Here are the 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month (June 2020)

False Advertising singer and drummer Jen Hingley performs with the band at Band On The Wall Manchester on January 12, 2018 in Manchester, England.

False Advertising's Jen Hingley (Image credit: Visionhaus/Corbis via Getty Images)

It's June, and we're almost halfway through the year. To say it's been strange so far would be an understatement. However, all the time spent indoors has allowed us at Total Guitar to discover some of the most exciting up-and-coming artists around at the moment. Here, we've condensed our findings into a list of six guitar-heavy names you need to hear right now.

Firstly, we'd like to introduce you to Kid Kapichi, a Hastings, England-based rock band who certainly aren't shy about their love for Fender electric guitars.

“I use a ’53 reissue Tele for pretty much everything I do,” says Ben, when asked what we can expect to see with him on stage. “And then that goes through a Fender Deluxe Reverb [amp] for that ghostly surf twang. I get my signature tone through using a Visual Sound Double Trouble overdrive as well as a POG2 and MXR graphic EQ. There’s more but that’s as much as I’m willing to give away!”

“I started watching horror films around the same time I was getting into heavy metal,” says guitarist Stu Taylor. “I’m pretty sure that the music and imagery of Iron Maiden had something to do with that. I’ve always loved John Carpenter’s films. He’s a musician in his own right and has scored all his films himself, with an ability to make the viewer feel tense and uneasy without being predictable.

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Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.

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Here are the 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month (June 2020)

1. Kid Kapichi

2. Nili Brosh

3. Video Nasties

4. Madre Sun

5. Lakota John

6. False Advertising