Interview by Coco Le Sex Bomb While Northern NSW metal duo Beast Machine may have been around for a number of years, it is only recently that the band has managed to spread their name where it matters – the hearts and ears of a frustrated musical landscape yearning for something they can claim as […]
West Australian sun-baked heavy psych outfit Giant Dwarf have perhaps had it harder than most during recent lockdowns. Their home state was one of the toughest on restrictions and as such opened much after the rest of Australia, enforcing longer periods without live music and adding to growing frustrations. Now, with W.A on par with […]
With Death By Carrot’s Riffmageddon II scheduled to hit South East Queensland over four days next weekend, HEAVY felt compelled to reach out to some of the major players in an attempt to shed some light on this massive undertaking that takes in more than 60 cities over 14 weeks for Australia’s biggest and most […]
There’s a new Punisher in town – in Sydney to be more specific – but this time the punishment is more sonic than straight out violent. While it would be easy to picture the moshpit at a Punish show featuring moments of metal/punk infused violent tendencies, it also promises to be a land of musical […]
With Death By Carrot’s Riffmageddon II scheduled to hit South East Queensland over four days next weekend, HEAVY felt compelled to reach out to some of the major players in an attempt to shed some light on this massive undertaking that has taken in more than 60 cities over 14 weeks for Australia’s biggest and […]
Brisbane heavy rockers Krave are difficult to paint in one genre-specific corner. They are an amalgamation of rock, punk, metal and alternative styles that are given individuality and identity courtesy of a youthful exuberance that permeates through their music. Which is never more evident than with the band’s newest single Shapeshifting. Shapeshifting is yet another […]
Beast Machine‘s new single Look What You’ve Done is a song about addiction, specifically the opioid crisis in America and the mind-blowing fact the current abuse of OxyContin still rages today. The sample grab at the start of the song is from one of the ‘experts’ spruiking for the big pharmaceutical companies saying if the […]
The Hard-Ons kicked off their I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken tour – their first tour with new singer Tim Rogers – in March, only to hit a Covid hurdle after the first three shows. After the seemingly inevitable stop and start, the band is set to complete the tour with four shows in West Australia in August. Local support acts […]
Shortly after releasing their upcoming album, Divine Council (available August 5), Australian extreme metal group Psycroptic will co-headline a North American trek with tech-metal masters Fallujah, featuring progressive outfit Interloper and tech-death unit Cognitive as support. Dubbed The Divine Ascension Tour, this extensive run kicks off September 11 in Los Angeles, CA, and is one show not to be missed! Psycroptic‘s Todd Stern (bass) […]
The renowned and very much respected forefathers of Australian Nu-Metal, SUPERHEIST have delivered their highly anticipated new album MMXX which is OUT NOW through boutique Aussie heavy music label, Black Mountain Music/ MGM. MMXX is a frenetic artistic statement which marks another development for their 25+ year and now 6 studio album career, as MMXX sees guitarist and founding member […]
Stringing together the stunning recent singles from Slowly Slowly, the Melbourne indie faves have today announced their brand new album Daisy Chain, due out Friday 4 November via UNFD. Pre-orders for Daisy Chain will be available @ 9am on July 1. Set to unveil Slowly Slowly’s most ambitious and uninhibited selves yet to the world this November, Daisy Chain will also come armed with […]
Oakland’s Shannon & The Clams, who return to Australia in July and will appear on the Love Police Stage at Splendour in the Grass, have announced support acts for their headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong, Main support for the two Melbourne shows – the now-sold out show at Hotel Westwood, and the big Friday night at the […]
Ballarat, Australia’s Nicolas Cage Fighter is back with their latest single Compound and Fracture streaming now everywhere, including a brand new official video. The band says of Compound And Fracture, which is taken from their upcoming release The Bones That Grew From Pain, that it is: “basically the ‘fuck you’ song, it’s entirely centered around personal accountability and taking control of […]
Two years in the making, Destination Unknown is the second single from Superheist‘s new album MMXX, set for release on July 1. The video was filmed in Brisbane and created by Involuntary Muscle and filmed, directed and edited by Richard De Silva. It is a song that questions the future of the world and an […]
Aria Award-winning “Best Metal Band” Tropical Fu*k Storm have returned from their hugely successful sold-out European Vacation Tour. After catching up on some much-needed snooze time, they’ll be back at the nation’s domestic check-in counters, arguing with the airlines about the amount of excess baggage they need to make your ears bleed. Sydney it’s FINALLY your […]
We promised you something special for the second announcement for HEAVY’s 10th Birthday Bash at the Mansfield Tavern on August 20 and here it is… HEAVY is proud to announce local rock outfit THE POOR, who will be coming at you hard fresh from a European tour with the mighty Rose Tattoo! Joining them will […]
Black Mountain Studios July 1 Words by Greg Walker Having been a Superheist fan since 8 Miles High I found it equally as easy as it was difficult to write an unbiased review for their upcoming album MMXX. Main man dw Norton is acutely aware just how close Superheist is to my heart. Like many […]
Words by Jimmy Glinster Out Now Muzzlemouth came to us as a 3-piece indie rock band from the Northern Rivers NSW. With a total of 79 (and counting) followers on Instagram they are hoping that this review will push them over the illustrious 80 mark. Hell, this might even get ‘em a gig outside of […]
COLLISION COURSE OUT NOW Words by Jimmy Glinster Perth is a place on the other side of Australia, that no one really gives a rat’s ass about. Why, because it’s a fucking long way away, and to be perfectly honest, there’s fuck all there to care about. For some unknown reason, though, your rat’s ass […]
Out Now Goatsound/ Gamla Grind Order via: ghostsmokerau.bandcamp.com Words by Jimmy Glinster Ghostsmoker, that sounds a little bit scary, and I’d put money on these guys being some kind of doom band. I already knew that, though, because I read their press release, but let’s pretend I didn’t, and I’m just super intuitive and intelligent. […]
Words by Jimmy Glinster Pix by Rashid AlKamraikhi Thanks to the impending school holidays and the general cluster fuck of Southeast Queensland traffic, I rocked up fashionably late to Odius riffing the shit out of the place with their fresh twist on old-school thrash metal. Their performance was relentless and threatening, and their windmills of […]
OUT NOW Words by Michael Naidos While some of us are still the same old asshole we were in 2019, others used the last few years to grow, evolve and change for the better…others like OUR DYING WORLD. The Los Angeles melodic death metal band have leaned heavily more so on the melodic on their […]
Brand new NZ fim Whina is released in cinemas this week. We recently spoke to one of the films co-directors, Paula Whtu Jones, when she was in Australia for the Sydney Film Festival. You can take a listen to the full interview below:
The trailer, teaser art and stills for the highly anticipated Disney+ Original movie “Hocus Pocus 2,” reuniting Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, are now available. The live-action, long awaited sequel to the perennial Halloween classic, which brings back the delightfully wicked Sanderson sisters for more comedic mayhem, will debut on Disney+ on […]
I might be a cinema lover but I must admit that I do at times struggle with documentaries. Don’t get me wrong there are some grat docos out there but I do find that I struggle when I have to watch a doco on a subject that I care zero about and the doco is […]
MONSTER PICTURES in association with Signature Entertainment will release the latest Blumhouse Productions horror DASHCAM in Australian Cinemas from this Thursday, June 30. With a screenplay penned by Rob Savage, Gemma Hurley & Jed Shepherd, the writers of Shudder’s 2020 breakout horror HOST and directed once again by Savage, DASHCAM will do for night drives what JAWS did for beaches back in […]
South African actress Anja Taljaard chats to HEAVY Cinema about her role in new post-apocalyptic thriller Glasshouse. Take a listen to the full interview below:
Michelle Lynn Frederick aka Portia Chellelynn chats to HEAVY Cinema about her role in the brand new horror film H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House which is available now on streaming platforms. You can listen to the full interview below:
Filmmaker Bobby Easley chats to HEAVY Cinema about his brand new film H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House which is available on streaming platforms now. Take a listen to the full interview right here:
Filmmaker Allison Brownmoore chats to HEAVY Cinema about her brand new award winning short film The Amazing Adventures Of Awesome. Allison chats to HEAVY Cinema about how the film was inspired by her autistic son and how it can be used as a tool for those that want to better understand autism. You can listen […]
This week on Subculture we spoke to indie filmmaker Todd Sheets about his awesome new horror flick Final Caller which is available on a number of streaming platforms now. You can listen to the full interview below:
Brand new French film Lost Illusions has just hit cinemas and this week our very own Alex First, David Griffiths, Jacqui Hammerton and Peter Krausz went along and checked it out. You can hear their review right now:
Based on the best-selling book series by Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a live-action / CGI musical comedy that brings this beloved character to a new, global audience. When the Primm family (Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new […]
Chances are if you are a parent you have heard the Minions – those cute yellow little creatures that rarely say things that the average human can understandable – except of course unless that word is “BANANAS!!!” It is hard to believe that these cute little guys have been in our lives for 12 years […]
Brand new film Potato Dreams of America is available on VOD right now and this week the film’s director Wes Hurley sat down to talk to David Griffiths about the film. You can hear the full interview below:
With UK thriller Silent Cry getting a new life on Prime Video this week on Subculture we were joined by the film’s director Julian Richards to chat about the film. You can take a listen to the full interview below:
– Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, today announced that Michelle Keegan (Brassic, Our Girl) will lead the cast of Stan Original Series Ten Pound Poms, a six-part drama created by BAFTA-winning Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic, Ordinary Lies). Currently filming in New South Wales, the cast also includes Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones, Black Mirror) and Warren Brown (The Responder, Luther), alongside Australian actors Rob ...
Nobody makes films like Australian director Baz Luhrmann. Luhrmann’s own style of filmmaking was there for all to see with his 90s hit Strictly Moulin. From there he went from strength to strength wowing audiences with his own take on the classic Shakespearian tale of Romeo & Juliet and then of course came the gem […]
Brand new Iranian film A Hero has been winning awards left, right and centre. Now it has opened in Australian cinemas so we sent Dave Griffiths along to take a look. Have a listen to his full review right here:
Brand new French film The Kitchen Brigade is in cinemas now and we sent our very own Dave Griffiths along to the cinemas to check it out. Take a listen to his review below:
Lightyear is perhaps the origin story that you never knew you needed. When you consider that the now famous Buzz Lightyear was in fact one of the original toys in the Toy Story you would have to wonder how Disney and Pixar could make an origins story for him. But as the class saying goes […]
When you work as a film journalist you are going to come across some pretty disappointing films from time to time. You are always going to get the odd bad film but I think a film really becomes disappointing when you are expecting a lot from it. That was certainly the case for me with […]
One of my favourite television shows to ever air was The Secret Life Of Us. Prior to it airing in the late 90s most of the television shows that I had watched had been either sci-fi/fantasy or about people in jobs that I couldn’t relate to – police officers, fire fighters, pilots etc. But then […]
Shudder, AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, has acquired rights to the documentary, THIS IS GWAR, which gives rare insight into the 30-plus year career of one of the world’s most outrageous heavy metal bands, GWAR, known for their grotesque costumed characters and notoriously wild, fluid-soaked stage shows. The film, which world premiered at […]
Rhiannon Fish (The 100, Home and Away) steps into the lead role for the latest romance feature film from The Steve Jaggi Company (SJc), A Royal in Paradise. With production underway in South East Queensland, the film also stars Mitchell Bourke (The Family Law) as Rhiannon’s royal love interest.A Royal in Paradise is directed by Adrian Powers (Forbidden […]
For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those […]
