After The Ordeal may have won some Download airplay with their bedroom jams, but first single “The End Never Comes” doesn’t get a medal just for showing up.

If you think the title The Rising Tide (Part 1): Corsa Al Ribasso is pretentious and clunky, wait until you hear the music Djevera put on the album of that name.

I don’t know what precedent there is for it, but Crime In Stereo’s new album I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone gives hardcore a good hard kick in the arse.

Yet more by-the-numbers box-ticking chart fodder from Young Guns, recently voted “band most likely to disappear up the collective arse of Lostprophets”.

Congratulations to Australia’s The Amity Affliction for making Severed Ties, one of the few post-hardcore records of 2009 that hasn’t annoyed the crap out of me.

Hey, whaddya know – pop-metal sounds much better when it’s not horribly overproduced! Sadly for We Are Fiction, it’s still as common as rattlesnake piercings.

Belgian post-everything outfit The Hickey Underworld manage to impress with their unpretentiously taut and hook-laden self-titled debut album.

Dividing The Line are a young British post-hardcore band, and… wait, come back! These guys are the real thing, and At Least It’s Not Light deserves a listen.

For this week at least, Albany NY’s Aficionado are the best band you’ve never heard of. The Myth Of Real Life, told in… vaudeville post-hardcore prog? SRSLY.

Youthful mathcore prodigies The Fall Of Troy deliver their fourth album, In the Unlikely Event – a challenging journey beyond the post-hardcore territories.