Flemming Lund’s post-Autumn Leaves project The Arcane Order deliver some accessible progressive death metal on second album In The Wake Of Collisions.

As they end their UK tour in Brighton, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s mathcore blitzkrieg is not only louder than war but also more compelling and intense.

After scooping up armfuls of awards in their native Norway, moody grunge revivalists Audrey Horne unleash their second album Le Fol on the world at large.

Prog-rock redeemers Coheed And Cambria release “Feathers”, the first single from their recent album No World For Tomorrow.

This eponymous EP from Oxford’s technical free-jazz-metal lunatics Dr. Slaggleberry is a triumph of wilful obscurity.

Toronto’s confrontational progressive-punk luminaries Fucked Up deliver eighteen minutes of epic sprawling justice on “Year Of The Pig”.

New York prog-rock ubermenschen Coheed And Cambria release a teaser video for their forthcoming single, “Feathers”.

Berlin progressive metal collective The Ocean present Precambrian, one of the most ambitious and accomplished concept albums the metal field has seen in years.

Glaswegian emo upstarts Twin Atlantic release the A Guidance From Colour EP, sounding more original and authentic than the vast majority of the copy-cat competition.

Parisian progressive rock group We Insist! delve deep into virtuoso musicianship and Lynchian psychodrama for their third album, Oh! Things Are So Corruptible.