Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
With the cancellation of Australia’s biggest rock and metal festival that is Soundwave late last year, the country was left high and dry for rock festivals. It left a lot of fans a little […]
Few bands have, over the last twenty years, so consistently kept the fires of real Rock and Roll burning as brightly as Buckcherry. Part Hard Rock, part Punk, and brimming with attitude; the band […]
The Temperance Movement released one of the most critically- acclaimed Rock albums of 2013 and whilst it was picking up accolades from the likes of Classic Rock magazine and the mainstream press in the […]
Stiff Little Fingers are one of those bands that have influenced countless bands that came after them, you can hear it in modern punk and ska bands to this day. A legendary band who […]
Epica have been around for over 10 years now and in that time have proven to be one of the better bands in the genre of symphonic and melodic metal. Their latest album “The […]
Entombed is a name synonymous with the extreme world of metal, a band that has a huge legacy that many dream to aspire to. Despite the legal battles over the name, the band continued […]
Valdaway are a local band from the South West of Australia who started out a little over 10 years ago playing their brand of alternative rock around W.A. and eventually across the country. Their […]
We have had the pleasure of speaking to 3 members of Sevendust in recent times (see links at end of interview) including our latest with frontman LJ who sounded the most excited about coming […]
As the singer for Edguy and Avantasia, Tobias Sammet is a musical adventurer who loves to create and perform music that is as epic and grand as it sounds. Currently promoting the new Avantasia […]
When you are a big fan of a band that has been around as long as Sevendust has, what do you ask them that hasn’t been asked already? Maybe find out what music they […]
UK metalcore band Bury Tomorrow are about to release their new album “Earthbound” in January 2016, which according to vocalist Dani Winter-Bates, feels like the distillation of everything they have ever wanted the band […]
Swedish psych rockers Witchcraft have been active for a number of years in the milennium, bringing that classic rock sound into the 21st century and putting their own stamp on a timeless genre. The […]
Folk metal heroes Eluveitie released their latest album “Origins” last year and has been their most successful release to date, garnering rave reviews from critics and fans alike. The band just announced a headline […]
Having been a part of the Soundwave Festival a couple of times now, Motionless In White are returning to Australia for their first arena tour as supporting act on the Big Ass tour with […]
Hailing from Norway, 1349 are a black metal band that have brought back some of the more purer elements of the genre since their inception in the late 90’s. While the original black metal […]
Sevendust were last in Australia in 2011 for Soundwave Festival but it’s been a while since they did a headlining tour. That will change come March 2016 when the band come down for a […]
Ill Nino are making their way back to Australia for Soundwave Festival for a third time but this time around, we get to experience something pretty special as the band treat the fans to […]
Adelaide’s finest up and coming hard rockers, Cherry Grind, have just released their stunning debut record ‘A Room With a View’ produced by Bob Daisley. It sounds like the start of very good things […]
Mark Knight has just released his latest solo album. After years of making music, most notably with Bang Tango the ground-breaking Funk-Rock outfit he led in the late eighties and early nineties. Then there […]
Frenzal Rhomb are pretty much an institution in the Australian music scene having been around for over 20 years and have played anywhere and everywhere in the country. The one place they have not […]
It may have been a surprise for some people to see Disturbed announced as headliner of next year’s Soundwave Festival but given the track record of the band who has had an astounding 5 […]
The Darkness is back with avengence with their Suffolk Viking Invasion quasi-epic almost concept album ‘The Last of Our Kind’. We spoke to Dan Hawkins about the almost finished US tour, the upcoming Australian […]
Revocation are one of those bands I discovered a few years back through their first album “Empires Of The Obscene” which I first heard around the time that “Chaos Of Forms” was released so […]
If you haven t heard Skindred yet then you are in for a treat, a band that merges Metal, Rock, Reggae and various other seemingly incompatible musical styles it shouldn t work this damn […]
Kingswood is an Australian band going places and with the songs and the attitude to get there the future is looking bright. Just announced as the local support act for the Australian leg of […]
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