Interviews with some of your all time favourites as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
“Get ready, we’re coming. Open me an oil can of Fosters, I’m on my way!” Mark Tornillo is excited to return to Australia as German metal legends Accept get ready to perform an exclusive show […]
Make Them Suffer have had the pedal to the metal since the release of their last album, Old Souls, in 2015. The band has toured relentlessly both at home and abroad with artists including Parkway Drive, Architects, In […]
It’s a great combination for a tour, Ministry and Filter. Two juggernauts of the industrial metal revolution joining together for a trek across Australia – or at least on the east coast anyway with […]
Polish Technical Death Metal legends Decapitated released their new album ‘Anticult’ on July 7th, their third effort with Nuclear Blast. Anticult is a groove based metal record that is more compact and to the […]
British Space-age progressive virtuosos Haken are touring Australia for the first time ever in their 10 year career, bringing their technical wizardry and 80’s inspired synth rock to the Aussie audiences. Their latest album […]
Founding members of Sepultura and brothers in metal, Max Cavalera and Iggor Cavalera are coming to Australia to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary album ‘Roots’ – to be played in its entirety […]
STARSET’S musical vision is only understood by entering the psyche of founding member and multi instrumental vocalist, Dustin Bates. Bates – a graduate with a Masters degree in electrical engineering, who taught at the […]
Melbourne heavy hitters Alpha Wolf have been enjoying huge success as of late, coming off an east coast Australian run alongside Aversions Crown and Boris The Blade and scoring a support slot with Aussie […]
Ahead of their album launch at Badlands Bar on Friday 14th July we caught up with Maverick to find out all about Australia’s newest and most authentic 70’s styled rockers… The Rockpit: It’s been a while […]
The Mutation interview: where do we start? Boredom, mental health, the end of the world and the Monk vs. Minstrel debate, or Country music, melody and the meaning of life – you choose… In […]
Irish pagan black metallers, Primordial make their Australia debut this week with 2 exclusive shows in Melbourne and Sydney and we caught a few words our way from the band ahead of the shows. […]
After a dozen acclaimed albums, virtuoso slide guitarist and bandleader Sonny Landreth found himself at an artistic crossroads. He wanted to finally create the full – length acoustic collection his fans had long requested. But […]
Rex Brown always seemed to be a rock n’ roll dude despite his history with some of the most legendary bands in metal history, his playing style and demeanour as well as his stage […]
“Billy Milano, a voracious reader, avid cook and a Proud and Loud Republican, inadvertently resurrected his hardcore punk rock band in a time when he needed it most. You’d be mistaken to assume anything […]
Gene Loves Jezebel has just released the album of their career thirty years after the seminal ‘House of Dolls’ album which in 1987 should have been the album to catapult them to the big time. […]
In the unlikely event that my nerves got the best of me the night I met Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein of Doyle and the Misfits, (not to mention crediting the Misfits with the creation […]
Richie Kotzen is perhaps best known for the illustrious band projects he’s been a part of over the years but for those with a great ear for music it’s in his solo work that the […]
The Dives are a New York City based rock n’ roll band that takes influences from the classics like the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Zeppelin with modern pop punk like Greenday but forged within […]
Hailing from New Jersey/New York, ILL NIÑO are a not just a meteorological event, they are a musical force to be reckoned with. Their revered album ‘Revolution Revolución’ marked what was the beginning for […]
Metal goddess Elina Siirala has come to earth from the Nation of Angels to take the mic and front Leaves’ Eyes for what has proven to be an epic move for the band. Siirala’s […]
Polish death metal veterans Vader join forces with German thrashers Kreator in Australia this September for a double bill of extreme metal at it’s best. Touring in support of their latest album “The Empire”, […]
This year The Rockpit had a chance to sit down with a couple of artists at this year’s Rock On The Range Festival in Columbus, Ohio which was headlined by Metallica, Korn and originally with […]
If Volumes can be defined by two things, it’s a commitment to heavy, dynamic music…and confidence. The Los Angeles-based metalcore quintet, rounded out by Myke Terry [vocals], Gus Farias [vocals], Diego Farias [guitar], Raad Soudani [bass] […]
The Ultimate Eagles are in Australia for their first ever tour Downunder. Already an international phenomenon, they have become a brand name in their own right, performing to over 500,000 fans worldwide and clocking up […]
American rock duo ’68 (featuring Josh Scogin ex-The Chariot/Norma Jean) are set to release their forthcoming album Two Parts Viper on Friday 2 June. On top of that, the pair are hitting Australia for a […]
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