One year on from the success of their potent performance at Download Festival Australia, NEW YEARS DAY will touch down for their first-ever Australian headline tour in March 2020. New Years Day, the U.S. […]
In 2018, a new event celebrating all things metal was launched; Metal United saw events simultaneously occurring across numerous countries and continents. This year, Perth joined the ranks for the first time! The Civic […]
For their first time in Australia – The Filth Hounds of Hades themselves, bring their heavy artillery Downunder alongside New Wave Of British Heavy Metal veterans Girlschool and Raven! Formed in 1980, Tank has […]
Sweden may be laying down the benchmark for 80’s styled Rock but the UK has had its fair share of great bands that plow that same fertile ground over the last few years, from those […]
JUNKYARD DRIVE is probably the hottest young rock band out of Denmark right now. Millions of streams and views, played high-profile festival Sweden Rock, no. 1 on the vinyl charts, two successful albums, will […]
British grunge, hard rock band Bush and American alternative rock giants Live joined forces for co-headline summer tour called Alt-Imate, in order to celebrate 25th anniversary of their respective groundbreaking albums, Sixteen Stone by […]
Here’s something a little different from Phoenix, a vintage mash of Space Blues with influences name-checking the iconic – Hendrix, The Stones and Zeppelin as well as the newer revival sounds of The Black […]
Sin Savage previously known as ‘Nightmare (BE)’ has been doing the rounds since 2011 and was founded by Kristof Michiels, Zan Geeraerts and Jasper Vanderheyden – they play a mix of what you might call […]
Borderline Bookings and Lacerated Enemy Records are very happy to announce details for South African brutal death metal fiends Vulvodynia’s Mob Justice Australian album launch tour. This will be the band’s first time there; […]
Following the announcement of six new concerts last week and overwhelming demand during the pre-sale period, Sir Elton John again extends the Australian leg of his mammoth sold out Farewell Yellow Brick Road World […]
After what seems like an eternity, US metal icons Devildriver are finally returning to Australia to appease their rabid legions. It’s been five long years since the band last headlined here and Dez and the […]
Blacktop Mojo announce today the release of their third album, “Under The Sun” on September 13th. The album follows “Burn the Ships” which featured the singles “Where the Wind Blows” and their cover of […]
Paul “HR” Hudson is best known as the front man of the iconic punk band Bad Brains, formed in 1979. With unprecedented speed and precision, Bad Brains took the Washington, DC music scene by […]
After announcing their upcoming Chemical Hearts tour only a couple of weeks ago, legendary Aussie rockers Grinspoon have already sold out The Forum in Melbourne and Waves in Wollongong, with a bunch of other […]
Windwaker are having a DREAM year. Their EP ‘Empire‘ dropped in March to a rabidly excited audience – who responded in kind by eating the EP up on iTunes, Spotify and all online outlets. […]
Sydney punk rockers, Bare Bones, are back on the scene with their brand new single ‘Crawl The Night‘, the first offering of new tunes since the debut album Bad Habits dropped in May of […]
OBEY THE RIFF legends – New Zealand’s Beastwars are edging ever closer to the release of their new album ‘IV‘ on Friday June 28 (out through Destroy Records) and today are releasing an emotional […]
Stevie D featuring Corey Glover, a musical partnership by producer and multi-instrumentalist Stephen DeAcutis aka Stevie D and legendary singer Corey Glover (Living Colour), will release their first album together “Torn From The Pages” […]
For the first time ever, after four decades buried deep in his vaults, a previously unreleased version of ‘Time’, recorded in 1986 by Freddie Mercury for the concept album of the hit musical of […]
Australia’s biggest new music event BIGSOUND has today unveiled its first drop of tomorrow’s superstars with Tones And I, Milan Ring, Tasman Keith, Bad//Dreems, yergurl, EGOISM, and Electric Fields leading a list of 76 […]
Formed in 2014, Cape Town based hard rock degenerates Black Pistol have released the video for their second single Call to Arms, a riff heavy ode to the rock n roll lifestyle. Taken from […]
Founded in Sweden in 2006 ‘Interstate 13’ is Pretty Wild’s follow up to their 2014 self-titled debut which came after a couple of sizzling EP’s. It’s a little more mature than that debut but still […]
Craft Recordings is set to release a deluxe, 20th anniversary reissue of Filter’s platinum-selling, sophomore album Title of Record. Due out August 9th, the album has been remastered and will be available on vinyl […]
Philip H. Anselmo’s EN MINOR will release its debut seven-inch this August via Housecore Records. A project inadvertently in the making since his earliest days as a child in the French Quarter, the band […]
While the concept of pain is universal to all living beings, the understanding of phantom pain is one that eludes most. Gravemind‘s vocalist Dylan Gillies-Parsons channeled the imagery of the experience into the band’s emotionally […]
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