Reviews of live concert performances and events with full photo galleries.
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 […]
For forty years British hard rock legends Whitesnake are rocking hard for their fans, and are not showing any signs of slowing down. Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame inductee and founding member David Coverdale and […]
Who would’ve thought? Finally Japan’s finest metal band Loudness are touring Australia 38 years into their highly successful and prolific career. Last night Melbourne was first up and treated to a master class in […]
Wildly popular and eccentric emo driven hard rock band Black Veil Bride’s frontman Andy Black (Biersack) just dropped his sophomore solo album called The Ghost of Ohio and immediately went on tour to support […]
Finnish melodic death metal giants Kalmah remains a myth to the North American public until now. Formed all the way back in 1998, they have never toured here. Fans of the genre and the […]
Sevendust have been trekking across Australia this past week as part of their tour supporting the latest album “All I See Is War” and it all ended in Perth on Tuesday night. Steve Monaghan […]
It was throwback Friday this past weekend at the RockStar Music Hall in Windsor, ON. The Killer Dwarfs graced us with their presence for an evening of good old fashioned hard rock. If you […]
Black Label Society–guitarist Zakk Wylde’s home away from Ozzy for a full twenty years now–rallied its Colorado “chapter” with a pair of deep-voiced and vigorous shows that celebrated the band’s origins as well as […]
Riding high on the success of their latest album “When Legends Rise”, Godsmack have been hitting the road hard this past year or so with the now veteran act hitting NOrth America for yet […]
American deathcore stars Whitechapel just kicked off the tour Chaos & Carnage, co-headlining with American death metal mainstays from Maryland Dying Fetus. They are supported by Revocation, Fallujah, Spite, Uncured and Buried Above Ground. […]
Belgian death metal mainstays Aborted are touring North America in a tour bluntly named Hell Over North America, delivering brutal death metal to the masses of this great continent. They are doing so with […]
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