Melodic vocals, thrashy guitars, hypertechnical drumming and a bunch of industrial nastiness… Return To Earth have your end-of-the-world soundtrack right here.

Newport outfit Spiridion mash up Deftones and Tool very successfully on their self-released debut A Moment Of Clarity. Give ‘em time, and they could be awesome.

This is the fourth studio album by Superbutt. They’re big in their homeland of Hungary, you know… and by all merits, they should be fairly big over here, too.

Alert the historians: this is the day a band defied my ability to string genre definitions together coherently. Ladies and gents, 342 by Pin Up Went Down…

If you’ve ever wondered what a very skilled band rehashing the worst clichés of nu-metal’s golden age would sound like, Nottingham’s Spirytus have got your back.

Croydon’s Silent Disguise could probably do with spending less time on pre-emptively pigeonholing themselves and more time on making their tunes sound original.

If I Am Abomination spat as hard as they shone on debut album To Our Forefathers, they’d be staggering. As it is, they’re a highly polished scenester-prog band.

Voyager and Monolith face off on the first release from new post-metal label Science Of Silence; both are competent, but Voyager are well out in front.

The short sharp Slipknot clones of Exalt Cycle‘s Evasion Therapy album might be improved by a second guitarist, or maybe some new ideas of their own. Or both.

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.