Prog Metal types The Mirimar Disaster have been described as this country's version of Mastodon. How tasty is that?

On Friday night – while the Band Blitz shenanigans take a week off – TMD take hold of The Pitz. They've a new mini-album in the racks, and Volumes is, say those working it, 'a pile-driving riff-hungry monster, dirt-ball metal beast'.

In the past year the Sheffield road-warriors have stepped out with artists including the aforementioned Mastodon, Will Haven, Arch Enemy and Ghost of a Thousand, and they are more than capable of holding their own, as you'll hear tomorrow.

Our Man In The Bronze Age are stepping out with 'em. A couple of weeks back, the newly expanded line-up did the unimaginable, and simultaneously spread an eerie chill and a warm thrill through the Party on the Pitch crowd. Expect more of the same when the troupe – now with new music, a second drummer and a cellist – blow your mind. Really, they can, and do.

Undergroove Records dwellers The Sontaran Experiment promise 'doom, noise-scapes, desolate vocals, classical-inspired movements, experimental white noise, psychedelia and sheer metal and grinding savagery'. You might expect that they would put some effort into it...
Band Blitz post-rock kings Meggidddo are first up, and their awesome concoction of the aurative will pound you. Pleasantly. This band-billing is an exceptional display of artists for those who like their music upfront, uncompromising, risky and above all heavy. It'll be six quid well spent. Doors at 7.30pm.