Crannk family, brace yourselves—an unholy storm of Slavic and Siberian pagan power is brewing. For the first time ever, Russian pagan folk metal legends ARKONA and their spellbinding Siberian counterparts NYTT LAND will bring their immersive ritualistic live shows to Australia this September for the Read More …
Toronto, Canada’s horror fiends Blood Opera will be unleashing their first full-length album “Songs in the Key of Death” on February 24th. Paying tribute to the genre films they love and mixing metal with the macabre, these purveyors of “Dead Metal” are sharing their next Read More …
French death metal masters AKIAVEL have unleashed a video for their song “Lady of Death“. The track is taken from their critically acclaimed album Væ Victis which was released in April. Frontwoman Aure comments: “Lady of Death” is a song about Aileen Wuornos. I absolutely wanted to put Read More …
Piercing through the dark winter clouds, innovative leaders of the modern death metal scene, PSYCROPTIC, have decided that the time has arrived to lunge out of the darkness and back onto the stage! Since their formation in 1999, the band have constantly evolved and broken Read More …
Ten years is a hell of a long time to be in a band, let alone being in the gargantuan touring wrecking machine that is King Parrot. Broken teeth, skinned knees, black eyes and empty cans are all in a day’s work for the boys Read More …
Hailing out of Germany is the legendary Teutonic Thrash pioneers and one of the legends of the German Thrash scene is Assassin. Having officially formed in 1984 Assassin released two demos and two albums “The Upcoming Terror” and “The Interstellar Experience” in-between 1984-1988. Assassin quickly Read More …
This month I’ve been listening to a lot of folk punk ahead of a piece I’m working on about the folk-punk community in Australia. I thought I’d share a few words about some of the releases that I’ve been listening to in an attempt to Read More …
I’m sure most people have made their best of 2019 lists by now but I’m not really into those lists so for me it seemed a better option to do a year in review piece. The following is a bunch of punky stuff that got Read More …
Most punkers can name at least one compilation from whatever part of the scene they belong to, my cd collection was created during the 90’s and punk compilations were a huge part of that.The big compilations were the “Punk O Rama” (Epitaph Records) and “Fat Read More …
This month the punktoria group I manage is celebrating its 1st year anniversary and that is enough of a milestone for me to have a beer. It was originally called Shepparton Punk Bands and Fans until 10 days later when it became clear how small Read More …
May see’s another big month of mayhem and heavy with so many great releases and genres of heavy metal from all over the globe to choose from. First off in Sweden we have the legendary Entombed who released “Clandestine Live” on the 17th,not to be Read More …
May is shaping up to be a great month for the punk scene in Australia with a few music videos being released like Wollongong punkers Topnovil for their song “Nadine“ and Newcastle punks Trashed Again with “Long Way Home” from their EP “Another Way To Fail” Read More …
