The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ben Weinman American deathcore giants The Dillinger Escape Plan have set their sights on Australia once again for the 2014 installment of Soundwave, Australia’s biggest heavy metal and hard rock touring festival....

Thy Art Is Murder – Chris “CJ” McMahon Thy Art Is Murder are undoubtedly Australia’s fastest growing and hardest working extreme metal band. Where to begin? In 2012 the band released their second album simply titled “Hate”....

Images: Anthony Smith Words: Jonty Simmons Click here to view full Vans Warped Tour Melbourne gallery. As families riding bikes along the banks of the Yarra stared at the mammoth line of black stretching from Birrarung Marr...

Images: Scott Boelson Words: Jonty Simmons Click here to view full photo gallery Excitement levels were high as the sold out crowd at the Palace Theatre, plus stragglers from the following night’s cancelled show, pushed to the...

Atmospheric brilliance is at the heart of Rise of Avernus’ stellar debut, L’appel du vide. Translated as ‘The Call of the Void’, L’appel du vide is titled after the compulsion individuals often feel when confronted with a...

Images: Scott Boelson Words: Jonty Simmons Click here to view the fully gallery. Despite attending Festival Hall countless times in the past four years, never has the line to get in been as long as the serpent...

The sheer energy contained within the Royal Melbourne hotel during the sets of local heavy outfits; Ire, Feed Her to the Sharks, Aversions Crown, and US headliners Oceano all but threatened to break out of the venue...

It turns out Robb Flynn was right. Avenged Sevenfold’s latest Hail to the King unfortunately owes too much to predecessors such as Metallica and Megadeth to be called a wholly original effort by the Long Beach heavy metal...

Images by: Callum Broom Words: Jonty Simmons Click here to view full gallery. It’s official. Parkway Drive haven’t lost any energy since they exploded onto the live scene from a town worlds away from the crushing metal...

The initial strains of “Fallen One” which open local Sydneysiders’, Flaming Wrekage’s debut album Catharsis, begin innocently enough. A few picked notes are utilized sparingly, until the dropped tuning of guitarist/vocalist Dave Lupton abruptly arrives with a...