When Chris and Renee Lahoud decide to commit to something, they most certainly go all in. Their upcoming self-titled album for Project 34 is nothing short of grandiose. In nature, composition and scope. Featuring over 30 musicians from 13 countries, Project 34 is more than a musical group. It is an expansion of your musical […]
Interview by CJ Nash Brisbane is about to get a new local music festival featuring a large spread of Australian and New Zealand bands that promises to reinvigorate the live music scene and interest on a massive scale. To be held on November 12 at the Mansfield Tavern, Kaiju Fest: The King Of Festivals will be brought to you […]
British outfit The Animals are one rocks most defining acts, ever. Period. Starting in the 1960s around the same time as The Beatles, The Animals revolutionised public perception of rock music, churning out hits like House of The Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Boom Boom, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, I […]
Western Australian metalcore outfit Make Them Suffer recently returned with their new single Doomswitch after a prolongued absence from the scene. Not only is it the band’s first new music in an age, Doomswitch also sees Make Them suffer welcome new member and former Drown This City vocalist Alex Reade. Doomswitch is everything you would […]
Think hard rock is dying slowly? Think again. Ion Sky are here to put that rumour to bed and then some with their blistering debut single Round The Neck. Introducing a classic metal post grunge hybrid rock style with a raw passion and energy only delivered by a band hungry and with something to prove, […]
Adelaide extreme metal outfit Freedom Of Fear have not only delivered a scintillating new album in the form of Carpathia, they have also raised the bar considerably when it comes to local releases such as this. A complete package mixing tech-death, black metal, goth and melodic death metal influences, Carpathia is more than a sophomore […]
In Hearts Wake have just two dates left on their Green Is The New Black Australian Tour, with a show at Vinnies on the Gold Coast tonight and one at the Northern in Byron Bay Saturday night. Joining them will be RedHook, Pridelands and Banks Arcade, with tickets moving quick which means pre-buy NOW to […]
Summer’s comin’, and what better way to melt into the warmer months of a new year than with an Australian tour from guitar lord Plini? Announcing a seven-date run covering Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, Plini will be bringing his astonishing live show alongside some very special guests, Canadian prog metallers Protest […]
In Hearts Wake are proud to announce that their documentary GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK is now available for streaming in Australia and New Zealand via iTunes and DocPlay, and is available for pre-order now. Conceived during the catastrophic bush fires of early 2020, filmed during the global pandemic and premiered as unprecedented floods devastated the […]
Roundhouse Entertainment, Frontier Touring and The Killers are thrilled to announce the special guests for their Imploding The Mirage Tour 2022 – the genre-busting pop narrator Alex Cameron with his full band, and Australian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer Jack Ladder. Joining the line-up in the Barossa Valley will be alt-pop faves Floodlights. Kicking off next […]
Danger! Danger! Detroit’s very own ELECTRIC SIX finally bring their sleazy fusion of rock and dance music back to Australia and NZ in March 2023 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Fire and Fan Faves. They say the only constant…is change. And they may have a point…. because for seventeen years Australia and New Zealand […]
The bloodiest date on the calendar is back for one last swing of the axe. HALLOWEEN, Sunday October 30. Dress ups are mandatory, so be in it to win it…. $250 plus Frankie’s Merch Pack for best n’ worst dressed. ABOUT THE BILL; All the way from the Ancient Sumerian banks of blood & bonhomie, […]
Australia’s biggest alternative travelling music festival, aka Good Things Festival is almost upon us and it’s the biggest one yet! We’re thrilled to announce Good Things Festival in Melbourne is SOLD OUT with Brisbane and Sydney not far behind. We’ve been warning you to grab your ticket, so don’t miss out as tickets fly out […]
After finally getting back on stage earlier this year to headline the Our Party! Festival in Brisbane, Industrial metal stalwarts OUR LAST ENEMY (SYD) + WITCHGRINDER (MELB) have decided to take the show on the road and hit up Sydney and Melbourne. “After the huge response our bands got in Brisbane, we thought why not […]
Melbourne metal stalwarts Frankenbok have undergone somewhat of a metamorphosis in recent times. Scaled back to a four-piece and with new bass player Owen Spratling joining Dan McDougall (vocals), Tom Rossell (drums) and Aaron Butler (guitar), Frankenbok earlier this year released their latest album Overdose. Overdose saw slightly new territory for Frankenbok, with a more […]
The crew at Vamped Up who are putting on the Rock Gods Cruise next year have put the call out for people to be involved in the shoot for a promotional video to be shot in Brisbane on November 9. Read the full statement below. “AWESOME OPPORTUNITY! ~ for the right actors to play as the […]
Evergreener are back to serve up a heavy-hitting cocktail of punk/grunge/post-hardcore with their new track Sinking. The Naarm/Melbourne-based group are set to release the track on Oct 21 with its equally epic music video, and have announced their debut EP After Thoughts, which is slated for release on Nov 18. Sinking will blow listeners right out […]
Today, Architects release their new studio album the classic symptoms of a broken spirit on Epitaph Records. To celebrate the release, Architects have announced an Australian tour. Presented by Live Nation, Unify and Triple J, the tour will see the band hitting our shores in February 2023 for the first time since their ARIA No.1 […]
ARIA and APRA nominated iconic Melbourne band Kingswood have today unveiled details about their forthcoming studio album Home featuring the new single Burning Holes. This is hands down the best writing to come from the Kingswood camp in recent times, and heralds a significant return to form for the critically acclaimed 4-piece. To celebrate, HEAVY […]
Western Australian glam rock machine Sisters Doll release their latest single Prisoner at midnight tonight, but HEAVY has been lucky enough to score the official premiere! Prisoner is about taking someone away from a toxic relationship and showing them the good side of life. In a world full of heartache and pain it can lead […]
Rising Newcastle-via-Athens quintet October Ends recently announced their new album PHASES, which arrives on October 28 via UNFD. Today, the band has shared the video for Call Me Before I’m Dead. As always, the video was produced and directed by the band, who like to keep things on the DIY tip. The song, described by […]
Circles‘ storm continues with the release of their most dynamic track yet, Echo out October 19. Echo and its accompanying music video comes as the third single of their upcoming EP The Stories We Are Afraid Of | Vol.1, the first part of the Melbourne progressive metal titan’s two-part concept record, out November 25. Continuing […]
Rising Brisbane hardcore outfit Till Ya Dead are today releasing the music video for their single Draw The Knife. Draw The Knife is the debut offering from Till Ya Dead and highlights the band’s aggressive approach to music beautifully. Written during COVID basically as a Fuck You to everything that was going on in the […]
Emerging blackened death metal quartet BLACK LAVA will release its debut full-length, Soul Furnace, on November 25, 2022 via Season of Mist. Black Lava was founded by drummer Dan Presland (Vipassi, A Million Dead Birds Laughing, ex-Ne Obliviscaris) and guitarist Ben Boyle (Vipassi, AMDBL, Hadal Maw). They draw influence from old school death and black […]
In their tenure as one of Australia’s most high-energy and well-respected punk/rock acts, The Wrath have broken down barriers between genres, both sound wise and visually, with conviction. The new single from The Wrath Wrong Side is now available on digital platforms via Riot Records.
After finding sonic heaven on earth via their EP CHRONICLES II: HEAVEN earlier this year, Melbourne’s Void Of Vision unforgettably spiral headfirst into the the abyss with a brand new single HELL HELL HELL. Stepping fearlessly beyond their previous works into more caustic and clear-cut new territory, HELL HELL HELL is a ferocious extension of […]
Doomswitch; a term used to describe a theoretical mechanism where an online poker site inflicts bad luck on a player. And, as of today, the very moniker sparking the start of a brand new chapter for Perth metalcore outfit Make Them Suffer, with their new single Doomswitch showcasing a renewed sonic spirit for the group, […]
Sydney rockers Whiteford have released their new single She’s Amazing via XMusic. The track comes off the band’s forthcoming acoustic EP, to be released November 11. Frontman Zarz says of the track ‘She’s Amazing is about celebrating the women in our lives. The ones that always stand by you, comfort you and always have your […]
Yuranga/Mildura-formed, Naarm/Melbourne-based indie-rock band Loose Bricks have just revealed their shimmering new single Right Now, produced and mixed by Oscar Dawson (Ali Barter, Holy Holy, Alex Lahey), and mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301. A fuzz-laden intro ignites the track, before the melting vocals of frontman Levi Smith provide fluorescent melodies that polish the […]
Out NowWords by Jimmy Glinster Now, before you all get your testies in a tangle about it not being Skid Row because Sebastian isn’t in the band, just shut the fuck up, because The Gang’s All Here! Well, a version of it anyway, so let’s not judge before we listen. I sure as hell won’t […]
Century Media Records Out NowWords by Jimmy Glinster Lacuna Coil, what do I know about them? Fuck all, really. I do know that they’ve been around a hell of a long time, since 1994 in fact, and that I’ve probably even seen them a couple of times here or there at the odd festival. I’m […]
Out Now Words by Jimmy Glinster I thought Sleeping with Sirens was an Australian band that I’d run into somewhere on the hardcore scene. Turns out I’m wrong about that, and they are actually from Orlando, Florida. Who knows who I thought they were, but never mind, I’ll get on with reviewing their latest Post-Hardcore […]
Out Now Words by Jimmy Glinster I’ve always struggled with the basis of my interest in Orianthi. Is it because she plays well, or because she’s not too shabby to look at? Well, either answer would be correct, but the real question is who wears their PRS better, Orianthi or I? Anyway, after a short […]
Pix by Squirty After months of anticipation, the Metal Gods Tour – featuring Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens and Simon Wright – hit Australia last night for the first show of the tour at Brisbane’s Mansfield Tavern. The crowd was massive before opener Motorized hit the stage and kept growing from there, and it was great to […]
The Dead Daisies PTY LTD / SPV Out Now The Dead Daisies are a band with a constantly evolving lineup. Since starting in 2013 they have welcomed and farewelled musicians such as John Corabi, Marco Mendoza, Dizzy Reed and Jon Stevens to name a few, placing emphasis on the quality of their music rather than […]
Epic RecordsOut Now Words by Jimmy Glinster Lamb of God have been on top of their game for some time now. Even back in the day when I had no idea who the fuck they were but ended up backstage at the Arena Brisbane chatting with a bunch of cool as fucks blokes from Virginia. […]
