South African post-grungers Seether are still painting by numbers on the same old canvas with new (or rather not so new) single “Breakdown”.

Hollow Crown sees home-grown British metallers Architects bring a hint of the progressive to their own crushing brand of technical metalcore.

Old Money is the latest solo slice from Mars Volta songsmith and guitar anti-hero Omar Rodríguez-López. It will melt your face off. You might enjoy it.

Heaven’s Basement blend the audio clichés of eighties rock with the visual clichés of the nineties; their self-titled EP is competent, but far from magical.

Dark and moody post-rock sketches meet deep and powerful spoken word in the cold of the Tundra; Enablers are the next big thing in chin-stroking rock.

Volume 1 features nearly an hour of anarchic freeform jazz-rock lunacy from dEUS-connected Antwerp pseudo-supergroup i H8 Camera. If you’ve ever got drunk on Belgian beer, you’ll probably love this.

New Jersey retropunks The Gaslight Anthem rock the old-school reverb and American nostalgia on their much-lauded second album The ‘59 Sound. A few additional tricks wouldn’t go amiss, though.

Gruesome gothic twosome History of Guns deliver more psycho-industrial man-machine music on “It’s Easy (To Go Blind)”.