I hit play on Poison The Well – “Thoroughbreds” and suddenly I wasn’t in my studio anymore — I was 23 again, hoarse-throated, gripping a mic stand like it owed me money, trying to scream my way into some kind of purpose. This band didn’t Read More …
Author: Chris Causby
EMNW’s “Headbang Baby” Hits Like a Saturday Morning Cartoon… I Reacted
I sat down, headphones on, a cup of lukewarm coffee in hand, and hit play on EMNW – Headbang Baby. Instantly, it was chaos in technicolor—like a Saturday morning cartoon got possessed by metal riffs and caffeine. I’m talking riffs sharp enough to shave your Read More …
CKY: Chaos, Grit, and the Riffs That Refuse to Die
Bands don’t last this long by accident. They last because someone in the room refuses to let the thing die. CKY’s story is one of endurance — fractured eras, long gaps, reinvention by necessity rather than choice. What’s left now isn’t a band coasting on Read More …
Saosin Are Coming Back to Australia — And Beau Burchell Is Ready to Burn It Down Again
There’s a certain kind of electricity that only exists when a band survives its own mythology — and Saosin are standing right in the middle of it. Two decades deep, scars earned, legacy intact, and somehow still swinging. Ahead of Saosin’s Australian self-titled 20th anniversary Read More …
MAX CAVALERA INTERVIEW: THE FIRE, THE FURY & THE NEXT SOULFLY ERA
There are moments in this gig where reality bends a little — where you’re suddenly sitting across from someone who didn’t just shape heavy music, they scarred it into the planet.That was me with Max Cavalera, rolling into Adelaide with Soulfly like a dust storm Read More …
Inside the Madness: Froth & Fury Pulls Back the Curtain
There’s a certain kind of electricity that crackles around Froth & Fury Fest — part chaos, part community, part “holy hell, how did they pull that off?” It’s the kind of festival that feels like it was born in a back-alley brewery and raised on Read More …
Dave Graney Walks Into the Velvet Night — A Dive Into His Lou Reed Tribute Tour
There’s something beautifully unhinged about watching Dave Graney — the eternal Australian shapeshifter, the man who’s worn more musical skins than most artists even dare to touch — gearing up to step into the shadow-slicked world of Lou Reed. And not as a cheap imitation, Read More …
Memphis May Fire Reloaded: Matty Mullins Talks Growth, Grit & Their 2026 Australian Return
There’s a certain voltage that hits when you sit down with a frontman who’s lived enough miles, mistakes, victories, and breakdowns to fill a dozen albums. That’s the energy Matty Mullins walked in with — not chaotic, not unhinged, but focused in that way a Read More …
Into the Denver Maelstrom: Voidatlas Are Rewriting the Geometry of Heavy Music
Some bands walk into the scene with a demo, a handshake, and a dream. Voidatlas kicked the door off its hinges, rewired the structure, and left the Denver skyline buzzing like a downed powerline. Their debut EP Surrounding doesn’t just introduce them — it stalks Read More …
Anberlin Are Lighting the Fuse Again — And Nate Young Is Ready for Detonation
Some bands reunite.Anberlin reload. Twenty years after Never Take Friendship Personal carved its place into the DNA of an entire scene, Anberlin are storming back into Australia — not as a nostalgia act, not as a museum piece, but as a living, breathing, combustible force. Read More …
SHARK EYES Drop “It Ends Here” — A North Queensland Gut-Punch You Need to Hear (and Watch Me React To)
There’s something wild brewing in North Queensland, and it’s not a cyclone this time—it’s Shark Eyes, the young nu-metal bruisers who’ve been quietly sharpening their teeth since 2023. Their new single “It Ends Here” is a straight-up emotional sledgehammer, the kind of track that sounds Read More …
Riff Architect in the Void: Nick Rossi Opens Up on Born of Osiris’ Evolution
There’s a certain electricity that hits the air when a band like Born of Osiris starts stirring again — that neon-purple cyberstorm they conjure, the one that feels like getting kicked through a digital wormhole while a prophet screams at you in binary. And right Read More …