Swedish industrial metal titans, PAIN, will tour Australia for the first time ever in May 2018 in support of their eighth studio album, “Coming Home”. Led by one of the most iconic and legendary […]
UK icons of extreme metal, Cradle Of Filth have arrived in Australia for their first tour in the country in 5 years in support of their latest album “Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay”. […]
Comprised of vocalist Jason Aalon Butler [ex-letlive.], drummer Aric Improta [Night Verses], and guitarist Stephen Harrison [ex-The Chariot], The Fever 333 are explicitly devoted to a revolutionary cause, delivering aggressive advocacy through a molotov […]
Melbourne rockers Palace Of The King are in the final stages of wrapping up their epic European tour in support of their recently released third album Get Right With Your Maker. Formed in late 2012, Palace of the […]
Many winters have since passed through Finland but Amorphis is still there and is bigger than ever, more important than ever and better than ever! With their fateful thirteenth studio album ‘Queen Of Time‘ […]
The Iron Maidens – the world’s best (and only all-female) Iron Maiden tribute act – are bringing their intense and electrifying live shows to light up venues across Australia and New Zealand. These five […]
Lethal Vendetta hail from Sydney Australia and they are ready to stamp their authority on the Metal scene. Lethal Vendetta come armed with the ultimate artillery: A precise and highly effective blend of Thrash, Groove […]
The mighty Destruction, part of the big 4 of the German thrash wave of bands, made their debut performance in Perth, Australia last night after 36 years in the business and 2 previous stops […]
On the back of their heaviest album to date, SEETHER are intent on blasting the roof off with equal measures of ferocity and purpose. This is a band that knows how to connect with […]
Revocation have been one of those bands in the underground metal scene that always had that certain thing that was going to make them stand out among the rest. In a genre that can […]
In some ways, the name Steve Adler is synonymous with the 80’s hard rock scene in Los Angeles. As the original drummer for Guns N’ Roses, his legacy was well cemented on “Appetite For […]
American modern progressive metal innovators The Contortionist return to Australia as part of their Clairvoyant Tour, joined by special guests UK djent-metal pioneers SikTh – who will be making their first ever Australian appearances. We talk to The Contortionist vocalist Mike […]
TesseracT, a band that sit outside the bounds of any genre specificity, pioneers of the ever-evolving metal scene and unstoppable force of off-kilter riffs, soaring melodies and disorientating atmospherics release their fourth studio album […]
Founded in 1982 the legendary trio Destruction reached the top of the national thrash metal movement, with albums such as ‘Infernal Overkill’ and ‘Eternal Devastation’ nestling in their impressive heavy metal canon. Even later […]
Progressive metal stalwarts Between The Buried And Me recently released their latest offering, “Automata I“, the first part of a 2 part double concept album. The story takes place in a dream world where […]
Sonder is the latest album by British progressive rock act Tesseract and is only fitting to be the 4th full length by the prog outfit given the band’s name and the dimensions in which […]
The final show for Swedish metal juggernaut Arch Enemy in Australia hit Perth like a ton of bricks as a packed to the brim crowd witnessed the melodic heavy offerings of a band who […]
After a round trip across Australia including a stint at the first ever Download Festival in Melbourne, California punk/thrash crossover legends Suicidal Tendencies returned to Perth on Tuesday night, embraced by a fanbase […]
A grimly glamorous ghoul who first slithered from the cobwebbed shadows of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the early 90s, Wednesday 13 has firmly established himself as the world’s premier purveyor of balls-out horror punk […]
It had been way too long since the last time Bay Area thrash veterans Death Angel were in Australia previous to their last visit in 2014 alongside Kreator so it’s especially exciting to see […]
After the big confirmation that the juggernaut festival known as Download would be making it’s way down to Australia, music fans around the country rejoiced in the fact that there was finally a heavy […]
Adelaide thrashers Hidden Intent are fast becoming one of the top thrash metal acts in Australia, gaining a reputation for their intense live shows as well as their fun demeanour that is seemingly captured […]
Australia’s best Power, Thrash & Melodic Metal bands will unite in Perth for the 5th installment of the annual Stormrider Heavy Metal Festival on April 7 at Badlands Bar. The 2018 festival will be […]
Sydney’s genre bending heavy act Black Rheno are currently on the road across Australia, taking on their most ambitious headline tour to date with a massive national tour hitting all major capitols plus a […]
Aussie metal legends King Parrot are heading back out on the road across country towns in Australia, dubbed the ‘Regional Rampage’ tour. The tour kicks off first in Melbourne at the first ever Download […]
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