A whole lot of nineties bands have crawled back out of obscurity this year, but few of them deserve a second chance so much as Living Colour always have.

Mis-billing themselves badly as grunge revivalists, Starseed’s debut album Peace Machine would do quite well in the pop-metal arena… if it were half as long.

Bristol-based Turbowolf crank up the angry sleaze on “Let’s Die”, a high-velocity slice of electro-rock’n'roll that’s maybe the first to be worthy of the name.

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

Japanese garage-metal madmen Electric Eel Shock with a more modern sound and a little less lunacy on their new crowd-funded album, Sugoi Indeed.

Looking for some good ol’ fashioned stoner blues-rawk? Life’s just a long hard catalogue of Black Light, White Lines for the Sun Gods In Exile.

Germany’s Bullet Monks are barrelling down the autobahn with a car full of Weapons of Mass Destruction – a solid rock’n'roll album that’s just a few years too late.

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.

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

Turn on, tune in, and bomb out – stoner supergroup Earthless fill ninety minutes with four epic space-rock wigouts on Live at Roadburn. Bring snacks and your own stash.