With the music world embroiled in turmoil like never before the time is ripe for a new musical entity to take over the airwaves. An outfit that embodies everything good about music and one that refuses to take a back seat to ANYTHING. In an era where all seems lost and the future looks bleak, the music community requires saving like never before, and from the ashes of potential oblivion, a new metal outfit is threatening to rise. Continue reading New Nu Metal Supergroup THE VIOLENT ...
Johnny Boxer is a legend on Australian screens. Through his role as Bobo the pizza chef on Fat Pizza to countless movie roles – usually as the tough guy or protagonist – Boxer has entertained a generation of fans. With his no-bullshit approach to life, Boxer has won as many fans as he has lost but one thing you are always guaranteed of when talking to him is you will always get the truth. Continue reading 12 Rounds With JOHNNY BOXER a.k.a BOBO #1 at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, ...
Welcome to the first of many âIn the Studioâ sessions with Mick J. Over the coming issues, Mick will be speaking to not only bands and musicians but also people involved in the music industry from all aspects including producers, mixers, mastering technicians, studio owners, managers and even guitar and amp technicians. IN THE STUDIO WITH … MAT ROBINS FROM CICADASTONE Welcome Mat to the first HEAVY In The Studio session! Continue reading In The Studio #1: CICADASTONE at HEAVY ...
This Goes To 11 is a new column hosted by Mark Dalbeth. Mark was born in New Zealand and now lives in Los Angeles, and would be better known in Australia as having been part of the band Bellusira. Following his dreams, Mark moved to LA and has been working on Rav Medic plus an exciting new project he has in the works. Continue reading This Goes To 11 #1 at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.
Bad Wolves have released the video for latest song “Learn To Walk Again” from last years album N.A.T.I.O.N. “Learn To Walk Again” will be featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming Better Noise Films release The Retaliators, which also has music from Tommy Lee, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills and Escape The Fate. Continue reading BAD WOLVES Take Another Step Forward at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.
Ever conscious of their surroundings, Sepultura have released the video for “Guardians of Earth” in collaboration with Amazon Frontlines. The lyrics for the song were inspired when frontman Derrick Green happened upon the groups Instagram page where the images struck such a chord that he felt compelled to document the events through verse. Watch “Guardians of Earth” below: Continue reading SEPULTURA Launch Environmentally Conscious Video For “Guardians Of ...
Hot on the heels of the announcement of their debut album last week, newly formed band Amahiru have today dropped the first single “Hours”. Offering an exciting taste of what is to follow, “Hours” showcases Amahiru’s unique sound, hard-edged guitar riffs and punchy drums and combines them with traditional Japanese sounds to provide a perfect unison of East meets West musically. Featuring FrĂŠdĂŠric Leclercq (Kreator, Sinsaenum, Ex-Dragonforce) and SAKI (Maryâs ...
When Ace Of Spades was released in 1980 the entire landscape of rock was forever changed. Mixing rock, hard rock, punk and heavy metal into one force by amping everything up to 11, Ace Of Spades pushed every known musical boundary and then some, creating the now Motorhead exclusive adage of Everything Louder Than Everything Else. Following on from last years anniversary editions of Overkill and Bomber, Motorheads most popular album Ace Of Spades will be re-released in deluxe editions on ...
Black Sabbath are widely regarded as one of the primary driving forces of metal. This is not an opinion, more a fact, and to reinforce this matter their defining album Paranoid this year celebrates its 50th year. On October 9 Paranoid will be released as a 5-LP/4CD edition featuring the vinyl debut of two 1970 concerts. The Super Deluxe Edition includes the original album, in addition to a rare 1974 Quad Mix of the album folded down to stereo, plus two concerts from 1970, from Montreux and ...
After the heights that Amaranthe reached with their 2018 album Helix there many asking was it possible for the Danish/Swedish outfit to out-do themselves again. Well a lot has happened in that time. The award winners signed to Nuclear Blast Records and have now recorded Manifest… an album that even out does its predecessor. âWell we did feel like we were on the right path with the previous album,â says vocalist Elize Ryd when I chat to her about Manifest. Continue reading AMARANTHE ...
With enigmatic vocalist Glenn Hughes out the front, The Dead Daisies are wasting no time in releasing new music with the band set to drop “Bustle And Flow” from their upcoming album Holy Ground. Featuring an all-star line-up, The Dead Daisies are more than just a supergroup. They are a group of performers in the peak of their career who ply their craft for pure enjoyment rather than corporate acceptance. Continue reading THE DEAD DAISIES Get A Move On at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, ...
New Zealand based artist VHIISIION has dropped his anticipated debut EP Evolve. Primarily known as a guitarist for Kaosis, VHIISIION has backed his resolve to cut a 5 track EP dripping with nu-metal nuances and rap sensibilities. Heavily guitar-based, Evolve refuses to be tied into one genre, with nu-metal, metalcore, punk and rap all combining to produce a fresh take on an aging sound that proves music has no limitations except those which you place on it. Continue reading A VHIISIION Of ...
Devildriver have spent the last two decades bludgeoning the ears of all those who stand in their way with an uncompromising and aggressive brand of metal that has seen them become one of the hardest working and respected bands in the metal scene. Without an original album since 2016’s Trust No-One Devildriver have responded in the best way possible, announcing a double album for release on October 2 via Napalm Records. Continue reading DEVILDRIVER Purge Their Demons at HEAVY Magazine ...
Album after album they have demanded the attention of every person that has encountered their sonic carnage: whether they wanted to be pummeled or not.
While there are many progressive heavy bands in existence within the world of metal there are few bands that stick out like the proverbial sore thumb like Germanyâs The Ocean. Yet, contrarily I find it criminal that they remain largely unknown and unheard of! Hopefully with their freshly released latest album, 2020 will see them receive the accolades that is worthy of their absolute brilliance. Their ability to stand out from the rest is down to both the aural and visual representation ...
With a career that has been forged over twenty five years, Norwegian progressive post-black metallers Enslaved have very little to prove to either themselves or their fans both old and new. Fifteen albums in, each new artistic journey sees the Enslaved collective breathe on old embers of inspiration and forge monstrous musical experiences from the flames born anew. 2020âs Utgard is a strange, wondrous journey that raises the eclectic, dark and heavy bar for these already inspiring and ...
One of the complaints I hear over and over again about the heavy music scene at the moment is âeveryone is making music that sounds like what everyone else is already doing.â Well if that is your beef time to flush out those cobwebs with the new album from Kiwi band Stalker. Stalker is a band with a sound so unique I am convinced that no one has even produced this sound before… and nobody ever will in the future. Continue reading STALKER “Black Majik Terror” at HEAVY ...
Itâs hard to think of Deftones (technically) being a band from the late 80s! After all the (then) four piece from Sacramento, California were stenciling out what would become the quintet which we all have had the pleasures of listening too from our various audible devises/ equipment which just like the band have evolved over the last 30 plus years as well. Before moving on from the history lesson it must be pointed out that Deftones has now existed in five different decades, howâs that for ...
With an effective blending of nu-metal, metalcore, punk and rap undertones, Evolve, the debut EP from New Zealand artist VHIISIION, is an outstanding effort from a performer still in the early stages of his career. This five-track release sees VHIISIION explore the many stages of the nu-metal movement, in the process creating an atmospheric and innovative approach to an aging formula. Each song maintains a raw intensity of rage over peace, with subtle breakdowns mixing through a mass of ...
Like all pioneers, legends, GODFATHERS of their breed, the mighty and magnificent Napalm Death need no introduction. True and unforgiving pioneers plus consistent leaders and redesigners of their brand. Napalm Death have never followed a familiar path but neither have they ever strayed from the world of carnage that they single handedly forged within the genre that they have alone engineered, pioneered and continually after almost forty years reinvigorated, regenerated and ...
