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Alice Cooper confirms he’s touring Australia with Motley Crue

Alice Cooper has told Triple M’s Eddie McGuire that he’s touring Australia in May with Motley Crue. According to the story on the Triple M website, Eddie McGuire dropped into Cooper’s restaurant in Phoenix when the conversation unfolded. “Every time we get a chance to go down there we go, I love it down there […]

Psycroptic announce national tour supports

Psycroptic will head out on tour with Goatwhore in March and they’ve just announced a bevy of local talent to join them. Local supports Perth – The Furor Melbourne – Colossvs Ballarat – The Hazard Circular Launceston & Hobart – Zeolite Canberra – I Exist Sydney Daemon Pyre Newcastle – Grim Demise Tour Dates Thursday […]

Dead Letter Circus to release Stand Apart EP in physical format

Dead Letter Circus will release their Stand Apart EP in physical format via 24Hundred. It’ll be a limited run of 500 copies. The EP contains six songs from their 2013 album, The Catalyst Fire, re-imagined with new instrumentations, structures, a string section and mostly unplugged instruments. The EP also contains two bonus tracks recorded live […]

David Ellefson: Making peace for ‘The Soundwave situation’

By Patrick Emmett After multiple attempts at calling Megadeth’s David Ellefson – the band that years ago, made me become obsessed with heavy metal – I almost thought that I wouldn’t get the chance to interview him after I was accidentally given the wrong number. But luckily enough, I finally got a hold of him […]

Godsmack announces Soundwave Festival sidewaves with Papa Roach and Nonpoint

Heading to Australia for the Soundwave Festival, Godsmack have announced they’ll be hitting Melbourne and Brisbane for a couple of sidewaves next month. Joining them will be Papa Roach and Nonpoint. Tour Dates Tuesday 24 February: Melbourne, The Forum (18+) www.ticketmaster.com.au (Godsmack to close) Thursday 26 February: Brisbane, The Tivoli (18+) www.ticketmaster.com.au (Papa Roach to […]

Blood Duster fires band member, announces tour dates

Blood Duster have sacked their long time band member Beltsy Belthrower citing Belthrower’s “interest in the heavy metal band Anthrax, the most unmusical band ever” as the dominant reason for his dismissal. The band insists that Belthrower’s sacking is not a question of musical preferences but that his fascination with Anthrax was actually affecting his […]

In This Moment perform Cowboys From Hell

In This Moment recently performed an instrumental version of Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell from the Namm Schecter Party on 24 January 2015. You can listen to the performance below.

Exclusive Stream: Daemon Pyre – Self Titled

Sydney’s Daemon Pyre will release their self titled debut album this week and we’ve got the exclusive stream.  The album will be released digitally on Friday 30 January and physically Friday 13 February via New Justice Records.    You can grab a copy of the album at iTunes  and JB HiFi  Tour Dates 30 January – The Brightside, […]

Voyager signs publishing deal

Perth’s progressive rock/metallers, Voyager, have signed a publishing deal with AMF Publishing. They’ve joined a roster with the likes of The Defiled, Sylosis, Cult of Luna, members of Opeth and The Devin Townsend Project and more. Voyager released their fifth album, V in June 2014 anad have been touring extensively since that release. The band […]

Faith No More announce North American tour

Faith No More have announced a huge North American tour. This will be their first tour since 2010. The announcement comes ahead of their new album, expected to be released in May 2015. “Here we go,” said Gould. “First North American tour dates, some in cities we haven’t played in over 17 years. “We are […]

Napalm Death and Carcass announce Australian tour

Napalm Death, Carcass and Extortion have announced they’ll be touring Australia this April under the banner of the “Deathcrusher Tour”.  Tour Dates April 16th – Perth, Capitol, 18+ April 17th – Melbourne, Prince Bandroom, 18+ April 18th – Sydney, The Factory Theatre, 18+ April 19th – Brisbane, The Hifi, 18+ TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY JANUARY […]

Eye of the Enemy Reveal Their New Vocalist

Melbourne’s melodeath quintet, Eye of the Enemy, have finally unveiled their new vocalist after weeks of teasing. The departure of vocalist and founding member, Julian Detar, following Sonic Forge Festival in November left Eye of the Enemy with some big shoes to fill, but luckily new vocalist Mitch Alexander (Hours in Exile) rose beautifully to the […]

At Fates Mercy – Chapters – Album Review

At Fates Mercy Chapters Independent Release Date: Out Now Review By Nathan Eden I should start off by assuring new listeners that At Fates Mercy knows how to pen decent hardcore tunes better than they know their grammar. Chapters contains all the elements this style of music requires to appeal to their audience. From the […]

Melbourne show announced for Death/Thrash metallers Direblaze

Before they get ready to hit the road for their album tour, Melbourne’s Death/Thrash metallers, Direblaze, will be destroying everything in their path when they hit Next in Melbourne on 29 January. The band has been a regular feature on the live circuit since 2011 and later this year they’ll be releasing their Self-Titled debut […]

ARMI announce line-up for Summer Show 2015

ARMI® (Australian Rock & Metal Institute) will play host to its annual all ages ARMI® Summer Show on Sunday, February 8 at The Governor Hindmarsh in Adelaide. The event kicks off at 12pm and will run until 4pm. Adelaide’s Se Bon Ki Ra and Guilt Free will head up the event along with performances from ARMI®’s students, […]

Nonpoint: Back for round two of Soundwave Festival

By Rod Whitfield Elias Soriano, frontman and founding member of long running American rock/metal act NONPOINT joined us recently from the frigid north of the USA, to speak about their upcoming appearance at Soundwave Festival, where he and his band will be experiencing a massive contrast in temperatures compared with what he is experiencing right […]

Eyehategod cancel Australian tour dates

EYEHATEGOD have cancelled their Australian tour due to health issues. Their Australian promoters, Life Is Noise have issued a statement. Mike Williams from the band has been unwell for some time, recently having to cancel his tour with his other band Corrections House. We have been told that Mike will not be able to make […]

Reapers Riddle to launch new video

Perth’s Reapers Riddle will launch their new video, Fall and Away on 6th February at the Civic Hotel.  The launch will be the premiere of the video and will be available online the following week. Joining Reapers Riddle at the launch will be Souls Of Bughuul, Dethlahem and Dark or the Day. The night will […]

Daemon Pyre release album teaser

Sydney’s Daemon Pyre have released a teaser ahead of their debut Self-Titled album coming soon through New Justice Records. As an exclusive advanced preview, the album will be streaming in full on January 28th, right here on Heavy Music Magazine. Pre-Orders can be purchased through:  iTunes  JB HiFi  Best Buy (USA)  Sears (USA) In addition, Digital […]

Napalm Death issues appeal to Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Bali Nine sentence

Napalm Death have issued a statement to request clemency for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo. Andrew and Myuran, from Australia, face execution in Indonesia on the charge of drug trafficking, which they have admitted to. The two young men, who are part of the Bali Nine have exhausted all appeal […]

Marilyn Manson sidewaves announced

Marilyn Manson will perform two sidewaves as part of the Soundwave Festival this year in Sydney and Brisbane. Joining him will be Apocalyptica and Deathstars. Tour Dates WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, THE ENMORE – www.ticketek.com.au (Licensed All Ages) FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY: BRISBANE, THE TIVOLI – www.ticketmaster.com.au (18+) Tickets on sale Tuesday 27 January, 9am AEDT

Lamb Of God + Killer Be Killed Soundwave Festival Sidewaves announced

Lamb Of God and Killer Be Killed are joining forces for a couple of sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne. Joining them for the two sidewaves will be special guests. Tickets are on sale Tuesday, 27 January at 9am AEDT. Sidewave Dates TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY: MELBOURNE, 170 RUSSELL (18+) www.eventopia.co / www.oztix.com.au /  www.170russell.com THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, […]

Asking Alexandria frontman quits

Asking Alexandria’s frontman, Danny Worsnop, has quit. According to his Twitter account this is about the band, not him. To all of my friends and fans: I would like to let you know that Asking Alexandria and I are moving forward in separate ways. Over the last eight years together we’ve done some amazing things […]

Sydonia announces new album, tour dates

Melbourne’s Sydonia are in the studio right now, working on album number three. This album is the follow up to the 2014 album, Reality Kicks. Sydonia will be taking the new album tunes in their embrionic form up and down the East Coast in March and April. The final Melbourne date will serve as a […]

Heavy Metal Trivia

  HEAVY is proud to be sponsoring another installment of Heavy Metal Trivia. After the massive success of last year’s event, which was also sponsored by HEAVY, and the demand for more trivia after last year’s event sold out way in advance with over 70 bookings being turned away, Heavy Metal Trivia is back, baby! On Thursday 12th […]

Ace Frehley announces tour dates

ACE FREHLEY has announced Australian and New Zealand. These will be his first Australian shows since 2010 and his first trip ever to New Zealand. Joining ACE on stage will be Richie Scarlet, who rode shotgun performing rhythm guitar and vocal duties on ACE’s ‘Trouble Walking’ platter and has toured with Sebastian Bach; bass guitarist […]

Mötley Crüe announce details of their final tour

Mötley Crüe have announced details of the final shows of their world tour. This will mark the end of their touring career and will conclude their two year Final Tour cycle at the end of 2015 on New Year’s Eve, December 31 at Staples Center in their hometown of Los Angeles where the band’s career […]

Want to play at Soundwave Festival?

triple j Unearthed are giving unsigned bands a chance to be part of Soundwave Festival 2015. One band or artist will have the opportunity of playing on the massive bill in each state. Last year the bands included as locals were Chronolyth, Trophy Eyes, Sierra, Xenobiotic and Ceres. All you need to do is have […]

Unify: A Heavy Music Gathering – Review

Unify: A Heavy Music Gathering Tarwin Lower, Victoria 10 and 11 January 2015 Words by Will Oakeshott Photos by Matt Allan Day One – 10 January Before we embark on the adventure that was the first ever Unify: A Heavy Music Gathering, this writer would like to begin with a challenging thought. There is no […]

Soundwave Festival sidewaves for Slash and Steel Panther

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators and Steel Panther fans rejoice! They’ve teamed up for two shows during Soundwave Festival week in Sydney and Melbourne. This will be the only time you’ll see the bands apart from their Soundwave Festival sets. Tour Dates TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, HORDERN PAVILION – Licensed All Ages www.ticketek.com.au […]

Incubus announce sidewaves with Antemasque and Le Butcherettes

Incubus will perform two sidewaves during this year’s Soundwave Festival week with Antemasque and Le Butcherettes. Melbourne and Sydney, these ones are for you. Tour Dates WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY: MELBOURNE, THE FORUM – 18+ www.ticketmaster.com.au FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, ENMORE THEATRE – Licensed All Ages www.ticketek.com.au

The Smashing Pumpkins announce Soundwave Festival sidewaves

The Smashing Pumpkins will perform two sidewaves as part of this year’s Soundwave Festival. Sydney and Melbourne will be the lucky recipients of these shows. TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY, 9am AEDT MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY: MELBOURNE, FESTIVAL HALL – Licensed and Unlicensed areas available. www.ticketmaster.com.au WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY: SYDNEY, HORDERN PAVILION – Licensed All […]

Enter Shikari announce Australian tour dates

Enter Shikari have announced they’ll be heading to Australia in May to tour in support of their latest album, The Mindsweep. Joining them on tour will be Canberra’s Hands Like Houses. Tour Dates TICKETS ON SALE 9AM TUESDAY JANUARY 20 Monday, 18th May – Metropolis – Fremantle 18+ Tickets from tickets.destroyalllines.com, www.oztix.com.au, www.heatseeker.com.au 1300 762 […]

Kamelot sign to Napalm Records and yes there’s a new album on the way

Kamelot have signed to Napalm Records and have confirmed that a new album is on its way in April/May 2015. The band has entered the studio in mid 2014 to begin recording their follow-up to their last album Silverthorn. The new album will make KAMELOT history as it will be released worldwide (excl. Asia) on […]

The New Dead #6 Metalfest adds more to line-up

The New Dead #6 Metalfest in Adelaide has just added more bands to its 2015 line-up. Goatwhore will join headliners Psycroptic on 14th of March at Fowlers Live, Adelaide. The event is Licensed/All Ages. Line-up PSYCROPTIC | GOATWHORE | AVERSIONS CROWN | DREADNAUGHT | ALARUM | TRUTH CORRODED | IN MALICES WAKE | ALKIRA | […]

Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage): “I’m actually first and foremost a poet.”

By Patrick Emmett Yesterday, Jesse Leach, vocalist for Killswitch Engage, Times of Grace and The Empire Shall Fall, arrived in Australia. And tonight, he will be beginning his special DJ tour across the East Coast, including a special spoken word night in Melbourne. On the idea of doing a DJ tour, Jesse says, “I’ve been […]

Psycroptic announce tour dates, release new video and album artwork

Psycroptic have dropped a few huge announcements about touring with Goatwhore, releasing a new video and revealing their new album’s artwork. The band will head out on tour with Goatwhore on 12th of March, kicking off in Perth. Brisbane brutalists Disentomb & heavy hitters Aversions Crown, Perth’s Earth Rot, Melbourne’s Whoretopsy and Sydney’s Ouroboros will […]

Listen: Marilyn Manson – The Pale Emperor

Marilyn Manson’s new album, The Pale Emperor, is being streamed over on the Soundwave Festival page ahead of its release on 23 January 2015 via Cooking Vinyl. You can listen to the advance stream here. Manson will be performing at this year’s Soundwave Festival on the following dates. Tour Dates Saturday 21 February & Sunday 22 […]

Judas Priest and Dragonforce announce sidewaves

Judas Priest and Dragonforce have teamed up for the first Soundwave Festival sidewave announcement. Sidewave Dates Tuesday 24 February – Enmore Theatre Licenced/AA  www.ticketek.com.au Thursday 26 February – Eatons Hill, Brisbane Licenced/AA www.oztix.com.au Tickets on sale 9am local time on 16 January 2015.

Prong to release an album of cover songs

Prong has announced they’ll be releasing an album of cover songs . The band took to their Facebook page to announce the cover versions would have a distinct spin on the original songs and include classics from Black Flag, Bad Brains, Adolescents, The Sisters Of Mercy, Killing Joke, Hüsker Dü and Neil Young. Tommy Victor: […]

Watch: Sleepwave – Whole Again

Soundwave Festival band, Sleepwave, have released a new video for Whole Again. The track is lifted from the debut album Broken Compass.   Sleepwave will be performing at Soundwave Festival 2015. Soundwave Tour Dates Saturday, 21st February & Sunday, 22nd February 2015 Bonython Park, Adelaide, South Australia Saturday, 21st February & Sunday, 22nd February 2015 […]

Soundwave Festival reveals mystery supergroup

Soundwave Festival promoter, AJ Maddah, has taken to Twitter to confirm that the mystery supergroup being added to the 2015 festival line-up will be Terror Universal. The band consists of current and past members of Machine Head, Ill Nino and Soulfly and go by band member names of Rott (Vocals), Massacre (Drums), Diabolus (Lead Guitar), […]

Feed Her To The Sharks release first track from new album

Feed Her To The Sharks have released their first track, The World Is Yours from their upcoming album Fortitude. The new album is due for release on 10 February via Victory Records. Fortitude pre-order packages are now available at VictoryMerch.com.  Starting at $19.98, fans will be able to choose new designs from various packages including […]

Listen: Hellions – Lie

Hellions have released a new single called Lie from their forthcoming album, Indian Summer, which will be released on Friday 30 January through UNFD. You can watch the video below.

Tensions Arise confirm new guitarist

Sydney’s Tensions Arise has confirmed they’ve stopped the search for a new guitarist. The new face may look familiar to some of you. After a two year absence Gavin Qamar will be returning to the band. For those who may or may not remember Gavin, he was a huge part of the band for two […]

Listen: Marilyn Manson – Cupid Carries A Gun

Marilyn Manson has released another song from this forthcoming album, Pale Emperor. The new song, Cupid Carries A Gun, has been released on Spotify and you can download it for free. Have a listen to the track below. You can stream and download at this link. Marilyn Manson – Cupid Carries A Gun

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