Enslaved drummer, vocalist and producer Iver Sandøy discusses AC/DC’s songwriting magic, making Mið under pressure and why you don’t need expensive studio gear to make a great record. Read More …
Segression Celebrate 30 Years With Inaugural SEG FEST 2027 In Wollongong
Thirty years is a long time in heavy music. Scenes change, trends come and go, venues disappear, bands form, implode, reform and sometimes disappear all over again. Somehow, through all of that, Segression are still here. Formed in Wollongong in 1996, Segression have spent three Read More …
IGNEA’s Helle Bohdanova Talks Monumental, Nostalgia, Kyiv & Futures That Never Arrived
There are albums that look backwards simply because the past feels comfortable, and then there are albums like IGNEA’s Monumental, where looking back becomes considerably more complicated. Nostalgia here is not treated as an easy escape into better days. It can be beautiful, unsettling, deceptive Read More …
Millencolin’s Mathias Färm on Pennybridge Pioneers, Australia and Good Things 2026
There are certain albums that stop being just records somewhere along the way. They become attached to a place, a period of your life, an old skateboard video, a beaten-up cassette, a festival memory or that one song you and your mates absolutely flogged until Read More …
TEMPERANCE — Marco Pastorino On Arcani, The Devil, Death And Letting The Tower Break The Formula
Italian symphonic power metallers TEMPERANCE return on October 16 with their eighth studio album, Arcani, through Napalm Records, and this time the band have finally stepped into a world that has been hiding in plain sight around their own name for more than a decade. Read More …
Cepheidae Variable: Ryan Koepke on Primordial Reverie Ascendant and the Evolution Beyond a Solo Project
When I first caught up with Canadian multi-instrumentalist Ryan Koepke through a written Crannk Q&A in 2025, Cepheidae Variable was very much his baby. The debut album, Primordial Reverie, was this massive instrumental journey through progressive metal, orchestration, synths and science fiction inspired soundscapes, with Read More …
MORTIIS: BUILDING WORLDS, BREAKING BRAINS & MAKING BEAUTIFUL THINGS UGLY
Before Dungeon Synth had a name, Mortiis was already building strange electronic worlds. Killer talks to Håvard Ellefsen about Ghosts of Europa, analog synthesizers, sonic experimentation, creative obsession and the glorious art of following an idea into the unknown. Read More …
Annihilus Mundi: Daniel Saillant On The Dead Sea Scrolls, Evangelion And Finding Hope In The Darkness
There are ambitious concept albums, and then there are albums that feel like somebody has emptied the entire contents of their head onto the table and somehow found a way to turn it all into music. Annihilus Mundi’s forthcoming second full-length, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Read More …
Dorian Pavlović of Ocean of Another. AI, Cruelty and the Human Fucking Problem
A year after our first conversation, Dorian Pavlović of Ocean of Another returns to talk AI, human creativity, cruelty, empathy, Manntra and the strange business of remaining human in an increasingly automated world. Read More …
GÅTE: Tradition, Transformation and the Living Spirit of Sigil
Gunnhild Sundli and Magnus Børmark discuss Norwegian folklore, Eurovision, creative change and the stories behind GÅTE’s new album Sigil Norwegian folk rock trailblazers GÅTE have never approached tradition as something that belongs behind glass. Across more than two decades, the band have drawn upon Norwegian Read More …
ATER’s Fernando Bühring: Love, Loss & Breaking The Rules On Everlasting
There is still plenty of darkness inside ATER. The crushing low end, extreme vocals and heaviness that drove 2024’s Somber haven’t suddenly disappeared. If anything, they’re now sitting inside something much bigger. On album number three, Everlasting, Chilean dark metal outfit ATER are pulling gothic Read More …
Thirteen Days Bring Winter to The Ed Castle | Live Review
Thirteen Days – Winter Album LaunchWith Larsen & The UnsetThe Ed Castle, Adelaide | 26 September 2026 A Night at The Ed Castle with Thirteen Days and Friends It’s 8:30 PM on a Saturday night. The busy doors of The Ed Castle are open and Read More …