The season of the big rock shows begins with Paramore supporting at The Eras Tour, double Metallica, Weezer + Pumpkins, as well as tonnes of new singles including big returns for Nails and The Black Dahlia Murder, and discussion of the Barclay's Boycott at Download Festival.

Releases:
Black Country Communion - V
The Early November - Self-Titled
Fu Manchu - The Return of Tomorrow
Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Lucifer’s Hammer - Be and Exist
Rezn - Burden
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Downfall of Mankind - Purgatory
Malignancy - …Discontinued
Embryonic Autopsy - Origins of the Deformed
Groin - Paid In Flesh
Fellwarden - Legend: Forged In Defiance