Just under two years ago the Australian music scene was saddened to hear that Sunshine Coast metal/rap/noise hybrid New Clear Vision were calling it a day. For five years the band was a breath of fresh air on a Brisbane music scene that too often got caught in its own self-importance rather than enjoying music […]
Newcastle thrash merchants PureEnvy have pretty much maintained radio silence since their popular sophomore album Redemption in 2018. A combination of world events and everyday life conspired to rob the band of their gathering momentum which began with their debut album As The Light Fades and grew rapidly on the back of a tireless touring […]
In just four short years, Gold Coast metalcore act Awake In Time have managed to spread their music far beyond their local confines and into the ears of a national audience. Their unyielding approach to music and consistent output has seen the band perform at Good Things Festival and more recently Wallapalooza, cementing their growing […]
Melbourne hard rock outfit Hellz Abyss are preparing for the first date of a national tour which starts on Saturday, August 6 at Scotties Garage in Melbourne. The Blow tour will travel most parts of Australia by the time it winds up back in Melbourne at Musicland on October 8, with the band promising an […]
In anticipation of the forthcoming cinematic release of BETTER NOISE FILMS’ new horror-thriller THE RETALIATORS worldwide release on September 14, BETTER NOISE MUSIC has released the movie’s theme song across digital platforms today (August 5) along with a music video featuring clips from the film. The Retaliators Theme Song (21 Bullets) co-written by Nikki Sixx and James Michael of Sixx:A.M., features MÖTLEY CRÜE, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, ICE NINE ...
Truck are Unconventionally Rising. Releasing the band’s third single in just 8 months and announcing a bunch of shows with both Baby Animals and Rose Tattoo, Truck are steadily climbing the ranks of must-see Australian rock bands. Unconventionally Rising has a fresh ‘active rock‘ appeal, while unashamedly tipping the hat to the ‘classic rock’ vibes. The drums are thundering, the grooves are mighty, and […]
Newcastle melodic metal sensations Purenvy are set to release their crushing new single Sweet Poison tomorrow. Featuring blasting drums, thrashing riffs and belting vocals, the group deliver a fierce anthem surrounding the hardships of addiction and recovery. Sweet Poison is the culmination of over a year’s worth of creative frustration, resulting in some of the […]
Following on from their most recent offering Home For Halloween, Eora/Sydney-based punk rock group Clay J Gladstone have advanced with their strident new single Hate Club – produced by Shane Edwards (The Libertines, Trophy Eyes, You Me At Six). Hate Club is a blistering two-minute wrecking ball, assailing with the emotional ingredients of angst and vitality. Stimulating melodies lead the charge, […]
Byron Bay metallers In Hearts Wake have today released the official soundtrack for their groundbreaking feature documentary Green Is The New Black, with the special 20-song collective out now on UNFD. The vinyl is available to pre-order at 24Hundred. Boasting an array of songs featured in the documentary, which delves into the music industry’s environmental […]
To mark the beginning of the anticipated Australian Hellz Abyss BLOW Tour, Hellz Abyss are releasing a new music video on August 4, 2022. The hard and heavy track Kill The Real Girls is an anthem about everything that is plastic trash. Hellz confidentiality voices her opinion on women who give other girls a bad name, urging people to keep […]
On the day they begin the WA leg of their I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken tour, The Hard-Ons have released a new single and video from the album. The Needles & Pins 7″ single will be released on coloured vinyl as a strictly limited edition of 300 – 100 in hot pink, 100 in clear teal and 100 in […]
Scathing punk-rock and tongue-in-cheek sass collide on the new track A Simple Fuck You from Adelaide/Tarndanya trio Nocturnal_Animals, out on August 5. Well-versed in producing high energy, angst-driven alt-rock/punk anthems, this is the group’s third new release this year, following the invigorating Where’s My Mind Been? and pop-punk dance-worthy belter Dancing In The Blood. They’ve […]
Mo’s Desert Clubhouse is smashing you with back to back heavy events this Sunday with an arvo and eve show featuring Emo and 90’s heavy classics. Come get some! Sunday afternoon sees Groom’s Bride is a Whxre: the EMO show, headed back to Mo’s to bring out your inner EMO Guy/Gal with all your favourite […]
CVLTFEST presented by Alpha Wolf; a special one off festival curated by the band themselves to be held at Melbourne Pavilion on Sunday October 30 with a truely spectacular line up. The debut of CVLTFest features Alpha Wolf as the headliners and with friends Silent Planet (USA), DEEZ Nuts (their first show back in Australia […]
Multi-talented US instrumentalist Xenomorph has released his new album Rustwelt, unleashing his own brand of raw black metal onto the musical landscape. Concepted and created to survive grueling and endless slave labor in this rotting and decrepit land, Rustwelt is an eight month labour of love written in the bleak surroundings of a warehouse surrounded […]
Over the past decade, One Electric Day has solidified its reputation as one of Victoria’s favourite one-day music festivals. Every year, the show at Werribee Park sells out in a matter of minutes. This year, organisers are not only excited to be able to take the popular event interstate again for a run of shows, but have […]
Screamfeeder are the band you grew up with, whose songs are imprinted into the DNA of every music-lover who came of age in the 90’s and 00’s. A band of eternally-youthful fuzz-pop darlings who have continued to play together for 30 years and somehow have not only gotten better, but have become evenmore loved. A […]
After covid saw the demise of Bestial Ritesfest and Metal Sydney Metal have re spawned this festival bigger and better in Vile Incarnations being held at the Crowbar Sydney, Saturday, August 6, 2022. Headlining in a rare performance is Australia’s own pioneering death metal band Misery and supported by a stacked local and interstate black […]
With so much going on in their stable of artists, Better Noise Music have decided to collate the latest news and releases into one easily digestible video. Titled Welcome To The Noise, the short round-up of news comes out every month to make sure music lovers don’t miss out on up-to-date happenings from your favourite […]
Live Nation are excited to announce iconic rock legends GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS will perform in Wollongong this November. Celebrating 45 years of rock on the Good To Be Bad Australian tour this Spring, the ‘baddest band in the land’ will perform at Anita’s Theatre on Tuesday 1 November. Tickets for the new show go on sale Thursday […]
Newcastle melodic metal sensations Purenvy just released their crushing new single Sweet Poison. Featuring blasting drums, thrashing riffs & belting vocals, the group delivers a fierce anthem surrounding the hardships of addiction & recovery. Sweet Poison is the culmination of over a year’s worth of creative frustration, resulting in some of the group’s strongest work to date that warrants […]
I Have Four Names is the pet project for Australian musician William Raleigh Vere Evatt, who has set himself the task of connecting his music with the public on his own terms and of his own volition. After sparking interest with his 2020 debut LP IH4N (DX), Will quickly followed with the 2021 EP Spike […]
Out Now Words by Jimmy Glinster Hailing from all the way over the other side of the country, and one of the world’s most remote cities, Perth lads Liveconformdie allegedly like to bring a broad blend of genres to the table. And get this, they draw their roots from 90’s- 00’s Nu-Metal. That might just […]
Century Media Records August 12 Words by Jimmy Glinster My first experience with Arch Enemy was at a drunken afterparty where a very bogan, vey metal elitist friend of mine, was all up in may face saying “Dude, can you believe this is a chick … dude”. My response, “Dude, what the fuck, you serious”. […]
Metal Blade Records August 5 While most of the metal loving world would be familiar with Amon Amarth I have yet to be scarred by their visceral tales of Viking folklore and battle. Not because I am not interested, it’s just I have always found the violent way of life depicted from warriors of this […]
MC Networks today announced that Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira will reunite for a new series in the expanding universe around The Walking Dead. The series will continue the journey and love story of the Rick Grimes and Michonne characters. Lincoln and Gurira, who have been actively involved in conceiving the creative and the continuation […]
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) takes on his most lethal adversaries yet in the upcoming fourth installment of the series. With the price on his head ever increasing, Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Osaka to […]
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, releases today the first clip for the Shudder Original What Josiah Sawahead of the film’s debut on the platform next week, on Thursday 4 August. The film is the third feature from American filmmaker Vincent Grashaw (Coldwater, And Then I Go) and world premiered to high praise […]
Few films have divided critics as much as Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes new thriller The Forgiven. So what did Aex First, David Griffiths and Jacqui Hammerton think? Take a listen to their review below:
Filmmaker Matthew Saville chats to Dave Griffiths about his debut feature film Juniper. Take a listen as we explore what led to this beautiful film being made and what it was like working with Charlotte Rampling. You can listen to the whole interviw here:
It is not very often that our critics make the call ‘One Of The Films Of The Year”! But four of our critics made that call with Full Time. Take a listen to Alex First, David Griffiths, Greg King and Jacqui Hammerton’s review right here:
Sometimes our critics can completely disagree with each other. One thought indie drama Press Play was a film for music fans while the others never want to see it again. Take a listen to what Alex First, David Griffiths and Jacqui Hammerton thought of Press Play below.
Nobody quite does a black comedy like the French and Murder Party is a film that takes aim at the murder/mystery genre. We sent Dave Griffiths tocheck it out and his review can be heard below.
It’s the long-anticipated crossover fans have been waiting for. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reprised their iconic Breaking Bad roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in tonight’s episode of the sixth and final season of the Emmy-nominated acclaimed drama series Better Call Saul. With only two episodes now left in the series, new episodes of Better Call Saul premiere Tuesdays, same day as the ...
In celebration of Disney+ Day, Disney and Pixar’s original series “Cars on the Road” will debut exclusively on the streaming service Sept. 8, 2022. Check out a new trailer, key art and image for Disney and Pixar’s “Cars on the Road” now. The Disney+ Original series follows Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and his […]
Today, Disney+ released an exciting new trailer and key art for “Andor,” an original, 12-episode series from Lucasfilm. The series, which takes place prior to the events of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” debuts exclusively on Disney+ on its new date, Wednesday, September 21, with a three-episode premiere. The “Andor” series explores a new perspective […]
Disney+ has unveiled the official trailer and key art for Original limited series “Mike,” an unauthorised and no-holds-barred look at the life of Mike Tyson – and it is one wild ride. The eight-episode series premieres with two episodes in Australia on August 25th on Disney+ under the Star banner. Two new episodes will be available to […]
AMC+ presented a panel for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire at San Diego Comic-Con earlier today. Based on Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality, as told […]
Premiering Sunday 14 August onAMC+, Tales of the Walking Dead consists of six original one-hour standalone episodes focused on both new and established characters within the walker apocalypse. Each episode has its own distinct tone and point of view –but the stakes are high in each story, pushing new, indelible characters with relentless, life-threatening choices […]
Brand new action flick The Gray Man is currently in cinemas and on Netflix. This week we sent Alex First, David Griffiths and Greg King to check it out. Take a listen to their thoughts right here:
