Thy Art Is Murder are a band that needs no introduction, so we didn’t give them one when Jimmy and Ezza caught up with the boys early in the day at KNOTFEST MELBOURNE. Check out the interview, recorded live backstage, below.
KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA had a fair spread of Australian bands on the line-up this year, and Azza and Ezza from HEAVY were fortunate enough to get some time with one of them, Windwaker, at KNOTFEST MELBOURNE. Check it out below.
HEAVY set sail for Melbourne this year to do backstage interviews at the first Knotfest Australia show rather than the last, and we had loads of fun. But none more so than when Azza and Jimmy cornered Youngy from KING PARROT. Check it out below…
Australian rock legends Beasts (formerly Beast Of Bourbon) are about to hit the road for a run of special shows celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary as well as the release of their new live album, Alive. Beasts – Tex Perkins, Kim Salmon, Boris Sujdovic, Charlie Owen and James Baker – will be starting in Sydney […]
Greek black metal pioneers ROTTING CHRIST will embark on a journey to Australia & New Zealand for the first time in over a decade! The group will be celebrating their 35 years of existence, along with the anticipated release of 15th studio album Pro Xristoy. The band will perform songs from their entire catalogue since […]
Canadian hardcore punk legends Cancer Bats have just announced their return to Australian shores for the first time since 2019 with an eight-date national tour. The tour will include stops in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and Adelaide, and is in support of their latest LP and seventh studio album, 2022’s Psychic Jailbreak. The beloved metal […]
HEAVY elected to break recent tradition recently by travelling to Melbourne Knotfest to conduct our festival chat series on neutral ground with the bands at the start of their cycle instead of the end. It gave us an opportunity to speak with band members while still fresh and full of excitement for the upcoming shows, […]
HEAVY elected to break recent tradition recently by travelling to Melbourne Knotfest to conduct our festival chat series on neutral ground with the bands at the start of their cycle instead of the end. It gave us an opportunity to speak with band members while still fresh and full of excitement for the upcoming shows, […]
APRA AMCOS has today revealed the nominees for the 2024 APRA Music Awards, with an outstanding list of songwriters across pop, rock, country, R&B, hip hop, rap, soul, blues & roots, dance, and a brand-new category representing hard rock and heavy metal artists. The inaugural Most Performed Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Work category features five of […]
British rock outfit IDLES will make their highly-anticipated return to Australia and New Zealand in support of their new album, TANGK. No strangers to our shores, the tour comes off the back of their 2023 Splendour In The Grass appearance and 2022 AU/NZ tour, where they performed 10 sold out shows across the region. IDLES’ […]
Hardline Media are thrilled to present Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the album BURN, set for a run of shows in Australia in October 2024. Glenn Hughes, the former bassist, and singer of Deep Purple, known to millions as the Voice of Rock, Rock and Roll Hall […]
FACE TO FACE TOURING is thrilled to announce +LIVE+ and INCUBUS – two of the US powerhouses of rock – will kick off their co-headlining tour at the inaugural LOOKOUT Festival this weekend. These global concert juggernauts are coming together for a series of gigantic shows in 2024. This brand-new festival event will see +LIVE+ […]
Live Nation are excited to announce Human Kebab will be joining the lineup with Iconic Canadian rockers The Tea Party when they head back to Australia this June for the first time since 2019, bringing their [TRIPtych] 25 tour to our shores. An integral part of kinetic Canadian alt-rock sensation Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Human Kebab […]
Canadian rockers Simple Plan are set to return to Australia in April, with a national run with special guests and fellow pop-punk royals BOYS LIKE GIRLS, We The Kings and Jax. Get set for an international pop-punk celebration for the ages in 2024, you absolutely won’t want to stay at home all alone next April. […]
MUNICIPAL WASTE finally announce their triumphant and probably somewhat inebriated return to Australian shores for the first time since 2013! Formed in Richmond, Virginia, the homeland of the American Civil War, Thrash Metal Crossover party dudes Municipal Waste rose from the salty remains of a New Years Eve Keg Party in 2000/2001, in which they […]
Greek metal outfit Rotting Christ are rightfully hailed as one of the leading purveyors in the history of black metal. Since 1987 the band has released 14 studio albums – including Non Serviam, Thy Mighty Contract, Rituals and The Heretics – and influenced generations of fellow bands, musicians and fans in a genre of music […]
Melbourne-based heavy outfit The Last Martyr have unleashed their glitchy alt-metal track Antidote. The message is simple: When the world makes you sick, love is the Antidote, even if you don’t want to admit it. The track was written on a writing retreat last year where the group and their producer Chris Lalic (Windwaker) locked […]
Brisbane alt-rock band Sunbleached share grungy new single Hell is Repetition, fresh off the back of their appearance at New Bloom Festival last month. Produced and recorded with long time collaborator Dylan Cottee, Hell is Repetition is the heaviest and darkest song in the quartet’s repertoire to date. The track is an introspective look at […]
Enigmatic modern metal monsters, Diamond Construct, share a dark new video for single Hell Inside You, off their upcoming album Angel Killer Zero out everywhere Friday, April 26 via Pale Chord/Rise BMG and Greyscale Records (Australia). Hell Inside You stays true to Diamond Construct’s roots, sharing a signature mix of glitchy guitar and noise sound-design, […]
Legendary UK metal giants Orange Goblin are back with details of their long awaited new studio album Science, Not Fiction. Set for release on July 19, Science, Not Fiction will be the band’s first release on the iconic Peaceville label (Darkthrone, Autopsy, Candlemass). To accompany the announcement, the band have shared their new single (Not) […]
The wait is over, the staggering new era for Aussie metalcore behemoths Alpha Wolf has arrived with the hotly anticipated release of the band’s third studio album Half Living Things, officially out today via Greyscale Records and SharpTone Records. A cornucopia of heaving brutality brewed into sharply-honed moments of melodic brilliance, Half Living Things is […]
Boorloo/Perth-based metalcore band Patient Sixty-Seven have unveiled their latest EP What If It Never Gets Better, produced/mixed by Ryan Botha (RinRin, Kellin Quinn, Aaron Gillespie) at Audax Studios. What If It Never Gets Better seamlessly blends heavy and melodic instrumentation into a cacophony of chaos, as frontman Tom Kiely wrestles with themes of body dysmorphia, […]
Metal Blade Records Out Now Words by Greg Walker Polish church botherers Behemoth first unleashed their second full-length outing Grom way back in 1996, but it’s still foremost in the hearts of their trve kvlt fans, being the last remnant of Behemoth’s trve Black Metal days before Nergal and team began employing a more palatable […]
Photos and words by Jenna Flood Mortiis returned to Australia last week, shadowing our shores with his signature brand of Dark Dungeon Music. Being close to 6 years since he was last here, this time Mortiis returns to perform – for the first time ever live – his debut album Fodt til a Herske (Born […]
