Perpetual Paradox have dropped their crushing new single “Smell the Rot”, showcasing the technical precision and devastating riffs that define their upcoming EP May Misery Befall You, arriving August 28 via Bleeding Art Collective. Read More …
Tag: technical death metal
Psycroptic: Still Finding New Ways to Be Brutal After 25 Years
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 …
Psycroptic Deliver An Almighty Aussie Assault With The Pulse Of Annihilation | Crannk Reviews
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 …
Dave Haley Talks Psycroptic’s The Pulse Of Annihilation, Faustian, Werewolves And Australian Heavy Metal
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 …
Origin, Snake Mountain And Ecdysis Destroy Adelaide At The Ed Castle | Crannk Reviews
Talk about being spoiled. Recently I’ve seen some of the best death metal and thrash bands in the world, and tonight, I was completely destroyed by three of the best bands getting around. Death metal legends Origin melted faces with their brutal blast beats, blistering Read More …
Fallujah Return To Australia For SHRED FEST 2026 With Xenotaph Ready To Crush Live
Fallujah are heading back down under this September as part of SHRED FEST 2026, and for fans of technical, progressive and atmospheric extreme metal, this one is an absolute weapon of a lineup. The US progressive death metal force will join German tech death masters Read More …
Necrosonic Festival Returns For Year Three With Rivers Of Nihil, Psycroptic And 30 Bands Across Three Stages
Necrosonic Festival is back for year three, and this one already feels like it is shaping up to be something seriously unmissable for the Australian heavy scene. On Saturday 22 August 2026, the gates reopen at Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane as Necrosonic returns bigger, darker Read More …
Rivers Of Nihil’s Adam Biggs On Australia, Psycroptic, Saxophone And The Band Finding Its Footing Again
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 …
Faster. Brutal. Unhinged. Nights of Malice Enter a New Era
Nights of Malice are evolving fast—and Chaos Exordium proves it. In this interview, Brendan McGrath breaks down how “Ex-Mortis” reshaped the album, pushing the band into a sharper, more technical, and brutally refined era. Read More …
Tasmanian Tech Death Terrorists The Absolution Sequence Unleash “Ghost Mantra”
The Absolution Sequence unleash Ghost Mantra, the first single from their debut album Dread Cycle. Dark, precise, and technically brutal, the Tasmanian band deliver a spectral journey through ancestral hauntings and extreme metal mastery. Read More …
ULCERATE: THE SONIC APOCALYPSE APPROACHING AUSTRALIA
Ulcerate are coming for Australia — and they’re bringing total sonic annihilation. We sat down with the band ahead of their 2026 Aussie tour to talk their seventh album, Cutting the Throat of God, life in extreme metal, and the man behind the chaos on the drums, Jamie Saint Merat. Read More …
Obscura’s Steffen Kummerer Talks Shred Fest 2026 Australia Tour, A Sonication and 24 Years of Technical Death Metal
For more than two decades Obscura have remained one of the most technically ambitious forces in extreme metal. Blending progressive songwriting, precision musicianship and philosophical depth, the German outfit led by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer continues to push the boundaries of modern death metal. Read More …