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 …
VESSELES: Valira Reclaims Home and Their Voice
There are plenty of reasons for an artist to go back and revisit an album. Maybe enough time has passed that the songs have changed with them, maybe the production never quite captured what was inside their head, or sometimes they simply reckon they can Read More …
Enslaved’s Iver Sandøy on Mið: The Pressure Cooker, Human Rhythm and Finding the Centre
Thirty-five years and seventeen albums into a career built on refusing to stand still, Enslaved are still finding new ways to challenge not only what the band can sound like, but how they actually get there. Their forthcoming album, Mið, arrives October 30 through Nuclear Read More …
JD Fortune at The Gov — Adelaide Came to Sing
JD Fortune brought the swagger, the voice and the INXS classics to The Gov in Adelaide. With a razor-tight band, a crowd singing louder than the amplifiers and a cracking acoustic opening set from Jason of Nagatomi Plaza, this was rock ‘n’ roll exactly as it should be. Read More …
Nembutolik: All Along the Frankston Line, Straight Off the Fucking Rails
Killer sits down with Nembutolik’s Pat and Hemi for a spectacular derailment involving Frankston’s hardcore scene, Bunnings sausages, duct-taped banana suits, existential philosophy and seven-and-a-half new songs. Australian death metal has rarely been this gloriously fucked up. Read More …
Power Take Off: Scott Theis On Cornfields At Midnight, Family, Farmland And Finding His Voice
After more than three decades behind a drum kit, Wisconsin musician and fourth-generation farmer Scott Theis could probably have been forgiven for thinking his days of loading into vans, sleeping wherever there was space and grinding his way across the United States were behind him. Read More …
The Old Ones: Three Janitors, Massive Doom Riffs and Cosmic Horror
The Old Ones are three mates from Billings, Montana, making crushing doom and stoner rock. Trevor Stoltenberg talks Vol. II, Lovecraft-inspired mythology, the DIY grind and a third album already written. Read More …
Ecdysis – “Dawn of the Smegmadon” Single Review | Crannk
What do you say when Sid from South Australian powerhouse Ecdysis asks you to review their latest single? Well, I’m going to tell you what you say. You give him a healthy and hearty, “FUCK YES I WILL!” And that’s what I’m here to do Read More …