There are bands you listen to because the riffs hit hard, the songs get into your blood and they sound fucking enormous when you crank them. Then there are bands that send you somewhere beyond the music itself. Amon Amarth have always been both of Read More …
Steve Summers isn’t interested in nostalgia. Pretty Boy Floyd are still writing, still touring and still making enough noise to piss somebody off. Read More …
There are plenty of ways to measure thirty years in a band. Albums released, kilometres travelled, festival stages crossed, line-up changes survived, records sold and all those other milestones that eventually get condensed into a few neat paragraphs whenever an anniversary rolls around. Then there Read More …
There has been a hell of a lot of change in the From Ashes To New camp since Australian audiences finally got their first taste of the Pennsylvania heavyweights at Good Things Festival in 2024. For starters, there is another album in the arsenal. Reflections, Read More …
JD Fortune has lived one hell of a rock’n’roll story. From sleeping in his car and eating two-minute noodles to fronting INXS and flying on private jets, Fortune opens up about the highs, lows and lessons along the way. Read More …
There are some bands you simply cannot talk about Australian heavy metal history without mentioning, and Mortal Sin are absolutely one of them. From those early Sydney thrash days and the impact of Mayhemic Destruction through Face of Despair, international touring, breakups, reunions and later Read More …
Some albums arrive according to a carefully mapped plan. Others sit unfinished for years, waiting for the world around them to catch up. For Robin Staps, Solaris became something even more important. It became the unfinished story that convinced him The Ocean still had a Read More …
There are albums that introduce you to a band, and then there are albums that immediately make you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. For me, Sarcator’s Alkahest was absolutely the latter. I first came across the Swedish band properly when that record landed Read More …
Stabbitha and the Knifey Wifeys return with Disgust, an explosive new album shaped by twelve years of songwriting, live shows, anger, mortality and musical evolution. Read More …
Some records capture a moment. Others only really begin to make sense once enough time has passed to understand the person who survived it. From Under Concrete Kings’ Impulse Tension feels very much like the latter. I’ve known Joseph Izayea for a few years now. Read More …
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 …
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 …
