Cleopatrick

Cleopatrick are a Cobourg, Ontario duo who make heavy alternative rock from the spare ingredients of guitar, drums, fuzz, and tightly wound frustration. Childhood friends Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser formed the band after growing up together in a small town, and that origin remains central to their identity: the music often sounds like two people turning isolation, boredom, and ambition into pressure. Early singles and the boys EP gave them momentum, while Bummer shaped their full-length identity with blown-out riffs, clipped grooves, and lyrics about alienation inside modern youth culture. Later releases expanded the band's textures without losing the blunt duo chemistry. Cleopatrick fit hard-rock and metal-adjacent scope through their distorted guitar weight, aggressive live approach, and placement in contemporary heavy alternative rock scenes. Their sound draws from garage rock, Royal Blood-style low-end punch, grunge, punk, and modern rock, but the personality is more anxious than swaggering. The best Cleopatrick songs feel like arguments with the walls: minimal parts, maximum tension, and choruses that land because they sound earned rather than oversized.