One of the most anticipated releases to reach the Grumpyrocker offices is the debut album from Black Moth entitled The Killing Jar. The problem with hyping any album is that it will never quite live up to your expectations. After finally managing to coax Jimbo down from celebrating Man City's 44 year wait for the title (sorry Harry), he eventually agreed to finish off the review.

Making your movement from Sydney, Australia to England in order to try and make your name in the music scene is an impressive step to take, but that's the step that hardcore punks Villa Rise took and Jimbo reviews their six track EP Wastelands after the jump.

East Island City are from Dublin and have only been around since 2010, but Me and What Army? is described a mini-album, although their debut EP received 15,000 hits so hopes are high for Me and What Army? Jimbo checks out what all the fuss is about.

With the inevitable build up to their debut album release, Films of Colour release new single Running off the back of some already favourable reviews on this site for singles Capital and Slow Burn. Read Jimbo's thoughts after the jump.

Anison are another new band and with their debut album Memory Flashes they promise

a rush of melancholy that engrosses through its many layers, ignited by the delicate intro that comes as a calm before the proverbial emotional and sonic storm

so Jimbo was sent to review them.

With a UK Tour behind them, Slovenia's Elvis Jackson release This Time as a new single release from their current album Against the Gravity. Described as punk rock, This Time finds Elvis Jackson in an even more reggae influenced style, with the video shot in the Slovenian snow and available to view after the jump.

Jimbo has been waiting for Blacklisters' debut album since he first heard Swords last year. Prepare yourself for a full frontal assault of some of the most uncompromising hardcore rock to emerge from Leeds and watch / listen to the video for Trickfu*k.

7 Horns 7 Eyes' Throes of Absolution is a fabulous heavy progressive metal album says Harry. Perhaps the best metal album of 2012 so far.

Harry grits his teeth and tries to find things he likes amongst the tech-metal stylings of Veil of Maya's new album Eclipse.

Sukie Smith is Madam and Gone Before Morning is actually a re-release, but as we and Jimbo never picked it up when it was first released, there is plenty of happiness that 9 April 2012 marks the date of the second coming of Gone Before Morning. Read Jimbo's thoughts after the jump.

Having already built a following in their native Ireland, Dublin based pop-punk band East Island City are about to release their debut album Me and What Army? on 30 April 2012. In advance of this release you can have a sneak preview of new single No Tomorrow after the jump.

When the question "Who would like to review Seth Lakeman's new album?" echoed around Grumpyrocker Towers, it was D-jaysea's voice that carried loud and clear with something about him not minding Seth Lakeman as he wasn't really folk. The fact that Seth Lakeman is almost certainly one of this country's foremost folk singer-songwriters and Mercury Music Prize nominated at that, had D-jaysea been for a quick lunchtime livener or was he right? Read more after the jump, including a little bit of disguised bromance and a bonus points for anyone thinking D-jaysea wrote "industrial folk"!

Back in June last year Jimbo brought you his thoughts on Baddies latest single Tiger Face, however, all is fair in love and music reviews so D-jaysea gets his hands on Baddies' second album Build, with his thoughts after the jump.

The Levellers have had a soft spot for many of ex-Cartmel Bar residents of a certain vintage, so of course we were more than happy to bring you news of their newest single release as a prelude to new album Static on the Airwaves which is due out sometime this year. However, in addition to releasing new single Truth Is, the band have also got a little something special planned for Record Store Day, more details and the video for Truth Is are after the jump.

The Armchair Committee are now the second band to feature on the pages of Grumpyrocker after contacting us through the medium of Twitter. So Jimbo brings you his thoughts on the Toybox Sessions, which is the bands debut EP and references influences such as Black Keys and Muse.

After the jump, Paradise Lost's latest video Honesty in Death. This track is from the forthcoming album Tragic Idol which is out next week.

Definitely some Icon/Draconian Times vibes in this one.

British amplifier manufacturer Laney has announced the new Tony Iommi signature amplifier - the TI100.

This two-channel 100-watt 6L6-powered amp looks suspiciously like the Laney Ironheart, albeit with that amp's clean channel removed. That's not necessarily a bad thing - it's a beautiful sounding amp - but still something of a surprise.

I wonder where I could get a lovely Iommi front-grill to still on my Ironheart.

Anyhoo, all the details of the new amp after the jump.

British advertising bullshitter and sometime amplification manufacturer Blackstar has unveiled its latest state of the art marketing nonsense. The company describes its latest verbal slight of hand and customer misdirection as revolutionary.

"We were a technological innovator with our introduction of the phrase 'Pure Valve' in our mostly transistor-based technology in recent years," said Blackstar CEO Bob Scraggs. "However our world class engineers have been hard at work delivering more powerful state of the art bullshit that's sure to be a big hit with clueless customers and puny editorial lapdogs such as Guitarist Magazine."

"Today Blackstar is proud to unveil our latest product phrase 'True Valve Power' which we will believe will fool even more customers than ever before. With 'True Valve Power' we're extending our previous abilities of not having many valves in our valve products to now having no valves in them instead. Raising our 'no actual valves' to 'valve based marketing bullshit' ratio to 100 percent. I believe Blackstar is the first amplifier manufacturer to completely remove valves from over-hyped valve related products. This will enable us to continue to charge British-built prices for a range of Korean-made tat."

'True Valve Power' marketing bullshit will be available as an expensive range of literature and badges this summer, and will be bundled with a free modelling amplifier that's almost as good a Line 6 Spider for three times the money.

The presence of any valves has yet to be announced.

Full press release follows.

D-jaysea has been wittering on for weeks about Craig Finn's debut solo album Clear Heart Full Eyes, which was released during a break form being the frontman of The Hold Steady. However, despite enjoying Honolulu Blues we've basically ignored D-jaysea, but mention the word beer and we're all ears. Yes Craig has decided to create a beer called Clear Heart and all the news, although technically a drift away from music is available after the jump.