Floating around In Orbit with Buttonmoon is like playing a bit-part role in a moodily soundtracked art-house sci-fi horror flick. Dark ambient industrial? Yup.

Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.

Southampton sleaze-rockers Plastic Toys are still ticking over; “Dirty” is the fourth industrial-synth-pop gem from their debut album For Tonight Only.

There’s no way a serious gothic industrial band could get away with doing a Spice Girls cover, right? Well, History Of Guns seem to have managed it.

The Solemn Truth EP is five tracks of gothic drone hymns; John 3:16 has an ear for atmosphere, but these sound like little more than sketches of a dark place.

Daath are into some weird old Hebrew mystical stuff, but never mind that – The Concealers is confident and pacey slab of modern metal, and you should hear it.

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.

Gruesome gothic twosome History of Guns deliver more psycho-industrial man-machine music on “It’s Easy (To Go Blind)”.

History Of Guns break out of the goth clichés implied by their previous single and deliver Acedia, a dark and savage musical transcendence.

UK industrial foursome drill reform after a thirteen year hiatus to deliver thirty minutes of pessimistic post-metal nihilism to decry the last taboo of america.