Anybody who reads this site regularly will know that A Million Dead Birds Laughing and The Schoenberg Automaton are up there as some of our absolute favourite Aussie bands. So, to hear that they’re hitting the road with Aeon of Horus is great...

It has been over six years since Tassie death metallers Mephistopheles released their last full length Ascension Aborted but after some lineup changes among other things, the follow-up is finally ready. The album, Sounds of the End, is due out on October 1st...

Alice Springs might not be the first place that jumps to mind when you think about Aussie metal, but Top End Terror have put together a killer lineup that are heading to the red centre for Terrorfest. “Headline act...

In yesterday’s Korpiklaani tour announcement we made a comment that Moonsorrow should hit Australian shores next. Apparently we’re psychic. “Hailing from the darkest depths of Finland, the crusaders of epic heathen metal, Moonsorrow have forged a metal art with a solid...

Not enough prog in the latest explosion of tour announcements? Well Between The Buried And Me and The Contortionist have come to the rescue, with the former playing their latest album The Parallax II: Future Sequence in it’s entirety. “The critically acclaimed release...

Tours, tours, tours. And here’s one for you power metal fans; after their previous Australian tour being postponed for a rather long time, Firewind’s (or Gus G’s Firewind, as they’re being referred to for some reason) first Australian tour...

It’s time to break out the drinking horns and jig, folk metallers Korpiklaani are coming to Australia for the first time! It’s about time too; it was surprising to see the likes of Eluveitie and Turisas here first. Not that we’re complaining of...

“When we were making our first album we floated the idea of doing multiple mixes/versions of most of the songs we recorded. And then release twin versions of the LP. You know kinda like how Godflesh did?...

All the way back in February we ran a news post on a new band from Sydney called The Autumn League, dubbing them the must-hear band of the day, despite the fact they only had one song. Well, as of a...

If you were looking for a reason to head down to Tassie (or to leave the house, if you already live there), then this year’s Ampocalypse is a pretty good one. Held over three days at the Brisbane Hotel,...