Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
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 […]
On March 13, 2018, Mark Knight & the Unsung Heroes released what I think is quite probably Mark’s finest album to date “Don’t Kill the Cat”. It’s an album that he’s been building to since […]
Death metal legends, Morbid Angel released their 9th studio album, Kingdoms Disdained worldwide on December 1st 2017. Kingdoms Disdained reunites guitarist and founder Trey Azagthoth with bassist and vocalist Steve Tucker to create a […]
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 a false start a couple of years back now John Waite is finally headed down-under for the very first time. He’s one of the artists I’ve always wanted to see but have rarely been […]
If you’re a modern day Melodic Rock fan then it doesn’t get much better than W.E.T. the band that combines the talents of Eclipse’s Erik Martensson (Nordic Union, Ammunition), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Sons of […]
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 […]
Rose Tattoo are for many including myself ‘the’ great Aussie Rock band. Sure AC/DC made it bigger and burned brighter but the Tatts kept it dirtier, grittier and had the real passion and fury […]
Mark: Hi, Glenn, how are you? I must admit to being a long term fan of Squeeze, takes me back to my youth, and to find you guys coming over for the first time since […]
Call them what you will – Stoner rock, heavy metal, hard rock. Whichever it is, Red Fang know how to hammer out some truly great riff oriented rock n’ roll and this May sees […]
A highly complex construct of math metal, crushing death elements and virtuosic shoegaze moments is what the world can expect from this young Swedish quintet, but LETTERS FROM THE COLONY create more than just […]
Saxon is a band that gets better with age and this year they just released what even may be the finest of a very fine run of recent releases in ‘Thunderbolt’. We caught up with […]
Quite possibly one of the most important, influential and creative forces within the realms of Black and Extreme metal music, Ihsahn stands a class apart, an artist unafraid of experimenting and creating some of […]
This past Friday, Croatia’s Animal Drive released their debut “Bite” via Frontiers Music Srl. Animal Drive are part of Frontiers’ New Breed Family. The New Breed family is the label’s stable of young, exciting, up […]
KOI are a progressive rock band who formed in 2012 in Brakpan, South Africa. Initially they would just get together every few weeks and just jam all day and have a braai, there was […]
One part invading horde and all parts traveling carnival party, Black Label Society traverses the world powered by caffeine and cacophony. BLS engages and inspires audiences everywhere they go, on every radio dial they […]
I first heard the name Mark Tremalgia when he joined Bang Tango back in 1993 after the departure of guitarist Kyle Stevens. He stayed with the band till 1999 and recorded the classic and criminally […]
Suicidal Tendencies are returning to Australia for the mighty Download Festival in Melbourne and none are more excited than the hardcore punk/thrash fans that have followed the Southern California veterans over the years. The […]
Established in 2013, Italian Progressive Metalcore outfit Prospective is writing a new chapter in their story, with the release of ambitious LP#2, Unreal. Following debut record “Beyond”, the group has earned substantial momentum in the […]
Los Angeles hard rock act Bullets and Octane exploded onto the scene in 2003 with their debut EP “One Night Stand Rock N Roll Band” which was followed by their debut album “The Revelry” […]
25-year old British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Laurence Jones, will release his new studio album ‘The Truth’ on Friday 9th March 2018. To dovetail the release of the album, Laurence will start his nationwide […]
US rockers The Sword surprised a few fans when they dropped “High Country” back in 2015, a slight departure from their back catalogue which showed the band progressing and moving forward in order to […]
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