DIY in the literal sense of the word, Canada's Powercup may book their own tours, screenprint their own shirts and press their own tofu etc, but they're also slavishly devoted to the cult of the power tool and 'Home Improvement's blue collar patriarch Tim Allen. The gimmick alone isn't the selling point, but 2010's brilliantly named, "Renovate At All Costs“, the Montreal trio's debut full-length, is a ferocious blast of rough hewn...
World influenced acoustic music, with a hint of the bizarre.
From Cornwall comes the innovative and exciting band 3 Daft Monkeys. Whether it's Celtic, Balkan, Gypsy, Spanish, Cornish or other World Music you are drawn to, you will hear its influences in their self written music. Add to this the band's varied backgrounds from Dance, Dub, Punk, Reggae and Traditional Folk, and you have a stunning combination. Band Members: Athene Roberts
Tim Ashton
Jamie Waters Instruments: Whistle
1) Burning Bright is a band mixing modern hardcore, neocrust and screamo, created in Caen, France in late 2011. The band is composed of Aurélien Gibert (ex-Eightfold Path & ex-Cercueils), antoine grezel (Aussitôt Mort & Amanda Woodward), Martin Aubeut (ex-Kusila), Antoine Ganso (Defiance) and Camille Blanchemain (The Hectic Dull Sound).
A split LP with Death Mercedes in April 2012, some months after the start of the band : tours multiply, in numerous countries, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, etc.
Cunt Butcher is a grindcore band, formed in 2004 in Sydney, Australia but now based in Brisbane. Originally a solo project for Carcass Butcher, the band has been through several lineup changes and cofigurations. For almost two years Carcass and second bass player Cadbury Redbeard, together with a drum machine, terrorised the Sydney live music scene with raw meat, islamic blowup dolls, pigs, nudity, blood (both human and animal) and assorted other fluids, as well as playing some ultra-politically correct grindcore in between.