Five Great New Tracks That No One Knows These tracks are totally obscure and i've only manage to uncover these gems by searching high and low, trawling the information sea for the freshest catch. That's probably the worst metaphor all time, but i digress. Here's some tracks of awesomeness.

1. Protest The Hero - Herectics and Killers Are you for serious. This band has massive balls, massive. It's like Dream Theater met Coheed and Cambria at a seedy backwoods motel, made a night of it, got knocked up and Protest The Hero shot out of the birth canal half way through some face melting tremolo picking. Sick. All will be explained this track from their new album Kezia, which is awesome. For fans of everything good in the world.

2. Diecast - Fade Away These American metallers definitely know how make it rock for the men and croon for the ladies. Straight up rockin American metalcore style reminiscent of a pre-Howard Killswich Engage. This track is the single from their new album "Internal Revolution" which should be good if this track is anything to go by.

3. The Aggrolites - Funky Fire I'm not a massive man for reggae. For me reggae begins and ends with Marley, i never had the drive to look further in to it. That is until The Aggrolites blew onto the scene and put some funky fire in my life. These guys are the hippest white guys of all time. This is from their self titled debut and it's just good, I can't explain it. Happy times music.

4. Heavens - Counting For all those Alkaline trio fans out there I present Heavens, Matt Skiba's new side project including him on vocals and his unknown friend Josiah Steinbeck who does basically everything else. This Steinbeck guy creates an interesting atmosphere, and Skiba sounds quite different in some of these songs, send me a comment if you agree that his lower register sounds like Paul Banks from Interpol. Uncanny, and good.

5. Khoma - Medea This song is pretty awesome. These guys are signed with Roadrunner in the UK but that doesn't really do a good job of explaining their sound. Because their not shit. They are however very atmospheric and trippy, got a deftones vibe sans Chino's annoying nu metal whining and less of an aggressive approach. From their new album "The Second Wave". And heres a tasteless picture for no reason.

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