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 […]
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 […]
As much as the majority of our life is spent looking into the future, the past should always feature somewhere in your thoughts. It is, after all, the very thing that shaped your being, a point which rings true no matter what walk of life you are from or what passion ignites you. If, as […]
Unfortunately our interview with Mudvayne surrounding the announcement of their Australian tour next year with Coal Chamber has been pushed back to next week but the news is so massive that we just had to still run with it on the cover! To tide you over until HEAVY gets to chat with the band we […]
Any band in the modern age that can take rock/punk/metal music to the increasingly numbed youth of our generation is already a winner in my books, but when they release songs that I can possibly convert my two young daughters with then they elevate to the next level pretty damn quickly. So when I was […]
“…the music of Napalm Death and the ideas…it’s like running into a war! To make the whole experience of what it should be for people! Napalm Death is everything all at once, all the time!” – Barney Greenway On the verge of once again pummeling Australia to its knees on the back of their 2020 […]
After a highly successful opening two shows to kick off Aces High’s Live After Death Tour 2023, the Sydney Iron Maiden tribute outfit have just one more show to complete the first leg of a spaced-out tour. Brisbane and Newcastle have had their turn, now it’s over to you Wollongong when Aces High storm into […]
The Riff’N Tour featuring Orpheus Omega and Triple Kill is drawing to a close, with just two dates of the travelling sonic decimation remaining. It stops in at Max Watts in Melbourne on September 9 before finishing up in Perth on September 23 so don’t miss your chance to catch this awesome double bill before […]
After a tumultuous couple of years of cancellations and determined reschedules, the ‘slightly heavier’ music festival Thrashville is ready to take a stand this weekend, delivering its biggest line-up in its 6-year history, with heavyweight progressive rock three-piece COG headlining the festival in 2023. Whilst COG will headline the stacked Saturday program, the Friday will […]
Sisters Doll make their way back to Queensland this weekend, bringing with them Poison Us – The Australian Poison Tribute Show and JFK – A Tribute To American Stadium Rock. Sisters Doll never fail to entertain with an energetic live show complete with stage props and surprises galore. The band was in Brisbane earlier this […]
NAPALM DEATH have arrived! After kicking off their Australian tour on Tuesday night in Perth, the most influential and legendary act in the history of heavy metal fathers of grindcore will continue their run tonight in Adelaide before hitting Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane then heading over to New Zealand. Over 40 years on and seventeen […]
Mo’s Desert Clubhouse is turning 4 (official) and throwing down one full day of tunes and general looseness on Saturday, September 9 with indoor/outdoor fun, mega band line-ups, pop-up bar and food truck onsite. “We cannot thank you enough for your support since our inception,” a venue spokesperson said. “In four short years we have […]
After an absence of well over a decade, Mudvayne and Coal Chamber have joined forces for an EPIC Australian tour in February! Mudvayne have sold more than six million albums worldwide with 3 Platinum albums in Australia alone. They were honoured with the first-ever MTV2 Award and were heavily featured in the pages of Rolling […]
For the First Time Ever, Iconic Scottish Punks, the SKIDS are coming to Australia for a Greatest Hits Tour (Into the Valley, The Saints are Coming, Working for the Yankee Dollar, Masquerade, Sweet Suburbia and more) to Celebrate their 45th Anniversary. The SKIDS weren’t your archetypal 1-2-3-4 punk band, they were different. Their songs resonate […]
With Thrashville set to erupt this weekend HEAVY thought it would be a great idea to introduce you to some of the local bands performing. Today we catch up with CIVIC H: You are performing at Thrashville 2023 over September 8 and 9. On a scale of 1 to 10 how excited are you and […]
In keeping with our renewed commitment to supporting Australian bands and artists, HEAVY is proud to announce that we will be sponsoring two awards at this years National Live Music Awards. The NLMA’s – which will be held at different locations across all states – will be presented on October 11, with HEAVY sponsoring the […]
Influential punk band NOFX is known as one of the world’s most controversial and significant punk bands of their time. They are no strangers to pushing boundaries at their live shows, and their final tour will be no different. January 2024 will see the iconic punk band hitting the east coast of Australia for the […]
With Thrashville on this coming weekend, HEAVY sent out some Q&A questions to some of the local bands performing. Today’s feature artist is Downgirl. H: You are performing at Thrashville 2023 over September 8 and 9. On a scale of 1 to 10 how excited are you and why? D: 10s across the board. We […]
Extreme metal innovators THE AMENTA have released a new single, video and EP Plague of Locus. Boasting ten tracks this ambitious 40 min + EP features new tracks and a selection of cover songs that has inspired their inventive existence. Revelling in their moment THE AMENTA embark on a long overdue Australian headline tour, including […]
Kiwi band KAOSIS drop a killer nu-industrial track off the back of the success of their previous single,BREAKING THE FALLEN feat. ANDERS COLSEFNI + JEFFREY NOTHING. The New Zealand Numetal Act harnesses the power of TONY CAMPOS (FEAR FACTORY and STATIC X) and LOGAN MADER (ex-MACHINEHEAD and ONCE HUMAN) in the storming industrial, nu-metal track,SINK […]
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 […]
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 […]
Words by Matt NewPhotos by Angie New Photography With all of the recent anniversary tours in Australia of late, it is becoming increasingly harder to believe how quickly the past 20 years have flown by. The simple notion of nostalgia enforced by our favourite bands and their most iconic releases allows us to briefly escape […]
Out Now Words by Greg Walker Since their inception in 2020, Belarusian’s Massen have dealt with near-constant oppression – first the Covid-19 pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatening the daily stability of the entire Eastern European region. Rising from the ashes of Massenhinrichtung, the shortened moniker differentiates between the former straightforward Pagan […]
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 […]
Words by Lewd Scoff I love it when I walk through the Valley (Fortitude) and overhear people Waxing and Waning lyrical over how God like Melbourne instrumental 3 piece, The Omnific really are. Their skill transpires genre in regards to that great selling point, the ‘WTF Factor’. Not the X factor. That’s for muppets of […]
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 […]