This is Sevendust’s seventh album – what an auspicious number! Bit of a shame that Hope & Sorrow sounds seven years too late, then, isn’t it?

British four-piece Sizen seek to bring metal back to its home-grown roots, but despite solid musicianship What Do You See? just doesn’t have that special magic.

Have I got Bad News for you – gangster-rap misogyny is alive and well in the metalcore genre, courtesy of Ligeia.

South African post-grungers Seether unleash Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces on the masses; the masses fail to take much notice.

Nu-metal survivors Nonpoint have moved with the times; their seventh album Vengeance adds some Southern riffage to the melting-pot.