Metal Injection — We're so pumped to be bringing you the new EP from from BAT, the new group featuring Municipal Waste guitarist Ryan Waste on bass/vocals, former DRI drummer Felix Griffin and Volture guitarist Nick Poulos paying tribute to the likes of Motorhead... more info

Sky News — Southern Water is told to pay £200,000 after untreated effluent was allowed to go into the sea off one of the South's top beaches. more info

Sky News — The SAS sniper who was tried for possessing a gun is to be medically discharged from the Army next February, Sky News can reveal. more info

XLR8R — Nottingham-based techno producers Hizatron and Bashley have just released their latest collaborative record, the three-track Discharge EP (artwork above, preview after the jump), via Wigflex. The pair make a minimalist brand of music with dark undert... more info

Guardian Music — Not-so-mysterious-yet-masked producer SBTRKT brings his eclectic dubstep-soul-electronica mash up (3-5 Oct, tour begins O2 Academy Bristol) ...Maxïmo Park are back with more literature-strewn alt rock aiming at epic status (1-10 Nov, tour begins O2 ... more info

Guardian Music — Think Florida. Think Disneyland. Think orange juice. Think beaches. Think Death, then scream bloody goreFlorida is synonymous with sun, sea and freshly squeezed orange juice. Hard-working Americans dream of retiring to the state and families from aro... more info

Guardian Music — Spotify today launches a new feature enabling us to embed songs, albums and playlists directly on to our pages. Help us try it out and join our writers in recommending some tunesAre you on Spotify? If you are, from today you'll be able to listen to a... more info

Guardian Music — Forum, LondonYou know you're not at the average charity rock concert when you hear "This one's called Mauled ... to ... Fucking ... DEATH!" as a song introduction. And so it was at Boltfest, an event that death-metal veterans and John Peel favourit... more info

Metalsucks — Here’s a nice afternoon treat for you: Metal Underground is streaming a new Job for a Cowboy song, “Black Discharge.” It’s just another small taste of the incredible brutality the band’s new record, Demonocracy, has store for you — it’... more info

Pop Justice — The people behind the incredible compilation series Disco Discharge (which we have written about 'at some length' in the past) are putting out another four double CDs of amazingness on April 30. To celebrate the new releases (and let's face it drum ... more info