Premiere: SUPERHEIST “The Fight Back” Documentary (1 hour)
Today we present a very special premiere: Superheist’s “The Fight Back” Documentary. Nothing much more to say, just click play and sit back and enjoy an incredible journey of a very hard working band.
AMARANTHE Release New Single & Video “INFERNO”
Amaranthe have today dropped new single, ‘Inferno’ with an accompanying music video. The track is available as an instant download upon the pre-order of their electrifying fifth album HELIX – due out October 19 through Spinefarm Records. Pre-order your copy here:https://SpinefarmRecords.lnk.to/helix Amanrathe UK tour dates w/ Powerwolf as follows: – NOV 12 KOKO – London […]
2018 ARIA Award Nominations for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album are…
We voted, we can’t tell you who we voted for but it’s definitely one of these! ARIA – Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album Nominees: DZ Deathrays – Bloody Lovely (I OH YOU) King Parrot – Ugly Produce (EVP Recordings/Rocket) Parkway Drive – Reverence (Resist Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia) Polaris – The Mortal Coil (Resist Records/Cooking Vinyl […]
KNOCKED LOOSE New Video for their Song “The Rain”
Kentucky hardcore band Knocked Loose has teamed up with ConsequenceOfSound.net to unveil a new video for their song The Rain. The track is featured on the band’s acclaimed, debut album, Laugh Tracks, which is available everywhere now from Pure Noise Records / Sony Music Australia. “We’re really excited about this one, I think we’re ending the Laugh […]
HELLIONS Announce New Album Launch Shows + a New Video
To celebrate Hellions fourth album Rue on October 19 via UNFD, the band have announced three exclusive release week shows along the East Coast. Hellions will play in intimate rooms in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney where they will showcase songs from “Rue”. Hellions will release a limited-edition vinyl variant of “Rue” exclusive to this tour. […]
GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL – Dates and Locations!
Good Things Festival, Australia’s newest music festival for the east coast of Australia will kick off in December 2018! Good Things Festival Friday 7 December – Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne Saturday 8 December – Parramatta Park, Sydney Sunday 9 December – Brisbane Showgrounds, Brisbane That’s not all, the entire Festival lineup will officially be announced on […]
Premiere: LONDON New Song, Video & Tour Dates
LONDON is the creation of London Gabraelle and Australian heavy music producer and songwriter dw Norton (Superheist, Walk The Earth). Think Lacuna Coil meets Kate Bush & Parkway Drive… big hooks and even bigger riffs! Feel London Gabraelle’s sweet but heart-wrenching vocals combined with Norton’s crushing guitar for an infectious and original concoction. Today London […]
Premiere: SUMMIT New Song & Video
Hailing from Australia’s Northern Territory, SUMMIT are today releasing their brand new single “Echoes” and announcing their EP “Echoes of Aberration“, out Friday, August 31. “Aberration” is defined as “A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected.” SUMMIT are most definitely that. One does not expect music this heavy to come out of the […]
STEEL ASSASSINS TRUE METAL FESTIVAL 2018 – The Dates, The Bands, The Metal
7 years and still crushing ears is Australia’s True Heavy Metal Festival – Steel Assassins and it’s back once again over the first weekend in November–it’s the biggest one yet! FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Headlining Day1 is one of Australia’s most legendary Thrash acts HOBB’S ANGEL OF DEATH who will sadly be bidding us all farewell […]
PLINI New EP & Australian Tour
Named #8 in Ultimate-Guitar’s top 12 guitarists of 2015 and listed amongst “MusicRadar’s #1 prog guitar player in the world right now” for 2017, Sydney’s independent instrumental progressive rising star, PLINI is set to release his new EP, “Sunhead” on July 27. PRE-ORDER “SUNHEAD”: PHYSICAL | DIGITAL Sunhead is written, recorded and produced by PLINI himself – and for the most part, all from a bedroom studio. PLINI explains […]
LOST IN STEREO Reveal Video For New Single
Recently crowned Fireball’s Hottest Band 2018, Glasgow pop-punks Lost in Stereo are pleased to reveal a brand new single ‘Save Me’ set for release on 20th July 2018. The track is the first new material from the band taken from their forthcoming EP, details of which will be revealed later this year. Speaking about the […]
DEVILDRIVER Unveil Ghost Riders In The Sky video
DevilDriver have unveiled another new track taken from their highly-anticipated full-length album of outlaw country-gone-metal anthems, Outlaws ‘Til The End. Check out the video for their take on the classic “Ghost Riders In The Sky”, featuring guest vocal appearances from Randy Blythe from Lamb of God, John Carter Cash and Ana Cristina Cash alongside Devildriver […]
BLACK STONE CHERRY Announce December UK Arena Tour
Hot on the heels of their special guest slot to Guns n’ Roses at Download Festival this weekend, BLACK STONE CHERRY are excited to announce a UK headline tour for this December. The Kentucky boys tell us, “As many people know, the UK holds a special place in the hearts of BSC. The culture, the […]
PREMIERE: ÁRSTÍÐIR “Entangled”
ÁRSTÍÐIR emerged from the burgeoning Icelandic music scene in 2008 when the band’s three founding members discovered their mutual love for vocal harmonies despite coming from different genres. Daniel, Gunnar and Ragnar quickly went from playing acoustic cover versions to leaving their sonic footprint by amalgamating influences taken from different styles into something unique, which […]
POWER TRIP Australian Tour
Power Trip, Hardcore, Metal or Punk act from Dallas, Texas just announced an Australian Tour! These guys have been touring no-end and playing major festivals the world over. One month you can catch them playing with Title Fight, Merchandise or Big Freedia, the next you can catch them on a long tour with Napalm Death or […]
STEVEN WILSON Announces Australian and New Zealand Tour Dates
Acclaimed Modernist Art-Rock architect Steven Wilson returns to Australia and New Zealand to present his most spectacular show yet, with four astonishing audio-visual extravaganzas. Following the release of ‘To The Bone’, his most successful album to date, Steven will perform 3hrs of mesmerising music drawn from both his recent catalogue, as well as classic Porcupine […]
DEF LEPPARD and SCORPIONS Australian Tour
Hot off the press the UK’s Def Leppard and Germany’s Scorpions are coming down-under, together, for an Australian tour. Def Leppard will be playing the iconic “Hysteria” album in its entirety plus other greats! We talked with Phil Collen of Def Leppard ahead of this announcement about the tour. Click play and rock it! Read […]
NABERUS New Clip and Albums “Hollow”
Aussie melodic death-thrashers Naberus will release their upcoming sophomore full-length album entitled “Hollow” on June 29, 2018, via Eclipse Records. The album was produced by James Ash at Kremation Studios, mixed by Henrik Udd (Bring Me the Horizon, Architects, A Breach of Silence) and mastered by Ermin Hamidovic (Architects, Periphery, Devin Townsend) at Systematic Productions. The album art was designed by Chris Sheppard. See below for the […]
The New GUS G. X Series Star Guitar!
Let’s face it, Gus G. is a virtuoso. He was handpicked by metals biggest legend, Ozzy Osbourne in 2009, and they played together until 2017. During that time Gus G. has become an acclaimed solo artist with more than a dozen studio albums under his guitar strap including Arch Enemy, Dream Evil and his own […]
Interview with PARKWAY DRIVE’s Winston McCall on HEAVY TV
Parkway Drives upcoming release of “Reverence”, the sixth studio album from Australian metalcore outfit. Due out May 4. “Reverence represents the most honest and personal record we have ever created”, says Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall. “It has been born through pain, sacrifice, and conviction, with the ultimate goal of expanding not only what Parkway Drive stand for musically, […]
Premiere: THE UGLY KINGS “Darkness Is My Home” Album Stream
HEAVY is rocking happy with the premiere of the “Darkness Is My Home” album by The Ugly Kings. The Ugly Kings are all set to drop their debut album, “Darkness Is My Home”, on Friday, April 13 via German label Kozmik Artifactz. Pre Orders available now smarturl.it/DarknessIsMyHome The celebrate the release of “Darkness Is My Home”, The Ugly Kings […]
HEAVY Premiere: SPARROW’s ‘RED’ Video
Perth band Sparrow are set to release Digital People into the electromagnetic world! Friday April 6 will see the five-track EP set free in the digital and real world, with the video for their new single “Red”‘ out today. Pre-Orders for the EP go live this Friday, February 16 and the single will be live for streaming […]
OVERKILL Announce 2018 Australian Tour
The self-proclaimed “Wrecking Crew” OVERKILL are set to destroy Australia in 2018. If you thought after 4-decades and 18 studio albums, OVERKILL would be losing steam, you don’t know OVERKILL. Throughout their existence, the New Jersey Thrash Metal forefathers shapeshifted, and evolved, keeping fans on their feet the whole time. Today, the band announced they […]
Ne Obliviscaris Full Album Stream “Urn”
“Every time we head back into the studio it’s simply with the intention of being ourselves and challenging each of us in the band to continue to expand and enhance what we are capable of doing. On our new album ‘URN’ it feels like the culmination of all of these years of hard work has […]
NE OBLIVISCARIS Announce Urn Australian & New Zealand Tour
Ne Obliviscaris will be touring across Australia and New Zealand in February 2018 in support of their new album Urn which is set to be released on October 27. NeO spent most of 2017 preparing for the release of Urn and this will be their first-ever appearance in New Zealand, along with the first time […]
PAPA ROACH Announce Australian Tour 2018
Today USA alternative rock band Papa Roach confirm their first ever headline shows in Australia for January 22, 2018 at Melbourne’s 170 Russell and January 24, 2018 at Sydney’s Metro Theatre. Papa Roach have performed previously on Australian shores in 2002 as support to Red Hot Chili Peppers and returned again for Soundwave 2015. Papa Roach released its 9th studio album May 19, […]
TWELVE FOOT NINJA Australian Tour
Twelve Foot Ninja are returning to Australia with their international Monsoon Tour for one night only at Melbourne’s 170 Russell on Friday 12th January 2018. Tickets are on sale from 27th September 9am AEST at Moshtix. Twelve Foot Ninja will take this tour around Eastern Europe, India, Nepal including headlining slots at Germany’s Euroblast Festival and Nepal’s […]
CALIGULA’S HORSE New Video Clip & Album Out Now
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Caligula’s Horse have released their new album, In Contact today. To celebrate the album’s release, the band have launched a new video for “Songs for No One”. BUY “IN CONTACT” HERE http://smarturl.it/CH.InContact Guitarist and director of photography/editor Adrian Goleby comments, “‘Songs for No One’ is by far the […]
Toehider Kicks Off New Album
“GOOD” is the brand new full-length album from Melbourne’s Toehider. Led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mills, in collaboration with graphic artist Andrew Saltmarsh, it’s the third album by the genre-hopping Toehider and the eighteenth release overall in the past six years. Mills’ incredible versatility has seen Toehider easily claim the mantle of Australia’s most prolific progressive rock […]
UNIFY Gathering Festival 2018. Is it the best line-up yet?
While Australia still lays in wake of the Soundwave mess (sorry, had to) young metal fans eagerly awaited this day: UNIFY – A Heavy Music Gathering announcement day! On Sale Today at 12:30 PM via 24hundred.net And what a farkin’ beautiful day it is with the mega-list of bands! UNIFY 2018 LINE UP! CLICK TO […]
TRIVIUM New Album Details ‘The Sin And The Sentence’
Trivium has unveiled details of their new album, THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE out October 20 and available for pre-order now. The band has also released a new single, The Heart From Your Hatewhich is streaming now accompanied by an official music video on Trivium’s YouTube Channel. Recorded with producer Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Gojira) at Santa Ana, California’s Hybrid […]
sleepmakesaves November Shows with ROSETTA
Post-rock trailblazers sleepmakeswaves are still riding high from the success of their epic triple j Like A Version of ‘Children’ by Robert Miles and have now announced a headlining national tour of Australia for December to wrap up their 60+ date international tour in support of recently released third album ‘Made of Breath Only.’ Joining them at […]
VB Hard Yards – A Competition to Help Sydney Music Venues
Calling all hard working musos. Victoria Bitter and FBi Radio are teaming up to bring you VB Hard Yards – an opportunity for local bands to play with rock heroes Cosmic Psychos this November. he VB Hard Yards initiative will lend a helping hand to the Sydney rock community who are hard up for places […]
[PREMIERE] SATYRICON New Song
Black metal legends SATYRICON have revealed their highly anticipated ninth studio album, Deep Calleth Upon Deep is set for release on 22nd September on Napalm Records. The opus will be available in digital format, CD digipak and gatefold vinyl options and is now available for pre-order here! Now the iconic duo fronted by visionary, Satyr, […]
[NEWS] SATYRICON Unveil Track List For “Deep Calleth Upon Deep”
Nearly three years in the making, black metal legends SATYRICON have revealed their highly anticipated ninth studio album, ‘Deep calleth upon Deep’ is set for release on 22nd September via Napalm Records. The opus will be available in digital format, CD digipak and gatefold vinyl options and is now available for pre-order now! www.nervegas.com.au/satyricon The band recently unveiled initial album details and the album’s artwork, […]
HEAVY Digi-Magazine Issue #27 – FREE & OUT NOW!
For this issue, we’ve dived into the outer regions of the solar system… well, not quite, but Starset are certain of an astral variety! With their unique take on modern progressive metal fused with modern science and science-fiction, their themes stretch as far out as the planets do. Prog-maestros, Haken, take us on a […]
[NEWS] CONTRIVE Return With New Album
Renowned for their attention to detail when laying down new musical compositions, twin brothers Paul and Andrew Haug are set to return with the brand new Contrive album, Slow Dissolve. However the detail, this record hasn’t been without tragedy, with the sudden passing of their beloved father, Paul and Andrew were at a loss with their purpose. Retreating from the […]
[NEWS] For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records – Book
On August 29th, Metal Blade Records and BMG will release For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records – written by label founder and CEO Brian Slagel with Mark Eglinton, and featuring a foreword by Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich. Celebrating the storied label’s 35th anniversary, For the Sake of Heaviness is an inside look at how Slagel built Metal […]
[NEWS] CAVALERA CONSPIRACY New Album!
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY led by brothers and founding SEPULTURA members Max and Iggor Cavalera have unveiled first details about the release of their fourth studio album titled “Psychosis”. The upcoming record is set for release on November 17th 2017 on Napalm Records and is produced by longtime friend Arthur Rizk in Phoenix, Arizona. Max Cavalera in a recent interview with Metal Wani: […]
[NEWS] TRIVIUM Have a New Song + Clip
Trivium has returned with a new track titled, “The Sin And The Sentence“, the first new music from the group since their celebrated 2015 LP, Silence The Snow. “The Sin And The Sentence” is joined by an official music video streaming now on Trivium’s YouTube channel and is available now at all DSPs. Trivium will […]
[AUS NEWS] FUEL Announce Australian and NZ
Give me fuel, give me fire… FUEL just announced an Australian Tour. Fuel Australian Tour Dates 2017 Saturday 2nd December – Perth – Capitol Sunday 3rd December – Adelaide – The Gov Wednesday 6th December – Gold Coast – Coolangatta Hotel Thursday 7th December – Brisbane – Eatons Hill Hotel Friday 8th December – Sydney – Manning Bar Saturday 9th December – Melbourne – Prince Bandroom Wednesday 13th December – Auckland – The Studio Tickets: Pre-Sale Wednesday […]
[NEWS] AUGUST BURNS RED Album and Killer Clip
August Burns Red is back with the announcement of new album Phantom Anthem, the follow-up to 2015’s Found In Far Away Places that took the band to new heights and earned them a GRAMMY nomination. The Lancaster, PA five-piece teamed up with Sirius XM Liquid Metal to premiere new track “Invisible Enemy” and have released […]
[PREMIERE] SUPERHEIST New Video ‘The Deepend’
It’s been less than 12 months since Superheist awoke from a lengthy 13-year hibernation. In that short period of time, the band has slammed out 18 new songs in the form of a full-length album Ghosts Of The Social Dead, plus five bonus tracks and Raise Hell AAA side. Amongst all that the boys […]
[PREMIERE] GODLESS Video Clip ‘Onerios’
One of the hardest working metal bands in India, thrash-influenced death metalers, Godless with band members from Hyderabad and Bengaluru has gained for itself a loyal and strong following. After their debut EP “Centuries Of Decadence”, the band is working on material for its new album. The release of their debut EP saw them opening of […]
[AUS NEWS] AN EVENING WITH PLINI + FRIENDS
Following wildly successful debut headlining tours across Europe and North America, October will see Sydney prog-wizard PLINI return home for unique performances in two of Australia’s most prestigious small venues. With the aid of an expanded live ensemble, these special evenings in Sydney and Melbourne will include rarely-played re-arrangements, as well as material from his […]
[NEWS] BIGFOOT New Song & Clip
Frontiers Music Srl are proud to present the first video from the forthcoming debut album by one of their latest UK signings – Bigfoot. Having toured constantly around the UK and performed at festivals including Breakout, Bloodstock, Hard Rock Hell, Steelhouse and more, the quintet have built themselves a loyal grassroots following in their home […]
70000TONS OF METAL First 16 Bands Announced
The Original, The World’s biggest heavy metal cruise, has announced ticket sales dates and the first 16 of 60 bands to perform on board. 8th instalment of 70000Tons Of Metal sails from Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL to Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands and back on February 1-5, 2018. The first 16 bands announced are Aeternam, Cannibal […]
[AUS NEWS] Queensland has a Metal Festival ‘FROM APPLES TO ANDROIDS’
Bet you didn’t know this! A bunch of Queensland bands have got together and made a little touring festival and I must say we here at HEAVY are very impressed. Come one, come all to the second instalment of ‘FROM APPLES TO ANDROIDS’. The festival’s ethos is, ‘if it is live, original and underappreciated, we […]
[AUS NEWS] AWAKEN SOLACE Live Performance & New Album
Symphonic metal band, Awaken Solace, are releasing their fantasy concept album MYTHANDRIEL at Brightside, Brisbane on Friday 7 July. Joining Awaken Solace on stage are guest instrumentalists, Bernard Houston, on the flute and Valhalore’s, Lachlan Neate, on the cello. The night will also feature epic sets by Sydney’s Rise of Avernus and local favourites Seraphic, […]
[NEWS] GOATWHORE Streams New Single “Mankind Will Have No Mercy”
“Mankind Will Have No Mercy” is the latest single from New Orleans metal legion Goatwhore. A sonic manifestation of war, chaos, desolation, and emotional conflict, seamlessly bridging twenty years of the band’s signature brand of audio venom, Vengeful Ascension finds its members at their most accomplished – both individually and as a cohesive unit. Guitarist Sammy […]
