In 2015 Melbourne thrashers Harlott released what would ultimately end up being one of my favorite metal albums of the year, Proliferation and given the top quality of that release, it seemed unlikely that […]
To say that Crystal Ignite is excited about having returned to Australia to tour would be a total understatement. Crystal is bloody ecstatic! Backed by a stellar new group, the five piece outfit have embarked on an eleven […]
The ultimate guitar maestro ALLAN HOLDSWORTH left this world on April 16, 2017. Holdsworth, born in Bradford, England in 1946, embarked on a solo career as composer and bandleader exclusively in 1979. From 1982 through […]
Heavy metal pioneers ACCEPT just finished an extensive European tour – and they are immediately back in the game with a new studio album! The record entitled The Rise Of Chaos, will be unleashed […]
MISS MAY I have partnered with Loudwire to exclusively debut their much-anticipated first track and official music video for ‘Lost In The Grey‘, which comes off their new album, Shadows Inside, on June 2nd. […]
Bluesfest to collect money at the festival and patrons have also been giving generously as they enter the festival. All the proceeds from ‘Rise above the Flood’ will be donated to these local community […]
Day Three should’ve been known as Buddy Guy Day. Blues Royalty visited the festival, moving on to the stage with all the fire, wit, cheek, voice, guitar skills and sexiness of a man a […]
Day Two was rife with Coachella-like reported sightings of various celebrities but the only confirmed one was Jason Momoa, seen strumming a guitar in the Gibson shop and backstage at the Bonnie Raitt set. […]
Day One Byron Bay Bluesfest was a masterpiece in Festival organisation with surrounding streets well signposted, shuttle buses ferrying excited crowds from Byron Bay to the nearby Tyagarah Tea Tree farm. Festival staff were […]
A roundup of the latest news from the underground metal scene around the world. Artists include Drachenfeur, M8L8th, Pyramaze, Say Bok Gwai, Legacy Of Emptiness, Slagduster, Cadaver Disposal, Theocracy, Incontinence, Eli van Pike, DVT and […]
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METALOCALYPSTICK FEST, the Western Canadian outdoor festival that just doesn’t celebrate heavy metal, but embraces the power of women in metal announce their 2017 line up for Canada Day weekend July 1st and 2nd in Valemount, BC. This […]
New York death metal pioneers SUFFOCATION will release their new album …Of The Dark Light on June 9 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band has released the first single, ‘Your Last Breaths’, in the form […]
Chasing Ghosts in conjunction with Hysteria Magazine and Young Henrys are pleased to unveil a staggering run of 21 shows in Melbourne and her surrounding suburbs throughout May, a unyielding reminder that there is […]
After becoming the biggest breaking British rock band with their self-titled 2014 debut album, Royal Blood’s eagerly anticipated second album How Did We Get So Dark? will be released on June 16. The album’s […]
What happens when you have two visionary modern artistes merging their talents? Well, when you are talking about rock photographer Mark Weiss and painter/artiste David Banegas, you wind up with a breath-taking, larger-than-life image of […]
When I was a kid there were a number of triggers that started me off on my road to ‘Rock’; one of them was the result of a purchase made completely by impulse. Trawling the […]
Birthed in 2005, prior to the more-recent explosion of tech death, Lacerta paved the way for later-era tech death bands such as Byond Creation and Archspireand released their debut effort entitled Mind Processor in […]
Principal Entertainment & David Roy Williams present the return of legendary riff lords Helmet on their 2017 Australian tour, playing the classic Betty album from start to finish, along with fan favourites and selections […]
Melbourne’s heavy experimental creatives Orsome Welles will be releasing their long awaited new EP titled Rise on May 26. Pre orders are now available through orsomewelles.com/pre-order Orsome Welles will touring nationally across June and […]
Killsorrow hail from Poland, a country known for producing some great metal bands over the years. The underground scene is teeming with great talent and this band could have some potential to do some […]
Babylon A.D. was in my opinion one of the finest hard rock bands of the late eighties. They were a band who had the songs and had the chops of the very best, but sadly […]
Deep down in the catacombs of Paris, between piled-up bones, damp air and our own mortality, Candlemass mastermind Leif Edling unexpectedly found new and sinister inspiration. The Doomsday Kingdom was born! We speak to […]
Melbourne’s Branch Arterial are returning to the fore today to bring their brand new music to the world. New music that has come literally from ‘Beyond the Border’ of life and death. In 2013, […]
Brisbane prog-metallers THE STRANGER are dropping a new cut from their forthcoming self-titled album, due for release on April 21. Solomon’s Son is the latest taste from the record, an epic prog-metal track from […]
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