With Darkthrone due to release their latest album Eternal Hails on June 25, we knew we had to track down Fenriz for an update on proceedings.   Unfortunately, tracking him down isn’t as easy as that so we had to send him out some questions via email and were lucky enough to be one of only two Australian publications that reached the great man…   HEAVY – Darkthrone will be releasing your latest album, Eternal Hails, on June 25. Continue reading DARKTHRONE ...

  UK metalcore/djent outfit InRetrospect have been steadily working towards an album since their inception in early 2018.   A combination of life, elements, and a super virus have all conspired to slow down the progress of this immensely talented band, forcing them to re-evaluate their early plans and release a succession of singles to keep the band not only relevant in a changing musical landscape, but also provide them a firm platform from which to launch their assault on the ...

More than two centuries after Kids of The Century shocked the Heavy Metal world with Helloween‘s new sound, Michael Kiske is back recording with the band. Following the vivid success of the Pumpkin United Tour, which saw Helloween headline Wacken Festival and sell-out arenas and large venues in many countries, Michael, along with Kia Hansen, went into the studio and recorded what is proving to be one of their greatest albums to date. Continue reading HELLOWEEN Pumpkins Go Ape with ...

  Alternative rock icons Fuel have announced the upcoming release of their first album in 18 years, ÅNOMÅLY, due out in October 2021.   The 11 original tracks were written by songwriter/guitarist Carl Bell reunited with original Fuel drummer Kevin Miller, accompanied by new singer John Corsale (lead vocals, guitar), Mark Klotz([guitar, vocals) and Tommy Nat (bass, vocals). Continue reading FUEL To Release First Album in 18 Years at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & ...

  Florida-based melodic death metal masters The Absence have unveiled a live-action lyric video for This Consuming Nocturne.   The song is the fourth preview track from the group’s new album Coffinized which will be released on June 25 via M-Theory Audio.   Watch This Consuming Nocturne below:   Continue reading THE ABSENCE Release Single at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.

  Vancouver’s Rebel Priest is well known in Western Canada for pumping out solid rock n roll tracks and putting on a deadly, old-school stage show.   They have three full-length albums to date and to make sure people haven’t forgotten about them, have a four-track EP coming out this summer, Lost In Tokyo.   The first single off the EP is the title track which is a story about their first couple of nights in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan, which is famed for its ...

  As bassist of prog legends Opeth, Martin Mendez has gained worldwide popularity and now he returns with another virtuous death metal crusher that captures the fear, loss of control and despair of lockdown in eight new tracks.   For their new album Dancing Into Oblivion, his project White Stones goes further down the path of progressive extreme metal with haunting growls, jazz-induced intermezzo and an incredible level of technical perfection. Continue reading WHITE STONES With ...

  Seattle multi-platinum rock band Candlebox have announced a US tour in support of their upcoming new album, Wolves. With COVID restrictions lifting, the band is happy to return to normalcy.   The tour kicks off in Louisville, KY, on August 5 and runs until November 6, ending in Candlebox’s hometown of Seattle. The final two Seattle shows on November 5 and 6 will both feature Candlebox’s original lineup. Continue reading CANDLEBOX Announce US Tour at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, ...

  Hellfest announced the almost complete line-up for their 15th-anniversary edition and set the bar high with an XXL line-up shaking the grounds of Clisson, France, from June 17 to June 26 in 2022.   Nuclear Blast is proud to announce that not less than 36 bands from the label roster are under the high-class selection of well-known artists and underground heroes!   Jerome Riera, head of label Europe, comments: “It’s difficult to find the words to describe what the ...

  In December 2020, TesseracT invited fans to join them in P O R T A L S – an ambitious concept created to offer an escape in a time of isolation. The live cinematic experience fused live performance with beautiful lighting and striking effects, brought together by chaptered screenplay. By taking their most daring steps as a creative force, the band offered the viewer a completely new and unique experience. Continue reading TESSERACT To Release PORTALS Across Formats at HEAVY Magazine ...

  On July 16 British metal legends Paradise Lost will bring an icy breeze of gothic doom over this summer by releasing the captivating testimony of last year’s streaming event At The Mill.   Captured at The Mill Nightclub near the band’s hometown in Yorkshire, England, the recording of the BluRay was directed by Ash Pears, who previously worked with the band on their music videos for Medusa and Obsidian. Continue reading PARADISE LOST To Release Live DVD at HEAVY Magazine - ...

  GRAMMY Award-winning rock band Switchfoot confirmed their new album interrobang will be released on August 20, 2021 via Fantasy Records.   interrobang is the follow up to 2018’s Native Tongue and last year’s Covers EP.   The band also shared the sparkling new track fluorescent, which can be viewed below:   Continue reading SWITCHFOOT Confirm Album, Drop Single at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.

    Third World Posse – a collective of visual artists from developing countries – have arrived to deliver a healthy dose of heavy metal philanthropy, with their first release putting a fresh coat of paint on Metallica’s iconic debut.   Recalling the metal band’s most volatile era and translating it into a series of incredibly ornate and vicious paintings, Felipe Mora’s Dealing Out The Agony is a beautifully brutal collection based on Metallica’s debut trash ...

  West Australian metal outfit EnforcE have released a visualiser for the title track Deep Blue.   The song is taken from the band’s long-awaited fourth full-length release Deep Blue which will be officially released on July 1 2021.   Watch the visualiser below:   Continue reading ENFORCE Release Title Track From Upcoming Album at HEAVY Magazine - Rock, Punk, Metal Music & Beyond.

  Spinefarm can today reveal that Sleep Token will release their second studio album This Place Will Become Your Tomb on September 24 2021. Experience the video for the first single Alkaline, which collectively conveys a sense of darkness and evil, but also of power and control below. This new 12-track offering delves further into the enigmatic universe of Sleep Token, pushing boundaries and blurring genres, whilst retaining their signature sound. Continue reading SLEEP TOKEN With ...

  The wait is (nearly) over… English extreme metal legends Carcass have revealed their long-awaited, massively anticipated 7th studio album Torn Arteries will be released on September 17 with Nuclear Blast Records.   Along with the announcement, the band has debuted new song Kelly’s Meat Emporium that is available now on all stream services.   Pre-Order Torn Arteries: http://www.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries   Watch Kelly’s Meat Emporium ...

  Bullet For My Valentine announce their self-titled, seventh album Bullet For My Valentine.   The record will be released on October 22 via Spinefarm / Search & Destroy and sees the band open a bold new chapter. It’s easily their heaviest, fiercest album so far.   Bullet For My Valentine follows the success of their last album, 2018’s Gravity, which saw the metal juggernauts’ catalogue surpass 1 BILLION (yes, with a B!) streams in the U.S. Continue reading ...

  Words by Jimmy Glinster   Beartooth, a name I’ve heard, but a band I’ve never had the pleasure of listening to.   Their press release photo had me thinking that this was going to be some kind of ‘middle-of-the- road’ radio rock band, with a singer that looked like the ‘WISH’ version of M-Shadows.   Without jumping to too many conclusions though, I threw this on while driving around at my boring day job. Continue reading Album Review: BEARTOOTH ‘Below’ at ...

  Pix by Rashid Alkamraikhi   Unlike anything else in this world, music has that rare and innate ability to transfer your whole being to an era or moment in life where nothing else mattered.   A moment of pure bliss that, although often forgotten, lays dormant in our subconscious until one familiar note or lyric awakens it from its slumber and allows the memories to flow forth from within. Continue reading Review SPRING LOADED Sandstone Point Hotel 19/06/21 at HEAVY Magazine ...

Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios Company has acquired director Miles Doleac’s macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, DEMIGOD, starring Rachel Nichols (Continuum, Star Trek). The distributor plans for a late-October, day-and-date streaming and theatrical release. Directed and co-written by Doleac (alongside Michael Donovan Horn), DEMIGOD was produced by Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary, the same team behind 2020’s The Dinner Party. Continue reading ...

Nobody quite makes low budget cult films the way that Australian filmmakers do. Over the years I have been pleasantly surprised by films like Red Hill and Acolytes, so surprised in fact that I have gone back and re-visited them a number of times. Now Aussie filmmaker Martin Wilson (Roll) raises the Aussie cult flag high once again with Great White, a film I’ll admit was a lot better than I expected it would be. Continue reading GREAT WHITE Review at HEAVY Cinema.

She made a name for herself with movies like Blue Crush and Along Came A Spider and now Mika Boorem goes behind the camera with Hollywood.Con. She chats to HEAVY Cinema all about it. You can listen to the interview right here: Continue reading HOLLYWOOD.CON – Mika Boorem Interview at HEAVY Cinema.

This week at HEAVY Cinema we chat to filmmaker Tim Brown about what it was like working with Bill Nighy and filming in Broken Hill for his new film Buckley’s Choice. You can take a listen to the interview below:   Continue reading BUCKLEY’S CHOICE – Tim Brown Interview at HEAVY Cinema.

Today, Disney+ debuted the key art for comedic murder mystery “Only Murders In The Building” and announced that the series will premiere exclusively on Star on Disney+ as a Star Original from Tuesday, August 31st. From the minds of Steve Martin, Dan Fogelman and John Hoffman, “Only Murders In The Building” follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. Continue reading THE ONLY ...

The latest episode of He Says/She Says Film Reviews has just landed and this time Dave and Lee Griffiths are taking a look at the brand new feel-good film Dream Horse. Take a listen to the episode right here:   Continue reading He Says/She Says Film Reviews Ep #011: DREAM HORSE at HEAVY Cinema.

From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC line up.   Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A.  Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X.  Today’s do-or-die assignment?  Assemble a collection of cons, including ...