When Grinspoon burst onto the Australian music scene with the sensational debut album Guide To Better Living in the late 1990s the whole rock/punk landscape in this country changed forever. Here was a brash, outspoken, talented as fuck group of individuals who showed no respect for the conventional laws of music and were more than […]
After being one of the many bands to have their plans thwarted by COVID, Swedish lords of riff Deville finally make their Australian debut when their tour kicks off in Adelaide on June 15. Blending a sublime mixture of rock, stoner and metal influences, Deville have managed to fabricate their own sound in a genre […]
After a long period of member changes – including around 40 in the first two years of the band – Berlin progressive metal outfit The Ocean have finally had a settled line-up for a prolonged period of time and the results are clearly evident in the consistently high-quality of releases enjoyed by the band in […]
In just six short years UK glam metal outfit Midnite City have forced themselves to the top rung of hair metal bands in the world. They have released three critically acclaimed albums – with the fourth, In At The Deep End set for release on June 23 – with their second album There Goes The […]
Do you remember what you were doing when you heard your first Winger song? Was it Madelaine? Or maybe Headed For A Heartache? Or any one of a number of other Winger classics such as Miles Away? Now, for the first time EVER, Australian and New Zealand fans get the chance to see Winger live […]
One of Australia’s most influential rock bands, Magic Dirt, are thrilled to announce their upcoming tour commemorating the 25th anniversary of their acclaimed second album, Young And Full Of The Devil. Released on Friday, April 7 via Emergency Music/Remote Control Records, the reissue of this seminal album marks a significant milestone in the band’s illustrious […]
Hot off the heels of the biggest North American stadium tour of 2022 with more than 1.3 million tickets sold, the world’s most iconic and celebrated rock legends Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe continue their 2023 co-headline The World Tour with the announcement of three exclusive Australian dates. Produced by Live Nation and presented by […]
This fall, the classic season for dark and romantic music, BLACK VEIL BRIDES and VV (VILLE VALO) will co-headline a massive tour in select cities across North America. Presented by Hot Topic, the BVB & VV 2023 Tour (featuring special guests DARK DIVINE) combines three unique bands who champion the heavy-hearted, hopeless, and broken with […]
Swedish riff lords Deville make their first trip to Australia this June after Covid halted their plans in 2020, having again announced plans for an extensive national tour on the back of multiple festival appearances and their latest album release Heavy Lies the Crown. Born in 2004, Deville have developed through a haze of Rock, […]
California’s bad boys of rock & roll, Eagles of Death Metal, are making their way down under for the first time since 2016 – the Palm Desert band set to perform eight huge shows across Australia and New Zealand this July/August. With tickets selling fast (the band’s Wellington show is now officially sold out), in […]
The fates have aligned in 2023, with Sydney heavy icons POLARIS today announcing their Fatalism Australian Tour this September. Set to launch their third full-length album Fatalism with a giant run of shows around the country, POLARIS will also be joined by three special guests all the way from America, including Pennsylvanian metalcore merchants AUGUST […]
Legendary punk rockers Lagwagon have announced they’re heading back to Australia & New Zealand in October/November for a special By Request Tour, inviting fans to choose their favourite Lagwagon songs and curate the band’s setlist for this tour. The tour promises to be an exceptional experience for fans who can dig deep into the band’s […]
Multi-platinum hard-rock heroes, EXTREME, are touring Australia in 2023 with their friends, LIVING COLOUR. Their first Melbourne show has sold out and due to huge popular demand, a second and final show has been added on Thursday, 14 September at The Forum. With the force of a Boston wrecking ball, EXTREME swings between unapologetic fits […]
Between now and July the anticipation will be high for the return of one of UK’s most successful modern rock bands, YOU ME AT SIX, to Australia. As part of their Truth Decay Tour with special guests Los Angeles-based trio SET IT OFF, YOU ME AT SIX are also delighted today to announce the addition […]
As the book The 100 Best Australian Albums highlighted, The Angels can lay claim to being Australia’s longest-lasting band. And with the band closing in on their 50th anniversary in 2024, they are embarking on an exciting new era, with the announcement of a brand-new lead singer. The band’s new frontman is a name very […]
Beloved Aussie rockers Grinspoon have today announced their Easy Detention national tour, celebrating iconic albums Easy (1999) and New Detention (2002), with first-ever vinyl pressings of both records set for release on Friday, September 8 and available to pre-order now. The tour will make its way around the country later this year in October and November, […]
Better Noise Music, home to bands including Five Finger Death Punch, The HU, Dirty Heads, Nothing More, Bad Wolves, Asking Alexandria and many more, have released their latest edition of The NOISE, their monthly trailer highlighting the label’s newest music. This month the trailer features: ASKING ALEXANDRIA shared Dark Void, the first preview of music […]
German metal commandos PRIMAL FEAR are finally back. Following the release of their chart-breaking album Metal Commando in 2020, the group have returned to unleash an 11-track magnum opus titled Code Red on September 1, 2023 through Atomic Fire. After unveiling the first details alongside announcing release supporting tour dates earlier this year, PRIMAL FEAR […]
Florida-via-Atlanta alt-metal band MOODRING are pleased to announce their forthcoming EP, titled YOUR LIGHT FADES AWAY. It arrives on July 14 via UNFD. To herald the new EP, the band has shared the visualizer for the new single WOULDYOUWAITFORME? The song epitomizes the band’s patented push-and-pull energy — where chunky guitar riffs collide with dreamy […]
“Every once in a while, we’ll harness some kind of magic, and I think we did on this one,” says Extreme frontman Gary Cherone of their new single Other Side Of The Rainbow. “It’s a universal theme. It’s about restoring someone’s faith in love… it’s the perfect marriage of lyrics and melody.” After leading with […]
Naarm’s Psychic Social Club are following up their newest indie-rock single We Don’t Talk with its hotly anticipated music video, depicting the tenacious track through a story of a relationship that’s run its course. We Don’t Talk is a cathartic unbottling of emotions; a meditation on past relationships that have faded over time. With its […]
After the success of their first album Odyssey of the Mind Western Australian thrash outfit Innasanatorium are back with the epic first single from their upcoming EP This Too Shall Pass, drawing from their old-school thrash roots and adding elements of prog and groove they have refined their sound with heavy hitting, groovy with soaring […]
Los Angeles’ Grammy-nominated and genre-bending rock outfit FEVER 333 have returned with $wing, their first studio single in three years, now available on all streaming platforms. $wing expands upon the band’s signature blend of rapid-fire rap cadences and visceral punk expression, coupled with frontman Jason Aalon Butler‘s socially conscious lyrics — this time taking aim […]
Emanating from Red Deer, Canada, Hooker Spit is an up-and-coming death metal band with a penchant for writing infectious riffs. The quintet is inspired by internationally acclaimed bands like At The Gates, Bloodbath, Carcass, and The Black Dahlia Murder. Filled with heavy chunky riffs, guttural vocals, and destructive drum grooves, Hooker Spit has developed a […]
California’s Split Image is announcing their latest single Demon Hunter. The band comments: “We have been busy rehearsing and recording new songs in preparation for our return since our tour last year. We would like to introduce “Demon Hunter,” an electrifying new single that will leave you on the edge of your seat. This intense, […]
Death thrash force DIETH – featuring Grammy Award-winning bassist David Ellefson, Swedish Grammy nominated guitarist/vocalist Guilherme Miranda (ex-Entombed A.D.) and drummer Michał Łysejko (ex-Decapitated) – will release their debut full-length, To Hell And Back, this Friday, June 2, 2023 via Napalm Records. Today, the band is thrilled to release their new single and bassist David […]
Following on from their widely-embraced EP All Things Considered, Tandanya/Adelaide-based pop-punk band Down And Out have just revealed their defiant new single Paper Skin, produced and mixed by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic, Yours Truly, RedHook) and mastered by Grant Berry of Fader Mastering. Paper Skin detonates with the confronting vocals of frontman Luke Ganeo, before […]
Denver stoner rockers Lost Relics have dropped their latest single Doomed From the Womb, the sophomore single is from their upcoming EP Die + Cry + Loathe, which is due to be released on June 23 via Iron Head Records. Doomed From the Womb brings hypnotic drum patterns and thick slabs of guitars. The powerful […]
With new track $$ THE PRICE TO PAY Austrian metalcore outlet Feeding The Wolves have released their most aggressive song to date. This song marks quite a shift from the band’s debut album Antagonist. The four-piece group decided not to add any clean vocals or overly melodic parts this time. The song focuses on what […]
Chester Doom is a rock and roll juggernaut that knows how to bring the house down. These lifelong musicians are on a mission to prove that rock and roll is alive and kicking harder than ever before by mixing equal parts punk rock attitude and Southern rock soul and drawing inspiration from the classic rock […]
Guitarist Jason Ashcraft (Helion Prime, Dire Peril, Planeswalker, Of Romulus) has teamed up with Stu Block (Into Eternity, ex-Iced Earth) to breathe new life into a re-recording of a Dire Peril song released back in 2014 My Vengeance Is Everything. This song is the title track on a new two-song EP, which also features a […]
Formed in Ballarat, Vic in April 2021, The Sinsemillian is a psychedelic metal outfit led by bassist/vocalist Jay Barrett along with guitarists Hayden Farlow & Val Perkins, keyboardist Sam Cougar, and drummer Zac Fernandez. There is no one way to describe The Sinsemillian sound. All five contribute ideas to each song written, and those ideas […]
In any serious conversation about death metal the name VOMITORY has to come up. Following their inception in 1989, between 1996 and 2011 they dropped eight of the most blistering albums the genre has spewed up, the quartet parting ways in 2013. However, the band’s retirement turned out to be short-lived, returning to stages in […]
IMMORTAL, the pioneers of Norwegian black metal, have released their long-awaited new studio album War Against All via Nuclear Blast Records. The band’s 10th studio album features 8 new songs in the classic IMMORTAL style. Alongside the album, IMMORTAL also release a brand-new lyric video for the song Return To Cold. The band’s founder Demonaz […]
On the same day that the all-star metal collaboration ELEGANT WEAPONS dropped their debut album, Horns for a Halo , they surprised fans by also releasing their latest music video for the album’s title track. Comprised of RAINBOW singer Ronnie Romero, JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner, URIAH HEEP bassist Dave Rimmer, and ACCEPT drummer Christopher […]
Prague formation STELLVRIS have released a new single called Scorpio, with which they follow the band’s new direction in cooperation with the American producer Jonathan Doles from KonKrete Studios LA (Cane Hill, For the Fallen Dreams and more). This time the band waded into more alternative waters and became harder compared to the previous two […]
A new chapter in the thrillingly theatrical story of Creeper today gets underway as the acclaimed UK band share their brand new single Cry To Heaven and announce the Friday, October 13 release of their third album Sanguivore. Creeper’s previous albums, Eternity, In Your Arms and Sex, Death & the Infinite Void, have seen the […]
Epitaph Records June 2 For more than three decades now American punk outfit Rancid has epitomized the word punk in music. Led by vocalist/guitarist Tim Armstrong, Rancid have released album after album of anarchic punk rock in the truest sense of the word. But thirty years in the music industry is a long time, especially […]
The Hollywood Vampires are an interesting blending of three seasoned musicians and one actor that are about as far removed from a supergroup as you could get. These guys play music together purely for fun, choosing covers which have impacted them throughout their life and career and adding that ever-elusive sense of genuine enjoyment to […]
The Hard-Ons are the epitome of the Australian spirit and approach to life in general. A mainstay on the punk music scene for just over four decades, the band have released thirteen albums to date, all laced with their laconic humour and catchy beats that ooze warmth and fun. The band dropped a bit of […]
Words by Jenna Flood Pix by Charlyn Cameron Emperor concluded the Australian leg of their current tour with yet another outstanding performance! Having already seen the Black Wizards in Melbourne and Sydney on this tour, I knew Brisbane was in for the show of a lifetime. The Brisbane date had come as a late addition […]
Earache Records June 2 Buckcherry are the quintessential rock outfit. Over the years they have delivered songs such as Crazy Bitch, So Hott, Sorry, Lit Up, Check Your Head and Time Bomb, and over the course of nine previous albums have set the standard exceedingly high in their chosen genre. And what does a band […]
EarMusic June 9 Words by Kris Peters Many people associate Extreme with their runaway freight train of a love song called More Than Words which was lifted from the band’s 1990 album Pornograffiti, when in fact that song, despite being a belter in its own right, was one of the softest songs produced before or […]
Director: Andy Muschietti Cast: Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemons, Antje Traue and Michael Keaton Warner Bros. Pictures presents “The Flash,” directed by Andy Muschietti (the “IT” films, “Mama”). Ezra Miller reprises their role as Barry Allen in the DC Super Hero’s first-ever standalone feature film. Worlds collide in “The Flash” when Barry […]
Jennifer Lawrence produces and stars in No Hard Feelings, a laugh-out-loud, edgy comedy from director Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys) and the co-writer of Bad Teacher. Maddie (Lawrence) thinks she’s found the answer to her financial troubles when she discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, and bring him […]
Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya, Dupa Lipa and Helen Mirren To live in Barbie Land […]
There are some roles that just seem perfect for an actor despite what people are saying online. When director Neil Jordan (Greta) decided to make a film about an older Phillip Marlowe it was pretty obvious that Liam Neeson (Taken) was the perfect choice. He can deliver drama, he can deliver action and he has […]
Take the sexual and criminal suspense of a 1990s erotic thriller and mix it with the sun-bathed French Riviera and what do you get? The answer is the fun-in—the-sun sexuality of director Nicolas Bedos’ (La belle epoque) brand new crime caper Masquerade which will take both characters and the audience on a journey of twists […]
Disney+ has released the gripping trailer for FX’s “Class of ‘09,” the limited series thriller from Tom Rob Smith starring Brian Tyree and Kate Mara, premiering June 21 exclusively on Disney+ in Australia. The key art was also revealed. “Class of ’09” is a suspenseful thriller limited series that follows a class of FBI agents set […]
