Interviews with some of your favorite as well as up and coming artists and musicians!
It’s been well over a decade since Papa Roach last toured in Australia so it was a big welcome back at the Soundwave festival last weekend. The band are set to perform at a […]
The Treatment is one of those young Rock bands that is holding teh torch for real Rock and Roll and they visit us for this year’s Soundwave Festival and a couple of choics Sidewave […]
Ragdoll is a band you need to hear if you love passionate Hard Rock, melding huge power with equally towering melody they sound like nothing else. Imagine Soundgarden growing up on the Suset Strip […]
Originally hailing from Jerusalem in Israel, black/thrash metal band Melechesh have come a long way in the two decades that they been creating music and 2015 sees the band release a new album titled […]
The last time we spoke to Cormac was on the eve of the release of The Answer’s last album ‘New Horizons’ and while that release placed highly in our ‘Albums of the Year’ poll, […]
Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker releases a new studio album entitled “Spirit On A Mission” in the UK on Monday 23rd March. Released by in-akustik, the album of all-new material features Schenker’s Temple of Rock band – ex-Scorpions Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass), ex-Rainbow’s Doogie White (vocals) […]
A lot of people may know who Joey Vera is, best known as the bassist in Armored Saint but currently he is also involved in Motor Sister, a new band that started out as […]
I was lucky enough to meet Scott last time his band Thin Lizzy toured Australia as part of the Kiss and Motley Crue tour back in 2013, we ended up talking about his new […]
Death metal has been around for a few decades now but when Polish band Decapitated came onto the scene, they became innovators on some level and helped steer technical death metal into the foray. […]
Night Ranger is the ultimate mid-eighties US Rock band, and Jack Baldes is so much more than their vocalist/guitarist. When the opportunity to speak to him about their upcoming UK date arose its was […]
Progressive black metal band Enslaved have a new album coming out entitled “In Time”, a solid collection of songs that continue on the progressive path that the band have been experimenting with for many […]
Back in the day (and here we are talking the very birth of Rock as we know it) URIAH HEEP was one of the ‘big four’ along with Purple, Sabbath and Zeppelin. Though histories, […]
It’s been 5 long years since we heard new material from 36 Crazy Fists but the wait is finally over! “Time And Trauma” is the latest effort from the now 20 year veteran band […]
Whatever you make of He Is Legend where their crazy and varied style has helped put the band on the musical map over the years, there’s no doubt that they are pretty unique. The […]
Of all the Rock Bands That traversed the (Sixties) Seventies and Eighties and beyond few have endured as well as Germany’s Scorpions who not only are these days playig to the converted but also […]
Love them or ‘hate’ them, ( down under we tend to love them) Nickelback is back with a new album in ‘No Fixed Adress’ and in support they are back downunder to play to […]
It’s been almost 20 years since the world was first introduced to the cello masters of heavy music that is Apocalyptica when their now famous Metallica tribute album was released. Fast forward to 2015 […]
It’s always great to discover new bands and one band that you need to keep an eye on is Portland sludge metallers Lord Dying. Their second album “Poison Alters” is a fantastic album full […]
As one of the original members of thrash legends Megadeth and a guy who has gone through a lot of personal stuff and had an amazing career so far, it only makes sense that […]
With the return of Steve “Zetro” Souza on vocals and the release of one of the year’s best metal albums, it was only inevitable that Bay Area thrashers and outright legends Exodus would be […]
The long wait is over as Michigan’s Chiodos are returning to Australian shores this January / February 2015 for their first visit in over 5 years and in support of their stunning 4th full […]
Aussie deathcore metal band Thy Art Is Murder have been gaining some serious attention in recent times in particular in the US and Europe where they have played headlining shows and performed in front […]
Australia Rock music has had plenty of stars that burned bright briefly, but Ross Wilson is a little different – an artist that achieved it all not once, or twice but three times – […]
Industrial metal legends Fear Factory are no strangers to Australia having been to the country numerous times over the years and 2015 won’t be any different as they return, this time for the annual […]
The Dead Daisies brand of Classic Rock and Roll has been going down a storm on the recent Kiss and Bad Co. tours over in the US; and prior to that supporting greats like […]
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