Thrashville has quickly become one of the must-attend music festivals on the Australian calendar. Not only is it situated miles away from any form of civilised life – meaning noise restrictions and the like are non-existent – but it is also a damn good festival featuring a splattering of the best in Australian music from […]
Australian Industrial metal outfit Our Last Enemy are on the cusp of releasing their latest EP As Within So Without, which will be set free on September 22 after being pushed back from August 18. The EP follows and is the companion piece to 2021’s As Above So Below, which was a commercial and critical […]
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 […]
Osaka Punch are one of those once-in-a-generation bands that would be perfect for ANY lineup or concert. Their music is a force unto itself, mixing jazz, rock, metal, piano lounge vibes and an eclectic nature often tried but seldom mastered. Until now. “I feel like, if anything, we could probably push it further.” Jack Muzak […]
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 […]
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 […]
Magic Dirt released Young and Full of the Devil 25 years ago and has celebrated with a double LP re-release. This era of Magic Dirt is a special time for the band with Raul stepping in as their new guitarist, that would turn into a lifetime of friendship and shows together. HEAVY caught up with […]
Darkwave, post-punk duo LEBANON HANOVER are on their way for their First Ever Tour of Australia. LEBANON HANOVER are Swiss vocalist and guitarist Larissa Iceglass and Brit vocalist and bassist William Maybelline. They are without any doubt, one of the most significant bands creating music within the post-punk, goth, and darkwave scene of the past […]
Renowned Australian heavyweight post-punk rock band, TROPHY EYES, has exciting news for fans with the announcement of a mighty Australian regional tour scheduled for this upcoming October. The tour serves as a continuation of the festivities surrounding their latest album, Suicide and Sunshine and will kick off in Cairns with a sweeping lap across the […]
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 […]
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 […]
South Australian groove metal/hardcore act Suffer The Evenue return with their pulsating new single Sick Crnt this Friday, September 1. The track is lifted from the band’s upcoming EP Vol 1 Superdead, which is set to drop on September 15. HEAVY caught up with vocalist Nick and guitarist Dom to find out more, plus we […]
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 […]
Ngunnawal/Canberra-based punk act st.sinner has just revealed their wild new track HEADCASE, produced by Daniel Antix (Pist Idiots, The Dead Love, RADICALS) and co-written with Timothy Wisbey (Clay J Gladstone). Delivered at full-throttle, HEADCASE is an emphatic specimen of pop-tinged punk-rock, led by thumping kick drums and distorted, staccato bass synths. The spacious pre-choruses set […]
Sydney melodic metalcore outfit Polaris have released their highly anticipated third album Fatalism today and will embark on their biggest Australian headline tour next week supported by August Burns Red, Kublai Khan TX and Currents. Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle and Brisbane shows are all sold out with limited tickets still left for Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. […]
South Australian groove metal/hardcore act Suffer The Evenue return today with the premiere of their pulsating new single Sick Crnt. The track is lifted from the band’s upcoming EP Vol 1 Superdead, which is set to drop on September 15. Check it out below.
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 […]
Out Now There’s a lot attached to this album. Everyone in the metal community knows how anticipated and important this release is. Polaris fans, you will not be disappointed by this album. It fucking slaps, what can I say? Polaris have an amazing knack for balancing heavy music with angelic clean vocals that really take […]
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 […]
