The Dreaded Press

Sey Hollo is one Swede’s solo “poor man’s post-rock” project, and it’s a darkly lush collection of moods and atmospheres that all Mogwai fans will find familiar.

If it’s the guitar work of Kyuss you love, then Been Obscene have got your back with The Magic Table Dance… but there ain’t much else of note on it, sadly.

Edinburgh metallers Dead At The Scene deliver a decent chimera of technical brutality and atmospheric progressive metal styles on their Sharktopus EP.

Melodic vocals, thrashy guitars, hypertechnical drumming and a bunch of industrial nastiness… Return To Earth have your end-of-the-world soundtrack right here.

Don’t let the hipster imagery put you off too much: Tweak Bird have got all the glorious dumb noise-riffola but not much of the irony on their debut album.

Sleazy, sexy-saxy and saturated post-prog is the order of the day; Call Me Dragon by These Monsters is a beefed-up latter-day Court of the Crimson King. SRSLY.

Strip Pendulum of what little authenticity and passion they have, and graft on a load of C-list “featured” vocalists. Voila – you just created The Qemists.

Good news for fans of Oceansize and epic post-rock acts: Reading’s Heights blend virtuoso precision with melody and clarity to great effect on From Sea To Sky.

Is Protector a watering-down of grindcore, or a grinding-up of screamo? Whichever you decide, The Rendering‘s debut deserves some praise for bridging the divide.

Silly name, crazy music – math-metal maniacs Dr. Slaggleberry pack more quick-change ideas into The Slagg Factory than most bands come up with in a lifetime.