Sometimes a single song can change the direction of somebody’s life. For Angels On The Battlefield founder and guitarist JD McGibney, that moment came while sitting in a car with his father, hearing a familiar Black Sabbath song performed in a way he’d never experienced Read More …
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 …
There are some band returns that feel bigger than just new music, and for Voyager, this is definitely one of them. After everything the Perth progressive pop metal favourites have been through since 2023, hearing that the band are back, playing shows again and now Read More …
Thirty-five years and seventeen albums into a career built on refusing to stand still, Enslaved are still finding new ways to challenge not only what the band can sound like, but how they actually get there. Their forthcoming album, Mið, arrives October 30 through Nuclear Read More …
Enslaved drummer, vocalist and producer Iver Sandøy discusses AC/DC’s songwriting magic, making Mið under pressure and why you don’t need expensive studio gear to make a great record. Read More …
There are albums that look backwards simply because the past feels comfortable, and then there are albums like IGNEA’s Monumental, where looking back becomes considerably more complicated. Nostalgia here is not treated as an easy escape into better days. It can be beautiful, unsettling, deceptive Read More …
When I first caught up with Canadian multi-instrumentalist Ryan Koepke through a written Crannk Q&A in 2025, Cepheidae Variable was very much his baby. The debut album, Primordial Reverie, was this massive instrumental journey through progressive metal, orchestration, synths and science fiction inspired soundscapes, with Read More …
There is a moment early in my conversation with Falsimonian guitarist, keyboardist, composer and producer Jesus Fuentes Valverde where a lot of what sits behind the band suddenly starts making sense. Before the jazz degrees, before melodic death metal collided with Latin rhythms and before Read More …
Finnish metal legends Amorphis are finally back on Australian soil, and with their first tour Down Under in 13 years kicking off tonight, longtime keyboardist Santeri Kallio has plenty to say about the band’s return. Few bands have managed to evolve quite like Amorphis. From Read More …
“Kuso-shi 1, 2 and 3” As soon as I pressed play on the first track, “Kuso-shi 1, 2 and 3”, I was greeted by an array of electronic blips and beeps that would not sound out of place upon entering an arcade. Arriving soon after Read More …
There are bands that build their identity around technical ability, bands that chase heaviness, bands that live in atmosphere and bands that reach for something deeply emotional. SOEN have somehow spent more than a decade existing in that space where all of those things collide. Read More …
Some albums arrive according to a carefully mapped plan. Others sit unfinished for years, waiting for the world around them to catch up. For Robin Staps, Solaris became something even more important. It became the unfinished story that convinced him The Ocean still had a Read More …
