Sydney hard rock outfit Battlesnake are riding the wave of a tornado at present. Fresh from recently completing The World Is A Vampire Festival alongside The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction, Battlesnake have successfully taken their unique brand of music to a wider audience and not only made them listen, but also forced them to […]
Norwegian black metal outfit Immortal are widely regarded as one of the most important black metal bands in the world. Ever. Not a bad feat for a band who are, in essence, more of a driving project for the talents of guitarist come vocalist Demonaz than a fully-fledged, functioning band in the truest sense of […]
Often with music festivals containing some form of nostalgia things can become unnecessarily cluttered and almost sentimental, in effect negating the very concept of a musical celebration featuring an assortment of bands who have all played significant roles in the success that is Australian music. But, when a festival gels as it should then the […]
At some stage of a band’s career when they have released enough hit songs to justify such a collection, the traditional Greatest Hits package almost becomes a necessity. What should be seen as a celebration of a successful career is too often viewed more as a commercialised assortment of songs that have already generated a […]
Polish death metal veterans, one of the most consistent bands in the European death metal scene. Being around since 1983 they have developed classic yet catching and aggressive style. During all these years they have invaded almost the entire planet and became one of the most frequently touring bands. The band’s latest album entitled Solitude in […]
Melbourne metal tyrants Frankenbok have announced two hometown shows in July. After recently tearing South East Queensland a new hearing aid, the mighty Bok make their debut at Scottie’s Garage in Seaford on July 21 followed by a repeat dose at Sunbury Sound Studios the following night. Joining them for both shows will be rapidly […]
Static X kick off their Australian Rise Of The Machine Tour on Friday, May 19 in Melbourne before hitting Sydney and Brisbane over consecutive nights. Hailed for its grandeur throughout the US, the Rise Of The Machine Tour is more than a live concert, it is an all-encompassing experience celebrating 20 years of Wisconsin Death […]
Queensland rock machine The Poor have cast aside the international touring hangover and re-set their sights on their home country with a fresh round of shows to celebrate the global success of their new album High Price Deed. Kicking off on May 20 at Norton Music Factory in Caloundra, The Poor travel through Sydney, Central […]
West Coast metal veterans METAL CHURCH will return to Australia this December to round out 2023 with the last Metal tour for the year. They also return with their 13th studio album, Congregation of Annihilation, on May 26, 2023. The new album marks the first release since the tragic loss of legendary front man Mike […]
Gold Coast outfit The Final Fall have released their new single The PMA Effect. A fat slab of punk-infused rock, The PMA Effect is the band’s first release in over a decade but with more surprises planned for the near future it seems The Final Fall will be very much a large part of our […]
Stockholm-based heavy rock megalith LUCIFER have released a promo video for their new single, A Coffin Has No Silver Lining (The Sistine Version), which is out today via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. This first single under the roof of their new label sees LUCIFER playing all their strengths: a stunner of a tune reminiscent of mid […]
Rock artist Dorothy recently performed at a sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and was joined onstage by guitar legend SLASH for her song Gifts From The Holy Ghost. The Troubadour show coincided with the one-year anniversary of Dorothy The Band’s album Gifts From The Holy Ghost and was full of fans and […]
Fresh off the news that she would be returning to her role as guitarist with the legendary Alice Cooper, Los Angeles-born guitar hero and musical force of nature Nita Strauss has just announced her brand new album The Call of the The Void, out July 7 via Sumerian Records. Regarding the album’s title, Strauss shares, […]
After forming in 2010 and releasing a track entitled 1400 b.c., Western Massachusetts metal outfit After The Winter followed that with The Chosen One and The Hunt before taking a hiatus until 2022 at which point the band decided to reunite and write some new material. Heading back into the studio in January of 2023 […]
Aussie band Suburbiasuburbia announce the release of their latest charged hard rock single. Don’t Piss In My Pocket follows the same high energy – solid as a rock – 4-on-the-floor formula which has had audiences jumping the bar with every release. Suburbiasuburbia might run with an AC/DC – esque have-a-drink-on-me sound with a new twist […]
GRAMMY® Award-winning, multi-platinum singer-songwriter, actor, and New York Times best-selling author Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) reveals details for his new solo studio album, CMF2, including the release of the electrifying new single, Beyond, out today. The official video supporting the single was shot at a remote location within California’s Mojave Desert. Captured through the […]
Rock icons The Used have shared new single Giving Up off their upcoming album Toxic Positivity, out this Friday, May 19 via Big Noise. When asked to describe Giving Up, vocalist Bert McCracken shares one of his favorite William Shakespeare quotes to give a deeper meaning to the track: “It is not in the stars […]
Asking Alexandria have shared Dark Void, the first preview of music from their as-yet-untitled full-length studio album due later this year via Better Noise Music. Dark Void presents contrasting themes of melancholy and aspiration of day-to-day life in the modern world, while seamlessly blending the band’s anthemic stadium rock sound with a call back to […]
Ontario’s rock ‘n’ roll torchbearers The Dirty Nil are set to unveil their fourth album, Free Rein to Passions, on May 26, 2023 via Dine Alone Records via Cooking Vinyl Australia. Following up on the record’s first single, Nicer Guy, the trio are now sharing the album’s opener entitled Celebration. Featuring a chugging metal riff […]
Last month, metal legends CAVALERA announced they re-recorded SEPULTURA‘s first EP Bestial Devastation and first full-length album Morbid Visions. Today, CAVALERA reveal the albums will be released on July 14 via Nuclear Blast Records. They also offer fans the first single Morbid Visions.
Originating from the Meanjin/Brisbane EDM scene, Bad Party rose from the depth of 2020. Harbouring a vision to marry metal and EDM, the four-piece have kicked goals and welcomed 2023 with their newest single Want It and accompanying music video, out now. Want It teases with a touch of trance-inducing EDM before shattering into hard […]
FEUERSCHWANZ have unleashed their second new single, entitled Berzerkermode, together with an official music video. Germany’s hottest band today is set to release their upcoming studio album, Fegefeuer, on July 7, 2023 via Napalm Records. Just like on the #1-charting 2021 album Memento Mori, on their highly anticipated new full-length, the band distances themselves from […]
After much anticipation from fans, groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER have finally dropped their 10th album and part two of their Dealing With Demons saga, Dealing With Demons Vol. II via Napalm Records. Today, in celebration of this week’s release, the band has revealed the album’s unrelenting final pre-release single, entitled This Relationship, Broken. The riff-laden […]
With excitement brewing after the release of their teaser track, Fence, GRAMMY® Award-nominated SEVENDUST are back with Everything the debut single from Truth Killer. The song is the second piece of music from their 14th studio album, slated for worldwide release on July 28 via Napalm Records. The band – Lajon Witherspoon, Clint Lowery, John […]
Hollywood Vampires, the rock supergroup, consisting of Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen, release a blistering live version of the Jimi Hendrix classic Manic Depression, recorded during their show at Rock in Rio 2015 in front of 100,000 fans. The track features Depp’s energetic guitar work, Cooper’s distinctive voice, Perry’s inimitable solos, […]
British heavyweights Heart Of A Coward have just released their second track Decay that shows a more emotional and calmer side from vocalist Kaan Tasan. A truely hypnotic chorus soaking you in, to then be woken up by punching guitars and drums to take you into the depths of a real oppressive reality Decay is […]
Hot off the back of a regional tour supporting Melbourne’s Among The Restless, INSTYNKT have come out swinging with their latest offering Nepean, a nostalgic journey back to when life’s decisions were easy ones, and we lived each day with reckless abandon. Pulling on memories of raising hell and living life to the fullest, Nepean […]
EarMusic June 9 Words by Kris Peters Many people associate Extreme with their runaway freight train of a love song called More Than Words which was lifted from the band’s 1990 album Pornograffiti, when in fact that song, despite being a belter in its own right, was one of the softest songs produced before or […]
Words and pix by Rashid AlKamraikhi Quick disclaimer before we get into this review. An organisation I am a part of, SCHEMA Collective, was a Festival Sponsor, my band, Dr.Parallax performed, and I worked as a Stage Manager and Photographer throughout the day. I will try to be as subjective and honest in this review […]
Out Now Metal Blade Records Words Metal V The announcement of each new Cattle Decapitation releases so many endorphins within this body and soul of mine. Having discovered them ten or so years ago they quickly became one of my favorite bands of all time. Concepts of the demise of our meat-selves and imminent destruction […]
Words and pix by Paul Miles Imagine this: A 5-day summer rock festival with a line-up of more than 40 bands from Europe, America and Australia playing over 4 stages, where they all play twice, so if there’s a schedule clash you can catch them the second time around–or just see them again if you […]
Out Now Words by Kris Peters My first introduction to Sydney heavy rock outfit Battlesnake came under unusual circumstances.Normally before interviewing a band you know something – anything – about them, be it by way of their music or having seen them perform live. Anything to get an overall feel of what to prepare for […]
Independent May 19 Words by Lewd Scoff So, don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of The Omnific. So, this music is right up my alley, both as a listener and player of the heavy, emotive style of the musical spectrum. I’ve also run the music past my 7-year-old lad, who likes everything from […]
Words by Matte New Pix by Angie New Photography Hype or the real deal? British alt-metal outfit Sleep Token seem to be the in thing amongst the metal fraternity at the moment. The masked minstrels offer a complex musical style that transcends many genres that would normally be seen as uncomfortable for other bands. In […]
Paramount Pictures Australia is excited to announce TOM CRUISE and the cast along with Director CHRISTOPHER McQUARRIE will be heading to Sydney to present their highly anticipated new film MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE. Tom Cruise, Director Christopher McQuarrie, and team will walk the red carpet at the Australian Premiere on Monday, July 3. In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) […]
20th Century Studios, New Regency and Entertainment One have released the trailer and poster for their epic sci-fi action thriller “The Creator,” which opens in Australian cinemas September 28, 2023. Directed by Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”), the film stars John David Washington (“Tenet”), Gemma Chan (“Eternals”), Ken Watanabe (“Inception”), Sturgill Simpson (“Dog”), newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles and Academy […]
Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel, DRACULA: VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night […]
Jared Cohn, the filmmaker behind one of Bruce Willis’s final films VENDETTA and the upcoming action movie THE GETBACK with Dermot Mulroney, has a new book out on filmmaking titled ‘FIFTY MOVIES MADE’ – in which he talks about working with Bruce, William Shatner, DMX and others and the lessons he’s learned about the industry along the way! This […]
Brand new documentary Audrey Napanangka is set for release in cinemas and this week we sat down and had a chat with director Penelope McDonald. Take a listen to the interview right here:
The Popcorn Conspiracy Radio Show Ep #007 is now online. In this episode David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths review Suzume, Broker, Mafia Mama, Evil Dead Rise, Allelujah, EO and The Red Shoes; Next Step. They also preview Melbourne Supanova and chat to Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland about their roles in […]
Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, today released the trailer for the Stan Original Series Year Of, an original drama about friendship and family in the wake of a shocking event, which premieres on June 9, all episodes at once and only on Stan. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/0dpO6xqfBYk From the award-winning makers of Offspring and the Stan Original Series Romper […]
ABOUT MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3Writer/Director: Nia VardalosProducers: Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Gary GoetzmanExecutive Producers: Paul Brooks, Scott Niemeyer, Steven ShareshianCast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Elena Kampouris, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Louis Mandylor, with Lainie Kazan, and Andrea Martin From writer and director Nia Vardalos, the worldwide phenomenon My Big Fat Greek Wedding is coming back to theaters […]
With Brandon Cronenberg’s brand new film Infinity Pool now in cinemas this week Dave Griffiths sat down for a chat with one of the film’s stars – Cleopatra Coleman. Take a listen to the full interview right here:
Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new faction of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. Directed by Steven Caple […]
