Reviews of live concert performances and events with full photo galleries.
Tuesday night was the first show of Tesseract’s Australian tour in support of their latest album Sonder. With Perth being their first stop on the way, we went along to Capitol to check out […]
It’s been another particularly strong year for metal bands touring Australia and Dragonland’s visit down under was extra special, considering how rare their live performances are. With 3 shows in Japan and then the […]
Coming all the way from Germany, three piece psych blues rock act Samsara Blues Experiment kicked off their first ever tour in Australia in Perth at this year’s Armageddoom event which featured a mix […]
Norwegian black metal band Satyricon kicked off their Australian tour in style at the Capitol this Tuesday in Perth in support of their latest album “Deep Calleth Upon Deep”. When I think of shows […]
Friday night was the first stop on Moose Blood’s Australian adventure. Touring on the back of their new album “I Don’t Think I Can Do This Anymore”, they’ll be playing in all corners of […]
Ace Frehley and Gene Simmons, being two of the most recognisable and iconic figures in rock music, need no introduction. With this year marking the 40th anniversary of their respective KISS solo albums, this […]
Perth’s Metal Horde were in their element last night, withstanding fierce winds and record-breaking winter rains to experience Scandinavian Metal Giants ENSLAVED, SOLSTAFIR and Local Legends WARDAEMONIC at one of Perth’s best live music […]
Canadian tech death metal outfit Archspire ended their first ever Australian tour in Perth on Sunday night to a packed crowd, a sign that metal is alive and well is the wild west coast. […]
Saturday evening, the very first edition of Perth’s brand new monthly metal club, Hornography, took place. Metalheads both old and new flocked to the opening night, proving that gigs in this city can in […]
Alkaline Trio headlined at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on Sunday August 19th. The band was playing as part of their North American tour in support of their new album “Is This Thing Cursed?”. […]
Someone alert the circus folk that they should change their tag line from “The Greatest Show On Earth” to something else because the greatest show on earth isn’t found in three rings anymore. The […]
Getting close to 30 years now since Stryper first hit up Melbourne, to say much has happened in those years for the band is an understatement. No less, on this their first visit since […]
If ever there was a year of iconic music then 1976 had it all. Bands like The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Queen and Genesis were all producing high quality records that would eventually stand the tests […]
Perth’s best mini metal festival, Rust In Perth (RIP), hit for the seventh year with a plentiful turnout much like previous years. A generous 16 band line up over two stages at The Civic […]
3 Doors Down and Collective Soul are inviting fans aboard The Rock & Roll Express Tour this summer with special guest Soul Asylum on select dates. Produced by Live Nation, the amphitheater outing will […]
EVIL. OMINOUS. SYNTH. These were the overarching themes of Mortiis’s first Australian tour. The former Emperor member travelled to us from the far land of Norway, bringing his particular style of dark ambience down […]
The behemoth that is Machine Head rolled into Perth on Tuesday night to end their massive Australasia tour that took in Japan, New Zealand and Australia and what fitting way to close out the […]
Saturday, July 21 brought Buckcherry to the Criterion in Oklahoma City for a rousing show full of surprises. The first was the opening band, Killer Strut, a local band from Oklahoma City but there […]
With Lloyd Spiegel’s latest release “Backroads” currently sitting No1 on the Australian Blues & Roots charts, it was no surprise that The Ellington would be a sell-out on a Thursday night. The dimly lit […]
With a rather fine self-titled solo album to launch (his 7th in all) Ian Moss packed out Perth’s Astor theatre tonight despite the weather deciding to make things difficult, dumping rain and howling winds […]
Rock and heavy metal entertainers, Vince Neil, Cinderella’s Tom Keifer, Lita Ford, Great White and Quiet Riot make up the Island Rock Party which was held at the Treasure Island Amphitheater during the annual […]
As torrential rain and wild winds battered the outside of Scarborough’s Indi Bar on Saturday Night, inside it was a night of mainly wild, live music that was making an impression on the gathering […]
To celebrate 26 years of their seminal debut album, Aussie stoner rockers Tumbleweed hit the road to perform the album in it’s entirety, kicking off on the west coast this weekend before hitting the […]
On a chilly Saturday night in Scarborough, Radio Moscow played to a sold out Indi Bar and warmed our hearts with the soul of rock and roll. Want to know how it went? Well, […]
There are few Australian bands with the pedigree of The Angels and none we’d ague with a catalogue quite like they have built over the years. Tonight The Angels’ 40th Anniversary Tour of the classic […]
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