Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
L7 make their comeback to Australia and New Zealand in 2021, gracing Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Wellington and Auckland stages with a snarl, a wink and a new album Scatter The Rats in tow. […]
With the release of their eighteen studio album ‘Legal at Last’, things certainly aren’t slowing up anytime soon for Canadian heavy metal pioneers ANVIL. With the album receiving glowing reviews across the globe, the […]
Rose Tattoo are back and they don’t look like they are going anywhere just yet. When The Rockpit last spoke to Angry Anderson back in 2018, he told us of a five-year plan that […]
Melbourne progressive metal outfit Divine Ascension, have returned, unleashing their brand new album, “The Uncovering” upon the world. The band’s overseas success is difficult to ignore having previously toured Europe for 30 + dates […]
UK death metal brutalists, Venom Prison, will be making their way to Australia for the first time this March as part of the Download Festival weekend. The fast rising UK based five piece released […]
Carcass are the undeniable legends and forefathers of grindcore! With over 30 years of developing and crafting their sound to what it is today, releasing several classic albums in that time and changing the […]
Think of all the ‘super groups’ over all the years who have under-delivered when they’ve committed their talents to recording. You can probably count on the fingers of one hand those that have nailed it? […]
Vocalist Dave Niederberger and guitarist Marco Troxler of ‘Fighter V’ met by chance on a Saturday night in a bar in the middle of the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland and hatched their plans for […]
If you love your 80’s Hard Rock then 30 years after the close of that glorious decade its hard to find a band as good as Crazy Lixx at taking the essence of Arena Rock […]
Peter Shoulder is a name that is familiar to a good few who have followed & enjoyed his career over the years, which has seen him perform & record with his previous bands Winterville, […]
Swiss hard rock legends Gotthard release their much anticipated new Album ‘#13’ via Nuclear Blast on 13th March this year. The band features Australian Nic Maeder on vocals. We caught up with Nic to find […]
Tony Harnell in Australia… I never thought I’d hear those words… But it’s true, the man with one of the best and most distinct voices in rock is coming down-under for a string of dates […]
The time has arrived for legendary bay area thrash metal giants Testament to unleash new thunder to the masses with their thirteenth studio album, Titans Of Creation, which will be released on April 3 […]
I first saw FM way back on their first ever headline tour of the UK back in the day, when they were supported by White Sister. It wasn’t a show I’d expected to see, but […]
Bred from a long lineage of punk bands out of Southern California, Lagwagon became one of the most influential, pioneering the now-famous ‘Fat Wreck sound’ with their speedy drums, guitar virtuosity and undeniable melodies. […]
Ron Keel is a Hard Rocking legend. Starting out with Tennessee-based ‘Lust’ he soon came to prominence first with Steeler (which at one point featured Yngwie Malmsteen) and then ‘Keel’ who toured the world at […]
A consummate guitarist, singer and songwriter, Kellindo Parker aka Kellindo easily sounds like an artist you should already know. He recently released his new alt-rock single ‘Sugar’, a guitar riff-based song with a trap […]
If you love your Hard Rock to make you think of the Glammier side of the Sunset Strip circa 1987 then Midnite City is the band for you. Hailing from my old stomping ground of […]
Canadian thrash band Annihilator are back with a brand new album “Ballistic, Sadistic” and it’s one we’ve been anticipating, the veterans very rarely let us down and at album number 17, it appears there […]
There’s not that many bands I’ve traveled continents to see but Firehouse is one of them, making a trip from Australia back in 2008 to catch them (OK I’ll admit and a few others) at […]
Formed in 1985, in Phoenix, Arizona, Sacred Reich are credited with being leaders of the second wave of thrash metal in the 80’s, alongside Testament, Death Angel and Dark Angel. With their socially conscious […]
In the first part of our interview we looked back at the early days of Enuff Z’Nuff you can catch up with Part One HERE. In Part Two we look deeper at ‘Beautiful Things,’ Enuff […]
Denmark’s Artillery are easily appointed as one of Europe’s earliest exponents of thrash metal, and the band’s contribution to the classic genre is difficult to ignore. Delivering a sinister array of riffs, fusing pure […]
These days Paul Judge makes music with ‘Gunners’ possibly Australia’s best Guns ‘n’ Roses cover band , but when we first met he was bassist for ‘Baby Jane’ the West Australian rockers who captured the […]
XYZ is a great band and one of those few bands that got me on the road seeking them out in the early 90’s when they played the Astoria in London on a rare visit […]
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