From some Hertfordshire heroin-pit (their words, not mine) come UK metalcore bruisers Scar My Eyes; let’s hope they bring their producer with them on tour.

Lengthening nights given you the winter blues? You ain’t got nothing on Tortuga, buddy; spend some time with Kings of Albany to truly embrace your inner angry miserablist.

Glasgow’s Desalvo are about as friendly as a knife-point mugging, and Mood Poisoner is angular metallic hardcore to destroy the world to.

All Shall Perish set themselves beyond the deathcore drones with the super-technical musicianship and diverse styles of Awaken The Dreamers.

Gorerotted is dead, long live The Rotted – the London brutalists turn their backs on B-movies to explore the nihilistic horrors of their own lives on Get Dead Or Die Trying.

Death metal supergroup Hail Of Bullets take it back to the old school on the long march to the Eastern Front with … Of Frost And War.

Southern-fried grind metallers Soilent Green return to the fray with a new line-up and a new nihilism on Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction.

Ultra-youthful thrashers Fate turn in Vultures, a début metalcore outing that has all the right ingredients … but not quite the perfect recipe.

German noiseniks flu.ID smash through the boundaries of expectation with the hardcore schizoid intensity of iots.