Crushing rhythms? Check. Killer vocals? Check. Earworm melodies? Check.

From the frozen tundra of Fort Worth, Frozen Soul come stomping through in their snow shoes armed with more Bolt Thrower worship and ice cold guitar work.

Sometimes concept albums fall into the trap of just collecting some themes into a lose story, writing 10 songs about it and calling it a day. Cryptic Shift work hard to buck this trend, something they definitely achieved with Visitations from Enceladus and the bucking continues with the latest offering Overspace and Supertime.

Screamy fast hardcore that evokes, at times, The Mars Volta and a sprinkling of Detroit's The Armed. But does this brief introduction to the band pack a punch?

One man. One passion. Blast beats.

The Leeds based Jurassic rockers come stomping through with a record rooted deeply in cathartic release, perseverance and defiance.

Deftones return with a slow growing rosebud of their particular brand of shoegazey nu metal. But does it stand up to their illustrious back catalogue?

The champions of the Digitech Whammy pedal are back with a short, sweet, angular, polyrhythmic offering and we’re here for it.

Black metal, death metal, clean vocals, dirty vocals, proggers Dawn of Ouroboros present a fine spread of it all with their new effort Bioluminescence.

Two EPs for the price of one (not actually) with differing approaches, Amenra have produced a right treat for us here.

Refusing to stay stagnant Imperial Triumphant have produced another killer record, albeit in a way they haven't done before.

tunic's latest work is proof loss creates art as the Canadian noise rockers explore their pain and create of their finest work to date.