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Rocket are a Los Angeles guitar band formed in 2021 by longtime friends Alithea Tuttle, Desi Scaglione, Baron Rinzler, and Cooper Ladomade. The band emerged from a small practice-space setting with songs that leaned into fuzzy guitars, melodic bass lines, driving drums, and vocals that soften the edges of their louder, noisier arrangements. Their 2023 EP Versions of You introduced a sound tied to 1990s alternative rock, shoegaze, grunge, and pop-punk immediacy, while the 2025 debut album R is for Rocket expanded that framework into a fuller, more confident statement. Tracks such as "Sugarcoated," "Take Your Aim," "One Million," and "Crossing Fingers" show the band's balance of distortion, sweetness, momentum, and emotional lift. Rocket are not a retro exercise, even though the reference points are clear; their music works by filtering familiar guitar-band textures through a young, tightly bonded lineup focused on concise songs and big dynamic hooks.
Stoner/heavy metal band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, active since 2014. Their debut release All in One (November 12, 2014) contains seven tracks including "Quest For Madness," "Black Cat Train," and "Mad Dog Biker." The band operates as an independent act.
Pennsylvania's Rocket Horse launched in 2021 playing a brand of heavy/thrash metal that sits squarely in the tradition of late-'80s American metal — riff-forward, energetic, and unafraid of a hook. They carry enough thrash edge to keep the tempos urgent while the heavy metal foundation keeps everything grounded in melody and structure.
Eugene, Oregon's Rocket Propelled Chainsaws have been causing damage since 2014 with a death/thrash sound that pairs the technical brutality of death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash — a combination that demands both speed and precision. The name telegraphs the approach: violent, forward-moving, and designed for maximum impact.
Progressive metal/rock project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2020. The project delivers technically ambitious compositions from the Russian capital.
Burlington, Vermont's Rocketsled formed in 2020 around the natural tension between groove metal's locked-in rhythmic heaviness and sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-soaked drag. The result is music that is simultaneously hard to stop nodding to and uncomfortably heavy — a Vermont band that sounds more swamp than snowpack.
Rockfire is a melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from Varna, Bulgaria, formed in 2006 and currently active as an independent act. Their 2010 album 'War No More' demonstrated a melodic approach to hard rock and heavy metal, drawing on classic genre conventions from a Black Sea coastal perspective.
Heavy metal band from Lyngdal, Norway, active since 2010. Their approach delivers traditional heavy metal from the small southern Norwegian town.
Heavy rock band from Contagem, Minas Gerais, founded in January 2010 by guitarist/vocalist Luciano Roberto and lead guitarist Vinícius Araújo. Their debut album Rock In The Night (July 22, 2015) was recorded between October 2013 and July 2014 at To Mega Therion Studio in Contagem, with bassist Michael Euler and drummer Saulo Kico completing the lineup.
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