Supersonic Festival presents a Celebration of Birmingham's Heavy Music Underground

Supersonic Festival presents an uncompromising showcase of Birmingham’s thriving heavy music underground this July, bringing together some of the city’s most exciting and uncompromising artists for a special hometown event at the Castle & Falcon.

Headlined and curated by THE NONE as a celebration of Birmingham’s musical community, the line-up reflects the breadth, intensity and creative spirit of the city’s contemporary heavy scene, spanning noise rock, hardcore, experimental punk, industrial electronics and fractured underground sounds.

Joining THE NONE on the bill are Flesh Creep, Machiavellian Art, Monoxide Brothers and Not Soup, five acts united by a fiercely independent ethos and a shared commitment to pushing heavy music into adventurous new territory.

THE NONE are a band of lifelong musicians, featuring Birmingham and Supersonic Recordings’ own Kai Whyte (Blue Ruth, Youth Man) alongside Gordon Moakes (Bloc Party, Young Legionnaire), Jim Beck (Cassels) and Chris Francombe (Frauds). Together they channel a raw and uncompromising vision of noise rock with melody at its core, drawing influence from bands such as The Jesus Lizard, Silverfish and Unwound. Formed in 2023, the band’s collaborative and ego-free approach has quickly established them as one of the UK underground’s most compelling new voices.

Flesh Creep describe themselves as “friendly people that make unfriendly music,” combining hardcore intensity with sharp humour, pop sensibilities and a rejection of genre machismo. The band will be performing in support of their anticipated new EP GLIMMER, released the day before the show on 17 July via Music For Nations.

Machiavellian Art bring abrasive punk and noise textures shaped by anxiety, overload and modern disillusionment, music that sits somewhere between collapse and catharsis. Electro-punk duo Monoxide Brothers fuse raw synth-driven rhythms with biting social commentary, balancing chaos, catharsis and dark humour in equal measure.

Opening the event are NOT SOUP, one of Birmingham’s most unpredictable underground acts, whose experimental live shows blend complex rhythms, surreal lyricism and disorientating riffs into something uniquely their own.

As one of the UK’s leading festivals for experimental and heavy music, Supersonic Festival has long championed Birmingham’s underground scenes and creative communities. This event continues that commitment by spotlighting the city’s next wave of boundary-pushing artists and reaffirming Birmingham’s status as a vital centre for heavy and experimental music culture, the Home of Metal.