Some albums are more than music — they are doorways. With their third studio album, III – Candles & Beginnings, AURI — the visionary trio of vocalist Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish), and Troy Donockley — once again open a portal into a world where Read More …
Swedish power metal titans Sabaton are gearing up to unleash a brand-new chapter in their storied career with the release of their highly anticipated 11th studio album, Legends, out October 17 via Better Noise Music. The record not only marks their debut with the label Read More …
It’s been a long wait for Australian Combichrist fans. The last time Andy LaPlegua and his industrial juggernaut stormed our shores was back in 2019 for the One Fire tour. Now, after six years, the chaos machine is fired up once again with the Down Read More …
The unrelenting force of diabolical black death metal, BELPHEGOR, have returned from the abyss with a blistering new single: ‘Sanctus Diaboli Confidimus’. Forged in chaos and crowned in blasphemy, the track serves as both a savage invocation and a declaration of the band’s unstoppable reign Read More …
Say hello to Mumfighter, the Marrickville-based rapper, producer, hairstylist, and professional rollerblader whose live shows are a riot of neon energy, punk attitude, and glitch-pop chaos. Fronted by Jarrah, a Campbelltown-born creative mischief-maker, Mumfighter has carved out a wild corner of the Aussie underground, blending Read More …
Phoenix’s groove/thrash juggernaut INCITE are locked, loaded, and ready to unleash hell with their most ferocious offering yet, Savage New Times, dropping August 15, 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music. On the eve of the release of the album, Jim and Jai caught up with frontman Read More …
There’s a certain smell when a band like AFI resurfaces. It’s not fresh paint and new strings — it’s candle wax, dust from the curtains of a theater long abandoned, and the faint ozone burn of electricity arcing through something ancient. Four years of silence, Read More …
Australia’s fastest-growing rock label, XMusic, has made a bold leap onto the global stage with their first international signing — rock powerhouse BLVD OF EYES. Fronted by the magnetic Chloe Trujillo (artist, musician, and wife of Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo) and New Zealand-born multi-instrumentalist Mark Read More …
A Literary Odyssey in Fire and Fury — A Genre-Defying Metal Debut Emerges Experimental metal trio AGENBITE MISERY have just unleashed Bellwether and Swine — a venomous, cerebral, and sonically punishing debut single from their upcoming album Remorse of Conscience, due February 6, 2026. It’s Read More …
Brisbane’s purveyors of cosmic devastation, AVERSIONS CROWN, have clawed their way back from the abyss with a release that is as unrelenting as it is reborn. Out now via Nuclear Blast Records, the three-track EP A Voice From The Outer Dark marks the return of Read More …
Melbourne alt-rockers Bad Juju are back and baring their teeth, announcing their upcoming EP Simulacra — due out Friday, October 24th via Thirty Two Records — and unleashing the monstrous title track as the next chapter in their evolution. Darker. Grungier. Heavier. This ain’t your Read More …
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 …
