Nearly forty years after Doomsday for the Deceiver first tore its way into the metal world, Flotsam and Jetsam are not interested in surviving on history alone. Their sixteenth studio album, Rats in the Temple, arrives on August 28 through Napalm Records, carrying the precision, Read More …
KillerTube catches up with Brujeria’s El Criminal ahead of the band’s Putrefying Down Under Australian and New Zealand tour with CARCASS. Read More …
METALITE mastermind Edwin Premberg talks DISCOVERY, the band’s evolving sci-fi universe, heavier production, songwriting, Jacob Hansen and new drummer Erik Junttila. Read More …
Nyctalor arrived without names, roles or a trail of individual personalities to follow. Formed in the Australian Capital Territory in 2025, the anonymous collective have deliberately pushed attention towards the music, artwork and atmosphere surrounding their debut EP, I: The Collapse. Across two extended compositions Read More …
The Alberta quartet open up about the long road to their self titled debut, creative freedom and the seven songs that finally brought their story together. Famous Strangers may be a relatively new name in heavy music, but there is nothing inexperienced about the four Read More …
James Ivanyi has spent more than a decade building a career around instrumental music, progressive guitar and doing things entirely on his own terms. We sat down with the Australian guitarist and composer to talk The Phantasm Cozenage, songwriting, vintage gear, Suhr signature guitars, his metal roots and why he considers himself a musician first. Read More …
Some albums arrive at exactly the right moment. Others feel like they have walked beside you through the darkness before helping point towards whatever might be waiting beyond it. When I first caught up with Mark Kelson from The Eternal two years ago around the Read More …
No Cure vocalist Blaythe Steuer talks straight edge, hardcore culture, mosh pits, songwriting and the unlikely journey that has taken the Alabama band to their first Australian tour. Read More …
Paul Gray has spent decades helping shape British rock through Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Damned and UFO. Ahead of The Damned’s Australian return, he discusses songwriting, home recording, touring and why, after 50 years, it’s still all just rock and roll. Read More …
After nearly 30 years, The Kovenant are finally bringing Nexus Polaris to Australia. We caught up with Nagash to discuss the long-awaited tour, the band’s reunion, and the surprise reveal that a brand-new album is already taking shape. Read More …
Formed in southern Portugal in 2015, Shadowmare have spent more than a decade developing a sound built from the aggression of thrash and death metal alongside the precision and complexity of progressive and technical metal. Across the EP From Hell to the Future, the albums Read More …
Ash drummer Rick McMurray joins Crannk to discuss celebrating 30 years of 1977, memories of Big Day Out 1999, touring Australia, his biggest drumming influences and why Ash are still focused on the future. Read More …
