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With over 8 million streams to their name Alffa is the band everyone is talking about. A two piece band so powerful, they became an instant success in their home of Wales and beyond, when their first single on Recordiau Côsh Records was catapulted around the globe by Spotify’s biggest rock playlists. The band had a triumphant 2024 touring schedule, electrifying audiences at the NXNE Festival in Canada and throughout their extensive Canadian tour. Their performance at the Morborock festival in Morbegno, Italy, was met with rave reviews and marked a significant milestone in their international presence. As if that wasn’t enough, the band is set to release their highly anticipated second album on November 29th, which will be followed by an extensive UK and European tour, promising to captivate fans across the continent.

“Absolutely brilliant, you feel like you need stitches after the pummelling the’ve given us” – JOHN KENNEDY

‘Gwenwyn’ (Poison) was the 1st Welsh language song to be streamed a million times on the platform, and since then, the band have had similar successes with their follow-up singles, ‘Pla’ (Plague), ‘Full Moon Vulture’ and also ‘Black Angel’, the lead track from their debut album ‘Freedom from the Poisonous Shadows’. “Alffa never disappoints. their music is great, their personality is lovable, and for a band who cares about quality, nobody does it better” – Keep Walking Music . The boys took to the stage at The Homeless World Cup at Bute Park Cardiff playing alongside James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) in an event organized by actor Michael Sheen.

“THE MIGHTY ALFFA” – MICHAEL SHEEN

The band have stunned crowds with a massive sound that has pleased industry listeners and punters alike at The Great Escape and Liverpool Sound City festivals, but as with many young acts, progress was cut short in early 2020 due to the pandemic. Keep your eyes out for the boys in 2024-25, as nothing is stopping Alffa in their tracks as they create their own path in the music industry, remember the name.

A 2 day celebration of soul crushing doom, bone shaking sludge, & everything else evil

WREN For over a decade WREN have meticulously crafted a sound and aesthetic inspired by the complex nature of the lived human condition; being as cathartic as it is bleak. They aspire to connect with each person encountering their music, be it through recorded or live listening. In whatever way it is experienced the music is a visceral offering to its audience to take from it what they will.

Sun Messiah Sun Messiah yet again illustrate the struggle of the individual through song, in a most empowering, uplifting and heavy way; from the vocal harmonies and multi-guitar interplay, to the interesting drum fills and solid bass throughout (not to mention the journey one is taken on from start to finish) Seek the Light is a powerful addition to the band’s already impressive and steadily growing catalogue.

Heavy Mass Driver – Doom Metal two-piece – ‘A tsunami of noise’

Gramma Vedetta Living organisms evolve and mutate. Gramma Vedetta is now on at the stage where Riff-based Stoner Rock flavoured songs meet the Progressive Rock of the 70s.

The band’s trademark sound is characterised by lo-tuned big riffs over rumbling grooves, topped by viral melodies.

THE SUSSEX IS DOOMED! A 2 day celebration of soul crushing doom, bone shaking sludge, & everything else evil

Sugar Horse Darting wildly between dark/light, pain/bliss, sacred/profane, Sugar Horse are unpredictable and unrestrained. Formed in what is now considered to be the utopian dreamscape of 2015, the band grew slowly at first. Far from fully formed, but steadily gaining limbs, heads and vital organs. Finally 2019’s DRUJ followed swiftly by 2020’s DRUGS saw them hit on a relentless stride of eclectic releases that simultaneously confused and entranced audiences.

“shift[ing] dispositions fluidly, taking elements of extreme aggression alongside floaty Post-Metal”

Crowgod Crowgod are Heavy-Doom sludge style band from Brighton whom interjecting moments of beautiful clarity with controlled chaos at their live shows. Expect chonky riffs when we TUNE LOW AND STAY CROW

Warpstomper In the grim darkness of the 3rd millennium, there is only WARPSTORMER. Hailing from South London, this stoner‑thrash juggernaut, forged in the time of plague, released its debut EP Here Comes Hell in 2022, and a self-titled album November 2024.

Godless Suns A tasty mix of Stoner, Desert Rock & Doom. Mixing grooves with big lazy riffs, it’s what we do.

The Black Bison South east Sludge band with girth! Expect dirty riffs, heavy bass and drums and harsh vocals!

When George Donoghue and Mae Seaton met as perfect strangers on a night out, neither of them could have known how much they needed one another.

But WREX, the band born of the pair’s chance connection some years later, has come to be exactly that: not simply a creative outlet but a need, an urge, a calling, a pure expression.

Together, Donoghue and Seaton make electro-charged alternative rock to turbocharge heartbeats, snap necks and fill both dancefloors and moshpits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park. This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound.

“Working with someone that has as much excitement for making music as Mae is invigorating and inspiring for me,” Donoghue says. “Neither of us has any sort of ego when it comes to making music. No idea is ever off the table. A big part of the WREX ethos is never asking permission – that cuts to the core of both our sound and our DIY sentiment. WREX is ultimately about making art for the sheer joy of creating, and we want to convey that excitement on record and in our live show.”

“WREX is about letting go,” Donoghue says. “It’s a release from everything that’s going on in the world around you, a purge of everything you’re thinking and feeling.”

Drønes

Drønes are a high-energy, four-piece alternative metal band from Kent, UK, known for heavy riffs, dynamic vocals, and fast-paced drums. Since their debut single in late 2022, they’ve made waves in the Kent live scene, reaching two Metal to the Masses finals, playing Margate Rock Festival at Dreamland, and performing at Camden’s iconic Underworld. Now, they’re gearing up to take their hard-hitting live show across the UK ahead of their debut EP release later this year.

The King Rooks 

From Folkestone, Kent, The King Rooks are a combination of big riffs, catchy melodies and huge choruses, all combining to create stadium sized rock! For fans of Indie, Post-Punk and Alternative Rock.

Bones Ate Arfa are a UK psychedelic street punk/desert rock three piece, made up of Bones (guitar), 8 (drums), and Arfa (vocals & bass). They have since gained recognition online and in person from Artists such as Muse, Fred Durst, Isaac Holman, Royal Blood, Tigercub, cool sorcery, Demob Happy, and Bad Nerves.

Featured on Clash, BBC Radio 6, Radio X, Dork, Earmilk, Louder Than War & BBC Intro.

Following in the godlike footsteps of Queens of the Stone Age, Gorillaz, TySegall and Them Crooked Vultures, Brighton’s Bones Ate Arfa will literally eat your bones with its new found sound. Their debut single ‘Asbestos’ roots the band in their desert garage rock sound while bringing in influences of industrial 90s metal and psychedelic punk.