Rob Barbour

Beartooth make another leap towards the mainstream with Disease

Aussie scene-runners The Amity Affliction misjudge the metalcore calculus with Misery

Metalcore mainstays Bury Tomorrow return with their sights set high on Black Flame

Birmingham’s skate-punk enthusiasts refuse to learn new tricks

New Jersey’s veteran space rockers go into cruise control

Kent genre-benders set a course for the centre ground

UK’s fast-rising stoner/doom crew allow a few stumbles

Buffalo’s chaotic hardcore crew overcome all obstacles

Bog-standard metalcore crew fail to push all the buttons

Sweden’s melodeath mavens fail to cover themselves in glory

Sikth and Gallows members go off the deep end

Kristiansand-based religious renegades still working out where to turn

Overly melodic metalcore, with added mixed metaphors

Nordic stoner rockers make a foray beyond the Sabbath ground zero

Instantly appealing rockers relocate their base

Ever-evolving US metalcore mob stay ahead of the pack

German electronicore merchants have nothing to brag about

Belgian stoners have trouble with their long-term memory

Small Mercies - New Blood

Jackass-associated weirdos return from the wilderness

Aussie Oddworlders get Camden beaming

Swedish doom trio ramp up the psychedelia on album two

Groove-laden nu metalcore troupe take a personal journey

Eclectic melodic metallers in need of some great melodies