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 …
With an almighty Aussie assault on our auditory arrays, Tassie boys Psycroptic are back to peel the remaining flesh and cartilage from our ears with their new album, The Pulse Of Annihilation. This album gets the heart pumping to the point of having a goddamn 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 …
Fuck me! What did I just listen to? This was my initiation into the Vomitory horde, and I’m not going to lie to the faithful readers of the CRANNK album reviews… I fucking loved it! Talk about power in death metal — Vomitory have it 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 …
Houston black metal outfit Necrofier have been steadily building momentum since emerging in 2018, combining the icy atmosphere of second-wave Norwegian black metal with a distinctly American intensity. With their latest album Transcend Into Oblivion, released through Metal Blade Records, the band have taken a Read More …
There are albums you listen to. Then there are albums you enter. Cryptic Shift’s Overspace & Supertime, released February 27 through Metal Blade Records, does not simply follow up 2020’s Visitations From Enceladus. It fractures time, splits its own mythology in two, and drags the Read More …
Scottish progressive metal force Dvne continue their ascent with the release of Live at Hellfest, a blistering document of their 2023 Hellfest Open Air performance and a timely statement of intent as the band prepares to tour Europe supporting Igorrr. Drawn exclusively from their acclaimed Read More …
Metal Blade Records has just pulled off one of their sharpest global signings in recent memory, welcoming Tokyo’s Broken by the Scream into the fold. Equal parts extreme metal assault and idol-pop chaos, BBTS have spent nearly a decade smashing genre walls with a volatile Read More …
