Zakk Wylde is and has always been a busy man. With over eighteen albums under his belt in the last twelve years or so, it would be easy to expect the bearded guitar wizard […]
‘Under the Southern Stars’ next month sees International Acts back and touring Australia after a gap of two years, and if you wanted to bring music back with a bang then the line-up ticks […]
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love Cheap Trick! For a band that celebrates it’s 50th year next year you’d find it hard to name a band of a similar age that manages to […]
Tumbleweed is a name those of you around the live music scene of the early 90’s in New South Wales will remember well. A band out of time they captured the spirit of the day […]
Way back in the 80’s Germany had a band to rival Scorpions, Accept and Helloween – Victory, who produced a string of fine albums from 1985 on, including my favourite 1989’s ‘Culture Killed the Native’. […]
It came as a surprise to almost all of us when it was announced that a new Wolfmother album was about to be unleashed into the world. These days of course publicity campaigns are well […]
With the latest classic ‘Street Lethal’ upon us we caught up with Crazy Lixx’ main man Danny Rexon to find out more about the new record. Their seventh studio album sees Crazy Lixx show no […]
Taylor Sheridan is a name that may very well be familiar to you if you were one of those lucky enough to catch Jon Stevens earlier in 2021 on his Noiseworks & INXS tour. Sheridan […]
This weekend the cream of the Western Australia Blues & Roots scene will descend on the usually quiet town of Bridgetown for the annual ‘Blues at Bridgetown Festival’. The festival has been running since 1993 […]
Caligula’s Horse, hailing from Brisbane, Australia, are a leading light in contemporary progressive metal worldwide. The band released their fifth studio album Rise Radiant in May of 2020 just as the pandemic was hitting […]
Sometimes the bio says it all: “JD McGibney is a warrior guitarist that conquers is battlefields on the wings of dragons. Uniting with the forces of likeminded individuals, he fights to strengthen worldly brotherhood and […]
There are currently three albums vying for my favourite release of the year and all three of them are worthy of your serious attention, but whilst two of them you might say are by […]
Mastodon will release their anxiously awaited ninth full-length album, HUSHED AND GRIM, on October 29, 2021 via Reprise Records. Closing a four-year gap, this notably marks the heavy rock quartet’s first double album and […]
It’s incredible to think that Seether have been around now for two decades. Well they have, and incredibly they’re as relevant today as they ever were, some would argue maybe even getting better with […]
Jim Peterik might be best known to Rock fans as the driving force behind the band Survivor, writing the classic theme to Rocky III ‘Eye of the Tiger’ which won him a Grammy, but […]
It’s difficult to believe that it has been thirty years since The Screaming Jets unleashed their debut album, ‘All For One’ on the world, which peaked at #2 on the ARIA charts. The second […]
New York death metal pioneers SUFFOCATION are about to release their new live album, Live In North America, on November 12th via Nuclear Blast Records. SUFFOCATION created the template for the brutal death metal […]
Originating from Perth, Kimura are a straight up, unapologetic heavy metal band, with an unrelenting determination to engage a collision of punishing groove and melodic soaked riffs whilst violently venting their vexations. Kimura’s 4th […]
Every year as a kid we used to put together lists of our favourite musicians – you know the ones – favourite singer, favourite guitarist, favourite bassist… But when it came to favourite drummer […]
A while back we published an interview with Jeff Carlisi from .38 Special – I enjoyed it so much I wanted to take the time to share the Video version in the first of our […]
It has been 8 long years since the last record, and HYPOCRISY fans can feel the itch. WORSHIP is 11 tracks of precise, ferocious musicianship. Commonly inspired by the fusion of the modern and the ancient, HYPOCRISY has once more […]
It’s always great when a band hits the scene that brings something vibrant, new and refreshing. Describing themselves Neo-Fusion Rock, KING PROTEUS bring together a wide variety of genres which enables them to appeal to […]
Belched from Hell’s depths into the rustic charms of the Witch County, Suffolk thirty long and disturbing years ago, CRADLE OF FILTH are undisputed giants of the heavy metal realm. Imperious purveyors of a […]
When we think of the phrase Bonded By Blood, we think of two things: a brotherhood that is meant to outlast the trials of war, pain, and time… and the almighty EXODUS. With a […]
As a producer, Fabrizio Grossi has worked with some of the biggest names in the business with the likes of Slash, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Steve Vai all listed on Grossi’s impressive CV. Add […]
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