Internal Nightmare’s New Video For Rancid Cremation
Internal Nightmare are a three piece Death Thrash band who formed in Melbourne in 2007, after a few lineup changes the band have solidified their sound and developed the reputation of being a hard working band with an exciting, relentless live show. During the past two years Internal Nightmare have played with the likes of […]
Kadavar, Blues Pills, River Of Snakes, Sun God Replica Live @ Northcote Social Club
Words: Damo Musclecar Photos: Mike Young The Swedish psych rock band, Blues Pills, teamed up with German stoner rockers, Kadavar, to play a handful of shows around Australia that saw them perform at Melbourne’s own Cherryfest and this, the second show of their two-night stand at the Northcote Social Club. Melbourne locals, Sun God Replica, […]
Lostprophets Singer – jailed for 35 years for 13 child sex offences
The last couple of weeks have seen a fast fall for grace for Welsh band Lostprophets’ lead singer Ian Watkins. Since their meteoritic rise on the back of their 2000 album Thefakesoundofprogress the band of have topped charts and won awards, but now, after pleading guilty, Watkins is not facing adoring fans but instead, 35 […]
Morten Veland – Pushing the boundaries with Sirenia
It has taken 12 years, six albums, and a failed attempt in 2010, but Norways’ Gothic Metal masters Sirenia are at last headed to Australia. Guitarist and founder Morten Veland is looking forward to finally making it downunder.
Gearing Up For Sonic Forge
This Saturday Sonic Forge Festival is bringing headbangers together for an epic day of metal for its third year running. Spearheaded by Kiwi heavyweights Ulcerate and Melbourne’s own Ne Obliviscaris, the full line-up for 2013 includes so many potential headliner bands you couldn’t possibly be disappointed. Joining them are King Parrot, The Amenta, Ruins and […]
Clutch Australian Tour Announcement
Clutch will hit Australian shores to play Soundwave as well as their own national headline shows. It has been a long four years for Aussie Clutch fans, since their last tour in 2010. The time between tours has nothing to do with a lack of love for Australia, and more to do with a love […]
Epica’s Mark Jansen : A decade of metal
On 23 March 2013 Epica celebrated their 10th anniversary with a sold out three hour live performance called Retrospect. With the DVD/BluRay release now here, guitarist Mark Jansen takes the opportunity to reflect on the concert itself, and a decade of Epica.
Bendigo Hotel VCAT Hearing Adjourned
This weekend the age old Melbourne problem of a neighbourhood (well in this case one neighbour) taking action against a live music venue once again raised its ugly head. This time it was the Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood, and its owner Guy Palermo, that found themselves looking down the barrel after constant complaints from one […]
Protest the Hero – Protest The Hero
Mathcore heavyweights Protest The Hero have proven that they mean business, providing an amalgamation of their previous three albums where the heaviness and rifftacular nature of Kezia and Fortress meet the very progressive Scurrilous. The album kicks off into full throttle as soon as you hit the play button on Clarity. You’re bombarded with such […]
Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness
Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness (2013) Relapse Records The first sentence in Toxic Holocaust’s biography states they were formed by Joel Grind in 1999 to pay homage to the raw days of metal and punk, and that’s precisely what this band and this release does. Right from the get go, Chemistry of Consciousness‘s first track […]
Red Fang – Whales and Leeches
While Red Fang can easily be labeled as a stoner rock or stoner metal band – after all they do sound a lot like other bands of the genre – they seem to be an odd man out in the group. First of all, they broke through much later than most of the popular bands […]
Desert Highways Label Launch w/ Chainsaw Hookers And Muscle Car @ The Bendigo Hotel
New Melbourne record label Desert Highways is having its debut launch Friday 29th November at The Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood.
Dawn Heist – Catalyst
2013 has been a big year for Sydney groove melodic metal outfit, Dawn Heist. Previously the band had released two well-received EPs that saw them capture the attention of the German based Bastardized Records. With that relationship cemented, Dawn Heist have now hit us with their fantastic debut album, simply titled Catalyst which proves once […]
Absu (USA), Portal and Denouncement Pyre Tour 2014
American black metal warriors Absu have announced their return to Australia! Joining them in March 2014 will be our own conjurers of darkness, Portal, and Melbourne’s blackened death metallers Denouncement Pyre.
Stormrider Festival hitting Perth in 2014
The Civic Hotel in Perth will play host to an epic all day Metal Festival in May 2014 whith ten fantastic bands taking over the venue from 2pm until the wee hours. While half the line up features local Western Australian bands, the other half are coming in from all over the nation to take […]
Harlott – Origin
Pleasure to Kill, Reign in Blood, Bonded By Blood. These are three of thrash’s classics and Harlott’s debut album Origin has the potential to be cemented in the thrash history books along with them. From the word go Harlott’s Origin is a balls out thrash metal assault including everything a thrasher could dream of, riffs […]
Brand new Mayhem in the old wrapping
Most bands lose band members due to butting heads and life on the road taking its toll, but what’s it like to be in a band whose members have been killed, committed suicide, and thrown into jail? “I don’t really think about it. This is my life. I started when I was 16, it’s just […]
Between the Buried and Me @ The Corner Hotel 19.11.13
A spectacularly warm day put Melbourne in high spirits on Tuesday, as one of the biggest progressive metal shows of the year arrived at The Corner Hotel in Richmond – the Parallax Future Sequence Australian tour, in which Between the Buried and Me has been delivering their latest opus from start to finish with the […]
HEAVY Issue 7 Feature Artist King Parrot Set To Play USA’s South By South West
Things are seemingly spiraling upward for the Melbourne based extreme hardcore pub punk thrash metallers, King Parrot, as they have just been announced as a feature artist in the gargantuan music conference known as South by South West, located in Austin TX.
Showtime, Storytime: Interview with Marco Hietala, Nightwish
In November 2011 Nightwish released their 7th studio album, Imaginaerum. Two months later they embarked on an 18-month, 104-concert world tour that would be a journey of ups and downs. At its worst moment, the entire tour was under threat and the band parted ways with vocalist Anette Olzen. Yet less than a year later […]
Eyehategod: Announce 25th Anniversary Australian Tour for January 2014
Hailing from the dark lands of the deep South, better known as New Orleans, North America’s most uncompromising band EYEHATEGOD came to be In the year 1988, and have since created a 25-year legacy of sheer unadulterated, no holds bared, musical brutality. Their vision was pure and their approach was hostile, through the course of […]
PERIPHERY AND ANIMALS AS LEADERS AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Periphery has defied the boundaries of conventionality, bringing new life to the metal scene. Their meteoric rise to the upper echelon of the metal world will be in full display when they return to Australia in January/February 2014 joined by Animals As Leaders. Animals as Leaders bring their instrumental progressive metal grooves and were hailed […]
Scar The Surface on their Debut Album and Australian Tour
Melbourne’s melodic metal/metalcore heroes, Scar the Surface, are mid-way through their biggest Australian tour to date following the release of their long-awaited debut album, From the Shadows to the Fire, and HEAVY caught up with guitarist, Daryl Smeele, before the band heads off on the rest of their tour. Scar the Surface’s debut album, From […]
I Killed The Prom Queen Sign To Epitaph
After a six year album hiatus, the metalcore quintet are back to unleash their third offering through Epitaph Records.
Get Desecrated: Interview with Riley Strong
I’m on the phone to Riley Strong, frontman for Melbourne thrashers Desecrator, who after a short break from the stage and a line-up change have just released a brand new ten-inch vinyl EP titled Down to Hell. Riley’s jovial drawl mixed with a dash of dry Aussie larrikinism has made for some pretty amusing conversations […]
Bronson Hit Adelaide, Canberra & Albury
One of the breakout bands of 2013 has certainly been Melbourne five-piece Bronson. Not only has their debut LP Blood Brothers been having critics bandy around comments such as “one of the finds of 2013” and “an album that will make you lose control” but this band led by front-man Jay Clair have also left […]
HEAVYFEST Full Line-up Announcement
How time flies when you’re getting HEAVY. We’ve rocked, thrashed, bashed and ground our way through two amazing years and it’s time to raise those horns and celebrate. HEAVY magazine is proud to reveal a line-up for our second anniversary festival that says, ‘Yeah, we know how to party!’
Sepultura: The Mediator, The World Cup, The Return
HEAVY thrashed it out with vocalist Derrick Green and guitarist Andreas Kisser about the new Sepultura album, the World Cup, and touring Australia in 2014.