Brighton’s spandex-clad hair-metal superheroes The J.U.S.T.I.C.E. Force 5 don’t “Fight The Fight” so well when taken off the stage and into a studio…

Bangalore band Slain make Indian prog-metal cheddar which sounds… well, pretty much the same as prog-metal cheddar from anywhere else, to be honest.

Cumbrian rockers Falling Red play respectable retro cock-rock with straight faces, and they make a decent job of it on debut album Shake The Faith.

Promising young Scots proggers A Torn Mind have the skills to pay the virtuoso bills, but the Barriers EP suffers under its wilfully retro pallet of tones.

Bristol rockers Riot:Noise competently revive the classic British hair-metal sounds of the early nineties on the Fight The People EP.

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.