Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
With the departure of founder member and guitarist Keith Nelson in 2017 leaving only Josh Todd remaining from the band who released their stunning debut in 1999 – twenty years ago this year – you […]
We love to spread the word about new bands we think you’ll enjoy, and last month we featured New York band Grayhunter on the Heaven and Hell Podcast, a band who released their ‘Comeback Kid […]
Some bands have that indefinable ‘something’ – an attitude and a belief that both transcends the music they make and also helps define it. Adelaide’s The Babes are just such a band -playing a dirty […]
As a teenager I had many rock star girlfriends, not that they actually knew they were my girlfriends at the time. With my bedroom walls lined with posters of bands like Iron Maiden and […]
It was an honour to talk to Jonas Akerlund, Lords of Chaos Director and I must start by saying I loved his vision, the imagery, cinematography, emotion, complexity and depth – it was an […]
I was talking with a friend the other day who saw Junkyard play in the UK in November last year and I casually mentioned that I’d seen them play there back in 1991, a few […]
After five decades in the rock ‘n’ roll industry, you’d think it would be fine time for ‘The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ to put her feet up, pour herself a nice cup of tea […]
Mark Morton may be familiar to the legion of Lamb Of God fans around the world but there is more to this guitar player than just his role in one of the top metal […]
Finnish folk metal legends Ensiferum will be hitting Australia’s East coast at the end of Februrary. Ahead of the tour, we conversed with bassist Sami Hinkka about the band’s plans for the upcoming shows, […]
Fresh from the release of their critically acclaimed third album, Acts of Fear and Love, UK punk duo Slaves featuring Isaac Holman (drums, vocals) and Laurie Vincent (guitar, vocals) are bringing their anthemic songs […]
Who’d have thought that the band we championed all those years ago when The Rockpit began, and who played a blistering series of Australian dates back in 2011 when this interview took place, would […]
When the news broke of Devin Townsend ending the DTP band in early 2018, aside from the question of what will Devin do next come up, thoughts of what the rest of the band […]
With an arsenal of technical skills ready to unleash upon the world, Bay Area natives Aenimus have brought forth a unique and progressive style of music that is beginning to establish a serious sense […]
With a lot of magazine & website interviews geared towards discussing forthcoming tours or new album releases, on occasion we get to catch up with someone who may have left a lasting impression on us […]
Quiet Riot has an indisputable place in the history of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and whilst they’ve had their fair share of tragedy over the years and also their fair share of line-up changes; […]
With ‘Feral Roots’ riding high in the charts in almost every country known to man, things are going pretty damn well for Rival Sons, with their sixth studio album receiving rave reviews all around. […]
Active Hard Rock favourites Trapt return down under to play highlights from their self-titled classic album ‘Trapt’ plus a selection of their other hits including Bring It, It’s Over, Who’s Going Home With You […]
Legendary vocalist Time “Ripper” Owens is not a man who rests on laurels, always keeping busy and getting involved in numerous projects over the years including Judas Priest, Iced Earth and now his latest […]
Forming in 2018, Isolation burst onto the vibrant Brisbane hardcore scene with their progressively sonic 4 track EP ‘War In My Mind’. More recently the band unleashed their new single and music video ‘Mindstate’ […]
2019 marks the 45th anniversary of another of Australia’s iconic rock bands, ‘The Angels’. The band formed in Adelaide in 1974 under the name ‘The Keystone Angels’ and after recommendations from both Malcolm Young […]
Back in the day just before Rock’s great late eighties Sunset Strip-fueled peak Los Angeles was the place to be if you loved your Sleazy, down and dirty Rock and Roll. Sure Bon Jovi were […]
The bio for Prophets of Addiction used to read: “Every once in a great – and blessed – while, a band comes along that encapsulates everything that’s great about rock-n-roll. The Prophets of Addiction is […]
That riff mongering, Aussie classic rock behemoth that is Electric Mary are back, 8 long years for us long time fans after their last album release. This week I had a chat with frontman […]
Jetboy was one of those wonderful bands of the late eighties that had that real edge that set them apart from the whole Sunset Strip scene . With a huge loose sound that was part […]
The world’s biggest Metal opera – Avantasia is finally coming to Australia! 20 years after the release of the original Metal Operas, musical mastermind Tobias Sammet will bring the full Avantasia stage show to […]
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