Power metal legends Sabaton are about to release a concept album centering around the stories of World War One. Prior to its release, bassist Pär Sundström was kind enough to chat with Rockpit representative […]
Dead of Night is the debut album from Londoners Night Screamer. Oliver, The Rockpit’s pretend English person, gave it a good old listen and tried his best to not use bad cockney slang. Before […]
Melbourne band Orpheus Omega have been very busy lately. As of this writing, they are currently on tour supporting their new LP Wear Your Sins. To find out what it’s like, Oliver sat down […]
Multi-everythingist Devin Townsend will soon be releasing his new album “Empath”. Always one for doing things completely differently with each release, this time he’s summoned all his magical prog powers to bear on this […]
Last night I attended a local showing of the brand new biopic Lords Of Chaos, a film based on the book of the same name about the early days of the Norwegian black metal […]
Finnish folk metal legends Ensiferum will be hitting Australia’s East coast at the end of Februrary. Ahead of the tour, we conversed with bassist Sami Hinkka about the band’s plans for the upcoming shows, […]
In their first show of their Australian tour, Berliners The Ocean wowed Perth with their progressive majesty. Dodging past a small army of people wielding pamphlets for Fringe shows, I made my way to […]
King of heavy metal King Diamond has had a long and influential career. Starting in the 70s and constantly writing and performing ever since, there are few other people who could be considered living […]
Pirate metallers Alestorm will be touring Australia in February. In a meaty interview packed with protein, frontman Christopher Bowes talked to us about the tour supports, the perils of being a keytar player and […]
Sydney based metal people Temtris have recently released a new record. Rapture is a mixture of old and new, with inspirations from all around the world to delight and amaze. Let me tell you […]
Well loved purveyors of heavy metal Metal Church have just released their new album Damned If You Do via Nuclear Blast Records. Oliver had a good old listen and, after his neck had recovered, […]
West coast metal veterans Metal Church release their 12th full length studio album Damned If You Do via Nuclear Blast Records on December 7, 2018 (Rat Pak Records/America & King Records/Japan). The latest release is […]
Champions in blending classic heavy metal, hard rock, and 80’s hair metal, Canadian shredders Striker unleashed their sixth studio album ‘Play To Win’ on October 26 via their independent label Record Breaking Records.. While […]
It’s been four years since New South Whalers Carbon Black released their debut EP to critical acclaim. They’ve now released their new album End Of This, which we listened to see if it stacks […]
Led by the legendary Max Cavalera, Soulfly are set to release their devastating new album ‘Ritual’ on October 19th via Nuclear Blast. With more new material in the arsenal and a world tour planned […]
After their last album, Behemoth had a lot to live up to. Creating a follow-up to a masterpiece like The Satanist is no small feat. Were they up to the challenge and put pure […]
Tuesday night was the first show of Tesseract’s Australian tour in support of their latest album Sonder. With Perth being their first stop on the way, we went along to Capitol to check out […]
Friday night was the first stop on Moose Blood’s Australian adventure. Touring on the back of their new album “I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore”, they’ll be playing in all corners of […]
Saturday evening, the very first edition of Perth’s brand new monthly metal club, Hornography, took place. Metalheads both old and new flocked to the opening night, proving that gigs in this city can in […]
EVIL. OMINOUS. SYNTH. These were the overarching themes of Mortiis’s first Australian tour. The former Emperor member travelled to us from the far land of Norway, bringing his particular style of dark ambience down […]
On a chilly Saturday night in Scarborough, Radio Moscow played to a sold out Indi Bar and warmed our hearts with the soul of rock and roll. Want to know how it went? Well, […]
Liberation’s Fall is the debut release from Boston metallers Collector. It’s an interesting blend of styles with high ambitions, which I was keen to check out. One thing that came across to the album […]
Taking influences from a diverse range of styles – Stoner Rock, Metal, Blues, and blended with the anecdotal lyrical style of country, then spat in your face with the attitude of punk, Queensland rock […]
After their comeback album “At War With Reality”, the lads from Gothenburg have certainly had a challenge ahead of them. With the departure of their guitar player Anders Björler, they were down a songwriter. […]
On the back of his latest album Ámr and after playing over east with the likes of Belphegor and Revocation, Ihsahn brought his band to Perth for a chilly Tuesday night of heavy metal […]
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