Fifteen years into building Nine Treasures, founder, guitarist and vocalist Askhan found himself facing one of the most difficult decisions a musician can make. After spending years writing and experimenting with material for the band’s next album, he realised the music simply wasn’t heading in Read More …
More than four decades into VADER, Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek has found a pretty effective way of avoiding one of the biggest enemies facing any band that survives this long: routine. When the Polish death metal veterans return to Australia this November for the Reign Forever Read More …
After 30 years, 13 albums and thousands of shows, Amon Amarth bassist Ted Lundström is still here. We talk surviving metal, touring, songwriting and The Allfather Awakens. Read More …
There are bands you listen to because the riffs hit hard, the songs get into your blood and they sound fucking enormous when you crank them. Then there are bands that send you somewhere beyond the music itself. Amon Amarth have always been both of Read More …
Andrew Hudson talks Exsequiis, creative freedom and the strength of Australian thrash Twenty years ago, four teenagers from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs came together for a high school thrash metal performance. They chose the name Harlott largely because they thought it would look good on a Read More …
Metal Blade Records have delivered another heavy round of new music, with Australian thrashers Harlott, Swedish heavy metal titans RAM and Danish metallers Gradience all pushing toward major upcoming releases. From politically charged Australian thrash, to classic heavy metal rebellion, to a wild collision of Read More …
Psycroptic frontman Jason Peppiatt discusses the making of The Pulse Of Annihilation, working with Jason Keyser, recording with Joe Haley and why Australia’s technical death metal pioneers are still pushing themselves after more than two decades. Read More …
Some musicians become part of a scene. Others help build the bloody thing from the ground up. Dave Haley is one of those names that sits deep in the foundations of Australian extreme metal. As one of the founding forces behind Psycroptic alongside his brother Read More …
Rivers Of Nihil are heading back to Australia this August for a massive co headline run with Tasmania’s own technical death metal legends Psycroptic, and this is one of those bills that just makes sense the second you see it. Psycroptic and Rivers Of Nihil Read More …
IF THESE TREES COULD TALK Return With “Blurry Creatures” And Announce The Hidden Hand After an eight year silence, acclaimed instrumental post rock outfit IF THESE TREES COULD TALK are finally back with a brand new album on the horizon. Set for release on July Read More …
Metal Blade Records continue to prove exactly why they remain one of the most important forces in heavy music, delivering a stacked wave of releases that span the full spectrum of extreme metal. From underground stalwarts to genre defining legends, this latest run is a Read More …
After more than three decades in death metal, Six Feet Under aren’t slowing down, they’re sharpening their edge. With their 15th studio album Next To Die arriving April 24 via Metal Blade Records, the band return with a record that doesn’t just revisit their past, Read More …
