When you’ve spent a healthy amount of years honing your craft as a musician, making records, playing shows and touring Australia and the world, it’s normal to feel a sense of immense pride in […]
UK, progressive metal masters TesseracT will return to Australia this September! It will be nearly three years exactly since the band’s last visit and in that time their fan base has increased immensely as […]
Forty years after the release of one of the greatest Australian debut albums of all time – (I’m) Stranded – Ed Kuepper returns with a brand-new band and a brand new contender for the […]
Picture this… 1988, Bob Hawke is Prime Minister, Australia dumps $600 million bucks of tax payer cash on Expo 88, Home and Away hits our tellies for the first time, triple j launch the […]
Two World-Class instrumental/prog/djent outfits are coming to Australian shores in just over a month’s time and things are heating up! From September 21 to 24 in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Australian promoters Destroy […]
INXS’s KICK album proved to be such a hit in the Chocolate Starfish Classic Albums Series that the band is KICKing on in 2019 with another tour. After a spectacularly successful string of sold-out […]
Archspire have announced a secret Melbourne headline show announced for this Thursday August 23rd with guests Whoretopsy and Hollow World. Canadian technical death outfit ARCHSPIRE exude talent, drive, creativity, and absolute dedication. A tight […]
Shvpes (pronounced ‘Shapes’) have released a brand-new single ‘Calloused Hands’ from their forthcoming album, Greater Than. “This is the first song we wrote together after coming back from our first European tour,” says Shvpes vocalist, […]
Four albums into their career, Amaranthe have racked up north of 118 million YouTube views and half-a-billion song streams, have landed at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart three times, and possess a panoply […]
UNIFY Gathering are proud to announce the addition of four new acts to the already stacked 2019 lineup! Following the removal of I Killed The Prom Queen, UNIFY have added Every Time I Die […]
Tickets for a day on the green’s Hunter Valley concert with JOHN FARNHAM have now sold out with approximately 10,000 fans set to attend on December 1. This will be John’s first performance at […]
Triple Kill are one of Melbourne’s hottest and hardest working Heavy Metal bands. They take their music very seriously and yet at the same time have their fans laughing with their witty humor displayed […]
New Jersey’s Doom Metal act DRIFT INTO BLACK has just completed their first full length album entitled “Dead Suns Under the Forever Moon” to be released October 12th on Digipak CD as well as […]
Toronto heavy-hitters MY HOLLOW are premiering their new sound in their lyric video for “And Now We Fall” via Bravewords.com. This single is laying the foundation for their new style going forward, since their […]
Alt-Rock duo The Blue Stones have released another track today titled “Be My Fire” off their upcoming LP, Black Holes. The track is the third song being made available, the two previous being “Black […]
Peter Murphy first made his mark fronting influential UK group Bauhaus, who this year celebrate their 40th anniversary. Bauhaus appeared out of the London post-punk scene in 1978 and with their darkly romantic image and […]
He is one of the most recognisable and notorious frontmen of all time and DEE SNIDER ascended to hard rock royalty in the early 1980s as the lead singer for New York-based heavy rockers, […]
UK hard rock band, BIGFOOT, have announced European & UK ‘Consider Yourself Invited‘ tour dates in September and October 2018 in support of their self-titled debut album. BIGFOOT are one of the new crop of […]
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST reveal new video “Take Me To The Church”, KADAVAR announce Live in Copenhagen, ‘You Found The Best In Me’ music video, RIOT V announce ‘Live At Keep It True Festival 2015’ […]
Southern Californian groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER are set to reissue revamped editions of their first five albums via BMG on CD on September 28, 2018. Limited edition LP versions will be available as part […]
GAMA BOMB release their blistering single ‘666teen‘ today, the first track to be taken from their upcoming album ‘Speed Between The Lines‘ which is due for release on October 12th. Irish thrashers GAMA BOMB […]
Have you got your NOWBHM fix lately? Veteran rockers Tygers Of Pan Tang have released a new single with an accompanying video for the track ‘Devil You Know‘, taken from the 2016 comeback album […]
Rock super group Motor Sister – featuring Jim Wilson (Mother Superior), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Pearl Aday (solo), Joey Vera (Armored Saint, Fates Warning), and John Tempesta (The Cult) – will have a new album […]
Swedish progressive metal legends OPETH will release “Garden of the Titans: Live at Red Rocks Amphitheater” on November 2nd via Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Entertainment. This historic event was captured for the DVD, Blu-Ray and Vinyl formats during […]
After the successful release of their instant classic single “Sand Lea” and brilliantly raw accompanying video which THE AU REVIEW described as “a perfect introduction to their versatility as a group”, Dirty Hearts recently […]
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