Powered equally by strikingly sturdy riffs and fire catching crystalline vocals, Newcastle’s Giant Walker deliver giant strides on second album Silhouettes.

Finding purpose (and riffs!) within the social constraints of lockdown, Desert Storm’s Cole brothers construct a range of (mostly) instrumentals inspired by their legendary heroes and fellow admirations.

Modern life frustrations and joyful hooky repetitive grooves unite to form Manchester’s Loose Articles impressive debut.

Fifth album by Warsaw based psychedelic Doomsters Sunnata continues their journey exploring the vastness between heavy and softer textures, harmonised vocals, and the trippy for more massively immersive doomscapes.

From a debut E.P which may have escaped your notice released in 2021, to a debut album which totally deserves Indie punk fans attention. Newcastle’s Fast Blood bring blistering energetic melodic hooks and a sharp modern punk punch on Sunny Blunts.

Big|Brave continue to prove they are open to forming different pathways in their quest for experimenting where heavy music can lead to.

After a five years’ absence Atlanta, Georgia’s Omni inspire charm among the jerky post punk smarts on fourth album Souvenir.

Gothic punk doomers Cold in Berlin return in style with The Body of the Wound EP

They Watch Us from the Moon’s cosmos journeying debut contains huge nutrient rich celestial melodies for absorbing high-level space doom.

The reduction of Thrash Metal into the ‘Big Four’ is both counter-productive and very unfair.

Post-sludge metallers Ohhms explored heavier, grander, progressive dynamics on 2020’s Close. It helped to label the band as one of the UK’s metal best kept secrets. Two years on, and the UK based outfit return with Rot, as they burst back with an explosive horror fuelled themed set of songs.

Location location location – not the British reality property TV show, but the deep influence it has on James McBain and his blackened speed metal output Hellripper.