Creating epic instrumental songs that are given room to breath they allow you to fully immerse yourself in their world. Red Sparowes are brutally heavy and have no need to rely on any hackneyed riff to pummel you into submission. Their cascading sound owes as much to Goblin as it does to Sabbath.
www.myspace.com/redsparowes

Big Rough Trade faves here.
Veering between krautrock edginess and bittersweet pop melancholia, droning medicated tones and noise driven fuzz, The Oscillation recalls the kosmische musik of Neu! and Tangerine Dream interpreted with an eye on Pil’s dubbed out punk funk, Miles Davis’ experimentalism and Spacemen 3’s strung out song writing
www.myspace.com/theoscillations

The new project of musician producer Kevin Laska ( Novatron ) and long time Justin K Broadrick and Kevin Martin collaborator Dave Cochrane. Combining crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic ambience, mangling bass lines and distorted epic layers of textured guitar, injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing. Laska and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale before pulling you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off with some more soul dismantling sonic disfunction
www.myspace.com/transitionaluk

Whilst the spectrum will produce a varied array of sounds that are pleasing to the ear there is a darker side to its operation. The capability to create a more unconventional sound is limitless. Everything you will see and hear is derived from a steep and logistic learning curve. Peek, Poke and Merge
www.myspace.com/zxspectrumorchestra

His music is fragile, soothing, dark and melodic. Using tape loops and banks of Fx pedals he creates soundscapes to get lost in and is certainly someone you want to revisit time and time again.
www.myspace.com/alexanderdtucker

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When they first played Supersonic in 2005 people were excited; mainly because of one EP and the pedigree of earlier bands these chaps had been in. That afternoon they blew people away with a crushing set that stayed just the right side of improv and became the talk of the festival. One critically acclaimed album later they are now the toast of the town. Live is where these guys excel, Stanier’s drums alone can stove your head in, combine that with the finest musicianship and a desire to make you think, as well as dance, and Battles could well be the most perfect band to headline Supersonic.
www.myspace.com/battlestheband

These Brummie wonders impressed the Capsule grannies enough to make them cough up the moolah to release their first EP. Anyone that has seen them live knows they are as unpredictable and in your face as any band could be. They offer nods to Jesus Lizard with hints of San Diego art punks Heroin and Antioch Arrow. It’s old school, honest, in-your-face punk rock with enough balls and attitude to satisfy even the most jaded.
www.myspace.com/beestunglips1

Formed in Glasgow by Russell McEwan as a solo, sample-based project inspired by Scorn, later recruiting guitarist Kevin Hare and the addition of bass guitarist Graeme Leggate, they became the bastard offspring of early Swans meets Khanate. Utterly brutal doom with dual vocals and heavily repetitive riffs that just shatter your skull.
www.myspace.com/legionofblacksun 

The beauty of Supersonic is that for every riff monger lurking on stage, there are always a number of hidden gems to discover that you would normally just pass on. Cath & Phil are just one of these fantastic finds. Avant folk with a nod to the more traditional folk scene, this is the kind of music that you would find at old American carnie performances while a parade of freaks dance in front of you. Sweet music with lyrics so disturbing even Slayer can’t touch em and in short an absolute treat.
www.myspace.com/cptyl

A ten-piece band that uses a myriad of instruments to create a wholly original sound you can listen to on record all day long but never get a sense of how magical they are live. It’s chamber music but not as you know it. It’s upbeat and full of life with a sense of hope and optimism.
www.myspace.com/efterklang

This band have single handedly ushered in a new era of noise that is harsh but melodic with a danceable edge that still manages to be as disturbing as it is beautiful.
www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons

This is the soundtrack to some bizarre, Italian Giallo as played by intense young men with a history of playing in metal bands. They are really in a league of their own, this is very dark, brooding, avant metal that is hypnotic and intense yet full of melody, beautifully played and utterly mesmerising.
www.myspace.com/guapoband

Original to the point of being unclassifiable Harvey Milk are straight-up, riff-rock tour-de-force replete with huge hooks, whiskey-and-cigarette vocals, whacked out guitar solos, and all the swagger and conviction a true rock record should have. Supersonic are very proud to have finally managed to bring these guys over to Europe, a nod of gratitude goes to Henry of Chunklet fame for making it all possible.
www.myspace.com/harveymilk

Wild, intense without pretense and fun without dumbing down. The freedom
and adventure of infinite possibilities and playing loud not just as a powertrip.
Members of a million bands including Trencher, Esquilax, Leopard Leg,
Drumize/Baka/Scotch Egg band, Doom Patrol, Polly Shang Kuan Band,
Gravepaintings, Queen Of Swords, Dream Dreams The Dreamer, Vard Ov Adv,
Universal Orders, Bloodlust and more.

What do shards of glass sound like if they are amplified using a piano transducer signal processors and the human voice? Well it is actually pretty hard to explain, but this is tonal noise that manages to be strangely melodic in between bursts of ear shredding terror. Sure to be a highlight, it has to be seen to be believed and once you believe, you’ll be amazed.
www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham

Flirt with standard song structures whilst keeping a heavy psychedelic rhythm and melancholy noise that transform them into spinning webs of texture.  Vigorous beats, wayward sounds and vocals are heavy with reverb while space echo treated flourishes combine to make them an enlightened, beautiful and captivating live experience.
www.myspace.com/magnetophone

Norwegian dirge with nods to Ruins, Swans, and the odd touch of black metal. Although heavy they have a deftness of touch most bands playing this style of music lack. There is subtleness at work during their long song workouts and an almost jazz perspective to some of their low-end rumblings which means they are never less than exciting to hear.
www.myspace.com/noxagt

A composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, which he manages to transform (with the help of a few Fx pedals and samplers) into a virtually unrecognizable instrument. Layers of spatial sound combine to create a beautiful haunting soundtrack that manages to be hypnotic, experimental and yet strangely melodic.
www.orenambarchi.com

Intensive, confrontational, raw and uncompromising: four words I think of when someone mentions Eugene and the boys to me. Amazing jazz infused, Birthday Party style noise, they produce a live show where you never know what might happen, an element which is as exciting as it is scary. Eugene is unpredictable and unsettling as he prowls the stage looking for unsuspecting victims to terrify and pours his soul into the microphone creating something that is undeniably powerful.
www.myspace.com/theoxbow

A heady mix of Beefheart, Birthday Party and The Fall this band are amazingly shambolic yet highly accomplished.  When you see them live you are transfixed by their demented, howling lead singer as he strides across the stage like a preacher gone insane. Lesser musicians would be overshadowed by such a figure but each member gives their all to create a chaotic, groggy blues style, cathartic din.
www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup

This band is loud, heavy and amazing. A rare live appearance from these Bristolian riff-mongers, this is true blues rock and roll that takes no prisoners. Think Iggy, MC5, Hawkwind and Motorhead and you’re somewhere on the right track.
www.myspace.com/theheadsrock

The Owl Service formed through a mutual love of British films and television of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and {of course} the sound of the English folk revival. No retro obsessives, The Owl Service simply believe that music production peaked around 1969 and they merely seek to perfectly encapsulate the influence of the greatest albums and artists of that time. Beautiful music, simply arranged, exquisitely executed and captured on tape with authentic warmth – prepare to be enchanted by The Owl Service.
http://www.myspace.com/theowlservice

What can you say about Mr. Joe Preston? Legend. If you have listened to any music that is considered heavy in the last 15 years then you have heard Joe howl, previous outfits include Melvins, Whip, Earth, Sunn o)))  and High On Fire, but none of them could prepare you for the stench that is Thrones.  The sound is intense, mixing heavily distorted vocals, bass heavier than any before it, ridiculously fucked up, raw programmed drums, samples and keyboards. In lesser hands this would be a disaster but Preston IS the sum of his parts, verging from a din inducing sludge racket to beautiful lulls of quiet sweetness, weird and wonderful, this rare UK performance promises to be very special indeed
http://www.myspace.com/thronestour 

“More of what we love, a relentless, never-ending blown out fuzzy groove, all warm whirring organ, fuzz guitar, and throbbing bass, the drums a super solid motorik framework, the vocals sort of sung / spoken, reverb and delay EVERYWHERE, the strangest addition is the haunting horns on the A side, that drift and moan ghost like over the fuzz jam below. One song spread out over two sides, by side 2, the band have locked it in and sound like they are never gonna stop. A looped cyclical minimal fuzzrock jam that sounds almost like some crazy crossbreeding of the Doors and Spacemen 3, which should appeal to Circle, Salvatore and Magyar Posse fans as much as all the druggy psychrock dronesters out there.” -Aquarius Records
http://www.woodenshjips.com