Edinburgh metallers Dead At The Scene deliver a decent chimera of technical brutality and atmospheric progressive metal styles on their Sharktopus EP.

Berlin prog-metal collective The Ocean tackle the evolution of the Heliocentric world-view; their fifth studio album, and quite possibly their best to date.

Chimp Spanner is a very silly name for a very serious musician – At The Dream’s Edge is prog excess and virtuoso ambition driving some powerful heavy music.

Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.

Reading thrashers Sylosis release The Supreme Oppressor, their second mini-album of brutal and uncompromising melodic metal with a hardcore edge.

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

The future of heavy music lies in texture, innovation, and in the adoption of new instruments and techniques. Genghis Tron‘s new album, Board Up The House, is a glimpse into that future.

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