Tim Munt isn’t just a frontman—he’s a storm contained in human form. We ripped through the chaos behind Munt’s live shows, the rituals that turn a regular bloke into Killer on stage, and the raw honesty that fuels their music. Funny, terrifying, and unfiltered, this is metal’s backstage stripped bare. Read More …
Some musicians split their creativity between projects. Aidan de Maria splits his between precision and provocation. On one end, you have Impetus, progressive, technical, emotionally driven extreme metal built from years of bedroom refinement and sharpened into a live force across Adelaide stages. On the Read More …
Emerging from Kathmandu’s underground in the early 2000s, Antim Grahan stand as one of Nepal’s most enduring and influential extreme metal bands. Across more than two decades, shifting line-ups, and a discography that charts the evolution from symphonic black metal into ferocious blackened death, grind, Read More …
Listen close — not to the noise, but to the space between it. Because that’s where Morgan Riley lives. I sat down with the voice behind Blackwater Drowning, expecting fire and venom — and instead got southern warmth wrapped in barbed wire, a charm so Read More …
For more than two decades, 12 Stones have occupied a rare space in heavy music, the kind of band that never truly disappears. Even when they aren’t in the spotlight, their songs keep resurfacing. WWE. Video games. Movie soundtracks. Sports broadcasts. Early‑2000s rock radio staples Read More …
MUNT don’t just play extreme music, they drag you through an urban hellscape and dare you to feel something. On their long-gestating debut full-length The World Is Not Yours, the Melbourne outfit weaponise black metal, death metal, grindcore, hardcore and sludge into a dense, precision-engineered Read More …
Marianas Rest and the Weight of What Remains Marianas Rest have never felt like a band in a hurry. Since forming in Kotka in 2013, the Finnish death doom outfit have worked at their own pace, allowing songs to breathe, moods to deepen, and ideas Read More …
Blackened Rose have quietly carved out a unique space in Australia’s heavy underground, one where gothic melancholy, romantic tragedy, and hard rock swagger coexist without compromise. Led by vocalist and songwriter Aleksei Iagunkov, the Sydney-based project has evolved rapidly since its late-2022 inception, growing from Read More …
With their third studio album DREAMCRUSH set to land on January 30 via Nuclear Blast Records, Danish blackgaze visionaries MØL aren’t just returning — they’re arriving with purpose. Across eleven expansive tracks, the Aarhus outfit step fully into the uneasy space between dreams and reality, Read More …
For a band like Blessthefall, absence was never about disappearing. It was about survival. Nearly a decade has passed since the Phoenix metalcore outfit last set foot on Australian soil, and in that time the genre has fractured, reformed, and redefined itself more times than Read More …
Swedish masters of shadowed melody KATATONIA return to Australia and New Zealand in October 2026, carrying the weight of reinvention, resilience, and one of the most quietly powerful albums of their career. Touring in support of Nightmares As Extensions of the Waking State, the band Read More …
There are interviews you do because they matter in the moment, and then there are interviews that feel like chapters in an ongoing history. Sitting down with Max Cavalera again felt like the latter. This was our third conversation, and somehow it landed at another Read More …
