Twenty years after Razorlight, Johnny Borrell joins Jai That Aussie Metal Guy to talk about the album that seemed determined to exist, rebuilding his creative relationship with Andy Burrows, returning to Australia and the raw live moment captured in “Wire to Wire.” Anniversary conversations can Read More …
The wait is over! Exumer’s new album, Death Mask Messiah, is here, and it’s fucking insane! The Exumer boys have been busy delivering their sixth studio album and their first since 2019. Death Mask Messiah is also the first Exumer recording to feature the new Read More …
There are some interviews that are work, and then there are the ones where you sit there thinking, fuck, sixteen year old me would never have believed this. Catching up with Chris Rand from Segression definitely sat in that second camp for me. I first Read More …
Some conversations hit you before the official interview even begins. Before I rolled into the formal intro for my latest Crannk chat with Beautiful Skeletons, drummer Huwy Williams and I were already comparing the strange reality of life after cancer. I have now been in Read More …
Five years can disappear bloody fast. When I last caught up with Joey Arena in March 2021, we spoke about his ARENA synthwave project, Sammy Hagar giving his blessing to Joey’s version of Van Halen’s “Dreams,” and an Outlier catalogue already holding enough material for Read More …
Eleven months ago, I caught up with Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes as the band prepared to release their seventeenth studio album, Ascension. Before we wrapped up that conversation, Nick told me Paradise Lost 100 percent wanted to return to Australia. Now, the time has Read More …
The first time I heard Bloodstain, I had to go and find out more about them. These guys were playing with a confidence that made it hard to believe how recently they had come together. Finding out the band had formed in Stockholm in late Read More …
Green Lung have always felt like more than a collection of massive riffs. Every album opens a doorway into a world of folklore, horror, forgotten history and the overwhelming power of nature. Their music can hit immediately as traditional British heavy metal and hard rock, Read More …
There are anniversary albums that simply gather familiar songs into one place, and then there are albums like Stories Of Destiny. For MAD MAX founder Jürgen Breforth, this is not a greatest hits collection dressed up as something new. It is a deeply personal journey Read More …
Andrew Hudson talks Exsequiis, creative freedom and the strength of Australian thrash Twenty years ago, four teenagers from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs came together for a high school thrash metal performance. They chose the name Harlott largely because they thought it would look good on a Read More …
Faroese visionary artist Eivør has revealed another stunning piece from her upcoming studio album Tungl, with the release of her new single “Verjugarðar / Walls”. The track is out now, with Tungl set for release on October 16. Pre-order Tungl:https://eivor.bfan.link/tungl Listen to “Verjugarðar / Walls”:https://eivor.bfan.link/verjugardar Read More …
Rock does not always need to be reinvented. Sometimes it just needs to be plugged in, cranked up and played with enough conviction to remind people why they fell in love with it in the first place. That spirit drives Generection, the forthcoming fourth studio Read More …
