Young Brit metal-popsters Deaf Havana spice up the formula with diet-friendly slivers of Southern rawk on début album Meet Me Halfway, At Least.

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.

Plucky genre-mashing Canucks Cancer Bats return to Portsmouth for their third appearance, and totally own the stage on their first headliner.

Local adventurers Munroe Effect and Cut The Blue Wire return to Portsmouth for a home-town show in the company of spazzcore loons Blakfish and faux-Southern metallers Outcry Collective.

The mismatched threesome of Cancer Bats, In Case Of Fire and Attack! Attack! struggle with the acoustics while supporting Funeral For A Friend in Portsmouth.

Style-switching Southern-metalcore warriors A Life Once Lost roll out for yet more European dates on their autumn tour.

Hi-de-hi, campers! The Hard Rock Hell festival opens its gates in Wales in December, and there’s a strong line-up brewing.

Independent contenders Hexagram steamroller their signed contemporaries with astonishingly strong Southern-tinged thrash on Rhymes For The Hated.

Noise-metal veterans Harvey Milk pour out a tall glass of thinking man’s sludge on fifth album Life … The Best Game In Town.

Oxfordshire’s Chokehold decide to go it alone and release the metallic fury of second album The Sweet Sense Of Genocide independently.