Download Festival has bolstered its line up again with a bunch of freshly announced artists;

Boasting an already stacked line up of artists, 2000 Trees Festival has been drip feeding us tasty morsels in the form of a new band announcement each day over the past week.

Without so much as a moment of pause, we have another full length record from Grime-Punk underground superstars PENGSHUi.

Blood Red Shoes are arguably one of the busiest bands in the business these days.

With their incendiary new record Conquering, Employed To Serve are heading for bigger and bolder in almost every way. We sat down for a chat with Sammy Urwin, shredder in chief and one of the band's two main vocalists, to find out what's in store for the band in their new chapter.

With three prior albums of blistering hardcore already under their collective belt, now is a time of evolution for Employed To Serve.

The Heavy Music Awards have fast become one of the most established and revered events in the alternative music scene , so naturally we popped down to the Kentish Town Forum for a night of awards, live music and some shoulder rubbing.

Out of the ashes rise a freshly independent Haggard Cat, free of the shackles of record label tomfoolery, the noisy Nottingham duo comprised of Matt Reynolds and Tom Marsh are primed with riffs, riffs and more bloody riffs on their new EP Cheer Up.

As far as post-metal goes, Mountain Caller are an essential and unique proposition.