Everything you’ve heard about iwrestledabearonce may be true. Or maybe it isn’t. But one thing’s for certain – they’re a mad experience on stage.

Finnish foursome Oddland impress with Away From The Watching Eye, three demo tracks of technical and progressive alternative metal. Lots of potential.

The Sections EP is the self-funded opening salvo from Young London tech-metal extremists The Safety Fire; I get a feeling it won’t be the last.

Homegrown technical terrors The Arusha Accord finally roll out The Echo Verses, their debut full length… and it’s a seriously impressive album, people.

Ludicrous levels of technical skill and complex songwriting are the order of the day on In the Shadow of Gods, a homegrown extreme metal début from No Consequence.

The Wedgewood Rooms play host as Architects and Misery Signals roll into Portsmouth to dish out the metal smackdown in the depths of the winter.

(Ob)Servant, the latest release from Tasmanian technical death band Psycroptic, is all about the virtuoso drumming… and, sadly, not much else.