Ha! If you would’ve told me that I was listening to the new New Found Glory or Set Your Goals album, I might have believed you.

The Dutch dudes that make up Destine follow up 2010’s “Lightspeed” with a new album called “Illuminate”. They like playing pop-punk with the emphasis placed firmly on the pop part.

After the split of Boston’s Therefore I Am (ohhhhhh), two of its members started a new band called Ghost Thrower (woohoo!).

On album number three, School Of Seven Bells had to make due with one less band member  after the departure of Claudia Deheza. Luckily her twin sister Alejandra Deheza decided to stick around.

On what is already their fourth album, these Canadians with a Pantera fixation simply show off more of the same.

After the menacing sound of feedback and a low bass rumble preps you for what’s to come, DNF lets loose a nasty concoction of grindcore and sludge.

Static Thought used to be one of those typical Hellcat streetpunk bands that wasn’t bad at all at playing that kind of music. I never really got into them because streetpunk just isn’t my thing.

Okay, I admit it… I’ve never been a fan of The Used.

Featuring members of New Jersey acts such as The Banner, The Oval Portrait and Mermaid In A Manhole, The Sun The Moon The Stars is a relatively new band that blasts out six (six six) metal/stoner t