Polaris Launch New Track
The upper echelon of our heavy music hierarchy needs to make a little room as South-Sydney five-piece,Polaris release their highly anticipated debut album, The Mortal Coil this Friday, 3rd November via Resist Records. The Mortal Coil is triple j’s feature album all this week. “Lucid came to us fairly late in the writing period. That big riff that drops in […]
The Lockhearts Drop New Single
About to jump back on the road, The Lockhearts have dropped their new single Goddamn Prettyfrom forthcoming album, Americana Doom Fuzz (slated for release in early 2018 through Golden Robot Records). An instantly infectious down-home groove, Goddamn Pretty showcases the “Americana” side of the bands’ forthcoming record, gliding in with a laid-back swagger and bursts of rich vocal harmony in the […]
Dreamers Crime Go Interstellar
Dreamers Crime are going Interstellar. Their new album No Compromises drops in but a few short weeks and today, they are dropping an animated video for their third cut from the record. ‘Interstellar Nights’ rounds out the music that the public will hear ahead of the release of the record and the melodic track with […]
It’s Time To Meet Victor Stone aka Cyborg
Village Roadhshow would like you to meet Victor Stone aka Cyborg. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVVxJQ0VFU]
The Mercy Kills Release New Music For Tarnation
Strongman Pictures today released a music video for an original song by The Mercy Kills written as the title track for their new action-horror film TARNATION. The song, also titled “Tarnation”, features lyrics written by Jen X (The Mercy Kills), and tells the story of the film in cryptic fashion. The song features guest vocalist Daisy Masterman (Gwen Stefani’s […]
SACRILEGIOUS RITE ‘Summoned From Beyond’
Emerging from the fog after some turbulent years, German black metal outfit Sacrilegious Rite is set to release their highly anticipated debut album, Summoned From Beyond next month through Dunkelheit Produktionen. After solidifying their line-up, the band has delivered an album that encapsulates the true ancient spirit of black metal. Unpolished and raw, the mood […]
SAMARKIND ‘Samarkind’
Nearly 40 years since the end of the 1970s and a miraculous resurrection is occurring. In quite the same manner as the ghoulish beings in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (which is nearly 35 years of age – anyone feeling old yet?), the rock groove and power vocals of the ’70s are bursting out from within the […]
Kublai Khan and Matt Honeycutt
The last few years have seen an epic rise for Texan metalcore band, Kublai Khan. The band has delivered three feature-length albums in three albums with brand new album, Nomad about to hit shelves now. The hard-working nature of the band means that when Heavy Mag catches up Matt Honeycutt, the lead singer (a late replacement for Isaac […]
Sexy Herpes – Daniel Mulvihill
When it comes to Australian television and web-series over the years, Australia has always outdone themselves when it comes to comedy. Shows like The Late Show and Comedy Company made Australian comedy shine on the small screen. Then in recent years, comedy web-series like Bruce and Little Acorns have put Australia back into the comedy […]
PENNYWISE and The Bronx at Enmore Theatre, Sydney on 29/10/17
CANNIBAL CORPSE ‘Red Before Black’
If there is one all consuming and demanding entity that has remained, pure, unrelenting, unapologetic lecturers in the world and doctrine of Death Metal it is Cannibal Corpse. For thirty artery severing, hammer to the face, knife to the genital delivering years Florida’s Godfathers of gore have been delivering platter upon bloody platter of brutal […]
LICH KING and HIDDEN INTENT Australia & NZ Tour 2018
LICH KING (USA) tour our region for the first time belting out grade-A, unapologetically straight-forward thrash metal in the vein of the 80’s Bay Area bands such as Exodus, Slayer, and Vio-lence. To date, the band has released five critically acclaimed full-length albums, each of which features fast, headbangable riffs in modern stomp anthems and […]
THE DEAD DAISIES New Animated Video
Today The Dead Daises dropped this sexy little clip for “She Always Gets Her Way”. Anime-style was something the band and management have loved for a long time and this was the perfect moment to try out that format. It is such a positive, funny and light-hearted rock story, it just seems like the right thing […]
Film Review: Jigsaw
With horror back in mainstream cinemas it was only to be expected that studios would go back through their back catalog and try to work out which horror franchises could be re-booted. There was little surprise when it was announced that Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th were all touted as films […]
Glenn Proudfoot Announces New Album
Glenn Proudfoot, Australian Guitar virtuoso, is today announcing the release of his brand new record “Fire & Rain”. It will be unleashed into the world on Friday November 17 through Bird’s Robe Records. First single & video “Broken” from the record premiered at Guitar World on Friday. Proudfoot garners praise the world over for his skill and […]
WINTERSUN Interview – ON AUS. TOUR NOW!
“Oooh, I’m excited,” purred Wintersun bass player Jukka Koskinen down the line from Finland ahead of the band’s upcoming debut performances in Australia. “Adventure is something new to happen that is always great. I’m all ears to see what the craziness level is over there (laughs). My gut feeling is that everything is going to […]
MAYHEM Just Added Brisbane to the Australian Tour!
Mayhem just added Brisbane to their Australian leg of the ‘DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANAS’ tour! Get your tickets here you blackened mother fuckers: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/soundworks-direct-14354693363 Widely considered one of the single most influential albums in the history of black metal, MAYHEM brings their ‘DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANAS’ tour to Australia to shroud us all in a veil […]
Geoff Tates’ OPERATION: MINDCRIME ‘The New Reality’
The New Reality is the third and final chapter in an album trilogy by iconic metal vocalist Geoff Tate. Its release comes a year after the release of the second part, entitled ‘Resurrection’, and two since the first, ‘The Key’. Operation: Mindcrime is a creative platform that continues in the spirit of the historic Queensrÿche […]
Live Photos: LESS THAN JAKE and BODYJAR at Prince Bandroom, Melbourne on 19/10/17
Live Review: ALICE COOPER and Ace Frehley at The Trusts Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand on 27/10/17
Like many people my age – my first real introduction to Alice Cooper was 1989’s album Trash, altho I’d long known the song Schools Out I knew very little of Alices’ exhaustive back-catalogue – the discovery that Trash was album #18 was astounding to me, and just didn’t compute. With a new, modern sound from producer Desmond […]
Live Review: PENNYWISE and The Bronx at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney on 29/10/20117
The Enmore soon filled up like a Centrelink Office on payday, with crazed fans rubbing their hands together at the merch stand, others racing to secure a spot on the barrier or stumbling from the bar to their seat of luxury upstairs. Beerwolf from Sydney was up first, sharing their style of good old Aussie […]
Live Photos: SEBASTIAN BACH at the Forum Theatre, Melbourne 28/10/17
The Ministry of Metal – Show 17 – 29.10.17
On this weeks episode of The Ministry of Metal, we are symphonically mesmerised by the sheer excellence of the long and illustrious career of S A M A E L, smashed in the face repeatedly by the grand fathers of death metal, the crushing Cannibal Corpse, the kids are taught an important lesson into how […]
Dalriada Announce New Album
Leading hungarian folk metal band, Dalriada unveils new album details, new booking agency and frist festivals for 2018! ‘Nyárutó’ will be released early 2018 by Nail Records on digipak CD and digital. Worldwide release: 19th January 2018. Direct preorder starts on the bands website on 6th December 2017 – limited fan editions also. Worldwide distribution will be operated by Plastic […]
First Winchester Trailer Released
Inspired by a true story, WINCHESTER follows firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (portrayed by Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren) who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week construction of an […]
Blood Harvest To Get U.S. Release
Writer-director George Clarke’s latest sweat-inducing scarefest comes to U.S shores this November. The award-winning Blood Harvest, out of Northern Ireland, premieres on Digital 11/21 from Wild Eye Releasing. Robert Render, Alan M. Crawford, Jean Paul Van Der Velde, Griffin Madill, Rachael Stewart and Matt McCreary star in a George Clarke film. A rural village is terrorized by […]
Hybrid Nightmares To Tour With Eluveitie
Australian progressive extreme metal quintet, Hybrid Nightmares released their long awaited debut album Almagest worldwide on October 6. Almagest is the follow up to the bands 2015 release, The Ages, the critically acclaimed four cd concept album of totally epic proportions. The band are halfway through their Australian tour and will be heading to Japan in February 2018 to play […]
Kobra And The Lotus Release New Lyric Video
Prevail I, the latest offering by Canada’s hottest metal export KOBRA AND THE LOTUS, has been successfully released in May 2017 on Napalm Records. A true rock juggernaut full of blistering guitars, pounding rhythms and haunting vocal melodies that is taking the listener on a sonic journey leading them out from the darkness and into the light. […]
Amberian Dawn Drop New Track
AMBERIAN DAWN are never at a loss for Symphonic Metal that moves your deepest soul. Lyrically these Finns drift with captivating fantasy stories. Check out a brand new track off of their forthcoming album Darkness of Eternity! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtAR-y3JsM] AMBERIAN DAWN mastermind Tuomas Seppälä gives a deeper insight to “I’m The One”: “I’M THE ONE was one of the […]
Serenity Release New Track
Show us your lionheart!, Symphonic metal masters in SERENITY unleash their brand new masterpiece Lionheart this Friday, Oct 27! They have just released the official music video for the track United [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGB6axzZpRQ] With the title of their sixth opus SERENITY deliver a statement: “Lionheart!” Their energy and joy of playing those fantastic Power Symphonic Metal-hymns […]
Tote’l Metal Fest Line Up Announced
The line-up for Tote’l Metal Fest at The Tote has just been announced. The line-up includes Daemon Pyre (NSW), Annihilist, Direblaze, Kold Creature (QLD), Error 37 (ALbum launch), The Ascended, Scaphis, Vendetta, Massacre Of Innocence, Bury Me In Autumn, Wicked Figures, Nerve Endings, Thrash Bandicoot (NSW), Behold The Defiant, Sludko (TAS), Til Rapture (NSW), Not The Enemy (SA), Be Faced (NSW) and Hara Kiri (NSW). 19-11-2017 The Tote 71 Johnston Street (Cnr Johnston […]
Den Of Thieves Trailer Lands
The trailer has just been released for Den Of Thieves starring Gerard Butler. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txEvzJHIRBY]
DevilWorks Announces AFM Slate
Genre specialists Devilworks announce exciting slate of AFM offerings. Roster includes Restraint with Twin Peaks’ Dana Ashbrook, George Padey’s Nereus, and anticipated supernatural horror The Hollow Child. Ahead of AFM, genre specialists Devilworks have dropped new trailers for the genre titles being launched at the market. Dana Ashbrook, fresh from his return as Bobby Briggs […]
Sony Takes Us Behind The Scenes of Jumanji
Sony Pictures takes us behind the scenes of new film Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rysr8kIt6s0]
Archspire Announce European Tour
In the wake of releasing their highly praised latest album, ‘Relentless Mutation’ on September 22nd, ARCHSPIRE are announcing their tour-support for pig-squeal-masters DESPISED ICON in Europe alongside MALEVOLENCE and VULVODYNIA. The Canadian tech death shooting stars will start to ravage the old continent at the Conne Island in Leipzig, Germany on February 8th and continue to devastate stages in nine more […]
Cryptic Abyss And The Ascended Announce Wrangler Show
Cryptic Abyss and The Ascended have announced a special show at Wrangler Studios. They will be joined by Kold Creature (QLD), The Chaotic Borderline (NSW) and Nerve Endings. 18-11-2017 Wrangler Studios 8C Whitely Pde, West Footscray, Victoria 3012 https://www.facebook.com/events/1140097836121071/
Music Man Mosh Fest Day 2 Line-Up Announced
The Day One Line-Up of the Music Man Mosh to be held in Bendigo has been announced. On the bill will be The Eternal (headlining), Coffin Carosoul, Zombie Motors Wrecking Yard, Incrypt, For What It’s Worth, Sludko (TAS), Red Lotus, The Avenue Project, Hand Of Fear, Monsters Of The Dirty South, Reaver (NSW), Be Faced (NSW), Infected Transistor, Eryth, Silence The Unknown (SA), Not The Enemy (SA), ANKL, […]
Music Man Mosh Day 1 Line-Up Announced
The Day One Line-Up of the Music Man Mosh to be held in Bendigo has been announced. On the bill will be Hollow World (headlining), Intercranial Tremors (their comeback show), Kold Creature (QLD), Vicious Circle, Grudge, Massacre Of Innocence, Bloodbomb (NSW), The Chaotic Borderline (NSW), Thrash Bandicoot (NSW). 17-11-2017 MusicMan Megastore Bendigo 264 Hargreaves St, Bendigo, Victoria 3550 https://www.facebook.com/events/331696600631445/
Perth’s Deadspace Release New Video
Perth kings of ambient, depressive black metal, Deadspace will release their second full length album, The Liquid Sky on November 15. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXCul4jWEU] Following on from their debut record The Promise Of Oblivion, and 2016’s Gravity EP, The Liquid Sky ascends to greater spheres of consciousness. Heightening the listeners senses beyond just acoustic and emotional investments to something wholly encompassing. The Liquid Sky allows you […]
Meliorist Drop New Video
Brisbane metal outfit Meliorist are today announcing the release of their new EP, ‘ii.’ and along with it, dropping their first single and video from it AND announcing their launch show for it. ‘ii.’ will be released into the world on Friday December 1 via iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp and goes on pre-sale this Friday […]
Hierophant Announce New Member
HIEROPHANT have officially welcomed bass-player and vocalist, Fabio Carretti as the newest member of their band. The line-up change had become necessary, when former vocalist and bass-player Giacomo as well as guitarist Steve made the decision to discontinue their journey with the Italian death metal outfit after many years of pure and healthy militancy. HIEROPHANT comment: “Fabio is definitely […]
Disperse Live In Poland
Heavy readers check this out. Here is Disperse’s full live set from their recent Polish concert. The Polish-English prog-progenies have published the following set-list, which is spanning tracks taken from their complete discography. Surrender Bubbles Gabriel Dancing with Endless Love Enigma of Abode Sleeping Ivy Chciałem Być (Krzysztof Krawczyk cover by Mike Malyan) Tether Stay Message From Atlantis [youtube […]
Some Inspiration From Behind Crimson Eyes
Statement from Behind Crimson Eyes: “It’s been 11 years since we released A Revelation for Despair, and 9 years since we released Self-Titled. A lot has changed in that time; we’ve experienced the joy of new life entering this world, and the sadness of old life leaving it. We’ve witnessed the decline of civil discourse and the rise […]
Twelve Foot Ninja Add I Built The Sky And Caligula’s Horse To Bill
Last month, metal fusion juggernauts Twelve Foot Ninja announced that they are returning to Australia with their international Monsoon Tour for one night only at Melbourne’s 170 Russell on 12th January 2018. Today they announce a stellar line-up: opening act will be Melbourne’s own I Built The Sky – progressive instrumental act lead by tech guitar shredder […]
Down ‘N’ Outz Live For Your Enjoyment
To celebrate the release of their brand new album The Further Life Adventures Of… U.S. hard rockers Down ‘n’ Outz have shared a live video of them performing ‘Overnight Angels.’ [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq1wXTAvhg]
Carach Angren And Rotting Christ To Co-Headline Tour
ROTTING CHRIST and CARACH ANGREN are announcing their extensive European co-headlining tour in January and February 2018. The Greek veterans and Dutch masters of horror metal will be joined by French blackened death outfit SVART CROWN.
Skambankt Announce Norwegian Tour
The uncompromising hard-rockers SKAMBANKT announced their Norwegian tour ealier this week. The tickets for the tour are officially on sale now! Terje Winterstø Røthing from Skambankt comments: “2018 is getting closer. Album release is getting closer. But the tour dates are already here! We’re really looking forward to go out and play live again. After three years of being in […]
Atena Get Down With The Darkness
ATENA‘s latest musical creation has arrived! ‘Possessed’, Atena’s third studio album, is written as a conceptual story and portrays a wide array of moods, emotions and experiences throughout its 35 minute runtime. With ‘Possessed’, Atena has continued to develop from 2015’s ‘Shades Of Black, Won’t Bring Her Back’, providing heavier riffs and new sounds as well as catchier […]
Never Leave Alive To Get VOD Release
This November, WWE and ECW World Champion John Hennigan will play the most dangerous game anyone will ever play. Wrestling superstar Hennigan (Boone : The Bounty Hunter) finds himself trapped on a deserted island where he’s forced to take down a sociopathic ex-KGB agent and his brutally violent partner in Wild Eye Releasing’s Never Leave Alive, […]
Something Fresh From Jeff Scott Soto
The legendary Jeff Scott Soto has just released a new video for his brand new single Feels Like Forever. Check it out right how: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFsOp7-oZN8]
