I missed the chance to chat to Alex Agnew, the vocalist of Belgian dark groove rock outfit Diablo Blvd. due to illness recently. I can assure the reader I was disappointed that I didn’t have the opportunity...

Sigurd Wongraven AKA Satyr and Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad AKA Frost have been performing blackish metal since at least Dark Medieval Times (’94). By ’94, to preface your bands brand of heavy metal as ‘black metal’ was not so...

In This Moment – Chris Howorth Los Angeles outfit In This Moment are on the cusp of big things. Having just released the album Ritual, it’s a great time to have a chat to one of the bands...

If Iced Earth guitarist, visionary and main-man Jon Schaffer is anything, it’s a survivor. 12 studio albums and numerous other compilations and releases deep into a sterling career, Incorruptible continues a trend of very listenable, articulate metal...

Rage – Peavy Wagner Rage’s front man, bassist and vocalist extraordinaire Peavy Wagner might need some introduction to the Australian audience. “Australia is the part of the world I haven’t been so far, and I’m really curious! I...

Frontman, vocalist and bassist Peter ‘Peavy’ Wagner has done many things right throughout his long career, he is one affable bloke who has survived many line-up changes and shifts in the publics preference for genres of metal.   ...

Without for a moment diving into a history lesson I will offer a brief background to the formation of Venom Inc. as it is crucial to understanding the context of my review. As you may already be...

Guided by the muse that determines my natural preferences for music Slipknot and Stone Sour have never been on a playlist in my media player, or in years past found their way into a permanent place in...

The artist formerly known as the bass player in heavy metal gargantuan Pantera can now lay claim to a solo album. This album feature’s Rex Brown in a very unfamiliar guise, supplying the guitar tracks and the...

Toxicon – Wayne Clarris Toxicon are a quintet from Geelong producing razor sharp modern thrash metal in the vein of Gojira and Lamb of God… the type of groove oriented metal that the great Dimebag may have thrown...