New reviewer Jonathan McCalmont cuts his teeth on the chilly magnificence of The Life We Have Chosen, the debut album from metalcore Scousers Carcer City.

Young Canadian five-piece A Textbook Tragedy play export-grade super-br00talz metalcore; take a listen, and get yourself into Rain City State Of Mind.

Tired of sissy pop-punk and retro rock? Try sampling a New Junk Aesthetic, and allow Every Time I Die to wage a war on your as-yet unsullied eardrums.

Fife metalcore five-piece Here Lies A Warning sound like they’re a decent enough band, but the Keep Your Head Under The Water EP is massively overproduced.

Youthful metalcore gang Evita have the fundamentals thoroughly sorted out, but debut album Minutes & Miles lacks the originality to really strike a spark.

Ludicrous levels of technical skill and complex songwriting are the order of the day on In the Shadow of Gods, a homegrown extreme metal début from No Consequence.

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.

Northampton metallers Sacred Mother Tongue tick a lot of the fashionable boxes but fail to really thrill on solid but unoriginal debut album The Ruin of Man.

The Wedgewood Rooms play host as Architects and Misery Signals roll into Portsmouth to dish out the metal smackdown in the depths of the winter.

Hollow Crown sees home-grown British metallers Architects bring a hint of the progressive to their own crushing brand of technical metalcore.