MUNT’s Tim Richmond: The World Is Not Yours, Urban Hellscapes & East Coast Spite Tour

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 …

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Froth & Fury Fest 2026: How Adelaide’s Homegrown Heavy Festival Became a Scene-Defining Institution

Froth & Fury Fest’s story is, at its core, the story of Adelaide’s heavy scene levelling up. What began in 2021 as a DIY brewery weekender at Pirate Life Brewing has grown into a two-city, Showgrounds-sized beast, and on January 31st, 2026, that journey reached Read More …

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SOULFLY, NAILBOMB & SNOT – The Forum, Melbourne, January 30, 2026 Presented By The Phoenix AU | Photo Gallery By Outback Bob

The Forum, Melbourne was a pressure cooker on Friday, January 30, 2026, as Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Snot tore through the room in a night of uncompromising heaviness, groove, and pure catharsis. From tribal riffs and political fury to chaotic energy and pit-level madness, this triple Read More …

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Nervosa – Slave Machine Tears Into Control, Brutality and Modern Thrash on Album Six Unleashing April 3rd Via Napalm Records

Brazilian-born thrash institution Nervosa return with Slave Machine, a record that cements the Prika Amaral-fronted era as more than a transitional phase. With the title track now unleashed ahead of the album’s April 3 release via Napalm Records, Nervosa sharpen their attack into their most Read More …

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Marianas Rest Interview Jaakko Mäntymaa on Doom Metal, Grief, Survival and The Bereaved

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 …

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BLACKENED ROSE: GOTHIC ROMANCE, HARD ROCK SWAGGER & THE BLOOD-RED SNOW BETWEEN CHAPTERS

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 …

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Enter Shikari Return to Australia in 2026 for, High‑Voltage Headline Tour

Enter Shikari have never been a band you simply listen to, they’re a band you experience. In the crush. Under blinding strobes. With your throat shredded, pulse racing somewhere near drum‑and‑bass tempo. In May 2026, Australian fans get that full‑body rush all over again, with Read More …

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Wax Mekanix Tears Down the Illusion on “Naked” — A Quiet, Confrontational Reckoning

The Philadelphia songwriter strips his sound to the bone, turning vulnerability into one of his most dangerous statements yet. “Naked” finds Philadelphia songwriter Wax Mekanix at his most exposed — not just shedding layers of production, but tearing down the personal and cultural illusions he’s Read More …

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Crannk Reviews: Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly and the Art of Brutal Storytelling

History and metal collide in a way not heard since the lessons taught by the almighty Iron Maiden on Carrion Vael’s new album, Slay Utterly — a mercilessly vicious anthology of atrocity that explores the more criminally insane side of humanity in all its gory Read More …

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Poison The Well’s “Thoroughbreds” Dragged Me Back to the Pit — And I Loved Every Second

I hit play on Poison The Well – “Thoroughbreds” and suddenly I wasn’t in my studio anymore — I was 23 again, hoarse-throated, gripping a mic stand like it owed me money, trying to scream my way into some kind of purpose. This band didn’t Read More …

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EMNW’s “Headbang Baby” Hits Like a Saturday Morning Cartoon… I Reacted

I sat down, headphones on, a cup of lukewarm coffee in hand, and hit play on EMNW – Headbang Baby. Instantly, it was chaos in technicolor—like a Saturday morning cartoon got possessed by metal riffs and caffeine. I’m talking riffs sharp enough to shave your Read More …

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