Devin Townsend Devin Townsend is one of the most fascinatingly musically diverse artists within the sphere of heavy metal today. It can only be described as a treat to be given an opportunity to discuss career highlights and gain some insight from...

Desecrator – Riley Strong “I’ve been waiting for a chance to tell this story for so long. I’m glad you brought it up.” Riley Strong is the frontman, guitarist and vocalist for Melbourne thrash quintet, Desecrator. Before our chat...

Adam Darski is a fiercely independent spirit. Better known as Nergal, the front man for black metal’s preeminent representative likely to obtain the mainstream attention in the late teen-naughties, Behemoth. On Songs Of Love And Death, Darski teams...

Way back in ’96, Metallica’s James Hetfield and Jason Newstead were in Australia for a promo tour touting the still divisive Load album series. Both made repeated references to the brilliant Kyuss, whose Blue Cheer inspired song...

Eight albums into a formidable career, Meshuggah bought a djent onslaught to The Tivoli, Brisbane for the first show in an eagerly anticipated Australian tour. Touring on the back of last years The Violent Sleep of Reason, this is an album that has received a mixed...

Earth Rot – Colin Dickie Perth’s very own Earth Rot are about to be a lot more than just a good local metal band. Upon listening to an advance copy of the new long player, Renascentia, frankly… I...

Former Bolt Thrower front man, Karl Willets, needs no introduction to those with even a passing interest in death metal. Willets is back with a new band, a familiar sound and most importantly… the most articulate vocal...

With a recorded history spanning 35 years, We Are the Ones is a surprisingly contemporary and thoroughly entertaining third solo album from ‘the nicest man in rock’n’roll’, Mr Dee Snider. The storied history of Tri-State legends Twisted...

The crew from Yonkers, New York deliver an exquisite slab of death metal fortifying a career rivalling any of their more celebrated Floridian contemporaries. Ross Dolan (vocals and bass) and Robert Vigna (Guitar) have been ploughing the...

With album art that looks like an accompaniment to Neurosis’s Times of Grace (’99), a sound that sits somewhere between Tools 10,000 Days (‘06) and the groovier elements on Opeth’s Ghost Reveries (‘05), I was in a...