Due to the long arc of their career, can anything AC/DC release at this point contribute to their legacy? Stick around because I’ve had a thorough listen to their new album, Power Up, and I’ve got an...

Napalm Death is back with a ferocious collection of cuts via the imaginatively titled album, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism. Vocalist Barney Greenway is in his eighth week of press obligations. In an interview...

Reactivated Bay Area thrash quintet Heathen is back, and in a big way in 2020 courtesy of the album Empire of the Blind. The blistering assault is proof musicians from one of heavy metal’s most hallowed eras...

COVID-19. Will 2020 be known for anything else? As far as heavy metal is concerned, it’s the year the gigs stopped. For sure, other genres are affected in a similar manner to our great descriptor of music...

The sun-scorched corpse of Australian extreme metal oozes the stench of bands that have played a handful of shows and shared band members amongst themselves across the spectrum of genres. Very few achieve a reach beyond cult...

When Lars and James were busy figuring out how to make Metallica sound like Mötley Crüe‘s dreadful Dr Feelgood (’89), then stupefying the thrash icon’s sound to appeal to mainstream hard rock’s lowest common denominator of fandom via the self-titled (aka Black) album...

Danish thrash metal originals Artillery is in the country for a series highly anticipated shows, and the band’s founder and all-round nice guy Michael Stützer is thrilled to perform down under finally.  The conversation with Stützer got off to...

Baroness is an impressive four-piece from Georgia who will be in Australia very soon for appearances at Download, and some seriously tasty Brisbane and Adelaide sideshows with Deftones. The band have toured Australia previously, supporting Metallica in 2010, performing at Soundwave...

Heavy metal and gimmicks have long been uncomfortable bedfellows.  Mainstream audiences have latched onto Spın̈al Tap, with many still believing the movie was a real account of an English band’s travails. Beavis and Butthead opened the door...

Trevor Peres is the guitarist at the centre of Floridian death metal institution Obituary, and he is thrilled the band have an opportunity to tour Australia again.  Obituary is performing in the capital city of each state, making this...