Swedish melodic metal quintet Days Of Jupiter were formed in 2010 and have recently released their fourth album, ‘Panoptical. through Metalville. This is band our beautiful Dark Queen admits has slipped under herradar until the CD was slotted into her stereo – and she was pleasantly surprised by what she heard, as you can find out on the other side of the link.
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Fresh from winning the accolade as the UK’s Best Medium Sized Festival, 2000 Trees have greeted the New Year with a 33-band announcement for the 2019 event. Headed by pop-punk quintet Youmeatsix – quite possibly the biggest booking in Trees’ history – certainly if you go by the completely sold-out UK tour the band completed November/December – the line-up also features the likes of While She Sleeps, Every Time I Die (playing ‘Hot Damn!’ In full), Therapy? and Jamie Lenman.
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Despite their name, upstarts Downcast – whose members hail from as far afield as the south-west of England, south Wales and the Midlands – by and large play the sort of bright and breezy, upbeat pop punk that will be familiar to fans of the likes of All Time Low, Neck Deep and The Wonder Years. I say “by and large” because this debut five-track EP does have its moments of introspection, not least on the likes of the appropriately entitled, in both instances, ‘Sombre’ and ‘I’m Sorry’.
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This debut four-track EP from Swiss trio Misty Bliss is another release that initially slipped under the ÜR radar when it landed in our inbox in the lead up to Christmas – and smack in the middle of our website rebuild. Fortunately, it ended up in the “for consideration” file, which is just as well as this is an extremely confident first release from a band who tread that path that travels from heavy blues to psychedelia, via alt-rock and stoner dalliances.
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Limerick progsters Hedfuzy are to release their second album, ‘Waves’, via Belfast-based Hostile Media on 1 February.
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