When we turned an unexpected five years old we pulled together a bunch of our favourite bands (all hail The Amenta) and put on a gig to celebrate at. It went pretty well, people had fun, so we...

Grindhead Records’ East West Deathgrind Fest is always a big event, and a chunk of the lineup aren’t exactly strangers to playing the show, but this 7th edition of the fest has to be the strongest lineup to date. The...

Marking their 15th anniversary tour New Jersey-based post-hardcore quintet Senses Fail will return to Australia in 2016. As well as showcasing their latest album Pull the Thorns from Your Hear the band will be celebrating the milestone by breaking out tracks...

The recent spike in quality Australian music videos is exciting, whether it’s the more artistic side à la Dumbsaint or the more in-your-face style that King Parrot and High Tension have taken. Adelaide’s Space Bong are the latest to release a short film-meets-music video and it’s truly...

Seven long years after Contemtpus Mundi, their third album, French black metal band Hegemon have returned with The Hierarch. “Their acclaimed third album ‘Contemptus Mundi’ dealt with war through many different periods of human history, from ancient Greece through Egypt and Sumer to Mesopotamia....

Even if you’re not familiar with Drohtnung, if you’re an Australian black metal fan then you’ve probably heard something that mainman Old has been in or guested on, whether that be Wardaemonic, Woods of Desolation, Drowning the Light, Pestilential Shadows, etc. Back...

The sophomore album from Sweden’s This Gift Is A Curse is simply monstrous but while the first single “Swinelord” might have suggested this album was an all-out onslaught of noisy, atmosphere-drenched sludge, that’s not quite the case. There’s a lot of...

Well the Soundwave ’16 lineup officially just got more exciting. The 11th band announced is supergroup Metal Allegiance which features Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater), Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Phil Demmel (Machine Head), Mark Osegueda (Death Angel), Alex Skolnick (Testament) and...

Between the Buried and Me are an incredible live band, simply put. They’re both astonishingly tight and full of energy at the same time. Plus the latest album is fantastic which is a nice bonus. So, this tour...

If you heard the first Thy Catafalque single you might have been surprised at the acoustic nature of it. Well, here they are to prove that they’re still releasing metal. Below is the 2nd single from the new album...