Cut from the same beer-stained cloth as the greats, UK stoner rock metal act ORANGE GOBLIN are still riding high and leading the pack in ‘balls to the wall’ heavy metal thunder. Emerging amid the exhilarating melee of the mid-â90s stoner rock and doom explosion, ORANGE GOBLIN immediately endeared themselves to a generation of metal fans by simply going […]
25 years ago, an album by an Australian punk outfit started making ripples in the music scene that quickly turned into rips in the very fabric of music. It typified the Australian laconic sense of humour and general apathy towards anything even remotely resembling authority, and would go on to become a landmark in Australian […]
After laying a solid platform last year with their debut EP Vol 1: Superdead metal outfit Suffer The Evenue have spent the last 12 months planning and refining the follow-up to best showcase their musical prowess. By harvesting the essence from their first release, Suffer The Evenue felt more comfortable following their creative instincts on […]
After taking a couple of years to fully find their feet again after a prolonged absence, Aussie funk/rock/metal dance machine Mammal are finally ready to unleash their second full-length album on the world with the release of The Penny Drop on March 6. After disbanding in the same year their debut album The Majority shocked […]
Alpha Wolf are deservedly riding the crest of a musical wave at the moment. After doing it tough for a few years, the band have settled into a metal groove, quickly forcing themselves into the top echelon of Australian metal bands. Following last weekend’s successful CVLTFEST in Brisbane and a new album Half Living Things […]
One of the best things about music festivals is getting the chance to be introduced to bands and new music that you might never have come across otherwise. HEAVY is in the double bonus position of sometimes getting to chat to these bands as well, as was the case last weekend when we were invited […]
Pioneers of Electronic Industrial Music, The Crystal Method, return to Australia from March 1 via Auckland on February 29 for a string of showstopping performances. Despite only 14 months elapsing since their last trip out here, such has been the demand for The Crystal Method to bring their music back that these new shows are […]
The world is starting to see what Australia has known for quite some time – The Southern River Band are the real deal. Hailing from Thornlie in Western Australia (Where? Exactly) SRB has spent years on the road and in the air, taking their full-throttle live show to anywhere with a stage and a bar, […]
The Outback Music Festival Group have today announced that they will stage the biggest-ever Bash event this August when the Broken Hill Mundi Mundi Bash kicks off on the iconic Outback plains outside Silverton, NSW. A record 14,000 festival goers will hit the road to the spectacular red earth site to take in a line-up […]
HEAVY is starting a new column this week when we present the Featured Album Review. But, in the usual HEAVY way, it has been done with a twist. HEAVY will review the new album first then interview the band where we will read our review track by track and see if we are on the […]
Ville Valo is here in 2 week’s time, marking his first visit in over 10 years. VV and his band will be delivering a comprehensive and career-spanning set taking in the greatest hits from his band HIM as well as material from his highly acclaimed VV album, Neon Noir. Joining him for all Australian shows […]
When it came time to find an Australian support to share the stage with them on their final tour, The Damned sent a list of potential bands. That “list” only had one name on it: The Hard Ons. No substitutes would be considered. As one of Australia’s most legendary punk purveyors, The Hard Ons need […]
Melbourne industrial titans Witchgrinder will release their highly anticipated third album, Nothing Stays Buried on March 28. To support the release they have just announced their Nothing Stays Buried Tour which will lay waste to venues across the land this April. Vocalist Travis Everett comments on the upcoming tour, âWith Witchgrinder freshly dropping our third […]
Bringing the noise firmly back in 2024, Australian behemoths ALPHA WOLF will embark on an Australian headline tour this August. Named for and celebrating their upcoming new album Half Living Things, the Half Living Things Australian Tour will continue the band’s explosive run of live shows of late along with some special international guests, including […]
Regurgitator have announced their It’s So InvasiveâŚTour 2024, spanning a colossal 21 dates across the nation this May and June. Itâs so invasive⌠Letâs get this flow on the road. This ainât no pop show⌠this here is an epic all-out crashing the rocks show. From a year past of Units, Kiss, Weezer, and a […]
The new era of alternative rock and punk in Australia is fast approaching, with NEW BLOOM FEST, a brand-new touring festival, set to launch next month. Prepare to witness some of the freshest up-and-coming artists in the scene, with three full days and multiple headline sideshows lined up for NEW BLOOM FEST in 2024. But […]
Melbourne’s BENGAL TIGERS are Australia’s premier old-school heavy metal band. Having formed back in 1979 the band was a big part of the scene during the 80s and 90s releasing legendary heavy metal anthems such as Cheat On and Break and Bend. Their 1982 Metal Fetish EP is a stone-cold classic and is still revered […]
This Saturday (02 March), Palaye Royale will be playing an acoustic show at The Regent in Los Angeles.100% of the proceeds from this special acoustic show will be donated to help support their mumâs courageous battle against stage four brain and lung cancer. For those fans not based in LA and those who missed out […]
The Midnight Devils are sweeping through Australia this July supporting Bon But Not Forgotten as they celebrate 50 years of AC/DC, but the hard-rocking glam party animals have also managed to score a few headline sideshows. With the Sydney sideshow at the Duke Of Enmore on July 11 being announced recently, today the Devils are […]
Sydney SKILLET fans you have created an absolute Monster by selling out the band’s show at The Metro in record time. The demand for tickets has been amazing, and organisers have announced that they are upgrading the venue from the totally sold-out Metro Theatre to The Enmore Theatre. So Panheads donât fear, a Hero has […]
Between You & Me have delivered more exciting news today, announcing a headline Australian tour in support of their highly anticipated SH!T YEAH EP, due for release on April 5. Proudly presented by triple j, Capital Artist Group, and Select Music, the five-date run will take place in May across Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and […]
Riding high from the release of their debut album Welcome Home in January, Melbourne metalcore /deathcore/techdeath outfit Roswell Deathsquad have announced an album relaunch show at Melbourneâs Workers Club on March 30.Formed from past and present band members of Festation, Harlott, Carthus, Mistress of Misery and Fear the Fallen, Roswell Deathsquad use these influences to […]
South Australian groove metal/hardcore hybrid Suffer The Evenue are premiering their latest track A New Empire through HEAVY today. The song, taken from the band’s new EP Vol 2: Superdeader – out April 12 – builds on the momentum Suffer The Evenue have built with Vol 1: Superdead, but also expands on their sound will […]
Oozing with sultry melodics and sweltering riffs, the brand new single Obsession from Melbourne rockers Thornhill, out today via UNFD, is a sharpened delight. Welding the rugged sensuality of Deftones together with Thornhill’s trademark beaming charisma, Obsession transcends into decadent waters, with vocalist Jacob Charlton unleashing on narcissistic desires against a primal sonic backdrop. Check […]
New Zealand indie-rockers PARK RD return with the new single, Every Night, their first new release for 2024. The single arrives in the midst of a busy summer of festivals in New Zealand as well as a support slot for Milky Chance earlier this month and The Band CAMINO next month, and follows from their […]
Alt-rock quartet Unpeople have announced the details of their debut, self-titled EP, that’s set for release on April 19 via SharpTone Records. In line with the announcement, the band have also released a video for their second single, Waste.
FLAMING WREKAGE arrives in 2024 with force, armed with their hardest-hitting record to date. Terra Inferna is without doubt the band’s most dynamic and accomplished record with the new track and second single Ghosts announcing itself immediately with FLAMING WREKAGEâS signature groove and pummelling drive. In what is undoubtedly one of the upcoming albums’ more […]
Sydney’s metalcore powerhouse Bury Me is poised to redefine their sound with the release of their latest single, Wayward, set to drop on February 23. The transformative track not only introduces a dynamic shift in the band’s lineup but also showcases a more refined direction that seamlessly blends clean vocals with aggressive, heavier sections in […]
Tweed Heads rock machine The Whiskeys are unleashing their debut single Hoedown on the world today, and you better be ready! The Whiskeys formed back in 2019 but spent the next few years refining and finding their sound through countless live shows and hours spent writing. Although having enough material to possibly record and release […]
Nuclear Blast RecordsRelease Date: 01.03.2024 Words by Greg Walker âSo, what was once forbidden becomes fringe, and what was fringe becomes mainstreamâ. And thus begins Ministryâs upcoming State Of The Union report Hopiumforthemasses, and perhaps aptly describing what Ministry has morphed into in later years: a project that was once considered fringe and venomous is […]
Pix by McBrad Media Words by Emma Moule Perched near the bar with a perfect view from the 308 merch desk, I watched as a diverse crowd of 80s punks and metalheads rapidly loaded into The Zoo, nearly hitting the 400-head capacity. Between the mowhawks and battle jackets this crossover gig was one to remember. […]
New World Artists March 6 Mammal has been right up there as one of my all-time favourite bands from the moment I stumbled across them in one of the side tents at the Gold Coast Big Day Out in 2009. I remember walking past the three-quarter full tent and hearing a rumbling mixture of rock, […]
Out Now Words by Greg Walker Mick Mars. Bob Alan Deal. B.A.D. by name, bad by nature. The name is synonymous with 80s Hollywood glam rock flagbearers MĂśtley CrĂźe, with Mick’s sound such a dominant factor in the formation of my heavy music tastes, a staple that remains to this very day. His bluesy grit […]
Pix by Kaotic Images Words by Lewd Scoff *Apologies to These Four Walls who I arrived too late to catch* I will admit I have only been a fan of Yorba Linda, California-based âpioneersâ of metalcore ATREYU since they changed their line-up in 2021. Before that, I always presumed, they were a MySpace scene band […]
Words by Matt New Pix by Angie New Photography Over the past few years, we have seen a resurgence in heavy genres such as Nu-Metal and Metalcore, and the market has been flooded with bands that can sometimes be indistinguishable from one another. One band that does not conform to the norm is the Californian […]
