Nova Twins

About Nova Twins

Nova Twins are Amy Love and Georgia South, a bass and drums duo from London who've spent the last decade proving that heavy music doesn't need guitars to hit hard. They call their sound "urban punk" or sometimes "punk hop," which makes sense when you hear it — bass lines thick enough to fill the space a rhythm section usually occupies, drums that could level a small venue, and production that pulls from grime and hip-hop as much as hardcore.

They met in 2014 at a hair salon where South worked, bonded over their shared frustration with how few Black women they saw in rock spaces, and decided to just make the music themselves. Early on, they recorded everything in their bedroom, with Love handling bass, vocals, and production while South brought the percussion. Their first EP dropped in 2016, and by 2018 they had enough momentum to get picked up by a booking agent.

Their debut album "Who Are The Girls?" arrived in 2020, right as the world shut down. Tracks like "Taxi" and "Bassline Bitch" showcased their approach: heavy, direct, not particularly interested in conventional song structures. The bass tone sits somewhere between Prodigy-style electronic aggression and stoner metal sludge. They picked up fans across scenes that don't usually overlap much — punk kids, metalheads, people who follow underground electronic music.

The breakthrough came with their second album "Supernova" in 2022. It landed them a Mercury Prize nomination and slots opening for Bikini Kill and Prophets of Rage. They worked with producer Jim Abbiss, who'd done records for Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian, and the result sounded bigger without losing the raw edge. "Antagonist" became a set staple. "K.M.B." stands for "kill my boyfriend," in case you were wondering. They also ended up in the video game "Forza Horizon 5" somehow, which probably introduced them to more teenagers than a dozen festival slots would have.

By 2023 they were headlining their own tours and showing up on festival bills between punk legends and metal acts, occupying this space that didn't quite exist before they carved it out. They've talked openly about being fetishized and tokenized in predominantly white rock spaces, about photographers asking them to pose provocatively while ignoring their male counterparts, about having to be twice as good to get taken half as seriously.

Right now they're in that phase where a band has proven they're not a fluke but hasn't quite crossed into mainstream ubiquity. They're working on album three, still based in London, still just the two of them making an absurd amount of noise for a duo. They've influenced a small wave of bass-forward heavy bands, though no one's quite replicated what they do. Probably because it only works with their specific chemistry and complete disinterest in staying in one lane.

Their shows are genuinely intense. The crowd gets pressed in, moving with visible aggression rather than dancing. There's a physical quality to it—people leave drenched. Somerville and Love feed off the tension they create, never softening for comfort.

Known for Bleeding Eye, Taxi, Antagonist, Toolbox, Sores

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