Kyuss, were and still are a universally lauded musical touchstone. For those who saw the marketing machinations click into gear when one with the surname Cobain launched a million Fender Jaguars into diamond-shaped chord progressions in the...

Saxon – Biff Byford With a history, every bit as relevant and important to heavy metal as Iron Maiden and Motörhead, Biff Byford, the vocalist and man at the centre of NWoBHM survivors Saxon reckons the new...

Morbid Angel – Steve Tucker By many measures, Morbid Angel guitarist Trey Azagthoth is the greatest living extreme metal string-slinger, so it was not without degrees of disappointment that the recently released Kingdoms Disdained (’17) fell short...

Milla is bloke with the big voice at the centre of Sydney sludge monsters Black Rheno, who are currently on tour across Australia. The band released the EP, Let’s Start a Cult in 2016, affording them the...

Vegard Tveitan is better known by his pseudonym Ihsahn, the band leader and frontman of critically acclaimed Norweigan black metal icons, Emperor. Emperor may still be an occasional feature on the live circuit, particularly European open-air festival’s,...

Ministry – Al Jourgensen Al Jourgensen is the man at the centre of Ministry, a revered moniker associated with down and dirty industrial rhythms backed by rock and metal guitars. With the release of album number 14, AmeriKKKant,...

Black Label Society – Zakk Wylde The great Zakk Wylde… is an introduction really necessary? Promoting his new album under the Black Label Society moniker, Grimmest Hits, it was also a great opportunity to have a chat...

Overkill – Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth has been performing thrash metal since before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Reagan’s presidency and the ‘Live Aid’ concert event. For over 35 years he and his compadre in metal,...

When the esteemed moderator and grand pooh-bah of this excellent site asked me to look into reviewing Smelted Reformed and Doomed, an EP from Melbourne based speed metal diabolos Direblaze I had neither a clue or any...

KK Warslut and his platoon of blackened speed metal marauders need no introduction to the underground metal aficionado. I know there are plenty of you out there whose tastes are squarely rooted in the sounds of the...