Parkway Drive announced their new film, Viva The Underdogs, will be available for rent and purchase via Amazon, iTunes, Google or Vimeo from April 24. The film follows Parkway Drive’s 15-year journey to become headliners on the world’s biggest metal music festivals including Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock and Australia’s Good Things Festival! Viva The Underdogs […] More

Sydney death/doom outfit Black Trillium have recently released the hauntingly beautiful yet still brutal single “Banished” from their upcoming debut full length The Fatal Shore, which is due out on April 29. Guitarist/vocals Simon Skipper joins HEAVY to talk about the single and shed some light on the album. “‘Banished’ started with a riff I […] More

That song’s about straight-up anger” Crossfaith have announced that their new EP titled Species will be released on Friday, May 22 through UNFD. SPECIES EP // OUT MAY 22 The five-track EP features the recent single, “Endorphin“, as well as the new track they dropped today, “Digital Parasite“.   Vocalist Ken Koie say’s, “I felt […] More

Today Unify Gathering team revealed that 2021 will see an all Australian line-up at the Tarwin Lower premises from January 21 – 24. This is exciting news amongst the locked down and a sign of things to come. The Unify Gathering press release states: “It’s no secret that the music industry is one of the hardest-hit […] More

The thrash that we started into is different to the thrash of today in that it has evolved…” – Chuck Billy Chuck Billy is quite upbeat and jovial as we settle in to talk about Testament‘s recent album Titans of Creation, surprising considering he has not long gotten over the potentially fatal Covoid 19 virus […] More

Our Last Enemy are a metal/industrial/goth/core outfit from Australia and have today unleashed the first track from their soon to be released, second full-length album. The “Never Coming Back” video is an intense psychological roller coaster which was shot across two countries, Australia and the Netherlands. It is a gritty, dark, exploration of a broken […] More

Nightwish have announced they will release a new album titled, Human. II: Nature on April 10th. PRE-ORDER HERE – https://nblast.de/NightwishHumanAU The Finnish symphonic metal band recently released the first single from Human. II: Nature titled “Noise” and today brings us a lyric video for “Harvest“. The subjects of “Humanity”, “technology”, “nature”, “art” and “music” thread […] More

Sometimes you just have to take that risk, and yeah you might fall but you just have to get back up again and luckily I got back onto the right foot.” Covid-19 might have forced The Iron Maidens to postpone their tour until September but this talented outfit are still promising to bring the party […] More

So I guess what we have done is just bundle up our top ten influences and then just throw them into the blender…” Hailing from Melbourne five-piece heavy metal outfit Armoured Earth have spent the last couple of years fitting all of the pieces of the jig-saw puzzle together. As it turned out one of […] More

In light of the Australian Government COVID-19 directives, including the compulsory 14-day quarantine of all international travellers, and the closing of all live venues, together with the uncertainty of the time frames surrounding these directives, Crash Diet and Silverback Touring have decided to postpone the Crashdiet & Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate tour scheduled for May. Silverback […] More

I still remember the first time I saw Devilskin. It was before a Slash, Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators show in Melbourne. This band came out before them called Devilskin that I had never even heard of before, then they hit with such power and intensity they not only won over the crowd but threatened […] More

 Rise over the snow-covered plains and cross the sky’s boundaries of ice mountains and pearly polar clouds and welcome to my home of howling winds and nordic musical soil in its pure and delicate essence. Today I walk in immaculate territory known for the grandeur of its folk music and traditions to talk about MYRKUR […] More

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve had the chance to talk about these guys. Deified are a thrash metal band from St Helens in the northwest of the UK. They have been tearing up the UK underground metals scene for the better part of the 2010s and now are looking forward to the 2020s. […] More