Circles began life at the fore of the djent ‘genre’/movement of the early 2010s, with an EP Compass in 2011 and a full-length Infinitas in 2014. The Last One marks their first release since Infinitas, following a...

Australian tech-death wizards Psycroptic are back again with album number seven As the Kingdom Drowns. Aside from a handful of tracks by the likes of Fleshgod Apocalypse and Obscura, technical death metal has never really been my...

Northward is a project that has been in the works for some time. With seeds planted during the 2007 ProgPower Festival in the USA, the collaboration between Jorn Viggo Lofstad (Pagan’s Mind) and Floor Jansen (After Forever,...

Jorn Viggo Lofstad – Northward Northward is a project that has been in the works for over a decade, beginning in 2008 as a collaboration between Jorn Viggo Lofstad of Pagan’s Mind and Floor Jansen of Nightwish...

Friday night found a group of metalheads standing in the freezing cold outside of Hobart’s Brisbane Hotel, eagerly awaiting a show from Aussie legends Psycroptic and Canadian tech-death wizards Archspire. While the crowd seemed keen for the...

Primal Fear return with their twelfth studio album Apocalypse, another fine effort in carrying on in the long tradition of German speed/power metal bands. Their most recent effort combines the traditional metal stylings of Judas Priest with...

Kamelot – Tommy Karevik With the release of The Shadow Theory in April this year, Kamelot are on album number twelve and showing no signs of slowing down. I caught up with singer Tommy Karevik to chat about...

Drawn and Quartered are one of those unfortunate bands that are really quite good, have a remarkably strong discography, and are/were influential to those in the know but never quite made it into the big leagues (insofar...

Hadal Maw is moving from strength to strength as a band. They have followed up Olm (2017) with Charlatan – a shorter, more concise EP that explores a new development in the band’s sound and style. Immediately...

Sometimes, you see a band name and think to yourself ‘I think I’m going to like this’. Such was the case with Void Rot and their debut EP Consumed by Oblivion. My enthusiasm was only increased by...