Reviews of live concert performances and events with full photo galleries.
Last Saturday night the cosy little atmosphere at Lucy’s Love Shack was rattled by a monstrous night of punk rock as Nick Oliveri and Svetlanas bring their tour to Perth. It was a different […]
Shinedown have been hitting the road hard since the release of their latest album “Attention Attention” last year and their current North American run sees the band hit all corners of the States including […]
With the onset of a freezing winter well and truly in effect, it was time to rug up and head out to Badlands Bar for an evening of live Heavy Metal with some of […]
Tonight Perth saw the final stop on the Australian tour for two of metals giants – Born Of Osiris and Chelsea Grin. Here is how it went down. Upon arrival it was clear […]
Heading into the venue tonight I realised that I was about to see 3 bands with a collective history of 100+ years yet amazingly I’ve never owned an album by either band and aside from […]
Girlschool touring Australia after 40 years is certainly an event of note. Never mind all-girl bands, not many bands can match the sheer bloody-minded determination that has seen them from the late 70s until […]
Loyal metal fans headed down to the Civic in Inglewood on a wet Wednesday night to experience the onslaught of this massive six band line up. First up was Perth black metal four piece […]
In 2018, a new event celebrating all things metal was launched; Metal United saw events simultaneously occurring across numerous countries and continents. This year, Perth joined the ranks for the first time! The Civic […]
British grunge, hard rock band Bush and American alternative rock giants Live joined forces for co-headline summer tour called Alt-Imate, in order to celebrate 25th anniversary of their respective groundbreaking albums, Sixteen Stone by […]
This Thursdays show in New York City was twice the occasion. First of all, a popular Manhattan bar/club Mercury Lounge was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and popular local New York City band Killcode played […]
Swiss metal duo Bolzer took the Aussie reigns this past week with a headline run of shows which ended in Perth on Sunday night. I for one was really looking forward to this […]
Rocklahoma has come and gone for another year and it was another massive event as always spreading across the long weekend in the state of Oklahoma. Full report is below. You know the […]
The poster advertising this gig was somewhat perplexing…Graham Bonnet with Alcatrazz playing Rainbow’s “Down To Earth” and classics from Alcatrazz and Michael Schenker Group – talk about covering (almost) all bases! Fact is Bonnet […]
American Death Metal band Deicide just wrapped up this Saturday their spring tour in New York City’s The Gramercy Theatre. They toured together with Origin, Jungle Rot and The Absence with a run consisting […]
Thrash metal legends Slayer are currently on the second leg of Final World Tour, celebrating their almost four decades of excellence in heavy music. Will it be really their last one, we will see. […]
The Sands Event Center in Bethlehem, PA was packed from front to back on Tuesday, May 21st hosting one of the great classic rock acts of all time – Styx. Styx kicked off […]
Finland’s fun lovin’, beer swilling folk heroes Korpiklaani returned to Australia this past week with the final show hitting Perth on Sunday night. A decent turnout along with a few surprises along the way […]
Freo.Social in Fremantle is quickly gathering a fine reputation with both artists and audiences as the place to play and the place to be and tonight’s show pushed the venue to its capacity for […]
In This Moment teamed up with Sevendust, Light The Torch and Japan’s Hyde for a short run of shows across the US through May. The tour hit the tail end in Mankato, Minnesota at […]
The Winery Dogs played the main room at First Avenue last night for the 1st time to a very enthusiastic crowd. Mixing rock fans and local musicians, it reminded me of an old school […]
2016 was the year Eluveitie last visited our shores. They return to us with a new lineup and two new albums under their belt. Perth welcomed the Swiss, folk-metallers with open arms on the […]
The Screaming Jets roared into town on their one-show WA leg of the ‘Dirty Thirty’ Tour, as they celebrate thirty years of rocking the world with their rip-roaring Aussie pub rock that has made […]
Well, well, well….with over 30 years of attending live music events and here in 2019 thinking I’d probably witnessed it all, Tobias Sammett’s Avantasia nonchantly takes the stage to deliver nothing short of a […]
Brisbane was home to the final show of the The Painted Progression tour which featured an incredible lineup of some of prog metal’s most valued acts coming from not only Australia but from the […]
British rock band Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) has become somewhat a polarizer in the metal/rock community. With their earlier works being in true deathcore style, the band slowly started to change their sound […]
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