A new addition to the emo-and-something trend: British A Poetic Yesterday, another young band from the UK who have the emo blood in them, but apparently also have older brothers with a taste for real metal.

Where their compatriots Early Grave whom I reviewed earlier this year had a black metal penchant, and now more or less defunct Nato use metalcore/death metal, A Poetic Yesterday are more directed towards Metallica’s speed metal phase. This is, of course, combined with the fragile, sensitive element of emo.

‘A Little South of Zero’ is a good album. No doubt.

It holds much variation and good changes. It has the high-energy parts as well as cool, clean choruses and songs. Vocalist Gavin Stewart’s voice in the clean parts has an interesting resemblance to that of Michael Stipe from R.E.M. - up you whether that scares you, but I find that positive.

Good one!