Well, it’s about time - a social network with a use! Better Than The Van aims to connect your sofa or floor with a tired and penniless touring musician.

Avenged Sevenfold coil out a rancid stinking turd of a corporate radio rock ballad; it’s less “Dear God” than “bloody hell”.

Gorerotted is dead, long live The Rotted – the London brutalists turn their backs on B-movies to explore the nihilistic horrors of their own lives on Get Dead Or Die Trying.

Swedish punks Millencolin return to UK shores this autumn in support of recent album Machine 15.

Noise-metal veterans Harvey Milk pour out a tall glass of thinking man’s sludge on fifth album Life … The Best Game In Town.

The video for Avenged Sevenfold’s forthcoming “Dear God” single is ready to watch via streaming media, like, er, now.

Metal Blade supergroup One-Way Mirror chuck some fine hooks into the metal mix on their industrial-tinged self-titled début.

Kids today, they don’t know they’re born, I tell ya. Five thousand television channels, mobile phones … and extreme metal bands like The Rotted in Topshop.

Even after a decade of hangovers, break-ups, Agony & Irony – Alkaline Trio haven’t lost their songwriting mojo.

Prolific and provocatively-named garage-rock lunatic Jay Reatard prepares to release a compilation of rare out-of-print singles.