See CRANNK’s photo gallery of SWEET and Sisters Doll at Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide on Thursday night. Read More …
Beaten To Death: Vntrve Album Review: Grindcore Without a Rulebook
Beaten To Death – Vntrve Album Review Upon opening the email from Jai that contained the Dropbox link for this review, I noted that in his summary was a sentence I couldn’t ignore: “These guys definitely don’t seem interested in playing grindcore by the usual Read More …
Angels On The Battlefield: JD McGibney on New Beginnings, Finding Strength Through Music and the Battles We All Face
Sometimes a single song can change the direction of somebody’s life. For Angels On The Battlefield founder and guitarist JD McGibney, that moment came while sitting in a car with his father, hearing a familiar Black Sabbath song performed in a way he’d never experienced Read More …
Nine Treasures: Askhan on Seeking the Absolute, Starting Again and Taking Mongolian Metal to America
Fifteen years into building Nine Treasures, founder, guitarist and vocalist Askhan found himself facing one of the most difficult decisions a musician can make. After spending years writing and experimenting with material for the band’s next album, he realised the music simply wasn’t heading in Read More …
Jeff Martin, David Bowie and the Art of Beautifully Strange Music
The Tea Party’s Jeff Martin joins Killer to talk David Bowie, Blackstar, Transmission, Indian music and the strange power of songs that stay with us for life. Read More …
Kav Temperley on Celebrating David Bowie, Eskimo Joe & Reinvention
David Bowie has been called a chameleon so many times that the word almost feels permanently attached to him. Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, the Berlin years and the huge pop reinvention of Let’s Dance all became different pieces of an artist Read More …
VADER: Peter Wiwczarek on LITANY, REIGN FOREVER & 40+ Years of Death Metal
More than four decades into VADER, Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek has found a pretty effective way of avoiding one of the biggest enemies facing any band that survives this long: routine. When the Polish death metal veterans return to Australia this November for the Reign Forever Read More …
The Animals Refuse to Stay Dead – John Steel Talks Hendrix, Slade and Another Australian Tour
The Animals’ farewell tour wasn’t quite the end. John Steel returns to KillerTube to talk Hendrix, Slade, jazz, and another Australian tour potentially on the horizon. Read More …
FORGOTTEN SHRINE: Sofia Frasz on Nox Aeterna, Apathy and Keeping Wonder Alive
When I first spoke with Sofia Frasz and Josh Alexander from Forgotten Shrine back in 2024, “Where Shadows Lie” had literally just landed as their debut single. There was no debut album yet. Forgotten Shrine itself was still taking shape, with a handful of songs Read More …
Voyager Return With New Single “Secret” Ahead Of Australian Shows
There are some band returns that feel bigger than just new music, and for Voyager, this is definitely one of them. After everything the Perth progressive pop metal favourites have been through since 2023, hearing that the band are back, playing shows again and now Read More …
Napalm Records Round Up October 26: DELAIN, DOMINUM, IGNEA, EVIL INVADERS And VINDICTA
Another stack of new music has landed from the Napalm Records camp, and this one covers a ridiculous amount of ground. DELAIN are tearing up the rulebook and entering a new collaborative era with a cast that includes some enormous names from across symphonic and Read More …
One World (R)evolution: Astrum Lux Lucis on Reflections Of Resilience, Identity and the Revolution Within
Sometimes an album tells you exactly what it means while you are making it. Other times, you finish the bloody thing, live a little more life and realise the songs understood where you were heading before you did. That is pretty close to what happened Read More …