

Genre: Alt-metal / hard rock
Location: Oxfordshire
Since: TBC
Molly Karloff deliver riff-driven alt-rock with teeth built on heavy grooves, big hooks, and zero bullshit.
Emerging from the UK underground, Molly Karloff sit in the heavier, dirtier end of alternative rock where riffs, groove and songs come first, and image comes a distant second. Their sound pulls from the darker side of modern rock, taking cues from bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, but stripped back and sharpened until only what matters is left.
Their debut album Breaking Out was recorded by Grammy-winning producer Mike Exeter and earned strong national and specialist support, including an 8/10 review from Classic Rock Magazine. Earlier, the band’s single She Said spent three weeks on Planet Rock Radio’s main playlist in February 2021, receiving daily plays often during breakfast and drivetime.
Molly Karloff write heavy music that comes from frustration, pressure and the need to push back against bullshit rather than celebrate it. The riffs hit hard, the bass thuds, and the guitars snarl: songs built to drag you into the room, not talk down to you.
For audiences, Molly Karloff are about packed rooms, bodies pressed together, the low end rattling your chest and riffs you feel in your gut before you’ve had time to think about them. That’s what the band is built on: riff-driven alt-rock with teeth, made for sweat-soaked rooms, loud stages, and people who want their heavy music to feel real.
straight to the naughty centre, ballsy rock
no-holds-barred sucker punch!