What sweet irony – The Haunted, a metal band from Gothenburg, don’t rely on the trendy Gothenburg sound! Instead, Versus takes us right back to hardcore-tinged Bay Area thrash. Get yer windmill on.

Despite a promising start, the filler-to-killer ratio on Stateside electro-rockers innerpartysystem’s eponymous début is just too high for a full album.

The Walkmen just walked back into town with You & Me – a suitcase full of hauntingly nonchalant Dylanesque indie-jangle Americana.

Drop everything, grab this new Lovvers record and listen to it immediately. Think may last less than thirteen minutes, but it’s pure punk pop liberation all the way.

(Ob)Servant, the latest release from Tasmanian technical death band Psycroptic, is all about the virtuoso drumming… and, sadly, not much else.

Young British emo sensations You Me At Six press all the usual buttons in the traditional order on “Jealous Minds Think Alike”.

Just in case you’d missed out on all the most obvious made-for-radio tosh peddled out in the name of rock and metal in the last few years, Kerrang! The Album ‘08 has got your back.

If you’ve never heard Rolo Tomassi before, strap yourself down and prepare for a brain-burning adventure into abstract spazzcore lunacy. Hysterics is the least of what you’ll experience.

Stateside electro-rockers innerpartysystem impress with solid beats and searing verses on new single “Die Tonight Live Forever”.

Wigan pop-punk outfit Smudge toe the line drawn by Blink 182 on the StayFeelRegret EP, but fail to step across it.