SUFFOCATION, REVOCATION, BRIMSTONE: The Brightside, Brisbane 18/04/24
Rocking into Fortitude Valley on a school night is never a good idea. And because I rocked up a bit early for the show, I threw down some chicken roll from a food truck out the front of the venue, which was possibly my second bad decision for the evening. I will say though, it […]
PEARL JAM: Dark Matter Theatrical Experience
Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records Out Now Unlike most of my reviews, no-one actually asked me to do this one. Since my wife is such a massive fan of Pearl Jam though, she decided to drag me along for the Dark Matter Theatrical Experience. As the story goes, we get to listen to the album in full […]
DIAMOND CONSTRUCT: Angel Killer Zero
Greyscale Records & Pale Chord April 26 Every once and a while I get sent an album to review, and I get told it from a mate’s kid, but please don’t hold back. Luckily, I rarely hold back, and it ain’t my mate, and therefore not my mate’s kid. So, it’s game on Diamond Construct, […]
ASKING ALEXANDRIA, WAGE WAR, The Gloom In The Corner: Max Watts, Melbourne 20/03/24
Pix by Paul Miles Thanks to What’s My Scene for the photos. We get into Melbourne at around 4:30pm on Wednesday in readiness for Knotfest Melbourne 2024, and after a single family of 10 or so unloaded 20-plus bags out of the overhead lockers, we manage to get out of the airport around half an […]
AMARANTHE: The Catalyst
Nuclear Blast Records Out Now Amaranthe had me excited until I realised that I had them confused with that guitar-shredding vixen Orianthe. Now that I’ve realised that though, they have the benefit of me starting this review without any bias because when it comes down to it, I know fuck all about this Swedish 6-piece […]
SEBASTIAN BACH ‘Child Within The Man’
Reigning Phoenix MusicRelease: 10 May 2024 If I had to describe Sebastian Bach in four words or less, I couldn’t think of a better description than Child Within The Man. And that just happens to be what Sab has called his new album. Now, I don’t know a lot about Sab, apart from the fact […]
ROCK THE BOAT Tour Diary Day 7: Can’t There Be 11?
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk […]
ROCK THE BOAT ’23 Tour Diary, Day 5: Stayin’ Alive
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk to one musician, you talk to […]
ROCK THE BOAT ’23 Tour Diary, Day 4 Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk […]
ROCK THE BOAT ’23 Tour Diary, Day 3, Sunday is Fun Day!
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk […]
ROCK THE BOAT ’23 Tour Diary, Day 2: Up Early For A Buffet And A Brew
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk […]
ROCK THE BOAT ’23 Tour Diary, Day 1: No Need To Gloat, But We’re On A Boat!
Late last year, HEAVY had the honour of being invited on board the Royal Caribbean to join Rock The Boat 2023 and moonlight as journalists by interviewing bands on board. Admittedly, it was a little outside of our comfort zone with a more rock and blues-orientated line-up, but you know what they say? You talk […]
ACE FREHLEY: 10,000 Volts
Out Now MNRK Heavy Let’s get this started the right way, with a disclaimer. For transparency’s sake, I’ll start with informing you that I have never been a fan of KISS. In my opinion, they are up there with Tool and The Beatles as one of the most overrated bands of all time. Opinions are […]
East Coast Metal vs Hardcore: The Boiler Room @ Burnside Tavern Saturday 27th January 2024
I rock on into the Burnside Tavern at Yatala just before 5pm. If you’re wondering where Yatala is, it’s about halfway between the Gold Coast and Brisbane and the venue is located directly across the highway from the brewery, which I’m sure you all know where that is. After doing a lap of the venue, […]
Rocking The Boat With SARAH MCLEOD
Don’t let the name fool you. While we at HEAVY favor the metal side of life, we also have a soft spot for rock – especially Aussie rock. So when we were offered the opportunity to set sail on Rock The Boat 2023 and conduct onboard interviews for the first time ever we jumped at […]
BREWFEST END OF YEAR PARTY: The Backroom 30/12/23
Pix by Just Ignore The Camera Photography I got into the Brewhouse End of Year Party ’23 at the Chardon’s Corner Hotels Backroom just before 3pm after having to work my day job in the morning and being delayed for an hour or so due to another severe weather event. Yeah, it’s summer in Australia, […]
ATREYU: The Beautiful Dark Of Life
Spinefarm Records December 8 I think I remember something about this band from back in the 2000s, and they’ve definitely been flooding my social media feeds lately with memes about being the OG metalcore band or something like that. I don’t really get the memes though because I remember them floating around when Nu-Metal was […]
WALLAPALOOZA 2023: 28 DAYS, COG, F.U.C BUTTERFINGERS & More – WALLABY HOTEL 04/11/23
Guest review of Azreal by Simon Benham Pix by Kaotic Images After fucking around at home way longer than I needed to thanks to the young fella’s mates rocking up with some guitars, including a Slash Les Paul which I just had to have a jam on, I finally make it to the Wallaby Hotel […]
MEET THE LOCALS @ Mo’s Desert Clubhouse w/ TETRAMENT, Minds End, Engraved & Awaken The Hate
22nd October 2023 Metal gigs in daylight freak me the fuck out but here I am at Mo’s Desert Clubhouse with the sun shining in the background. The start time has been pushed back though and the sun is starting to disappear behind the hinterland, so I may get some comfort in darkness shortly. If […]
BLINK 182 ‘One More Time’
Columbia A & R Out Now Blink 182 are a band that appeared amidst the pop-punk explosion of the early to mid 90s. They are a band that I wanted to hate so much back in the day, but just couldn’t. Not only because it was pop punk, and I was a metal guy, but […]
Product Review: FENDER Introduces TONE MASTER PRO
Alright, where to even start with this thing? How about we start with its name, this is the Tone Master Pro, and it even has that little R in the circle which means that the name is a registered trademark or something like that. Registered by whom you say? Fender of course, and they were […]
SUNK LOTO, HELM: Mo’s Desert Clubhouse 19/10/23
Pix by MrBrad Media I sneak in just before doors at 7 to score a seat up in the corner lounge and just as I do the mixing console starts getting packed up in its road case. I think to myself, this is an odd thing to happen before the show., but as it turns […]
DUFF MCKAGEN: ‘Lighthouse’
Out Now Since I’m a brutally honest bastard, I’m going to let you all now that I’ve been sitting on this album for a couple of months. And unlike my normal reviews I’ve actually had the odd listen here and there before sitting down to write this. Like every Guns N Roses fan ever I […]
PRONG: State Of Emergency
STEAMHAMMER/SPV Out Now Prong, that name certainly rings a bell and seems to have for several decades. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen ‘em live, and I’m not even 100% sure I’ve actually heard any of their songs before. But that’s ok, because no one has heard anything from them in the last 6 […]
THE WOODSMAN: Disgraceland
Out Now Big Egg Records I was real fucking excited to get started on this review. That was before I realised that I completely fucked up and that I wasn’t reviewing a local punk rock act with an Elvis impersonator frontman. Instead, I was about to review a noise punk band from South Wales, that […]
Guitar Review: EVH FRANKENSTEIN SERIES A Variant of Eddie’s Iconic FRANKENSTRAT
It’s been a long time since my friends over at Fender have been nice enough to send me a new toy to play with, so I get the most excellent fuck off big surprise when I wake up on a Sunday morning to find that I have an EVH® Frankenstein Relic® Series on its way […]
MAMMOTH WVH: Mammoth II
The expectation must be set pretty high when your old man was a legend of the 6-string but luckily for Wolfgang Van Halen I know fuck all about his old man apart from the following few “facts”. Anyway, enough of that rubbish. I’m here to review Wolfgang’s band Mammoth WVH which has fuck all to […]
PISTONFIST: Redline
Out Now Words by Jimmy Glinster pistonfistmerch.bigcartel.com PistonFist spend no time fucking around as they launch into some heavy as fuck chugs and thumping toms before launching us into a guitar solo intro. What a way to kick off a song, and an album. The opening track is titled Become The Rage, and although generally […]
EVILE: ‘At Mirror’s Speech’
Words by Jimmy Glinster Napalm Records Release date: July 14 I guess you could say that England and thrash metal kinda go hand in hand with the whole New Wave of British Heavy Metal thing that happened back in the early 80s with the likes of The Big Four. All of which were American bands […]
IRREPARABLE – Complete Emptiness
Words by Jimmy Glinster Out Now PLEASE NOTE. THE EP WAS SENT IN DIGITAL FORM AND NOT IN THE CORRECT ORDER OF SONGS It’s not too often you get an email at 5:30 in the morning asking if you want to do an EP review, and to be honest it was the last thing I […]
SICKSENSE – Fools Tomorrow
Words Jimmy Glinster Out Now Have you ever had that Sicksense that you’ve completely forgotten about something? Well, I just did after realising that I forgot to review the Fools Tomorrow EP that I so eagerly hassled Vicky Psarakis for an early copy of a couple of months back. If you think that name sounds […]
DAYSHIFTER: ‘Hiraeth’
Words by Jimmy Glinster Release Date: June 8 Guess who’s back, back again, Jimmy’s back, tell a friend! Or don’t tell anyone, I don’t really care because this isn’t about me, or the lack of me in this review section for a short while because I fucked off and got married. And it definitely has […]
