US metal outfit Baroness perfectly encapsulate the notion of the more things change, the more they stay the same. Approaching their sixth album Stone – which is due out on September 15 – Baroness have managed to maintain a trademark sound while at the same time delivering something fresh and original with every release. They […]
For nearly two decades deathcore outfit Carnifex have managed to push themselves musically further which each release. Although fitting snuggly into their chosen extreme metal genre, the band have also experimented both within and outside of the conventional parameters of their music, peeling back layers while simultaneously structuring new passages along the way. “I kind […]
Most bands that dwell on the hard rock/punk side of town generally walk the walk while attempting to talk the talk but to the discerning eye it is pretty obvious that it is an enforced facade. When shit hits the fan you know many of these bad boys would run cowering to the nearest obstacle […]
Australia, prepare for the onslaught! Two of the world’s most cutting-edge extreme metal bands in Cattle Decapitation and Fallujah have arrived in Australia and already started a run of shows that promises to leave a trail of destruction in their wakes. Bay Area outfit Fallujah are riding high on the recent release of their brooding […]
Thy Art Is Murder are up there with Australia’s greatest-ever extreme metal exports. They have taken their music far and wide, appearing at prestigious festivals around the world like Summer Breeze, Download, Graspop and Wacken and playing with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Kreator, Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive. Their thinking-person’s […]
Skunkhour is gearing up for an exhilarating tour in Australia throughout November and December 2023. “While every tour is infused with excitement, this one carries a distinct energy,” remarked Aya Larkin, reflecting on the band’s recent extensive touring following last year’s release. Their live show has reached unprecedented heights with fresh music and the addition […]
For a bit of fun and to help you get to know the bands we interview a bit better, HEAVY has created three Spotify playlists featuring songs chosen by the artists we interview. The songs have to be performed by that artist or their band, or any other project they have been involved in and […]
Multi-platinum UK rock royalty The Darkness are returning to Australia in February 2024 to perform three very special Let There Be Rock events in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne celebrating the band’s 20th anniversary of Permission to Land. The classic debut album which delivered iconic songs such as I Believe in A Thing Called Love and […]
There are very few guitars out there that are as famous as Eddie Van Halen’s favorite 6-string sidekick, lovingly known as Frankenstein. It’s the guitar most associated with Eddie Van Halen through his career and is one of the most iconic electric guitars in modern history. Today, EVH launched the Frankenstein Series, a civilian variant […]
HEAVY is excited to announce a new venture aimed at the live music and festival market with the launch of Mosh Pit Tours in the UK and best of all you can book through your own local travel agent, they just need to register with Mosh Pit Tours and they’ll be able to secure your […]
Yours and Owls Festival, the gift that keeps on giving! Not one, but TWO surprise acts are landing, to expand your weekend musical immersion. Open your arms and welcome ARIA and AIR award-winning electronic duo Flight Facilities, and three-time platinum-selling electronic rock band Pendulum to the 2023 line up, both playing Sunday! Over the years, […]
Such is the legacy and impact of The Butterfly Effect that their shows in Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and Melbourne for the 20th Anniversary tour of their landmark debut album, Begins Here, have SOLD OUT! New Shows for Newcastle, Perth AND Hobart have been added and will be available from daltours.cc/TBE24Early Bird Pre Sale: Thursday, September […]
Platinum-selling alternative-industrial rockers FILTER announces their first headline shows in Australia and New Zealand since 2000 as part of The Algorithm World Tour. The Australian tour, starting in April 2024, follows a 6-month-long trek that crisscrossed the United States and Canada, and then is scheduled to go across the pond in March 2024 and hit […]
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 Meyers, pushes the band to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group’s strongest-sounding, most […]
Multi-platinum rock band Staind has dropped a new single and video for Here and Now from their forthcoming album, Confessions of the Fallen. Here and Now is classic Staind – a powerful, emotionally charged ballad that touches deep in the soul. The video, directed by Bradley Golowin, perfectly captures the sentiment of the song, exploring […]
Pipe Bomb is the solo project of Church Girls‘ guitarist Mitchell Layton, featuring blistering vocals, pummeling breakdowns, and dissonant guitars that conjure the ghosts of early 00s metal-core bands like The Bled, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and The Chariot. Its debut single, False God, hit the ground running and gained Pipe Bomb exposure on platforms […]
As they approach the biggest headline show of their career to date at London’s legendary Alexandra Palace, Sheffield quintet WHILE SHE SLEEPS share their brand new single SELF HELL, the title track to their long-awaited sixth studio album, which will follow on March 15th, 2024. Drawing upon a far wider palette of influences to create […]
Celebrating the album’s imminent release at London, U’’s The Gallery at Tileyard, TesseracT fans were treated to an exclusive 5.1 Dolby Atmos playback, intimate Q&A hosted by Alyx Holcombe (BBC Radio 1) and able to experience the War Of Being game in VR. After which there was a worldwide exclusive first look at the spell-binding […]
Icelandic retro rock trio THE VINTAGE CARAVAN announce their first live album, The Monuments Tour (Live), to be released on October 13, 2023 via Napalm Records. Bringing back vintage rock with progressive influences, THE VINTAGE CARAVAN has proven more than capable of creating their own trademark sound, presenting guitar driven classics merged with blues and […]
Michigan’s Of Virtue have released the video for new single True Colors, the latest track off their upcoming album Omen, out September 29 via Arising Empire. Guitar and vocalist Damon Tate comments, “The wise Maya Angelou said, ‘When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.’ This is also true of drug […]
Neue Deutsche Härte pioneers OOMPH! release their anti-war anthem Nur Ein Mench (EN: Only a Human), cut from their new album Richter und Henker, that is out this Friday, September 8, 2023, via Napalm Records. Successor to OOMPH!’s #1 charting 2019 album Ritual (Official German Album Charts), Richter und Henker marks the unit’s 14th full-length, […]
Melodic death metal outfit BRYMIR have released a new performance music video set to their bludgeoning track, Seeds Of Downfall, cut from the band’s stunning fourth full-length, Voices In The Sky, released via Napalm Records one year ago in August 2022. With more than a million Spotify streams on their biggest hits, over 100k YouTube […]
North Carolina melodic death metal leaders AETHER REALM will soon hit the road in the UK and Ireland with headliners Nekrogoblikon and fellow support artists Cage Fight. Today, in celebration of the upcoming tour, AETHER REALM have dropped a new single, entitled Should I?, featuring none other than the iconic Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork/The Night […]
Check out Dååth’s latest original single The Silent Foray featuring Per Nilson of Scar Symmetry. The new digital single was mixed by Jens Bogren and mastered by Tony Lindgren with cover art being handled once more by Adrian Baxter. Dååth is currently in the mastering phase of their upcoming Metal Blade Records debut full length […]
On October 6, metallic hardcore outfit Capra will unleash their sophomore 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 […]
For more than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine Volbeat, releasing eight full lengths, selling millions of albums, and filling stadiums worldwide. Before fronting Volbeat, however, Poulsen formed death metal band Dominus, which recorded four fast, brutal albums in the mid ’90s. When Poulsen was putting together songs […]
Dublin, Ireland-based Pagan metal icons PRIMORDIAL today unveil their new single, Pilgrimage To The World’s End, and its accompanying lyric video. The track comes by way of the band’s tenth studio album, How It Ends, set for release on September 29 via Metal Blade Records. Having lasted thirty-two years and now returning with their devastating […]
Despite Harm’s Way’s reputation for unrelenting ferocity, Common Suffering surprises at several turns with quieter moments of intricate songwriting that emphasizes light and shade. It’s their understanding of how to effectively orchestrate these dynamics that makes their latest feel infinitely more merciless. This is Harm’s Way at their best – the ambitious sound of a […]
Brisbane’s most beloved Prog act Osaka Punch released their hotly anticipated new album, Mixed Ape, last week. Today they have released a brand new video for the track Kamikaze. The high energy track is the perfect soundtrack for a mate against mate, hilarious boxing match for the ages! Touring nationally though October and November, Osaka […]
French extreme metal avant-gardists CELESTE have released a video for their new single With Idle Hands, another song from their upcoming new EP, Epilogue(s), due out on November 17 through Nuclear Blast Records. The EP features three exclusive bonus tracks from their most recent album, Assassine(s) (2022). With Idle Hands might be the most tender […]
Synthwave pioneers Gunship — Dan Haigh, Alex Westaway, and Alex Gingell — have unveiled colossal electronic-rock banger DooM Dance, featuring two legendary collaborators: Gavin Rossdale and Carpenter Brut. The track is the third single taken from the band’s third album UNICORN, due out September 29. DooM Dance is a bass-driven, industrial-rock offering that blends EDM […]
UK metal heavyweights SYLOSIS have released their latest album A Sign Of Things To Come. To coincide with the album’s release, the band have also revealed the video for new single Descent. Josh Middleton comments “The day has finally come! We are very proud to announce, our new album’ A Sign Of Things To Come’ […]
The wait is over…Canadian extreme-metal legends CRYPTOPSY have unleashed their massively-anticipated, catastrophic new album, As Gomorrah Burns, with Nuclear Blast Records. The tech-death masters’ 8th album, and first full-length in over a decade, arrives with a throat-punch of brutality as witnessed on singles like Flayed The Swine and In Abeyance. Now fully revealed, As Gomorrah […]
Hailing from Wollongong, Australia Brooklyn Comic are proud to release their new single and video for Charlie’s Song. Brooklyn Comic blends hard-core and emo to create their own unique sound. The songs detail the mental health battles, and existential crises singer/songwriter Jayme has experienced, although the band would not be complete, without the addition of […]
Decibel Cooper/BMG September 15 Love him or hate him there is no denying that Corey Taylor is a musical enigma. I’m not going to detail his credentials because similarly if you are on the other side of the fence then no matter what I say here you will invariably find something negative to come back […]
September 15 Cooking Vinyl Australia With their sixth album Stone to be released on September 15, and the band securing the cover of this week’s Digital magazine, I suppose now is as good a time as any to acquaint myself with Baroness. I enjoyed listening to the singles in preparation for the interview so once […]
September 15 Words by Lewd Scoff Truth be told, old mate muggins Scoff here is still stuck in a parallel universe that is more akin to 2008’s Myspace-era Hot Topic core, than 2023’s ‘studio production is an actual genre of music’ crossed with crossovers. And I am cross. Nah, not really. I do enjoy a […]
Arising Empire September 15 It’s not often – actually, NEVER – have I gone into an album review knowing absolutely nothing about the band or their music, but you know what they say? You have to have a crack at something before you can judge it… So it is with little to no fear I […]
So, I’ve been racking my brain to try to work out the best way to piece together the appropriate words detailing the intense, organised carnage that was last Saturday night inside the walls of The Croxton Bandroom, where a sold-out crowd was bludgeoned for over three hours by some of the best and renowned grind […]
September 15 AFM Records I must confess to not having heard much of Danko Jones‘ music, but for a recent interview I did with the band I checked out enough of their material to convince me to have a crack at the new album Electric Sounds. It’s the trio’s 11th album, so obviously someone out […]
Out Now Brisbane masters of musical mayhem and majesty Osaka Punch have finally released the full-length album fans have been pining for with the recent birth of Mixed Ape. While we could go into the backstory of Osaka Punch such in-depth knowledge is futile. All you need to know is this group of four very […]
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 […]
With special screenings of Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism hitting cinemas this week we caught up with director Nick Kozakis and Lauren Simpson to learn a little more about the film. Take a listen to the interview right here:
The Popcorn Conspiracy Ep #26 is now online. In this episode David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths review The Equalizer 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Biosphere. They also discuss what were their favourite childhood cartoons and are joined by Biosphere director Mel Eslyn to chat about her new film.
Dave Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths go back to the 80s as they review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Teenage Mayhem. Take a listen to the review right here:
Marvel Studios released an exciting new featurette for the upcoming feature film “The Marvels.” Watch “Journey to The Marvels,” and see Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers as you’ve never seen her before on her journey to team up with Captain Monica Rambeau, her alienated niece, and Ms. Marvel, Jersey City’s own teen-age Super Hero. In Marvel Studios’ […]
From director/co-writer Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”) comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua (John David Washington), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan), is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the […]
