In general I would like to think I am a happy person, and I don’t know if it is because of that or not but I have never been drawn to the doom/depressive metal scene. Maybe it’s...

The boys from Alkira have been bouncing around the metal scene since 2009, being a force to behold live and having released two EP’s. After years of consistent touring, the South Australian thrashers have just released their...

I will always have a soft spot for Brisbane death metallers Defamer, as they were one of the first local live bands I got to experience. I remember going to Rosies in Brisbane for the first time...

Sweden’s Wolf are the metal band equivalent of your local pub, nothing excited or special, but you are guaranteed a good time. Having only listened to them on and off through the years, I have never actually...

Fun fact; Saeculum Obscurum is Latin for the Dark Age, a period of history in which the Popes were strongly influence by a powerful and corrupt family. Now we can add to that definition that Saeculum Obscurum...

Melbourne based thrash outfit Abraxxas are the latest newcomers in the trend of old school thrash bands currently emerging in the Australian metal scene. Not that this is a bad thing. It is in fact a very...

Vintersorg’s Naturbål is best enjoyed while trekking through a bitter cold black forest at midnight on the way to a crackling fire. Or at least that is the impression I get when I listen to it. To...

Darker Half are on the rise and are a breath of fresh air in the current Australia metal scene with its heavy focus on death metal (not that this is necessarily a bad thing). There are sources...

Melbourne’s filthy black metal outfit Adamus Exul are back with ‘Arsenic Idols’, their follow up to the 2011 effort ‘Death, Paint a Vision’. The album was released on the Italian label Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum translating roughly...