Edinburgh metallers Dead At The Scene deliver a decent chimera of technical brutality and atmospheric progressive metal styles on their Sharktopus EP.

Busy, busy, busy… a webzine editor’s work is never done, especially the work beyond the webzine that pays his rent. So here’s some video action to tide you over.

New Oceansize album and tour later this year! New Oceansize album and tour later this year! New Oceansize album and tour later this year! New Oceansize album and tour later this year!

Guitarless Leatherhead trio Second Head take two basses and a drumkit and do something kinda Sonic Youth-y with ‘em on their debut Head First EP. Interesting.

The UK Air Guitar Championships: enjoy watching people make fools of themselves, and help fight teenage cancer. That’s a great Friday night out, AMIRITE?

No, not by me, more’s the pity. I’m ashamed to say that I hadn’t even heard they’d reformed, but Atari Teenage Riot are back, and excellent outsider music site The Quietus has an interview with frontman Alec Empire. I suggest you go read it immediately… if only because there’s no new review here at TDP [...]

Hi there, Dreaded Press regulars – been a bit quiet round here for a while, hasn’t it? For those of you who don’t already know, things went rather tits-up for yours truly at the end of March, and the intervening time has been largely spent staying with my mother in the middle of nowhere while [...]

Polymathic metal legend Devin Townsend drops in to talk about his new album, KI, the demise of the major labels, and messages to alien civilisations…

Montreal’s Never Drafted have self-released their début EP, The Ritual Standoff; while there’s no shortage of ambition, the final result might have benefited from a longer wait.

Yet more weird and wonderful bands join the line-up for Smalltown America‘s This Ain’t No Picnic festival.