After a 15-year wait, Adelaide hardcore icons Day Of Contempt returned to headline Lion Arts Factory alongside Forge, Hammer 618 and Life Pilot. Read our full review of one of the biggest local hardcore shows of the year. Read More …
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Paleface Swiss Are Ready to Tear Froth & Fury Apart: “Australians Go F*ing Nuts Anyway”
Paleface Swiss frontman Marc “Zelli” Zellweger discusses Australia’s wild crowds, Froth & Fury, new songs and why the band’s first Australian festival appearance means so much. Read More …
Paleface Swiss Announce 2027 Australian Tour With Counterparts And Fox Lake
Australia is about to get flattened again. Paleface Swiss have announced their return to Australia in January and February 2027, and this time joining the Swiss heavy music wrecking crew across the run will be Canadian metalcore legends Counterparts and Colorado heavy hitters Fox Lake, Read More …
Dad Core, Zao and the Beautiful Reality of Growing Older | Jay Wells L’Ecuyer Gets Real
Jay Wells L’Ecuyer opens up about Dad Core, his lifelong love of Zao, Canada’s hardcore scene, Sky Of Ghosts and the heartbreaking story behind Life Leaves. Read More …
Defiled – Altered State Review | Death Metal Evolution
Japanese death metal veterans Defiled return with Altered State, a genre-defying album that fuses old-school brutality with elements of hardcore, progressive metal, thrash and grindcore. Discover why this ambitious release challenges death metal conventions while staying true to its roots. Read More …
Pyrokinesis Unleash the Inferno: ‘Sulphur’ EP and ‘Momentum’ Video Ignite Australian Nu-Hardcore Scene
Pyrokinesis, an emerging force in the Australian nu-hardcore scene, releases their intense debut EP ‘Sulphur’. Combining chaotic instrumentation with influences from metalcore and hip hop, the band delivers an aggressive sound. Their dynamic style will be showcased on the ‘Metalcore Mayhem Tour’ this March, promising an unforgettable live experience. Read More …
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 …
SHARK EYES Drop “It Ends Here” — A North Queensland Gut-Punch You Need to Hear (and Watch Me React To)
There’s something wild brewing in North Queensland, and it’s not a cyclone this time—it’s Shark Eyes, the young nu-metal bruisers who’ve been quietly sharpening their teeth since 2023. Their new single “It Ends Here” is a straight-up emotional sledgehammer, the kind of track that sounds Read More …
Battle Ready: Ryan “Milla” Miller Talks Black Rheno, New Music & Life Beyond the Stage | Crannk Interviews
Few figures in Australia’s heavy music underground embody chaos, groove, and grit quite like Ryan “Milla” Miller. As the explosive frontman of Black Rheno, Milla has been at the heart of one of the country’s most unpredictable and exciting bands since their 2015 debut. From Read More …
Yannick Lehmann of Paleface Swiss – Cursed Tour, Riffs with Purpose & Chaos with NASTY | Crannk Interview
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 …
🔥 NASTY Are Bringing the Beatdown to Australia This September with Paleface Swiss – New EP Black My Heart Out Now
By Jai “That Aussie Metal Guy” Anderson | Crannk.com Germany’s reigning kings of unrelenting brutality, NASTY, are finally heading Down Under for their long-overdue debut Australian tour this September 2025, co-headlining alongside Swiss deathcore wrecking crew Paleface Swiss. Presented by The Phoenix AU, this lineup Read More …