Firebreather breathe new life with their best offering yet on album number three.

Witch Fever’s mesh of heavy Grunge, Sabbathian Doom, and Punk’s rebellious spirit lives up to its exciting mix of influences.

Enter and surrender into Blackwater Holylight’s musical landscape as ‘Silence/Motion’ successfully achieves a magnificent furthering expansion of their sound. A career best.

Green Lung have done it again. Black Harvest is full of great smouldering infectious songs, metal anthems built for stadiums.

A compilation of deeper non-album cuts with two simmering new tracks which heightens the essential need for Goat to continue to keep the groove (and us) going.

Mountain Caller exercise numerous twist and turns, catchy slow gathering builds, towering crescendos, and of course massive riffs.

Stoner the band praise the scene’s followers on debut album.

King Buffalo have demonstrated how to put restlessness into great effect with seven masterly constructed songs, superb precision, and one hell of a top production. The bar is very high indeed.

Alastor’s most accessible album yet, revelling in heaviness and commendable fuzzy outpourings which never loses sight of big riffs and melodic hooks.

Lights Behind the Eyes perfectly hits that spot for wide awake relaxation, which encourages escapism, reflection, and achieves a heightened sonic aural tickling of the senses.

Greta Van Fleet’s second album is bigger and bolder as they spread their wings.

Glume’s debut forms a sugar laden dayglo synthy dream pop record, but underneath the bright fluorescent lights there is a melancholic undertow which reveals depth.

For those seeking high octane speed thrills of grunge punk metal fury then look no further than Warish and ‘Next To Pay’. Play loud!

Frank Black’s The Cult of Ray, Oddballs, Christmass albums get the vinyl reissue treatment by Demon Records.

Open Door Policy has the spirit of The Hold Steady’s noughties glory days while there is a renewed freshness in the song-writing, and a newfound creativity by widening their sound with a horn section.

A Common Turn showcases a very intriguing and talented artist who has made an incredibly bold, honest, beautiful, absorbing, and powerful debut.

Seattle’s rockers shift the sands for a deeper, moodier, artful, matured in an oak barrel kind of bluesy rock on third album The Light Below.

The heady mix of grooves and fuzzy riffs continue on Here Lies Man’s heavily packed relentless fourth album.

This collection is a mix of re-recorded fan favourites and covers of songs by a few bands that inspire these Maryland rockers. In lesser hands, it could have been have been a mixed bag affair, but in the hands of Clutch it’s another quality assured stamped approved release.

My Echo by Laura Veirs could quite possibly make you feel small, fragile, but also determined and alive.

London’s heavy progressive instrumental three-piece Mountain Caller takes you on an intriguing journey on their debut via the New Heavy Sounds label.