AMPLIFIER sold enough copies of their debut album last year to play another tour and release a new single - Panzer.

Epic by nature, Amplifier have the ominous, thunderous presence of the likes of Godflesh with the intuitive groove of the stoner rock brigade. And they're sleazy, in buckets, with the vocalist rubbing round his every phrase and every crunch of guitars.

Such sounds have earned them support slots with the likes of The Datsuns, Auf Der Maur, Therapy?, Deftones and Explosions in the Sky. The current tour is their first opportunity to play a full-length set around the UK and they'll be supported by Hiding Place (see below) joining them as they finish off below InMe.

The tour calls on Cardiff's Barfly on Thursday, June 10. Amplifier are touring around the release of Panzer which is the band's first download only single.

With a running time of seven minutes it's the longest download only single release so far.

It's another slag of their own brand of mind shatteringly apocalyptic space rock - think Radiohead when they still wrote tunes but with Mogwai sonics.

Like their debut album it's gloriously overblown and as such makes The Zutons and Jet etc look very, very small.

Incredibly they're just a three-piece but have lofty ambitions and a deft sense of tune and arrangements.

Happy they are not, mind you, and this is definitely music for the younger generation.

Older folk might have heard it all before.