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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
