Seldom do instrumental bands have either the longevity of success that Washington heavy outfit Animals As Leaders have managed. While many instrumental bands start off with a bang their fans generally drift in and out of the fold with many finding it increasingly difficult to fully relate to a band without a vocalist. Despite the […]
KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA wound up last weekend and what a time it was! Every show was sold out with every band making new friends and fans along the way. One of those bands was Bad Omens who were kind enough to join us for a chat early in the day. Forgive the rusty start by Kris […]
Story Of The Year were perhaps one of the surprise packets at Knotfest Australia. Many thought they weren’t heavy enough to match it with the heavyweights but the guys more than held their own across all three shows! HEAVY sat down with Ryan from the band not long after they finished their final show of […]
Over thirty years ago an extreme metal genre burst into our collective eardrums. A sound so frightening, cold, bleak and stark that it could only be defined as one thing: BLACK METAL! Only an elite few can be considered pioneers, visionaries and godfathers of that so pure, elite style – bands such as Darkthrone, Mayhem, […]
With the inaugural Knotfest Australia now in the rear mirror it’s time to reflect on possibly the best metal festival to land on these shores. Period. With all three shows selling out, much of the festival’s success was the quality of the bands from the opening act to the headliner. While most people you ask […]
Frenzal Rhomb are an Australian musical institution. Brash, outspoken, confident, flippant, but most of all entertaining, Frenzal Rhomb have been plying their brand of punk rock since the early 1990s and throughout their whole existence have not given one solitary fuck about convention and/or conformity. In fact quite the opposite. “There’s no these songs have […]
The inaugural Knotfest Australia swept through this country recently, with three sold-out shows across three states. To say it was a triumphant debut for the festival is an understatement, but that success is largely to do with the quality of bands on the bill. Bands like Slipknot and Parkway Drive were two of the biggest […]
With the sudden influx of international touring artists currently setting their sights on Australia, the concert-going public are understandably selective when it comes to venturing out. But one travelling musical spectacle that is impossible to resist is The World Is A Vampire Festival – led by The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction – which kicks […]
With fan worship more intense than ever, and worldwide interest and intrigue growing at runaway speeds, Sleep Token have announced their Fall 2023 U.S. headline tour. The Rituals tour kicks off on September 9 in Philadelphia and runs through October 5 in Anaheim. Sleep Token will also appear at several key fall festivals, including Blue […]
Multi-platinum hard-rock heroes EXTREMEÂ announce their first Australian tour in 5 years to celebrate the release of their new album Six, and are bringing their friends LIVING COLOUR to join them as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of Stain. Get ready for a night of exceptional live music as two of the most influential and talented […]
LA-founded hard-rock hellraisers L7 will perform their landmark album Bricks are Heavy in full (Pretend We’re Dead, Shitlist, Wargasm, Everglade, Slide etc) this December in Australia and New Zealand. L7 debut album came through Epitaph, run by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz. Their second album Smell the Magic came through Sub Pop. For their third album, […]
This May, Australia will be assaulted by one of the most iconic Metal singers to walk the Earth, Tim Ripper Owens. This is a highly exclusive TWO SHOW ONLY tour of Australia. On the heels of his electrifying new album, Return to Deathrow, RIPPER has seized this chance to test the might of the Metalheads […]
Australian fans of Texan prodigies Polyphia have made their presence known. The band’s upcoming tour in June has resulted in SOLD OUT shows in Sydney and Melbourne in little over a week and Brisbane is not too far behind! The Sydney show on June 28 has been upgraded from The Metro to the Enmore Theatre […]
The end is only beginning for Australia’s VOID OF VISION, announcing their Das Ende Australian Tour set to celebrate their completed CHONICLES EP series live in action this August with special guests LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES (USA), VARIALS (USA) and ANNALYNN (THAI). Kicking off at The Triffid in Brisbane on Friday 11 August, the Das […]
One of UK’s most successful modern rock bands YOU ME AT SIX are thrilled to announce they will be returning to Australia this July as part of their Truth Decay Tour with special guests Los Angeles-based trio, SET IT OFF. The national tour will see YOU ME AT SIX play their first Australian headline tour […]
UK Funeral Doom outfit Esoteric will conjure ungodly energy like never before and embark on their Maniacal Pyrrhonism Tour of Australia in June/July 2023. Begun in the post-industrial decay of Birmingham in 1992, for thirty years ESOTERIC have been pushing the limits of sonic intensity. The band initially took influence from personal excursions into inner […]
Brisbane masters of metal ADRIATIC have been quiet of late but return with a vengeance with their new single A Lighthouse In The Desert. Filled with the technical wizardry and heaviness Adriatic have forged their name on, A Lighthouse In The Desert also showcases an ambient side to the band’s nature, highlighted by the soulful […]
Sevendust have announced their new album Truth Killer, which will be released on July 28. To celebrate, they have released a crushing new single Fence which can be seen below. Sevendust are also preparing for a run of US shows with Alter Bridge. Dates below.
In a week that celebrates Empyre’s debut Kscope release Relentless, the band have unveiled a cover that proves just how musically dextrous they are, in the form of a fantastic version of David Guetta and Sia’s iconic Titanium. A staple of their live sets, the band interpret the song in their unique way to create […]
Floridan alt-metallers Moodring have today returned with BLACK_WAVE; a boiling blend of guitar abrasion, synthetic dissonance and an unexpectedly euphoric chorus, BLACK_WAVE is a strike of empowerment, each ugly groove and dramatic tonal shift showcases their aesthetic evolution: though the sound and visuals are thick and laden with grime, it’s crystal clear that Moodring are […]
Melbourne-based progressive rock / heavy metal act FLITCRAFT is going to release the new video for the song Earth Is Not A Perfect Sphere on April 14. The song is taken from the band’s second album, House at the Centre of the Universe, out on April 28 via Pitch Black Records. HEAVY Magazine is excited […]
There’s a massive release out via Subsidia Records, with the genre-bending new single Reasons from Excision, Wooli and The Devil Wears Prada out now. This track combines Excision‘s domineering dubstep sounds with Wooli‘s signature melodic bass underneath The Devil Wears Prada‘s soaring metalcore vocals. Longtime friends Excision and Wooli have worked together many times in […]
Holding Absence have released their first new music of 2023 in the form of captivating new single A Crooked Melody. Accompanied by a beautifully stylised video that was directed by Lewis Cater, A Crooked Melody is an exceptional example of Holding Absence’s keen ability to craft insatiably catchy songs that serve as a vessel for […]
This month will see The Smashing Pumpkins bring their huge The World Is A Vampire World Tour to Australia, and along for the ride will be Jane’s Addiction and Australian rockers Amyl & The Sniffers, RedHook & Battlesnake, plus local acts opening at each show and professional wrestling matches between Billy Corgan’s NWA (National Wrestling […]
Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired, a track-by-track re-imagining of the band’s critically-acclaimed album, Existential Reckoning, is out now via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG. A preview of the album comes with a visualizer for Apocalyptical (Re-Imagined by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross). Also; A Singularity (Re-Imagined by Carina Round), was released in tandem with several videos from those […]
Better Noise Music, home to bands including Five Finger Death Punch, The HU, Dirty Heads, Nothing More, Bad Wolves, Asking Alexandria and many more, have released their latest edition of The NOISE, their monthly trailer highlighting the label’s newest music. This month, the video features; THE HU unveiled the video for the deluxe album’s second […]
Sydney band Eaten Alive combine old-school metalcore with hardcore and ignore all the musical trends in favour of making fun, nostalgic music that they themselves love. Which is all well and good, but at some stage of our career you have to also make music other people will like and listen to and Eaten Alive […]
Acclaimed Canadian rock band Silverstein are thrilled to release Misery Made Me Deluxe, an extended release of their critically acclaimed 2022 album. Misery Made Me Deluxe features new versions of songs from the original record as well as new music, including recent single Poison Pill. Watch the video for Poison Pill below. The band shares: […]
Following the March release of the debut single and video Proud Desperado from the upcoming album Seven, Winger have now released the video for It All Comes Back Around. As with Proud Desperado, the video was filmed in Nashville and directed by Jack Sawyers. Winger Seven will be released on May 5 and is the […]
Out Now UNFD Words by Jimmy Glinster Having just smashed through 12 seasons of Trailer Park Boys, a few of the movies, the animated seasons and the Swearnet spin-offs I may just have a better understanding and appreciation of Canadians. Well, at least SILVERSTEIN should hope so as I take on a review of the […]
Out Now Cooking Vinyl Australia Words by Jimmy Glinster BABYMETAL is a band that I’ve always had problems with taking completely seriously. I mean, yeah, it was kind of cute seeing a couple of chicks up on stage singing along to some heavy metal, but it never really grabbed me. I could say something like, […]
Out Now Australian heavy stoner rock outfit Dark Blues Project recently released their five-track EP Howl At Her Light, and after listening to one of the singles Ballad From The Void I felt strangely compelled to take a listen so let’s go! Opening track Ancient One Arises starts with the tender sounds of a woodwind […]
Out Now Pelagic Records Words by Jimmy Glinster I’ve been told I need to push through this review ASAP. So, here I go. I have no idea who the hell LO! are, and reading through their press release further confused the fuck out of me! Apparently, they herald the end of the existing order of […]
Words BY Jimmy Glinster Pix by Samantha Townsend (except the first one) As usual, I rock up fashionably late – two minutes exactly – but I’m just in time to catch the end of Entrapment’s first track and its heavy ass grooves. The boys from Southport keep the grooves pumping as the hooded front man […]
Virgin Music Out Now Words by Kris Peters I have to admit to pulling rank to review The Cup Of Pestilence, Frenzal Rhomb’s first album in 6 years and one which pretty much came out of nowhere. My history with Frenzal Rhomb dates back to the late 1990s in Cairns when I first met frontman […]
Ever since the success of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider making $275 million at the box office back in 2001 it has felt that Hollywood has realised that the gamer’s buck is one worth chasing. The only issue during that time is that ‘good’ movies based on video games have been incredibly difficult to make. While […]
Bateman, Affleck and Damon!!! With a cast list like that there is no way you can go into Air and not expect some brilliant performances. Add that to my love of NBA basketball and not surprisingly I was excited about this film – but did I expect to be now saying it is one of […]
Brand new horror film Abruptio is one of the most unusual films to have been released in a while so we sent Harley Woods and Kyle McGrath to check it out. You can hear their review here:
The latest episode of The Popcorn Conspiracy is now online. In this episode we cover John Wick: Chapter 4, Abruptio, Shackleton and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. We also had a chat to Owen Conway about his film Ghost Town and AT Sharma about his film Hypnotica.
