Seether bassist Dale Stewart discusses Beneath The Surface, family life, the future of albums, and why he believes singles may become the dominant format for rock bands moving forward. Read More …
Tag: alternative metal
NORMUNDY’S JOSHUA D-DAY WANTS TO SAVE YOUR HUMANITY
NORMUNDY frontman Joshua D-Day dives deep into Corrupt My Code, artificial intelligence, creativity, spirituality and the band’s ambitious new chapter. Read More …
Seether’s Dale Stewart Talks Beneath The Surface, Fatherhood And Heavy Singles
There are some bands that become part of the soundtrack to your life, and for me, Seether are absolutely one of those bands. Over the years, their music has been there through the heavy moments, the reflective moments, the angry moments, and those times where Read More …
Drowning Pool’s CJ Pierce Talks Sinner, Dave Williams And 25 Years Of Heavy Legacy
There are some albums that arrive, hit hard, and then slowly fade into nostalgia. Then there are albums like Drowning Pool’s Sinner, a record that didn’t just belong to a moment, it became part of people’s lives. Twenty five years on from its release, Sinner Read More …
AVATAR’s Johannes Eckerström On Forbidden Knowledge, The Forest & Why We Crave Chaos
AVATAR frontman Johannes Eckerström talks Don’t Go In The Forest, Australian tour plans, stage transformation, literature, fear, ritual and why the scariest thing in the forest might be yourself. Read More …
Sunk Loto Bridge Past And Future On New Single Dead Shadows
Australian metal pioneers Sunk Loto have returned with a brand new single, Dead Shadows, ushering in another powerful chapter for one of the country’s most important alternative metal bands. Arriving as their first new material since 2024’s God Complex, Dead Shadows lands with a fresh Read More …
Dream Beard On Church, Chaos, Creed, And The Story Behind HIGH LIFE
The first thing that hits about Dream Beard is not just the collision of sounds. There is heavy rock in there. Metalcore. Hip hop. Massive hooks. Modern sheen. But underneath all of it there is something that feels far more important than a genre tag. Read More …
Of Mice & Men On Another Miracle, Live Shows & Australia 2026 Tour | Aaron & Tino Interview
When Of Mice & Men return to Australia this May with Crystal Lake, they will not be stepping back onto our stages as a band living off reputation alone. They are arriving with momentum, with clarity, and with the kind of creative confidence that only Read More …
Napalm Records Roundup April 9 2026 Sevendust Dominum Nervosa And Lord Of The Lost Deliver Massive New Releases
Napalm Records are absolutely firing on all cylinders right now, dropping a stacked lineup of releases that show just how wide the modern heavy landscape has become. From veteran heavyweights still pushing their sound forward to rising theatrical forces and genre defining extremes, this latest Read More …
Joel Hokka Opens A Powerful New Chapter With HOKKA And Via Miseria IV
There is something fitting about Via Miseria IV arriving wrapped in shadow, melancholy, and myth. For all the talk around HOKKA being a new band, this does not feel like a fresh start built from nothing. It feels more like the aftermath of fire. It Read More …
Moodring Death Fetish Review: Emotional and Experimental
Moodring and Their New Album of Bliss The alternative legends strike again with their new album Death Fetish, leading the way deeper into metal while still holding onto their signature sound. Moodring have definitely let their true alternative identity shine through each and every individual Read More …
Rich Nguyen on Meant To Be, Inanimate and the Next Era of Breaking In A Sequence
A lot can change in a few years, and for Breaking In A Sequence that time has clearly been spent sharpening identity, chemistry, and purpose. When I last caught up with Rich Nguyen and Joe Taback back around the Defy The Algorithm era, the conversation Read More …