Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
I’ve seen so many great L.A. Guns shows over the years starting out on their very first tour of the UK and catching pretty much every early UK visit after that (The Skid Row, L.A. […]
In some ways, the name Steve Adler is synonymous with the 80’s hard rock scene in Los Angeles. As the original drummer for Guns N’ Roses, his legacy was well cemented on “Appetite For […]
If you’ve not heard of Tax the Heat then you’re missing out as they have to be one of the most exciting ‘new’ Rock bands in the UK at the moment. we caught up […]
UK tech metallers Sikth are heading to Australia for the very first time, as special guests of The Contortionist who are headlining the tour in May. SikTh are one of the Great British pioneers whom […]
THE DEAD DAISIES released their new Album “BURN IT DOWN” via Spitfire Music / SPV on Friday, April 6th, 2018. Their 2018 WORLD TOUR is also set to Bring the Heat to a Town near you!! […]
American modern progressive metal innovators The Contortionist return to Australia as part of their Clairvoyant Tour, joined by special guests UK djent-metal pioneers SikTh – who will be making their first ever Australian appearances. We talk to The Contortionist vocalist Mike […]
TesseracT, a band that sit outside the bounds of any genre specificity, pioneers of the ever-evolving metal scene and unstoppable force of off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies and disorientating atmospherics release their fourth studio album […]
Looking down at the phone ringing, the caller ID said Thessaloniki, Greece. I thought I would be getting a call from the east coast instead of halfway around the world! So when I answered, […]
THE DEAD DAISIES release their new Album “BURN IT DOWN” via Spitfire Music / SPV on Friday, April 6th, 2018 as well as a 2018 WORLD TOUR which will Bring the Heat to a Town […]
Founded in 1982 the legendary trio Destruction reached the top of the national thrash metal movement, with albums such as ‘Infernal Overkill’ and ‘Eternal Devastation’ nestling in their impressive heavy metal canon. Even later […]
Progressive metal stalwarts Between The Buried And Me recently released their latest offering, “Automata I“, the first part of a 2 part double concept album. The story takes place in a dream world where […]
On March 13, 2018, Mark Knight & the Unsung Heroes released what I think is quite probably Mark’s finest album to date “Don’t Kill the Cat”. It’s an album that he’s been building to since […]
Death metal legends, Morbid Angel released their 9th studio album, Kingdoms Disdained worldwide on December 1st 2017. Kingdoms Disdained reunites guitarist and founder Trey Azagthoth with bassist and vocalist Steve Tucker to create a […]
A grimly glamorous ghoul who first slithered from the cobwebbed shadows of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 90s, Wednesday 13 has firmly established himself as the world’s premier purveyor of balls-out horror punk […]
It had been way too long since the last time Bay Area thrash veterans Death Angel were in Australia previous to their last visit in 2014 alongside Kreator so it’s especially exciting to see […]
After a false start a couple of years back now John Waite is finally headed down-under for the very first time. He’s one of the artists I’ve always wanted to see but have rarely been […]
If you’re a modern day Melodic Rock fan then it doesn’t get much better than W.E.T. the band that combines the talents of Eclipse’s Erik Martensson (Nordic Union, Ammunition), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Sons of […]
Australia’s best Power, Thrash & Melodic Metal bands will unite in Perth for the 5th installment of the annual Stormrider Heavy Metal Festival on April 7 at Badlands Bar. The 2018 festival will be […]
Sydney’s genre bending heavy act Black Rheno are currently on the road across Australia, taking on their most ambitious headline tour to date with a massive national tour hitting all major capitols plus a […]
Aussie metal legends King Parrot are heading back out on the road across country towns in Australia, dubbed the ‘Regional Rampage’ tour. The tour kicks off first in Melbourne at the first ever Download […]
Rose Tattoo are for many including myself ‘the’ great Aussie Rock band. Sure AC/DC made it bigger and burned brighter but the Tatts kept it dirtier, grittier and had the real passion and fury […]
Mark: Hi, Glenn, how are you? I must admit to being a long term fan of Squeeze, takes me back to my youth, and to find you guys coming over for the first time since […]
Call them what you will – Stoner rock, heavy metal, hard rock. Whichever it is, Red Fang know how to hammer out some truly great riff oriented rock n’ roll and this May sees […]
A highly complex construct of math metal, crushing death elements and virtuosic shoegaze moments is what the world can expect from this young Swedish quintet, but LETTERS FROM THE COLONY create more than just […]
Saxon is a band that gets better with age and this year they just released what even may be the finest of a very fine run of recent releases in ‘Thunderbolt’. We caught up with […]
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