[PREMIERE] New Video from Melbourne Heavy Hitters Colossvs
Looking for excitement on this sunny September 1st? We’ve got you covered with an exclusive premiere of the new music video from Melbourne metallers Colossvs. Their fresh track In The Absinthe of God was premiered earlier this week on triple j’s The Racket, and we’ve got you sorted with its frothy new video. The band have described […]
[INTERVIEW] Plini
By Rod Whitfield Isn’t it fabulous when a hard working, highly talented young local artist makes good. Even better when that young artist makes music that is well divorced from the mainstream, does things his/her own way and gains notoriety purely for being ridiculously good at what he or she does. That’s we have right […]
[LIVE REVIEW + PHOTOS] Anna Murphy + Supports, The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne, 27th August 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Anna Murphy + Stormtide + Horizon’s Edge The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne – August 27th, 2016 Reviewed By: Tristan Peterson Photos By: Antoine Loncle It seems there was much ado about the erstwhile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Anna Murphy, of Eluveitie fame, on Saturday and if the atmosphere of the, relatively sedate, affair was anything to go by […]
[COLUMN] Classica
By John Raptis In June 2016, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that AC/DC’s classic Back In Black album had sold 22 million copies in the USA alone to that point (and 50 million worldwide!) making it the best selling hard rock album of all time next to Led Zeppelin IV. What is astounding […]
[COLUMN] It Came From Below…
Written by Thomas Riley Lanyon A weekly column unearthing the best from the depths of black/death/doom and beyond. Black Fucking Cancer Black Fucking Cancer Osmose Productions/Graceless Recordings Release Date: June 24th, 2016 Hailing from hell and/or the San Francisco Bay Area, Black Fucking Cancer sound exactly like you might expect them to. Stitching together chaotic […]
[INTERVIEW] Meshiaak
By Kris Peters The pressures of releasing an album are difficult for even established bands, but when you have critics and reviewers labeling your debut offering ‘album of the year’ and among the best debuts of the decade it can be almost overwhelming and potentially suffocating. It does help when you have some older, experienced […]
[PREMIERE] Tempest Rising Single and Video
Perth’s most brutal sons Tempest Rising are back with new single and video ‘A Part of Me‘, an epic piece of melodic metal as premiered today by the legends at Heavy Music Mag. Following on from last year’s offering ’Know My Name’, ‘A Part of Me’ was engineered and mixed by Simon Mitchell (Chaos Divine) and mastered by Forrester Savell (Karnivool), providing a taste from the […]
[ALBUM REVIEW] Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence
Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence Inside Out Music Release Date: September 2nd, 2016 Review By: Rod Whitfield When other artists dig up old songs from their past to re-record and put on their new album, sometimes you wonder if they are lacking a little for ideas and new material. When Devin Townsend does it, you […]
[COLUMN] HEAVY OZ
By Rod Whitfield This is the first of a regular ongoing series I will be doing on a bunch of awesome Australian bands you may or may not have heard of. This nation is absolutely choc-full of world class talent, in rock, punk, metal, prog, alt-rock and most other genres and sub-genres, it’s just that […]
[COLUMN] Satanas Lucifer Excelsi
By Prarthana Venunathan Hails. This is my first post of a weekly column that I’ll be writing to call readers’ attention to the wonders and mysteries behind extreme and black metal, and to give recommendations from both Australia and internationally of bands in this vein that must be heard. Religion has always been a central […]
[ALBUM REVIEW] Plini – Handmade Cities
Plini – Handmade Cities Release Date: August 26th, 2016 Review By: Rod Whitfield For starters, let me just state for the record that I believe this young prodigy Plini to be one and the absolute most important figures on the Aussie progressive music scene today. When you have one of the greatest luminaries of the […]
[LIVE REVIEW] Dead Letter Circus + Supports, 170 Russell, Melbourne, 20th August 2016
Dead Letter Circus + Clint Boge and Glenn Esmond + Rival Fire 170 Russell, Melbourne August 20th, 2016 Review By Rod Whitfield Yet another frigid Melbourne winter evening was warmed to the cockles of its heart by the power and majesty of rock music. This time, it was a fabulous and diverse lineup of wondrous […]
The Amenta: Flesh Is Heir
You probably wouldn’t put Sydney’s The Amenta into the actual progressive metal category, however they are undoubtedly one of the more forward thinking metal bands around today. They do something completely different with every release, whilst still maintaining their unique identity. Whilst their debut ‘Occassus’ was an apocalyptic wall of symphonic black/gothic metal, and the […]
Katatonia Discuss Their Forthcoming Australian Tour
This long running Swedish act return to Australia for only the second time in their career, and they finally get to tour Down Under with their great mates from Opeth. If there’s one band in the world suited to touring with the mighty Opeth, it’s Katatonia. They come from the same country, and their respective […]
Bad Religion
Intellectual, outspoken and deliberate – but still entirely punk rock – Greg Graffin is one of rock’s overachievers. Greg Graffin’s career is indeed legendary. For almost three and a half decades he has fronted one of America’s greatest punk rock acts, Bad Religion – a band that have just released musical masterpiece number 16. “After […]
Shai Hulud
Known for incorporating progressive and metallic influences, hardcore punk band Shai Hulud are about to unleash a new album and descend upon an unsuspecting Australian public at Soundwave. The United States of America is a very big country. Even mainland US, without even counting Alaska and Hawaii, is slightly larger than Australia in square kilometres. […]
Every Time I Die
US hardcore/punk act Every Time I Die will stand out from the crowd as one of the only heavy acts at this year’s Big Day Out. With Soundwave attracting the attention of our country’s heavy music fans, the Big Day Out can get a little lost. Still, the longer running summer festival isn’t a complete […]
Nightwish
Australia loves Nightwish, and Nightwish loves Australia, so they are returning for their third tour of our nation very shortly, after what has been a massive period of success, experimentation and turmoil for these Finnish symphonic metal masters. Late 2011 saw the release of their epic seventh album, the concept piece known as Imaginaerum, which […]
Progfest 2012 @ The Esplanade Hotel, St.Kilda
‘Progressive’ music has become almost as broad a term, relatively speaking, as rock music itself. The term no longer conjures images purely of old school prog rockers like Yes and King Crimson. It’s an entire world unto itself, ranging from the truly avant-garde to the truly brutal. Such a broad palette was on display at […]
