Young Guns went to Thailand to record their 'difficult' second album and all they got me was this lousy t-shirt. With so much promise offered with their debut album can Gustav Wood and band follow it up and make that jump to the big league? Gaz E finds the band readying their pogo sticks.....

With the list of uninspiring band names almost equalling the number of insipid bands standing out like beans on a piece of toasted bread, can young hopefuls Promise Me Tomorrow offer anything different to an already beige genre? Rob Watkins tells it like it is.....

Think how different Ramsay Street might have been if Bouncer had been called Beelzebub and Joe Mangel's surname was, in fact, Mengele. Mark Ashby finds an Australian band who couldn't give a XXXX for their country's musical tradition, instead walking the left hand path paved with corpse-paint.......

When, a year after a suicide attempt, Craig Owens was kicked out of Chiodos and split with his girlfriend the downward spiral looked to be his next port of call. But, now sober and demon free, Owens provides his aural catharsis on the record label founded by Pete Wentz and with an uber-producer in tow.  

If you thought that Andy Carroll's Michael Bolton hairdo was the next best thing to 80s metal in Liverpool think again as Merseyside marauders Sick Circus have just put the cock back into Ross Welford's rock with their self titled seven track EP and the sleazy scribe is stoked that the circus came to town.....

With a band member who is a published poet, artist and spoken word performer, and the band also running community music projects in both North London and Kent, Djevara are certainly a band who pique the interest. Nev Brooks checked out their new album, a political collision of hardcore and punk......

A band from New Zealand now based in Australia and peddling a commercial-sounding fusion of the sounds of the Seventies and Eighties? Worth checking out, I'm sure you'll agree. Nev Brook was the man handed the task of finding out if 'Life Worth Living' was a Record Worth Loving......

Belgian ska punks Overweight hand picked Matt Phelps to review their debut album, 'The World For Sale', and, decent chap that he is, he didn't let them down. In fact he goes so far as to say that Overweight, with their valued Goldblade/Goldfinger fusion, could well be contenders. Read on for the skinny......