Interviews with some of your all time favourites as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
This year Gov’t Mule celebrates 20 years of ‘kicking ass’ and they’re coming Down-Under to kick some serious ass here too! Hot on the back of last year’s sensational Shout! album The Mule head […]
These days the Melodic Rock scene has so many great bands you’d think that it would be hard to find one that truly shines out above the rest. We have found them, like many […]
Back in 1983 I bought the first Hellion EP. Listening to the ‘To Hellion and Back’ Anthology today the band has lost none of its power – and new music is on the way. […]
Tyketto was the band that should have been huge with songs most bands would die for and a vocalist with one of the best voices in the business. It was all a case of […]
Lacuna Coil is busy in the midst of their current US Tour, then it’s on to Mexico and South America to mark the first outing for material from the excellent new album ‘Broken Crown […]
One of the hottest metal tours coming to Australia in 2014 is Toxic Holocaust and Skeletonwitch, the latter which will be their first time on Australian soil. Skeletonwitch have only been around for a […]
In the extreme metal world, it’s fairly difficult to get much attention aside from the few hardcore fans that love that kind of music. But with the right attitude, some solid writing and obviously […]
Destrage have two albums behind them, but number three should open up their crazy world to all of us. Metal never sounded as original, crazy and chaotic as this! Mark talks to Matteo Digioia […]
It wasn’t too long ago that Australia was hit by Polish extreme metal band Behemoth when they toured the country and now they have just released their latest critically acclaimed album “The Satanist” which […]
Magnum is a band that has always had a legion of loyal fans in the UK and growing numbers in Europe. Their new album ‘Escape from the Shadow Garden’ is so good it could […]
A new musical force to be reckoned with is about to turn the rock world upside down with the release of their self-titled debut, KXM. KXM is comprised of dUg Pinnick of King’s X […]
Sadly to some outside the US Night Ranger has always been ‘just’ the band that did ‘Sister Christian’ Kelly Keagy’s monster ballad from 1984. Now that is where you’ve all been missing out because […]
UGLY KID JOE burned brightly for a time back in the nineties and at the height of their fame they were topping charts around the world, the guys did particularly well downunder and now […]
BETH HART has a truly remarkable voice and has played with some of the great rock guitarists like Jeff Beck, Slash and Joe Bonamassa. She’s visiting us in April for BLUESFEST, some solo shows […]
Re-born Aussie music legends, Boom Crash Opera have announced the release of a new greatest hits album, The Best Things featuring two brand new songs, as well as a four album box set, Rattle […]
We talk to main man Pete Cooper about the band’s resurfacing for Soundwave 2014 and what might lie ahead for Australian Ska’s finest. Mark: Thank you for taking the time to talk to […]
Hirax’s Katon W. De Pena is one of the great survivors of the 80’s Thrash Metal scene and his band Hirax is producing the music of their lives at the moment. One of the […]
Hardcore Superstar tour Australia in June 2018, ten years after their last visit to these shores when they hit just Melbourne and Sydney (I was lucky enough to be at that Sydney Show). It […]
Cult mythological metal warriors Absu are returning to Australia for another conquering tour and we managed to get a few words from their sacrilegious leader, Proscriptor regarding their extensive work and the final piece […]
With the recently remastered release of “Skydancer” which made it’s debut back in 1993 and the long awaited return to Australia, fans of Dark Tranquility have every reason to be excited in 2014. After […]
Rock music comes in all shapes and forms and last year’s Harlequin Dream showed a more soft rock side to Australia’s Boy and Bear, and it’s proving to be a sound that the world […]
Australian extreme metaller’s Portal are about to embark on a supporting tour with cult mythological metal warriors Absu in March for what is going to be one of the darkest and heaviest tours of […]
Not too many people may have heard of this band named Havok but to the hardcore thrash fans out there that follow the underground scene, they are a seriously amazing band that is slowly […]
Stuff Little Fingers was always head and shoulders above every other Punk band for me, and these days it’s hard to imagine bands like Green Day, Bad Religion or Therapy existing sounding like they […]
Sometimes you get to interview bands that really have something to say and over the years The Wonder Stuff has produced some great music. Miles Hunt is the sort of interviewee that you feel […]
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