The album distils a full gamut of feelings and serves them up for you to gorge upon, delivers more in its all-too-brief 35 minutes than many bands are capable of producing in an entire career, and leaves you bedazzled and enraptured; spent and grinning; breathless, wide-eyed and revelling in its enormity and splendour. By Chris Long

I’m late to the Malojian party, but I’m glad I made it in the end as here we have a very well-kept secret and a potential star in the making. By Geoff Topley

If La Casa al Mare can move onto a debut album and find the same dynamic range, involving depth and melodic intent regularly displayed on this EP, we could be in for a bonafide Shoegaze classic. By Rich Buley.

In a world where walls are built around sub-genres and stereotypes, Thorns of Sin proves that you can play what your heart most desires and succeed at producing truly valid works of art. Ultimately, ‘Destroy the Light’ is one of the best blackened melodic death metal albums I’ve heard in a while. – By Al Necro

‘Dead Sun Worship’ is a fine addition to the doom genre and leaves you wanting to hear more so job done and well done. Ones to watch. – By Martyn Coppack

It’s hard to argue with a band’s own categorisation but, whilst Thalassas is many things, progressive it is not. This could be said to be true of much “progressive metal”, but the technical leanings expressed here are all show. By Gaz Cloud

‘Parallels’ by Spylacopa is undoubtedly not everyone’s cup of tea and it’s quite demanding in its bearing. However, when you give this record a chance it will grow on you like fungus in the wet season. Heartily recommended for listeners who are into Intronaut, Tool, Isis and like-minded bands. – By Raymond Westland

Once again this offering from Ronan Conroy holds together beautifully as a piece; its wry observations on life are the theme on which everything hangs. It is hugely enjoyable, interesting and rewarding and it still carries secrets that are given up only after a little effort on the part of the listener. By Alan Ewart

Siberian Hell Sounds live up to the intention by serving up four vicious slices of brutal intensity. Wowzer. – By Andrew Rawlinson

This is a great split. Irk and Wren are almost completely different bands that really complement each other. I recommend checking out this split, especially if you are into post-hardcore or post-metal. I’m excited to see what these two bands will also release in the future. – By Kara Chavez

The Munsens are a lot of fun and you will have a lot of fun listening to this EP. It gets better on repeated listens too as the tracks get more and more ingrained and one longs for a much longer release next time so they can really show the world what they are capable off. – By Martyn Coppack

An erratic and entertaining album from New York’s Black Sugar Transmission that puts punk at the heart of glam-pop. By Kevin Scott

The arrangements are meticulous, but not overworked; the lyrics are strange, but not overfussed; and the instrumentation is unconventional, but not overthought. It all coalesces into a slow burning, satisfying listen. By Josh Cuevas

Bold, rapturous melody meld with enterprising, creative composition. This is a fantastic album of post-rock/metal/instrumental/atmospheric/progressive/drone/ambient… delightfully experimental… music. By Dave Allan Guzda

An excellent return from one of the best modern exponents of melodic noise rock on the planet. By Rich Buley

‘Yage’ can be considered a melting-pot of the band’s back catalog that shows the band’s enduring willingness to experiment. In the right state of mind, ‘Yage’ does about everything right. – By Daniela Patrizi

This is a great album, combining elements from lots of genres and wrapping them in an instrumental post-rock package. We Deserve This truly is a great multi-instrumentalist and I expect nothing than to be astonished by his next work again. – By Maarten van der Woude

They have a clear sound, captivating guitar solos and precise rhythm. Is it an intentional escape from over-instrumentation or not…? This simplicity is beautiful. By Inna Nemchenko

A sludge like torpor, which, over its entire thirty minutes, develops into a sinuous head nodding piece which never lets up on the heaviness. – By Martyn Coppack

With interests in beards, bourbon and big muffs, plus influences from Karma to Burn, Earthless and Kyuss, Robot Death Monkey have established the stoner rock/sludge vibe to great effect on their ‘Full Dunham’ EP. – By Jon Henderson

In the Company of Serpents are one of the most exciting bands around in the doom genre. ‘Merging in Light’ is a thing of simple beauty and updates all those classic Black Sabbath songs for a new generation. That’s how good it is. – By Martyn Coppack