It’s always exciting when New Zealand’s Ulcerate announce a trip over the water. They’re both one of the tightest and one of the most intense live bands going around, and somehow manage to get even better with each album....

On the back of their 6th studio album Instant Gratification, US post-hardcore band Dance Gavin Dance are returning to Australia for a string of shows with Melbourne’s Acrasia.  As guitarist Will Swan enthuses “‘ Instant Gratification’ is the culmination of all that...

“Acta Est Fabula”, the centrepiece on Rise of Avernus‘ new EP, has Enslaved‘s Grutle Kjellson on guest vocals, so you just know this is going to be good. You’ll have to wait another month to hear that track...

Ukrainian black metallers Drudkh are a couple of months away from releasing their new studio album A Furrow Cut Short, April 20th to be precise. In the lead-up, we’re stoked to have the Australian premiere of the album’s final track “Till...

If there’s one thing that Shellfin proved with their debut full length and the EP that preceded it, it’s that they know how to write catchy, groovy riffs; ultimately the bottom line when you’re putting together a...

While Brisbane stoner rockers Shellfin have proved they can write some groovy, catchy stoner rock tunes in the past, their new album Cities Without Names is a whole ‘nother level. There’s passages to bliss out to, riffs to rock out to, catchy...

As hinted by the band on social media last week Machine Head are coming to Australia for their first headline tour since 2010, on the back of their killer new album Bloodstone & Diamonds. “Hailing from Oakland, California, Machine Head...

Blind Guardian, a name that redefined a genre and made it their own. It is a name that continues to have legendary and mystical qualities attached to it by encapsulating, engrossing and breeding loyalty from a tremendous...

Carach Angren‘s new album is huge in the same way that bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse and Septic Flesh are; grand orchestrations combined with fast riffs and even faster drums, albeit more blacker than those two. This Is No Fairytale is excellent, to put it simply,...

Ahead of their Soundwave performance the mighty King Parrot are hitting up Adelaide’s Australian Rock & Metal Institute (aka ARMI) for “a night in”; answering questions about their fast rise in the metal scene and their hard touring life,...