Interviews with some of your all time favourites as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
“From The Very Depths” is the latest album from the original black metal band that is Venom. While the album is fantastic, it was not the focus of our conversation as we caught up […]
I still recall the moment I first heard Yngwie Malmsteen play the guitar, and it was nothing short of earth shattering. All my preconceptions about what was and wasn’t possible in the realm of […]
Swedish melodic death metal band The Haunted had a huge lineup change a couple of years ago but it only had a positive effect on the band as they returned with a new album […]
What’s left to say about the legendary grindcore band that is Napalm Death? Their blistering shows are a spectacle to watch and their music is as brutal as anything that’s out there and has […]
Founded 2004 in the secluded town of Arvika, Sweden, Enforcer have established themselves as the leaders of the new generation metal bands: devoted to the roots of real metal in any conceivable way, whether […]
It wasn’t that long ago that Australia had the privilege of experiencing Carcass on tour, less than a year ago actually and now they return this time opening for another legendary band – Napalm […]
Germany’s premier post-metal act, The Ocean Collective are returning to Australia in April 2015. THE OCEAN will be playing their highly acclaimed record Pelagial IN FULL for the very first time in Australia. Pelagial […]
When we first heard ‘The Heart and the Thrill’ we had no idea who The Battery Electric were, but sometimes life throws up gems like this, out of the blue. The Battery Electric bristle […]
UFO was the first band I ever saw live as a kid in Pireus, Greece – it was a bittersweet experience for a first show – the music blew me away from the off, […]
Tasmanian death metallers Psycroptic have a new album due out this week, a self titled effort that takes the listener into new directions while still retaining that heavy brutality that the band are known […]
One of the heaviest tours to come to Australia is coming this May with Decapitated and Suffocation, 2 great bands from different parts of the world bring a death metal storm down under. We […]
One of the best EP’s we heard in 2014 was UK band Shaft of Steel’s debut release. Alex Markham catches up to talk about the EP, that name, what rock really means these days […]
It’s been well over a decade since Papa Roach last toured in Australia so it was a big welcome back at the Soundwave festival last weekend. The band are set to perform at a […]
The Treatment is one of those young Rock bands that is holding teh torch for real Rock and Roll and they visit us for this year’s Soundwave Festival and a couple of choics Sidewave […]
Ragdoll is a band you need to hear if you love passionate Hard Rock, melding huge power with equally towering melody they sound like nothing else. Imagine Soundgarden growing up on the Suset Strip […]
Originally hailing from Jerusalem in Israel, black/thrash metal band Melechesh have come a long way in the two decades that they been creating music and 2015 sees the band release a new album titled […]
The last time we spoke to Cormac was on the eve of the release of The Answer’s last album ‘New Horizons’ and while that release placed highly in our ‘Albums of the Year’ poll, […]
Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker releases a new studio album entitled “Spirit On A Mission” in the UK on Monday 23rd March. Released by in-akustik, the album of all-new material features Schenker’s Temple of Rock band – ex-Scorpions Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass), ex-Rainbow’s Doogie White (vocals) […]
A lot of people may know who Joey Vera is, best known as the bassist in Armored Saint but currently he is also involved in Motor Sister, a new band that started out as […]
I was lucky enough to meet Scott last time his band Thin Lizzy toured Australia as part of the Kiss and Motley Crue tour back in 2013, we ended up talking about his new […]
Death metal has been around for a few decades now but when Polish band Decapitated came onto the scene, they became innovators on some level and helped steer technical death metal into the foray. […]
Night Ranger is the ultimate mid-eighties US Rock band, and Jack Baldes is so much more than their vocalist/guitarist. When the opportunity to speak to him about their upcoming UK date arose its was […]
Progressive black metal band Enslaved have a new album coming out entitled “In Time”, a solid collection of songs that continue on the progressive path that the band have been experimenting with for many […]
Back in the day (and here we are talking the very birth of Rock as we know it) URIAH HEEP was one of the ‘big four’ along with Purple, Sabbath and Zeppelin. Though histories, […]
It’s been 5 long years since we heard new material from 36 Crazy Fists but the wait is finally over! “Time And Trauma” is the latest effort from the now 20 year veteran band […]
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