Hailing from Seattle, Brine have brought out a delicious record ‘Kill the Ill’, a fine-tuned alt-rock album to quench the thirst of fans who want to bath in vocals of The Smiths, the […]
Sick Of It All are celebrating 30 years together in 2016 and are as potent and focused than ever. With the Koller brothers leading the charge and their latest album 2014’s The Last Act […]
THE BEST OF 2016 THE HARD ROCK RELEASES THAT PROOVE THAT ROCK IS FAR FROM DEAD After a great 2015 especially for those inclined towards Melodic Rock, 2016 seemingly had it all: more of the […]
THE AUSTRALIAN RELEASES THAT PROVE THAT DOWN UNDER IS ALIVE AND KICKING! This year we’ve seperated out all of our Australian Hard Rock and Blues releases for the year from the main lists and present […]
THE MUSIC & WILD THING PRESENTS: MOTHER’S CAKE Announce ‘No Rhyme No Reason’ Australian Tour: February 2017 Austrian psychedelic, progressive trio Mother’s Cake will be returning to Australia in February 2017! Just before hitting Australian […]
The wicked are like a raging sea, and like those that do not rest; Chasing Ghosts have been raging harder than ever and will continue to rouse the oceans in 2017 with the announce of […]
I’ve been writing for The Rockpit for five years now and this year they’ve given me my own list! So I wanted to do something a little differently: this year I wanted to give […]
Australian band ‘Blow’ have put together a great collection here of catchy hard rockers that thirty years ago would be catching far more ears than they are likely to do today; maybe even bothering […]
It’s that time of the year again when we round up the very best of rock and metal for the year and 2016 had some great releases and some fantastic highlights. From the biggest […]
Since the release of their highly-praised 2015 debut album Never Happy, Ever After, Brighton, UK’s As It Is has garnered an ever-growing, devout fan following with their sincere and relatable lyrics, charged with energized […]
Jeff Martin, lead singer and guitarist of the iconic Canadian band The Tea Party, has been invited to perform 2 solo acoustic shows in Sydney and a one-off show in Perth in January 2017 before […]
Led Zeppelin Masters returns to the Sydney Opera House in January 2017 to, once again, rock the house to its core and give the heaviest symphonic salute to one of the great rock bands […]
Baroness returned to Australia in 2016 this time as headliners for the first time. The southern rockers showed their explosive full set to the Aussie fans, Perth was the last on the line as […]
The Animals were “one of the most important bands” in the British Invasion. Whilst The Beatles and Rolling Stones were the headliners, The Animals were the backbone of blues! With their legacy undeniable, Australia is […]
They’re non-conformist and a little rebellious. Their music is exuberant and their lyrics tell it exactly how they see it. They are known for their “kick ass” live shows. Oh, and they give their […]
STORMRIDER FESTIVAL 2017 Full Line Up Announced Saturday, March 25: Perth The Stormrider Heavy Metal Festival is back for another year to celebrate our love of Power, Thrash, Speed, Prog and Traditional Heavy Metal […]
Swedish melodic metal heavy weights Katatonia returned to Australia this past week and ended their tour in Perth to finish what ended up being a great run of shows. We caught all the action […]
Horror punk/rock act Wednesday 13 returns to Australia again in March 2017, less than a year from when we saw him last on their headline tour in support of his latest release “Monsters Of […]
Adelaide heavy hitters Ice On Mercury have been riding high on a string of successes which has led to the culmination of what could be considered their strongest work yet in the EP “Blind […]
This is an interesting release, and Jerry Hull’s fourth in a the space of just a couple of years. At 14 tracks it might not be as long as his previous release – Cherokee Moon’ […]
Logan Mader is a name who will be familiar to metalheads not only for his production and mixing work on records from the likes of Gojira, Fear Factory and Devildriver, but also as the […]
Tonight we catch Swedish hardcore veterans Raised Fist return to Perth for the “From The North” album Tour. I expected tonight to be brutal as hell and it was. Supporting act, Worlds apart […]
When you put on Dead Letter Circus‘ eponymous debut EP, it is still as fucking amazing as it was 10 years ago… and, in true testament to its enduring relevance, feels like it could have […]
The Rockpit presents the premiere of the new single for “Fly Away” from Halfwait. Halfwait is a grunge/rock band based in Sydney, originally formed in 2010 by high school friends Jon Barca and Chris […]
Since their formation in 2013, Brisbane five piece The Jensens have provided us with rage-worthy tunes that have been played long into the early morning all over the country! With their unmistakable sleek vintage […]
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