Words: Bailey Graham Images: Sonja Maglicic (Click here to view the full gallery) It’s been seven years since Italian gothic metal visionaries Lacuna Coil visited Australian shores, so it was safe to assume that even an hour...

Twenty-two years ago, guitar virtuoso Michael Romeo went on to found one of the greatest progressive metal acts on all time, Symphony X – a band that transcends the boundaries between traditional heavy metal and progressive elements. Twenty-two...

Home-grown Aussie hard rockers Airbourne have been killing it as of late, packing out arenas across the world and giving crowds a much needed rock and roll revitalisation. The boys have come out swinging with their fourth full-length release,...

Heavy metal – a genre synonymous with loud electric guitars, blisteringly harsh vocals and…the hurdy-gurdy? That statement alone can only mean one person, the legendary Anna Murphy: former female vocalist and hurdy-gurdy player of Swiss folk metal...

If there’s anything that can be said about today’s power metal scene, it’s that there’s one band dominating stages across world with their epic and unique take on the sub-genre, and that band in question is Sweden’s...

  Words: Bailey Graham Images: Mark Hoffmann It’s no secret that Melbourne loves its progressive music scene, with internationally recognised progressive metal bands like Periphery and Tesseract often selling out venues across the city over multiple dates, so it’s no surprise that Australian...

Words: Bailey Graham Images: Matt Allan (Click here to view the full gallery) It’s that time of year, the time where dozens of Australia’s premier hard rock and heavy metal acts gather around the infamous Bendigo and...

Words: Bailey Graham Images: Mark Hoffmann (Click here to view the full gallery) Deep within the inner suburbs of Melbourne, four of the finest death metal bands in the scene today were set to take over Richmond’s Corner...