Featuring the former Test-Icicles drummer, London louts KASMS continue to define the dubiously-named shriek-beat sound with new single “Bone You”.

Phone call for a Mister Lenny Wolf – it’s the eighties, they’d like their AOR clichés back, please! The quasi-industrial patina of Kingdom Come’s Magnified does nothing to lessen the taste of cheese.

Post-rock and post-hardcore are contradictory styles, right? Well, give Crushed Neocons a listen, and allow The Antikaroshi to prove you wrong.

The Agonist’s sophomore effort, Lullabies for the Dormant Mind is an uneasy but promising mash-up of technical metal heaviness and Pop Idol vocal pretension.

Just in case you’ve not had your RDA of saccharine already, here are Attack! Attack! with “You & Me”, an utterly unmemorable three minutes of nothing much.

Double-decade veterans of death and gore metal Cannibal Corpse slay four hundred sweaty metalheads with their downtuned grind and blast-beat assault.

Stop the press! UK south-coast electro-rock-pop trio SomaHigh deliver their Lo Fat EP… and it’s actually pretty decent!

Turns out that solid well-crafted metal hadn’t died off after all (who knew?); God Forbid have been giving it a brush-up on Earthsblood.

Delayed but undeterred by the British weather, New Jersey retropunks The Gaslight Anthem run through their Springsteenish tunes to a packed house in Portsmouth.

Aussie bruisers Paindivision play hardcore-tinged shred metal with a hint of hard rock on their journeyman album One Path.