Words by Coco Le Sex Bomb Osaka Punch are justifiably riding the crest of a musical wave at present. Their long-awaited album Mixed Ape has come out to rave reviews and the tour by the same name kicked off recently in Brisbane to a packed house at The Triffid. If you aren’t familiar with Osaka […]
What better way to celebrate forty years of blood, sweat and beers in the music industry than to announce your final ever tour? While some may brush it off as a clever marketing strategy, those who have followed punk stalwarts NOFX for the duration of their career will know and understand the gravity of the […]
“Over the years I would laugh and joke “Oh yeah, this’ll go down in the book!” Ya know, talk about some stupid silly shit I did or whatever a long time ago…That was a part of my humor I suppose!” Over my decades as a metal / heavy music “journalist”, I think to myself that […]
Springfield rock outfit Staind are universally recognised for their 2001 smash hit balled It’s Been A While. Unfortunately, many people in the hard rock and metal world wrote the band off because of the global success of that song, failing to care or acknowledge the fact that Staind came from much heavier pastures. Their early […]
Three greats of Heavy Metal are joining together for Metal Forces, a spectacular celebration of balls to the wall rock next March. Featuring Ross “The Boss” Friedman, Anvil and The Rods, this is one tour you definitely do not want to miss. American metal and punk legend Ross The Boss, co-founder of one of the […]
After a two year break due to the pandemic, the National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) returned for their 6th annual event last night, with over 60 awards handed out at eight events held simultaneously across the country – one in every state and territory. The big winners of the night were Victoria’s Amyl and the […]
It’s every touring musician’s worst nightmare. Having your tour van broken into and finding the lowlifes stole things precious and essential to being able to play live on stage. System Of A Down tribute outfit Chop Suey – who have long been friends of HEAVY – had this happen to them recently in Athens and […]
Swedish hard rock outfit Bonafide are set to drop their first new album in six years. Following the forward momentum generated by 2017’s Flames, Bonafide decided the best approach was to take their time fleshing out their next slab of rock goodness, focussing on quality over quantity with Are You Listening?, which will be unleashed […]
The countdown begins. With just over one month left until SABATON’s History Rocks museum initiative kicks off, the band’s project has reached a significant milestone. Over 100 museums from 27 territories have now confirmed their participation in the worldwide premiere of The War To End All Wars – The Movie this November, and the list […]
Orange County hardcore legends Stick To Your Guns have announced they’ll be bringing the ‘Diamond’ 10 year anniversary tour to Australia January 2024. Joining them is fellow Californian’s and first time visitors, hardcore punk outfit SeeYouSpaceCowboy. Tickets on sale this Thursday October 12 via Destroy All Lines. The ‘Diamond’ Australian tour will see both bands […]
Canadian rockers SIMPLE PLAN are set to return to Australia in April 2024, with a national run with special guests and fellow pop punk royals BOYS LIKE GIRLS and WE THE KINGS. “We’re so happy to announce that we’re finally coming back to Australia in April 2024! The last time we played down under was […]
After unleashing their newest studio album Wake Up Dead last year (released on April 8, 2022 through Atomic Fire Records & minusHEAD Records), Arizona thrash metal maniacs INCITE are currently travelling across their home country alongside metal legends CAVALERA as well as EXHUMED in order to blow their thrash hits into the crowds’ faces. But […]
There’s a sensual sting in the air via the brand new single Viper Room from Melbourne rock powerhouses Thornhill, out today via UNFD. A palpitating fusion of swagger, driving beats, and swooning melodics alongside razor-sharp guitars, Viper Room is Thornhill at their most potent to date, drawing to mind the feverish urgency of early Muse […]
Darkness and despair are a breeding ground for creativity in the right hands. Since their inception in 2017, Atlanta-based band ALLUVIAL have embraced the grim and gloom that the world has to offer through an intricately balanced blend of rapid-fire polyrhythms, haunting, sludgy atmospheres and tightly wound grooves. The band takes a stab at creating […]
New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album Hymns From The Apocrypha on November 3 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to …of the Dark Light (2017) and the first release featuring the new vocalist Ricky Myers, pushes the band to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group’s strongest-sounding, most […]
February 23, 2024 will see German thrash metal force DUST BOLT release their much-awaited, fifth studio album, Sound & Fury, through AFM Records. Following previously-released, first singles, I Witness and the thunderous album title track, today, the Bavarian four-piece has unleashed another new album banger. As vocalist & guitarist Lenny Bruce, who also produced and […]
Following their previously-shared, first singles, Disciples Of The Stars and Blazing Skies, Swedish melodic power metal act METALITE is gearing up for the release of their most gigantic album to date: Expedition One will be coming out on January 19, 2024 via AFM Records. Today, METALITE are premiering a new single taken off their upcoming […]
ALTERIUM, the new Italian power metal quintet led by Nicoletta Rosellini (ex. Kalidia, Walk in Darkness), is presenting a second single, a cover version of the SABATON anthem Bismarck, taken off their upcoming, hotly-anticipated debut album (set to be released in early 2024 via AFM Records). Nicoletta states: “I couldn’t be more excited about our […]
Austin, Texas based melodic death metal band-to-watch HINAYANA recently announced the release of their unmissable upcoming sophomore full-length album, Shatter And Fall, out November 10, 2023 via Napalm Records. Setting them apart from contemporaries like Insomnium, Amorphis and Swallow the Sun, Shatter And Fall blends modern, accessible elements with equal parts melody and menace, emerging […]
Highly touted Indian hard rockers Fifth Note are a recent signing to Frontiers and will release their debut album, Here We Are, on December 8. A first single and video from it for the song Always Love You are available from today. Based in the city of Kohima, the capital of the north-eastern state of […]
Metallic hardcore outfit Capra have unleashed their second full-length, Errors, via Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records. Maintaining all the elements that made their 2021 debut so compelling – raucous energy, frantic riffs, the from-the-gut lyrics and soul-searing delivery of vocalist Crow Lotus – Capra has stepped things up on this record, with stronger […]
Myrath has consistently pushed the boundaries of metal, winning the hearts of fans around the world with their distinctive sound and lyrical depth. With Karma, their new album out on Feb 2 on earMUSIC, they are poised to continue their musical journey and captivate audiences in a way only they can. Their brand-new song Heroes […]
German heavy music ensemble MAVIS, featuring vocalist Phil Donay, guitarist Manu Weller, bass player Mo Amrein, and drummer Jakob Schulz-Klein, are wasting no time releasing new music and announce their second single Furry Tongue, out now via Arising Empire. MAVIS stunned the music world with their recent release, Tortured Land, and now they’re back, venturing […]
Back with a crushing anthem, LAMB OF GOD unleash a brand-new single entitled Evidence. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated metal titans originally recorded the song during the sessions for their acclaimed 2022 opus and ninth full-length LP, Omens. They’ve uncovered it in honour of the latter’s one-year anniversary. Regarding the single, vocalist Randy Blythe shared, “One of […]
HEALTH, the LA-based industrial-rock band of Jake Duzsik (vocals/guitar), John Famiglietti (bass/producer), and BJ Miller (drums), today announced their new album RAT WARS will be released December 7 via Loma Vista Recordings. The album’s first two singles are also out now at all DSPs and via a seamless YouTube trailer: the menacing CHILDREN OF SORROW, […]
Turning the page on another chapter, Linkin Park’s multi-platinum GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer Mike Shinoda makes a stunning return to form on his new single ALREADY OVER out today via Warner Records. Presenting a visceral and personal vision, Shinoda notably wrote, recorded, sang, and performed every instrument on the track. Powered by kinetic […]
After existing as a band for over 18 years, CARNIFEX continue to experiment with fresh song arrangements, and adding a unique sense of atmosphere to their inherently deathcore foundation. Nourished by nightmares and the throbbing pulse of pragmatic terror, CARNIFEX return with their ninth full-length studio album, Necromanteum, which is out today via Nuclear Blast […]
German death/thrash metal masters BURDEN OF GRIEF have announced the release of their eighth studio album, titled Destination Dystopia. It’s their first offering in more than five long years. Five years, in which so much has happened in the world that BURDEN OF GRIEF were forced to refer to it lyrically and musically. Reinforced by […]
This Friday, October 6, PRONG‘s new album, State of Emergency, hits the streets. To celebrate their eagerly anticipated 13th release, Tommy Victor and the guys have shared a new music video for the album’s title track, following up previous acclaimed singles Breaking Point, Non Existence and The Descent. With heavy metal perfection, State of Emergency […]
tAKiDA, one of Sweden’s top rock bands, have released a sentimental standalone single entitled Your Blood Awaits You. The band has been regularly leading radio airplay charts over the years, and their previous single The Loneliest Hour has been their biggest radio success so far in Germany (hitting #1 on German Rock Airplay Charts). tAKiDA […]
Hailing from Athens, Greece, extreme symphonic metal band W.E.B. are back with a new digital EP titled Into Hell Fire We Burn, which will be released worldwide on October 26 via Metal Blade Records. The digital EP is a follow up to 2021’s Colosseum, which AVE NOCTEM referred to as “gratuitous, powerful riffs, indulgent gothic […]
Germany’s Endseeker are back with their fourth full-length album, Global Worming, which will be released via Metal Blade Records on October 27, 2023. Here’s what the band has to say about their second single, Hell is Here: “Hell is Here is a song about war and the constant fear of escalation on a very large […]
There is no stopping the mighty SORCERER and in the autumn of 2023 the band will release their highly anticipated fourth album entitled Reign Of The Reaper. Again not content with repeating themselves the album features some of the darkest, heaviest and most aggressive material the band has ever recorded, and at the same time […]
With less than a month to go before the release of their long-awaited new album, Last Day of Sun, New England death dealers FUMING MOUTH have unveiled the record’s 2nd single, I’ll Find You! The brutal, endearing new love song follows the previously released single The Silence Beyond Life, also featured on the upcoming album […]
Nuclear Blast Records Out Now Words by Greg Walker At this juncture, extreme metal’s infamous supergroup Brujeria needs no introduction. If their style (for want of a better word) were to be summed up in a sentence I’d have to say they are metal’s unhinged version of Outlaw Country: masked Mexican banditos with a penchant […]
Words by Matt NewPhotos by Angie New Mid-week gigs in Sydney are a challenge at the best of times. Throw in daylight savings, a long weekend, and the NRL grand final, you would not expect many to make the effort. But when the band is Ghost; it is totally worth the sacrifice. Thousands of diehard […]
STEAMHAMMER/SPV Out Now Prong, that name certainly rings a bell and seems to have for several decades. I can’t say that I’ve ever seen ‘em live, and I’m not even 100% sure I’ve actually heard any of their songs before. But that’s ok, because no one has heard anything from them in the last 6 […]
October 20 Nuclear Blast Records After decimating the sonic landscape with their self-titled debut in 2021, Go Ahead And Die are back for more with their new release Unhealthy Mechanisms. For those of you – and I am sure that number is low – who have not heard of Go Ahead And Die, it is […]
Brand new Australian film Slant hits cinemas next Thursday and this week Dave Griffiths sat down to chat to the film’s director James Vinson in a bid to find out a little more about the film.
The latest episode of The Popcorn Conspiracy Radio Show has just arrived – this time around we take a look at Retribution, Saw X, The Creator, The Sheep Among Wolves, The First Slam Dunk and Everybody Loves Jeanne. We also chat to director Timo Vuorensola about his new film 97 Minutes.
The authenticity and passion of Academy Award® winner Joaquin Phoenix is what makes him the perfect Napoleon. Watch the movie exclusively in cinemas November 23, 2023. Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the chequered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale […]
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays…or […]
With new Australian drama Three Chords And The Truth being released in cinemas today Dave Griffiths sat down to chat to the film’s director Claire Pasvolsky. Take a listen to the interview right here:
Apple Original Films unveiled three new “Character Chronicles” featurettes, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio (Ernest Burkhart), Robert De Niro (William Hale) and Lily Gladstone (Mollie Kyle), for Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated “Killers of the Flower Moon.”“Killers of the Flower Moon” will premiere in cinemas, on October 19. At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest […]
The compelling follow up to the ground-breaking 1973 classic described as the ‘scariest film ever made’, The Exorcist: Believer is a terrifying supernatural thriller, a movie experience to be shared and seen on the big screen. For over 50 years, one story has terrified millions. Witness the next chapter of evil: The Exorcist: Believer – […]
Ridley Scott’s filmmaking is unmatched. See his work on the big screen in Napoleon – exclusively in cinemas November 23, 2023. Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the chequered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley […]
