Get ready, Australia — the horror circus is rolling back into town, and this time it’s bigger, bolder, and more batshit than ever. Kim Dracula, the genre-smashing Tasmanian iconoclast, has announced a triumphant homecoming tour this November with none other than the Duke of Spook Read More …
Italy’s Dying Awkward Angel are sharpening the blades once more with their upcoming album, The Missing Frame, out August 22nd via Rockshots Records. Built on years of hard-earned grit and unwavering loyalty to melodic death metal’s roots, the new material is a raging return, loaded Read More …
Power metal titans PRIMAL FEAR are back and bringing the fire — quite literally — with their stirring new single ‘Tears Of Fire’, the latest taste from their upcoming full-length DOMINATION, set to drop this September. From the opening climb of soaring guitars to the Read More …
Few bands in modern metal possess the storytelling gravitas, cinematic flair, and emotional weight of Dutch symphonic metal visionaries Blackbriar. With their third full-length album, A Thousand Little Deaths, set to drop August 22 via Nuclear Blast, the band invites us once more into their Read More …
Some interviews hit you like a freight train at full speed. This one was different—it was more like getting hit by the wreckage left after the freight train derailed, then finding a note in the rubble that says, “You’re not alone.” That’s the vibe I Read More …
There’s a certain kind of muscle memory that kicks in when Hatebreed drops a new track. Your spine tightens. Your fists clench. You know it’s about to get real. And when “Make The Demons Obey” landed in the pit like a Molotov cocktail thrown by Read More …
Melbourne’s own hard rock firestarters Ablaze have just unleashed their long-awaited second album Sink Ya Teeth In, out today, August 1st — and it’s an absolute ripper. The follow-up to their much-loved debut No Chaser, this new eight-track beast is the band’s first vinyl release, Read More …
The Adelaide heavy music scene has been cooking some serious heat lately, and one band pushing the charge with pure intent and chaotic precision is Seek Misery. I had the chance to catch up with the band for an in-depth, honest, and fun-as-hell chat over Read More …
What happens when two of the most mind-bending, genre-defying musicians of the digital age step off your screen and onto a stage together? You get ESCAPE THE INTERNET—a tour that promises to blow minds, shake walls, and inspire a new generation of guitarists and bassists Read More …
Following an 8-year hiatus, The Dillinger Escape Plan return to Australia this August for a very limited run of live shows to commemorate Calculating Infinity, their game-changing debut album—and reignite the unrelenting energy that made them one of the most incendiary live acts in history. Read More …
There’s a strange sort of anticipation that creeps in when you know a band like Sleep Token is about to mess with your molecules. I hit play on Provider with the caffeinated reverence of a cultist lighting incense at the altar of sound — this Read More …
Following the unrelenting devastation of their 2024 album Cursed, Paleface Swiss are dragging their visceral, genre-defying deathcore back to Australian shores—and this time, they’re not coming alone. Presented by The Phoenix AU, the Cursed Tour sees Paleface Swiss teaming up with beatdown bruisers NASTY for Read More …
