endeavor to say they're even better live. What's more, they're both really nice guys.

Influences

Barrett Tuttobene (Guitar):

Richard Ray (Drums):

The usual

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Coloured In

Coloured In 

Kent, United Kingdom

For fans of:
Pearl Jam, Kyuss, Death From Above 1979

Coloured In play a measured, grungy blend of punk rock. They employ a heavy, unrelenting rhythm with a gale of chorus washed guitars. Tom's deep, macho voice makes a refreshing contrast to the lyrics which harp back to midwest emo bands from yesteryear. All this, tightly wrapped in a straight forward verse-chorus-verse structure, makes Coloured In exciting and easily digestible in equal measure.

Influences

Tom Boughton (Bass, Vocals):


Jack May (Guitar):


Jack Bowdery (Drums):

The usual

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Chiyoda Ku

Chiyoda Ku

Exeter, United Kingdom

For fans of:
Giraffes? Giraffes!, Yourcodenameis:milo, Foals

Chiyoda Ku play a disciplined breed of math rock. For a band with such a good understanding of rhythm and meter, they don't allow it to distract them from writing catchy songs, as is so often the case. That's not to say Chiyoda Ku aren't afraid to get weird, but they're not afraid to play hectic, rockin' 4/4 beats when it matters either. I feel just as excited listening to them as I did listening to UK post-hardcore bands of the noughties for the first time, and that's a feeling I never thought I'd have again.

Influences

Charlie Barnes (Guitar):


Toby Green (Drums):


Callum Oak (Bass):

The usual

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Skeleton Frames

Skeleton Frames 

Exeter, United Kingdom

For fans of:
My Bloody Valentine, Stone Temple Pilots, Tool

Skeleton Frames deliver a thick lacquer of sludgy rock music punctuated by the bittersweet vocals of singer Emily, and haunting vocal harmonies of guitarist Edd. While drawing heavily on the motifs of grunge and shoegaze, Skeleton Frames manage to carve a new, exciting path that is unique to themselves.

Influences

Emily Isherwood (Vocals): 

Jack Henley (Guitar):

Edd Henley (Guitar):

Tom Gilbert (Drums): 

Drew Amesbury (Bass):

The usual

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