Images: Clinton HatfieldWords: Matt Barton After a successful inaugural festival in 2018, Good Things returns for a second year with another massive line up of local and international talent. Nearly 30 bands are on this year’s bill...

Images: Rebecca HouldenWords: Matt Barton Click here to view the full gallery. People of Australia have been screaming for Download Festival to come down under for many years and, last year, it finally did. Now in its...

It’s hard to believe that South African hard rockers Seether have been a band almost twenty years. I remember getting into them at the time of their second release, Disclaimer II, way back in 2004. Ever since,...

Around the time that Atreyu went on hiatus back in 2011, their drummer/clean singer Brandon Saller formed a band called The Black Cloud Collective, the name was later changed to Hell or Highwater and they went on...

Miss May I are one of those bands that the few tracks I’ve heard from them I’ve always enjoyed but have never gotten around to listening to any of their records in full. I was surprised to...

Images: Sebastian Marino Words: Matthew Barton Black shirts? Check. Black lipstick? Check. Black hair? Check. Black everything? Check. Wednesday 13 must be in town! Having caught his last couple of tours, I knew he puts on a...

Fans of Melbourne’s Ocean Grove have waited a long time for their debut album but well done to the band, they took their time to release something they would be completely happy with. The Rhapsody Tapes is...

Thin Lizzy are one of the most renowned hard rock bands of all time. After their frontman Phil Lynott died in 1986 they would go on to not release any more albums. Years later, guitarist Scott Graham...

Ever since Dark Roots of Earth came out in 2012, fans of thrash metal giants Testament have been keenly awaiting another new album. That moment finally came late in 2016. It also marked bassist Steve DiGiorgio’s first...

It’s hard to believe that in the thirty plus years that Seputlura have been active, the four years between 2013’s “The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be The Heart” and the upcoming “Machine Messiah” is the...