Exclusive Australian Premiere: Teramaze – Her Halo video
Teramaze are about to release their new album, Her Halo, on 30 October via Mascot Label Group. The band have released a new video for it, which you can watch below. Pre-orders for Her Halo are available now at this link.
Bands announced for Munsterpalooza
The last few years has seen Monster Fest become Australia’s premiere horror film festival. Well this year Monster Fest is back bigger and better than ever… plus they have something to offer to music lovers as well as cinephiles. As part of the first wave of announcements Monster Fest, which will be held at The […]
Your Opinion: Do bands like The Prodigy belong on metal websites?
A few weeks ago, Metal Hammer penned a feature about The Prodigy. The piece was about the music video for Smack My Bitch Up and the controversy surrounding its release. We’re not going to regurgitate Metal Hammer’s article because you can read that here. What was interesting, after reading the post, were the comments about […]
Slash hasn’t ruled out a Guns N’ Roses reunion
Whilst he didn’t come out and confirm that there would be a reunion, Slash hasn’t exactly denied it either. He recently spoke to Telegram.com and during that interview he stated: “I’ve got to be careful what I say there. I mean, if everybody wanted to do it and do it for the right reasons, I […]
Twelve Foot Ninja release new song
Just like that, Twelve Foot Ninja have come out all guns blazing and released a new song, One Hand Killing. The track comes from a forthcoming album, which is due to be released sometime in 2016. The band’s second album can be pre-ordered from Pledge Music.
Kirk Hammett confirms Metallica are recording
Kirk Hammett has confirmed that Metallica are in the studio recording new songs, which reinforces the comment that James Hetfield made in a recent video interview. While speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock, Hammett said the new material was along the lines of Death Magnetic. “It’s heavy. We’ve got some heavy stuff going. It delivers on […]
Baroness reveal ‘Purple’ album artwork
Baroness have unveiled the cover for their new album, Purple. As expected, John Dyer Baizley has come up with the goods once again with the artwork. The band’s fourth album will be out on 18 December via Cooking Vinyl Australia. You can watch the time lapse video of Baizley creating the album artwork below. Track […]
The Amity Affliction and A Day To Remember add show to ‘Big Ass Tour’
The Amity Affliction and A Day To Remember have added a show to their ‘Big Ass Tour’ coming up in December. The lucky recipients of the show will be New Zealand. Tickets for the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland on Thursday 10 December will go on sale on 30 October. The bands will be joined […]
Alestorm: Epic pirate metal
By Steven Jenkins Ahoy there me hearty HEAVY readers. A storm is approaching our shores this November and you can expect epic pirate metal anthems, drunken antics and the greatest band to ever sail the seven seas. Alestorm are returning to Australia to still our women and drink our beer, but don’t worry because you’ll […]
Exclusive Stream: Serious Beak – Ankaa
Serious Beak will release their new album on Ankaa. This is the follow up to 2011’s Huxwhukw. Tim Carr (We Lost The Sea, Adrift For Days) has returned to handle recording and mixing duties, while Mell Dettmer (Earth, Sunn O))) was enlisted for mastering, with Oakland based artist Caitlin Hackett handling the art component. The album drops […]
Agent Orange announce tour dates
Agent Orange have announced Australian tour dates for December this year. The band will be hitting Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, kicking off on 30 December. Tour Dates Tickets from The Drunk Promoter Wednesday 30th December 2015 – Enigma, Adelaide Thursday 31st December 2015 – The Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne Saturday 2nd January – Crowbar, Brisbane […]
Band ruled out of Soundwave but the line-up is locked in
AJ Maddah has taken to Twitter to confirm that Babymetal is now definitely ruled out of Soundwave Festival. @iamnotshouting: Disappointed that we couldn’t make Baby Metal work for #SW16; but relieved to finally have certainty and a complete line-up. The good news is that it looks like the line-up is locked in, so that should […]
Review and Photos: The Repercussion Of Dave Lombardo
The Repercussion Of Dave Lombardo 21 October 2015 Allans Billy Hyde, Bourke St Melbourne Review by Daniel Tucceri Photos by Wylie Burchall Dave Lombardo’s inaugural Australian drum clinic was nothing short of amazing, to say the least. For all in attendance, it was a rare opportunity to grill the man who defined thrash metal drumming […]
Photos: Dave Lombardo, Melbourne
Dave Lombardo Allans Billy Hyde, Melbourne 21 October 2015 Photos by Wylie Burchall
Teramaze stream new album, ‘Her Halo’
Teramaze are about to release their new album, Her Halo, on 30 October via Mascot Label Group. The band are currently streaming the new album, which you can listen to below. Pre-orders for Her Halo are available now at this link.
Dead City Ruins announce homecoming tour dates
Dead City Ruins have been based in Europe for most of this year (we’re not jealous at all. Nope.) and finally they’re heading on home to smash it through venues in Australia. They’ve got 17 dates on The Homecoming Tour, and if you’ve read their HEAVY Mag tour diary, you know anything can happen. (If […]
Photos: Thy Art Is Murder + supports, Sydney
Thy Art Is Murder + Aversions Crown + Feed Her To The Sharks The Factory Theatre, Sydney 17 October 2015 Photos by Melissa Rochfort
Still wondering where the Soundwave Festival line-up is?
So are we. But fear not, Soundwave’s fearless leader has encountered a hurdle of the artwork variety, so now it’s back to the drawing board to work on another theme. It seems some of the bands on the 2016 line-up objected to the ‘Evil Christmas’ theme. We’re still uncertain why it was a Christmas theme […]
Tour Diary: Dead City Ruins Part 3
By Jake “Haggis” Wiffen Sunday, September 13th – Pratteln This venue has had them all: Dio, Helloween, Overkill, Rose Tattoo and just about every band any f*cking metal head worth his salt would love to see. The crowd tonight are revved up. Switzerland is always good to us. We have played this country every tour […]
All Shall Perish announce their return
In a fitting announcement on Back to the Future day, All Shall Perish have announced they’re “making new music.” According to the band’s Facebook post, Hernan “Eddie” Hermida is back on vocal duties and joins Ben Orum, Chris Storey, Caysen Russo, Matt Kuykendall and Craig Betit. Hermida will still front Suicide Silence. The announcement comes […]
Buzzcocks announce 40th birthday tour
Buzzcocks have announced they’ll be heading to Australia and New Zealand to celebrate their 40th birthday in March. The band was last here in 2013 when they performed at Dig It Up! This time, they’ll be returning to the Golden Plains Festival and for a run of headline shows. Tour Dates 10 March – Brisbane, […]
Download Festival confirms 2016 headliners
Download Festival have announced their three headliners for 2016. Announced today, Rammstein will headline on Friday, Black Sabbath on Saturday and Iron Maiden will close the festival on Sunday. The three day festival kicks off on 10 June 2016 at Donington Park. All the event info can be found here http://downloadfestival.co.uk
Sanzu releases new video for Ubiety
Sanzu have released a new video from their debut LP, Heavy Over The Home. Ubiety was directed by the five-piece with cinematography by Dark Spirit Photography. You can catch the band on their upcoming tour dates. 3 December – New Globe Theatre, Brisbane – w/Hope Drone, Eternal Rest + More 4 December – Valve […]
Saint Diablo reveal new video for ‘Devil Horns and Halos’
Virginian metallers, Saint Diablo have released a new video for Devil Horns and Halos and comes from their second album of the same name. The album will be released via Eclipse Records on 13 November 2015 and was produced by Tim “Rumblefish” Gilles (Anthrax, The Misfits, ill Nino) at Big Blue Meenie studios in Jersey […]
Loudfest returns for 2015
Remember Loud Fest? Well, it’s back for 2015 with a mammoth line-up and it’s a FREE All Ages show. The event will take place on 22 November at The Lair in Sydney. You’ll get to see Hellions, Stories, Endless Heights, Void Of Vision, Bare Bones and Harbours. The event will coincide with ARIA week 2015. […]
Gig Review: Megadeth + Children of Bodom, Melbourne
Megadeth + Children of Bodom Festival Hall, Melbourne 19 October 2015 Review by Callum Doig Photo by Matt Allan I really don’t think I need to hit it off with an introduction for both bands in this review, so let’s get straight into it. After last year’s quarrel with last year’s Soundwave, Megadeth kept their […]
Gig Review: Abbath + supports, Melbourne
Abbath + Ruins + Hybrid Nightmares Max Watts, Melbourne Daniel Tucceri Photo by John Raptis That’s it. Immortal are f*cked. After watching Abbath and his corpse-painted cohorts destroy what used to be known as The Hifi Bar, there’s no other way of looking at it. It’s impossible to imagine Immortal without what is one of […]
Gig Review: Thy Art Is Murder + supports, Sydney
Thy Art Is Murder + Aversions Crown + Feed Her To The Sharks + Colossvs The Factory Theatre, Sydney 17 October 2015 Review and photo by Steve Jenkins Hometown heroes Thy Art Is Murder return after constant overseas touring in the States and Europe, and this time they’ve brought some friends along. We kick off […]
Photos: Megadeth + Children of Bodom, Melbourne
Megadeth + Children of Bodom Festival Hall, Melbourne 19 October 2015 Photos by Matt Allan
Corrosion of Conformity are back in the studio
Corrosion of Conformity have confirmed they are back in the studio and working on new music. The announcement comes on the back of the news that the band has signed to Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The band will enter the studio late this winter/early spring with long time producer John Custer. Custer has recorded such prior […]
Vessel Born announce EP release and tour dates
Vessel Born have announced they’ll be releasing their debut EP on Friday, 20 November. The band have also announced a run of tour dates in support of the release, Stateless. Earlier this month the band premiered their single, Dressing a Dead Man on HEAVY Mag, which you can check out here, Vessel Born will release […]
Photos: TesseracT + supports, Melbourne
TesseracT + Caligula’s Horse + Plini Max Watt’s, Melbourne 16 October 2015 Photos by Roger Brooks
Tour Diary: Dead City Ruins Part 2
By Jake “Haggis” Wiffen Saturday, September 5th – Paris The bus came to a shuddering halt and we were all ejected into the middle of the street right in the centre of Paris. The trailer had to be unloaded while cars swerved past, someone had to watch the gear to ensure nothing went missing into […]
Gig Review: TesseracT + supports, Melbourne
TesseracT + Caligula’s Horse + Plini Max Watt’s, Melbourne 16 October 2015 Review by Rod Whitfield Last week’s phenomenal Dead Letter Circus show was always going to be a hard act to follow, but this night definitely gave it a run for its money. Much of young Sydney guitar maestro Plini’s music owes as much […]
Japam are the winners of our video of the week
Adelaide’s Japam have hit us with an hilarious video for their debut single, Wolf Harass. It certainly made us want to watch past the 30 second mark. The djent band will be touring in support of their debut very soon but in the meantime, check this video out. The song is by no means hilarious […]
Dave Lombardo; Still Reigning In Blood After Forty Years
By Daniel Tucceri Ask any drummer into extreme metal to name the best in the business, and you’ll invariably hear Slayer legend Dave Lombardo’s name come up. Whilst his days smacking cow hides with the thrash titans are a distant memory, Lombardo has been no less prolific. Recently, the Mike Patton fronted Fantomas have reunited […]
Tour Diary: Dead City Ruins Part 1
By Jake “Haggis” Wiffen It’s 4am, Monday the 31st of August and I find myself sitting alone in the upper private lounge of a Nightliner Bus. I’m holding a piping hot freshly ground coffee that I made a few minutes ago with the machine in the lower “main” lounge room of the bus. I’m watching […]
Photos: Abbath + supports, Melbourne
Abbath + Ruins + Hybrid Nightmares Max Watt’s, Melbourne 17 October 2015 Photos by John Raptis
Top 10: Thy Art Is Murder
It’s the last show of Thy Art Is Murder’s headlining tour tonight with Aversions Crown, Feed Her To The Sharks, and Colossvs. Everyone and their mothers seems to love lists on the Internet, HEAVY’s Alex Sievers gives you his top ten tracks from Sydney’s finest. Infinite Death Despite the absurdly stupid and offensive lyrics of […]
Watch Saxon’s new video for ‘Queen Of Hearts’
Saxon have released a video from their 21st studio album, Battering Ram. The album is out now via UDR Music / Warner. You can watch Queen of Hearts below.
Clowns announce local tour supports
Clowns have revealed the supports for their upcoming tour at the end of this month. Joining them on the ‘Never Enough Tour’ will be a stack load of sick bands. Tour Dates with Cosmic Kahuna Thursday October 29 – Phoenix, Canberra w/ Sketch Method Friday October 30 – Factory Floor, Sydney w/ Frank Rizzo & […]
Gig Review: Helloween + supports, Melbourne
Helloween + Damnation’s Day + Horizon’s Edge 170 Russell, Melbourne 14 October 2015 Review by Callum Doig Photo by Carl Neumman German power metal pioneers Helloween have made a killing career that’s gone on for over thirty years as one of the most defining acts in their genre. Though they’re not the most frequent visitors to Australian […]
Photos: Helloween + supports, Melbourne
Helloween + Damnation’s Day + Horizon’s Edge 170 Russell, Melbourne Photos by Carl Neumann
Megadeth: “This new line-up has a really cool, honest and organic feel to it.”
Interview by Steven Jenkins Thrash legends and veterans of the heavy music universe Megadeth, have arrived in Australia for the first time since 2010, after a couple of unavoidable delays. Famous frontman Dave Mustaine and his group are finally here and they’ve brought Finnish melodic death metallers Children Of Bodom along for the ride. A […]
Things You Didn’t Know About Caligula’s Horse (But Should)
Caligula’s Horse release their new album today, entitled Bloom. The band shared some pertinent information about individual band members. Let’s see how many snippets of information you recognise… The most important one to remember is that Dave Cooper, our bassist, ran for Lord Mayor of Brisbane once as an independent. That excites the hell out […]
Thy Art Is Murder will be doing a couple of in stores this weekend
Thy Art Is Murder have just kicked off their Holy War tour and they’ll be appearing at a couple of in stores in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend. First up will be Melbourne at the 24Hundred store in Richmond on Friday. Saturday will see the band at Utopia Records. In Store Dates Friday 16 October […]
Graham Bonnet announces tour dates
Graham Bonnet – best known for fronting Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group and Alcatrazz – will be heading to Australia and New Zealand in April 2016. Bonnet will be performing eight shows on this tour, kicking off in Perth. Tour Dates Wed, April 6: Amplifier, Perth Thurs, April 7: The Gov, Adelaide Fri, April 8: The […]
Metallica are recording a new album
James Hetfield has revealed in an interview that Metallica are in the studio and recording new material. Hetfield talks to EMG about his three signature ESP guitars – Truckster, Snakebite, and Iron Cross. During the course of the interview, Hetfield reveals the band is in the studio and recording their new album. “I tell ya, […]
Whoretopsy: “Hopefully we can shock the metalcore people and sort of break into that ‘core’ aspect.”
By Steven Jenkins Sick, brutal, heavy, disgusting, violent, and hilarious. Just a few words that very accurately describe Melbourne death metal band Whoretopsy. With the recent release of their second full length and a couple of EPs under their belt, it’s quite clear that Whoretopsy are quickly becoming one the most distinctive bands in Australia […]
Gig Review: Sick Of It All + supports, Sydney
Sick Of It All + Toe To Toe + Boneless Manning Bar, Sydney 10 October 2015 Review by Greg Smith Photo by Joel Anderson Kicking off the night of hardcore was Sydney band Boneless. The four-piece’s music is in the traditional vein of short, fast, loud, and they seemed genuinely excited to be on the […]
