With the countdown to Necrosonic Festival at The Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane on August 31 now on, HEAVY thought it appropriate to introduce you to the bands playing on the day, two at a time, starting from today until the day of the show.
Conjured by one of the dark architects behind the legendary Overcranked, Inferno and Dead of Winter Festivals, Necrosonic heralds a day filled with unrelenting brutality and the heaviest, most sinister sounds that the underworld has to offer, some even returning from the dead for the ritual.
Hosting 30 bands across three stages over 12 hours, Necrosonic Festival promises to satiate even the heaviest of hungers. Today, we introduce you to Post Life Disorder and Bulletbelt.
Tickets on sale now from https://necrosonicfestival.com/
BULLETBELT
New Zealand’s Bulletbelt has toured Europe, Australia, Japan and New Zealand and played numerous support slots with visiting international acts including Sepultura, Carcass, Napalm Death, Midnight, Psycroptic, The Black Dahlia Murder, Impiety, Bolzer, Tragedy, Rotten Sound,Midnight, Municipal Waste, Ringworm, Paul Dianno, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce, Sacred Riech and Vio-Lence.
The band first announced themselves to New Zealand’s metal-loving audiences in 2009. With music featuring on the soundtrack to cult-classic movie, Deathgasm, international touring and three previous records of brutal, beautiful sonic assault, it’s a solid foundation that Warlords sits atop. A decade of brand-building, blood, sweat and… beers …tears and forever true and strong of heart, sound of mind and body and committed to the riff, the chorus, the way of the anthem, Bulletbelt’s head is held high, their flag is in the sand.
POST – LIFE DISORDER
Post-Life Disorder was conceived in late 1996 by Anthony (Antz) Palmer, Julian Turpin and Rudi Weber, a mongrel hybrid of downtuned moody sludge and noisy thrash metal. Over the coming years the band became regulars on the Brisbane circuit – playing with bands of all styles of hard and heavy music. Live music venue The Chelsea caught wind of the hard-working consistency of PLD, and became the band’s official booking agents.
The band then released an EP titled Self-Operate-Lobotomy in 1999, and the song Dawn of a New Madness caught the ear of Costa Zoulio, then programmer of Triple J radio metal show Three Hours of Power and was included on the Full metal Racket compilation.
In 2003 the band was experimenting with new sounds and styles, and wrote a bunch of new songs which were recorded at Modern Music Studio. The production unfortunately didn’t have the same intensity as the EP, but still captured the essence of the band – being a creative outlet for inner turmoil via masses of volume and distortion. The eponymous debut LP was released that year on Ward69Records and distributed nationally through MGM.
PLD was busy playing live and touring for those years from 97-2004. Supports for the likes of Entombed, Kittie, Destruction, Skinlab and more, along with appearances at festivals including Metal for the Brain, Overcranked, 4ZZZ Market Day and Big Day Out, secured PLD’s spot as one of Australia’s premiere Metal bands.
Around the middle of 00’s the band became inactive so the members could focus on their personal lives. At the beginning of the new decade in 2010 Antz and Rudi took on a few comeback shows with the help of some friends. The response was overwhelming and reignited their passion for exorcising demons and thrashing eardrums, and are preparing for a new round of live performances in mid 2024.
