This is Sevendust’s seventh album – what an auspicious number! Bit of a shame that Hope & Sorrow sounds seven years too late, then, isn’t it?

My Sleeping Karma take you on a meditative trip to Satya and back, powered by space-rock guitars and keys. Get your peace on.

Tyrants of the Rising Sun captures ninety minutes of melodic death maestros Arch Enemy playing a live headline show in Tokyo, Japan.

London electro-rock four-piece DORP step closer to their synthetic side with new single “London Out There”… but have they stepped far enough?

Ridiculously-named metallers The Kings of Frog Island are all business when it comes to mixing up the best of stoner and sludge rock grooves, old and new.

“City of Christmas Ghosts” is one part Goldblade, one part Poly Styrene, and two parts embarrassingly awful seasonal punk rock cash-in.

“Bone Garden”, the latest single from self-labelled ‘dark post-hardcore’ (read as ‘pop-goth-punk’) band I Am Ghost, is disjointed, mismatched and disappointing.

The Gaslight Anthem get all dewy-eyed about big cars and the fifties on “Old White Lincoln”. Maybe you had to be there to really get it.

Take a trip back to a side of the late eighties you don’t often hear; Heaven’s End and Fade Out saw Loop forging the shoegaze blueprint in blissful obscurity.

Anarchy in the UV chronicles Rubella Ballet’s efforts to bring a feminist perspective to the angry and anarchic early punk scene… not to mention enough colour to blind a field of wasted ravers.