For a band who only released their debut EP Global Suicide a couple of years ago, Norwegian metalcore outfit Fixation are making big waves in the current music scene. After recent performances at festivals like Tons of Rock (NO), The Great Escape (UK), Summer Breeze (DE), as well as tour dates with well-established acts like […]
Bad Manners are ska/punk royalty. Period. No arguments, no debates, just pure, simple fact. With a track listing including Lip Up Fatty, Special Brew, Walking In The Sunshine, Lorraine, Just A Feeling, My Girl Lollipop, Inner London Violence and of course the ultimate knees-up Can Can, Bad Manners peaked back in the late 1970s, but […]
When it comes to drummers they don’t come more top-shelf than Carmine Appice. After leaving Ozzy Osbourne in the early 1980s, Appice decided he was done with working for other musicians and decided instead to forge his own path, with his own band. That band became King Kobra who burst onto the music scene in […]
Good Things 2023 is only months away, and with a line-up including Fall Out Boy, Limp Bizkit, Corey Taylor, Sepultura and Behemoth it is easy to get lost in the big names and the hype. But there are a plethora of bands that will potentially make up the next generation of music. Bands that might […]
Sunshine Coast masters of noise New Clear Vision returned for our listening pleasure last year with a fresh line-up and renewed vigor. A mainstay on the music scene for a number of years, New Clear Vision took a break that many hoped would be fleeting, with frontman and all-around nice guy Brad Bromfield promising there […]
Ahead of their debut EP release Sex and Feuds, The Dandys will be showcasing at BIGSOUND 2023. Just recently announced, the Brisbane/Meanjin-based punk/alt-rock darlings have been gifted a huge opportunity to perform at Australia’s most prestigous music industry event of the year. For those who can make it, catch the band performing on Tuesday, September […]
With a legendary line-up of Australian talent, featuring James Reyne, The Beautiful Girls, Kingswood, Dragon, Ash Grunwald, Sunny Coast Rude Boys & more, KickAss Festival have today announced the addition of another Australian mainstay, with iconic rock band The Choirboys joining the line-up. With 3 x ARIA Top 30 charting albums between 1983-1991, The Choirboys […]
Empire State Bastard’s debut album Rivers of Heresy adventurously probes almost every dark crevice imaginable from the myriad sounds of metal and genre-adjacent extremity. Their terrifying tourist trail visits slamming hardcore in the vein of Siege; frenetic thrash in Slayer’s ballpark; the claustrophobic sludge of Melvins; the freeform vocal dexterity of Mike Patton; and the […]
Swedish ethereal post-metal heavyweights KATATONIA return to Australia for their first headline tour in nearly a decade, solemnly setting the stage for a nocturne both crushing and exhilarating. Led by founding members Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström have always been and will for evermore be one thing—a vessel of deep emotion; shrouded in Scandinavian despair […]
It comes as no surprise that Australian’s are still Cyco for Mike with Suicidal Tendencies initial run of shows SELLING OUT in record time! Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne – all gone, with very limited tickets remaining for the Froth And Fury Festival in Adelaide. Due to that demand, there has been three new shows added! Melbourne’s […]
In a world obsessed with technology and the quick-fix band aid mentality, it is refreshing to see bands that still adhere primarily to the old-school formulas. When an album cycle meant getting out on the road and taking your music far and wide, engaging with old fans and connecting with new. “You tend to find […]
“…the music of Napalm Death and the ideas…it’s like running into a war! To make the whole experience of what it should be for people! Napalm Death is everything all at once, all the time!” – Barney Greenway On the verge of once again pummeling Australia to its knees on the back of their 2020 […]
Underground legends RUSSIAN CIRCLES have announced their return to Australian shores for the first time in five years and their return to New Zealand after 9 years, touring in support of their new album GNOSIS. The instrumental trio will bring their brooding and intense live show to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney & […]
Take everything you thought you know about Nu Metal and Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200. Your reward is this, the latest banger from Sunshine Coast noise merchants New Clear Vision. The New Rage is being released as audio-only today, with a mind-blowing video slated for the not-too-distant future, but what this track […]
Taking Back Sunday have announced their eighth studio album 152, set for release October 27, 2023, via Fantasy Records. Named for the section of road in North Carolina between Highpoint, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh where the band and their friends would meet up as teenagers, 152 is the multiplatinum selling rock band’s first full-length offering […]
New York City-based collective VRSTY (pronounced Varsity) — Joey Varela [vocals], Javy Dorrejo [bass], Chris Cody [drums], and Paul Gregory [guitar] — have announced their new album Levitate. The album is out October 27 via Spinefarm. Today, the band has shared the video for the kiss-off anthem Fuck You Forever, which opens Levitate and is […]
Boisterous thrash metal engine NERVOSA has revealed a brand-new official music video for the title track cut from their upcoming fierce fifth full-length, Jailbreak, out September 29, 2023 via Napalm Records. This uncontrollable assault shows the four women on top of their game and attacks with a relentless thrash metal chorus and roaring axe attacks. […]
Portland’s own DYING WISH have announced their new album Symptoms of Survival. It arrives on November 3 via SharpTone Records. To accompany this exciting news, the quartet has shared the video for Lost in the Fall. “Lost in the Fall is written about the natural untangling of a friendship or a relationship with someone over […]
BOYS LIKE GIRLS are excited to announce their first full-length album in 11 years, SUNDAY AT FOXWOODS, which will arrive October 20, 2023 via Fearless/Concord Records. The announcement is heralded by the release of CRY, the fourth preview of the upcoming record, which is available now at all DSPs. “I’m not really a campfire style […]
Guitarist Jason Hook is storming out of the gates with his new band FLAT BLACK. The former Five Finger Death Punch guitarist has recruited a trio of young and talented turks, and the band has signed with Fearless Records for its debut album, the details of which are TBA. The album, produced by Hook, was […]
Northern Irish metal outfit ARCHIVES have today announced their new album No Bliss In Ignorance and shared lead single No Sweat. No Bliss In Ignorance – out November 10, 2023 – illustrates how some things in life, however easier to ignore, will only hurt & bring you down in the long run if you choose […]
Extreme-progressive metal band TILL THE DIRT has released their debut album Outside The Spiral with Nuclear Blast Records. Spearheaded by influential metal legend Kelly Shaefer (ATHEIST), the newly formed group has defied the confines of death metal with a massively heavy sound influenced by the juxtaposing styles of grunge, black metal, jazz, rock, dark wave […]
Arizona death metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY return after a near decade-long hiatus with their new single and accompanying video for The Agony Seeping Storm. The track comes by way of the band’s first new full-length in a decade, set for release in 2024 via Metal Blade Records. JOB FOR A COWBOY released their Sun […]
On The World Don’t Owe You Anything – the lead single from Luca Brasi’s upcoming sixth studio album – the band doesn’t pull any punches. The Tasmanian/lutruwita-based group takes all the quiet introspection and soul-searching one does at life’s crossroads and shouts it to the heavens like they’re daring the sky to fight back. It […]
Explosions In The Sky have just shared Moving On, the second single from End, their first album in seven years, set for release September 15 via Spunk Records/Virgin Music Australia. Moving On delivers on the promise that End is the grandest Explosions in the Sky album to date – a latticework of ebullient guitar and […]
KK’S PRIEST – the iconic heavy metal group of iconic Judas Priest alum and GRAMMY Award winning/nominated musicians K.K. Downing (guitar) and Tim “Ripper” Owens (vocals), along with A.J. Mills (guitar), Tony Newton (bass) and Sean Elg (drums) – will proudly reveal their new sophomore offering, The Sinner Rides Again, on September 29, 2023 via […]
Cinematic duo SILENT SKIES have released the second new single from their upcoming third record – the harmonious Churches. The song, with its dynamic progression, effervescent character, and majestic build, showcases more wonderful nuances from the new studio album, Dormant, which releases September 1, 2023 via Napalm Records. The single release is paired with a […]
British heavyweights Heart Of A Coward have stared pre-orders for their brand new album called This Place Only Brings Death, set for September 22 via Arising Empire. Today Heart of A Coward present their brand new single Surrender To Failure delving deep into themes of despair, internal struggle, and self-doubt. The new single evokes a […]
Swedish alternative metalcore outfit Imminence have, during the last few years, established their own highly unique brand and have done their part to push the genre beyond expectations. With the distinct use of classical string arrangements blended with the influence of ferocious Scandinavian metal, the sound and visual universe of the quintet stands out as […]
SPIRITBOX have announced their new EP The Fear of Fear. Set for release on November 3 via Rise Records/Pale Chord, The Fear of Fear is highlighted by a new single, Jaded and its accompanying cinematic music video. The Fear of Fear builds on the band’s momentum from their massively successful 2021 debut album Eternal Blue, […]
British rock luminaries ASKING ALEXANDRIA have spent the past 15 years garnering two #1 albums, four RIAA Gold-certified singles and a #1 Active Rock radio-charting single among several Top 10-landing hits. The band have established themselves as one of the most important rock groups of this generation through years of hard touring, supporting massive bands […]
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA have shared the new version of their single Salt, which appears on 2022’s Color Decay. This reimagined version features Dayseeker vocalist Rory Rodriguez. “After playing Salt around the world for the last year, it became obvious that something was happening with the connection of this song and we wanted to do […]
Nuclear Blast Records August 25 This is going to be an interesting review for me because it’s actually the first one I have ever done based solely on the quality of conversation I had with the band when I did the interview. Legend has it that Till The Dirt frontman Kelly Shaefer is known as […]
Golden Robot Records 25 August 2023 Shepherds Reign are a band packed with might and power. The five-piece Polynesian outfit from South Auckland, NZ, are a melting pot of influences and sounds. Their lyrics are almost exclusively sung in Samoan, and musically they deliver thundering, pulsing, pure metal that carries those lyrics with intensity. Samoa […]
This week on The Popcorn Conspiracy we were joined by director Paul Goldman to chat about his latest film – Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story. Take a listen to the interview right here:
Director: Emma Tammi Writer/Producer: Scott Cawthon Writer: Emma Tammi Writer: Seth Cuddeback Producer: Jason Blum Executive Producer: Bea Sequeira Executive Producer: Russell Binder Executive Producer: Marc Mostman Executive Producer: Christopher H. Warner Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Kat Conner Sterling and Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard Can you survive five nights? The terrifying horror game phenomenon ...
When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The MIGHTY PUPS! For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new powers are a dream come true. But things take a turn for the worse when the pups’ archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail […]
The award-winning Australian drama, SHAYDA, from Iranian-Australian debut writer and director Noora Niasari, has been announced as the official Australian submission for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. SHAYDA had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition in January, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. The film then opened the Melbourne […]
Blue Beetle Warner Bros. Pictures Release Date: September 14 From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the feature film Blue Beetle, marking the DC Superhero’s first time on the big screen. The film, directed by Angel Manuel Soto, stars Xolo Maridueña in the title role as well as his alter ego, Jaime Reyes. Recent college grad Jaime […]
The Adelaide Film Festival has announced that Kitty Green’s social thriller The Royal Hotel, filmed in South Australia, will be the Opening Night film of the 2023 Festival on Wednesday October 18. Director and co-writer Kitty Green will attend the Opening Night Gala and walk the red carpet alongside one of the film’s stars, and Adelaide Film […]
Disaster movies don’t normally come with a serious storyline. Normally they are films full of amazing special effects, loud noises and people running for their lives. A decent screenplay is normally the last thing on the filmmakers’ minds – but the latest film from South Korean director Kim Yong-hwa (Take Off) bucks that trend as […]
It is probably difficult for a lot of people to fathom but there was actually a time before mobile phones were a thing. I remember buying my first when I was at uni and at the instance of a friend who was tired of not being able to contact me when I was out and […]
David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths discuss what are the best Australian films of all time. Take a listen to their discussion right here:
The Popcorn Conspiracy Ep #024 is now online. In this episode David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths review BlackBerry, Asteroid City, Godland, The Beanie Bubble, The Moon and Meg 2: The Trench. You can take a listen to the episode right here:
The Popcorn Conspiracy Ep #023 has just landed and this week it sees David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths review Gran Turismo, Dracula: Voyage Of The Demeter and Chevalier. They also take a look at what they believe are the best films about musicians.
Over the past few years the amount of laugh out loud comedies that have been released in cinemas has been pretty low. It’s strange given that with the way the world is today what most people probably need to do is laugh – well now the time to laugh has come in the form of […]
On September 7 New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller The Nun II, the next chapter in the story of The Nun. 1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun. […]
