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Review Rundown II with your bi-weekly dose of new record reviews! This week we take a look at ÆGES’ debut EP, Roaches, Heartless’s first LP on Southern Lord, Hell Is Other People, and NYC’s So Hideous, My Love’s latest EP, To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers.

Review of Fall On Your Sword’s debut LP Another Earth featuring composers Phil Mossman (Ocean’s Eleven & LCD Soundsystem) and Will Bates.

Fans of Puerto Rico Flowers have patiently waited nearly a near and a half since the release of their first EP, 4 for a full length. On June 14, 2011, the wait is finally over. Dropping on Baltimore based Fan Death Records, 7 delivers seven new tracks at last.

Take Black Sabbath, Kylesa, and Mastodon, toss them in a blender and set to crush. You may come out with a sound vaguely reminiscent of Portland’s Red Fang and their forthcoming release, Murder The Mountains, set to hit streets April 12 via Relapse Records.

Dutch rockers The Ex are back for an amazing 25th album with their most recent release, Catch My Shoe.

New Review of Pittsburgh based quintet, Lohio and their latest EP Family Tree, as the band conjures up elements of their prior works and a new range of influences from their touring companions with this engaging release.

Louisville hometown heroes Brain Banger, drop new EP Munsoned on Hawthorne Street Records. Featuring members of Young Widows, Lords, Breather Resist, Black Cross find out if this ecliptic hodgepodge live up to the hype in this new BTS review.

Bert Lams, Paul Richards, and Hideyo Moriya have been going strong for over 19 years and will surprise very few with Andromeda as this is California Guitar Trio‘s first record to feature absolutely no covers, and the original works are stacked with a slew of improvisational pieces.

California’s Killing The Dream are releasing their latest recorded effort today, a 7-song L.P. entitled Lucky Me via longtime label DeathwishInc.

One Less Heartless To Fear, the sixth LP from Shipping News, is uncompromisingly raw and lyrically lush. The album was recorded live at two very different venues at opposite ends of the globe: Skull Alley in Louisville, KY and the O-Nest in Tokyo, Japan..

Phobia have long reigned as a patriarch of the American grind scene with over 20 years of proliferation that began with 7″ releases at Relapse Records when the now indie-Goliath was still in its infancy and functioning out of a basement. Find out how their forthcoming EP, Unrelenting measures up in this new review.

The reason Control Denied’s 1999 album The Fragile Art of Existence sounds so familiar is because it is exactly such. Familiar. Composed of highly skilled members of Death, Iced Earth and Testament, among others, the late Chuck Schuldiner-led fringe supergroup is fairly standard progressive metal that with an element of grit.

Texas’s Grindcore up-and-comers, Kill The Client are releasing their Relapse Records debut, Set For Extinction on Oct 26, 2010. Get the inside scoop in this review by Blow The Scene’s Joshua Cohen.

18 years deep in the shred game, Cephalic Carnage’s music is still exciting, challenging, and most importantly, fun. “Why?” “How?” You ask? Check out this new review of Misled By Certainty coming out on Relapse Records Aug 31.