Thank God for the creative talents of musicians like Dean Wareham to make our days a little brighter.

Cold Gawd almost touch the divine in this unassuming East London venue on their dual headlining tour with Soft Blue Shimmer.

The results are pretty much exactly what you expect, an abrasive industrial hellscape with screaming.

Yaang are fully carbonated and unnecessarily caffeinated, they have a short attention span, a drum machine and at least one dubious moustache.

In Space is the first Edith Frost record in 20 years. The world has changed drastically during this time, and Edith is here to address such changes with her wry warmth.

Thoughteater is one of the boldest raw black metal albums of the past two or three years.

Over the six tracks the band never goes wrong and K L P S has put a real marker down in the Swedish post-metal sound.

This excellent EP is the band’s first new material since 2018’s Future Ruins, and these four songs will delight fans new and old.

Essentially Rattle is all rhythm and chant and yet it is totally unlike that shaking hoodoo mania thing, completely different to all the spooky drones and incense types.

As always with Hecker it’s emotional but rich and complex, allowing for multiple possibilities.

The UK’s finest purveyors of sludged up post-metal return with another extraordinary album which manages to step up from a previous point of perfection.

End Of The Middle is another extraordinary achievement for Dawson (or Rich), it’s compassionate, smart and unfailingly human.

Great from top to bottom, front to back. Honestly, while it joins an impressive discography it’s up there with his very best.

Post-metal that is atmospheric enough to relax to but also heavy enough to headbang to. The songs, sounds and textures are flawless.

At times the whole album feels suspended between deep breaths at the edge of sleep.

Their ‘parole jazz’ party is a wild affair of drum rumble, filthy bass and squalling sax. Overpowered by skronk.

If I have to wait another four or five years for the next Hidden Mothers album, I will be absolutely delighted if it is as varied, vibrant and flawless as the debut.

This is a miserably beautiful piece of work which puts the band high in the ranks of the finest blackened post-hardcore available today.

Not the sort of band to play the hits exactly but also undoubtedly, and perhaps essentially, an incredible live experience.

Codespeaker put the metal into post-metal and create a unique sound for a phenomenal second album.

Diary is a noisy Brooklyn group that channels shoegaze and grunge through a psych filter.