Generally when the festive season rolls around and talk turns to Christmas albums the general chill that runs down most metalheads spines would rival that of the North Pole. Far too often a purely commercial venture by smiling sonic assassins out to further enhance their global acceptability, the Christmas album tale has long been fraught […]
The common perception with iconic bands is that their musical output understandably slows the longer their careers go on. This could be for a variety of factors that are too many to mention, but no matter how many excuses there are, try telling legendary Californian death metal outfit Autopsy that they should be slowing down. […]
Music has a way of providing comfort in a wide variety of ways. To the general music consumer, that comfort is a more personal enjoyment of the music, the lyrics, and the message, but the cathartic nature of music also extends to those making it. “I went from being able to work to having to […]
Where once Atreyu were heralded as the early innovators of the nascent metalcore scene, their place in heavy music’s diverse and boundary-breaking scene has never felt more relevant drawing from inspirations of pop-punk, hardcore, thrash, ‘80s rock and more melding into a unique and varied sound in an increasingly genreless world. The band now returns […]
Following a busy year of sold out shows across Europe and North America, guitar prodigy Plini will return to Australian shores next March in celebration of his new EP Mirage, due out on Friday, December 1. Joining Plini and his band for the Mirage Tour will be New York-based international future jazz group Sungazer and […]
Frontier Touring are excited to announce the long-awaited return of Chicago, Illinois multi-Gold and Platinum four-piece Rise Against, performing two exclusive, not to be missed live shows in Melbourne and Sydney in February 2024… the punk band’s ONLY headline dates down under this summer! Fans don’t want to miss these special shows, the band bringing […]
Having set the rock and metal world alight in September with the announcement of a forthcoming solo album, further details of Bruce Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project are revealed today. The first single to be taken from it will be Afterglow of Ragnarok, a dramatic and epic track that introduces the world not just to the […]
Sunny Coast punks The Chats are back in Australia and have rounded up their friends and labelmates for the Bargain Bin 2024 Tour. Hitting the East Coast this February, The Chats will be joined by an all-star cast of special guests, featuring Mean Jeans (USA), The Prize, Ghoulies, The Unknowns and Boondall Boys. Tickets are […]
POP WILL EAT ITSELF aka PWEI aka POPPIES return to Australia to play a Greatest Hits Set for the First Time Ever. The career spanning set list will include Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Everything’s Cool, Can U Dig It?, Def Con One, Wise Up! Sucker, There Is No Love Between Us Anymore, Their Law, Dance […]
For the very first time in Australia, Overdrive Touring presents Swedish melodic Death Metal powerhouse, Scar Symmetry. With the release of the long-awaited second album of their transhumanist Singularity trilogy, Phase II – The Xenotaph, Scar Symmetry continue to tap into one of the most profound evolutions over the course of humanity – that of […]
Following in the footsteps of a 2nd show in Melbourne, SYDNEY you have been heard and due to phenomenal demand MACHINE HEAD + FEAR FACTORY have added a second Sydney show on Sunday March 17 at the Enmore Theatre. Tickets on sale now from: https://metropolistouring.com/machine-head-2024/ In an electrifying announcement that will cause anticipatory convulsions through the […]
What’s better than watching the universe get torn apart by a brutal death metal band? Watching it get absolutely ripped to shreds by two death metal bands! That’s right, grab your helmet and start training now as New York death metal legends Suffocation and their very special guests, Boston progressive death metal masters Revocation team […]
OFF! …are very much on. After 10 years passed they are bringing their latest album Free LSD to Australia this January 2024. The time has come to witness the contorted visitation of punk psyche power – Los Angeles hardcore wonders OFF! And joining this cavalcade with their own eccentricity of explosive pervasions comes Sydney’s highly […]
Nighteyes, the evocative solo project of New Zealand-born and Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist Rachel Trainor, unveils her haunting debut album The Way Back Down on November 10. This ethereal collection of dark rock, folk and electronica navigates an intricate narrative through realms known and unknown, traversing themes of trauma, love, sorrow, environmental consciousness, connection, and transformation. Rachel […]
GREEN LUNG‘s third studio album, This Heathen Land, was released last week via Nuclear Blast Records. To celebrate, the band have revealed a new video for the track Hunters In The Sky, and revealed a host of UK/European tour dates for 2024 with support from LOWEN and SPIRIT ADRIFT. Tom Templar comments “We’re deeply grateful […]
RAT KING have released their crushing Destroyer Of Us All video. The song is found on the Seattle deathgrind trio’s freshly released LP, Psychotic Reality, out now on Satanik Royalty Records. Depending on who you ask, the term “rat king” has different meanings: One describes a group of literal rats, who meet their death after […]
Modern progressive metal unit INFECTED RAIN experienced their most successful years yet in 2022 and 2023, and are back to own 2024 with brand new music. Amid their current USA tour with Wednesday 13, the band has announced their multifaceted upcoming sixth album, TIME, out February 9, 2024 via Napalm Records. Following their most successful […]
The wait is over! New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album Hymns From The Apocrypha via Nuclear Blast. The band offers fans the third track Delusions of Mortality which combines progressive melodies and Ricky Myer‘s monstrous vocals. Check out the 3D lyric video created by Tamara of Aimed & Framed below. […]
With remarkable records such as the self-titled Voodoo Circle or Locked & Loaded, Alex Beyrodt’s VOODOO CIRCLE quickly established themselves as the epitome of quality in classic hard rock. This band has it all: lots of experience featuring members of PRIMAL FEAR, SINNER and PINK CREAM 69, outstanding songwriting skills and musicianship, passion and a […]
On July 14th, metal legends CAVALERA released the re-recorded versions of SEPULTURA‘s first EP Bestial Devastation and their first full-length album Morbid Visions via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band offers fans the lyric video created by Costin Chioreanu for Necromancer from the Bestial Devastation EP. Max Cavalera states, “‘Necromancer’ stands out on the EP. […]
Femme 80s glam metal unit COBRA SPELL are back for more, revealing their second single The Devil Inside of Me. After releasing a smoking hot music video for their first single, S.E.X., that reached 100k views in no time, the quintet lures with another temptation, both visually and musically. The songwriting skills of up-and-coming guitar […]
Shortly after having announced her upcoming new Christmas album Dark Christmas and the first single Frosty The Snowman, Tarja takes us further on the journey to explore a more mysterious side of the season with the second single Jingle Bells. When Tarja Turunen lends her enchanting voice to this timeless holiday classic, the result is […]
Within 30 years of existence, EVERGREY – Gothenburg’s finest export of darkness – has gathered numerous worldwide chart positions with thirteen studio albums in total and enthralled fans around the globe with their matchless stage appearances at Europe’s biggest festivals and countless headline shows. Today, the unit centered around mastermind Tom S. Englund – one […]
Clear the pit…One of the year’s most anticipated metal records has arrived. New England’s acclaimed purveyors of death FUMING MOUTH have released their long-awaited full-length, Last Day of Sun, today via Nuclear Blast Records. An album that almost never was, Last Day of Sun is a work of perseverance, survival and resurrection with seething fury […]
December 1, 2023 will see US metal heavy weights IMMORTAL GUARDIAN release their forthcoming, third studio album, titled Unite And Conquer. The album will be available as Jewel Case CD, Ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats, exclusively released in Europe via Massacre Records. After the band just recently shared its first song, Rise Of The […]
Returning death metal outfit JOB FOR A COWBOY is pleased to unleash the official new video for their latest single, The Forever Rot, which was released to overwhelming accolades last week. The track comes by way of their long-awaited new full-length, Moon Healer, set for official unveiling on February 23, 2024 via Metal Blade Records. […]
ear music November 10 Helmet are the musical chameleons of hard rock/metal. Founding member, lead guitarist and vocalist Page Hamilton is the only part of Helmet’s music that has remained consistent since 1989, but it is because of his willingness to experiment that Helmet have proven impossible to lump into any one genre. Without an […]
Guest review of Azreal by Simon Benham Pix by Kaotic Images After fucking around at home way longer than I needed to thanks to the young fella’s mates rocking up with some guitars, including a Slash Les Paul which I just had to have a jam on, I finally make it to the Wallaby Hotel […]
Words by Greg Walker Out Now Nuclear Blast Records Not having been on my radar at all, I was surprised to find Fuming Mouth have been around for a decade, and I enjoyed a dive into their catalogue researching for this review. I was shocked to find that in those ten years Fuming Mouth had only […]
Out now Isn’t it funny how one word can have two meanings so completely opposite from each other but still almost mean the same thing? Take Brisbane-based Environmental Nu-thrash noise merchants F.U.C. Reading it as it is spelled you would (or probably should) have reservations about asking your 7-year-old daughter to read the CD cover […]
We sent Dave G to check out the closing night film of Monster Fest. It now heads around Australia as the festival hits the road – check out Dave’s thoughts on The Emu War.
With Scarygirl hitting cinemas this week Dave Griffiths sat down for a chat with the creator Nathan Jurevicius and producer Sophie Byrne. Take a listen to the interview right here:
David Griffiths, Harley Woods, Kyle McGrath and Lee Griffiths present The Popcorn Conspiracy Ep #031. This time they review The Emu War, Mercy Road, Head Count, Scary Girl, Time Addicts, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Dumb Money and Humanist Vampire Seeks Suicidal Person.
With Foe hitting cinemas this week David Griffiths sat down for a chat with the film’s director Garth Davis. Take a listen to the full interview right here:
Marvel Studios debuts the final, thrilling trailer for “The Marvels”. The brand-new trailer, with a look back at The Avengers and the war against Thanos, sets up the stakes for Captain Marvel and her team as they go up against a formidable enemy. In Marvel Studios’ “The Marvels,” Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her […]
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new […]
If the rumours out of Marvel this week are true, then somebody at HQ pulled the emergency lever in fear that Phase Four was becoming a complete failure. News filtered out that two new projects are on the cards – one which will Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine teams up and the other […]
