Influenced by bands such as Thy Art Is Murder, Chelsea Grin and Barrier, The Despot are the newest addition to Geelong’s currently small amount of active metal bands. With their debut demo to be released over the next couple of months,...

Call fourth these powers of darkness… the demons of hell. Finally, Melbourne’s industrial metal powerhouse, Witchgrinder, have finished their debut album, after 3 years of waiting for a follow-up to their well-received ‘Through the Eyes of the...

Join The Amish – Pete Alexander Using a clever pun of the classic Suicidal Tendencies album “Join the Army” as their band name, Melbourne’s Join the Amish are a dynamic mixture of thrash metal, hardcore, grind and...

Dave Lombardo fired off Slayer's appearance in Australia.

Holy Grail – Alex Lee Almost a year after their successful appearance at Soundwave Festival, American traditional metal outfit Holy Grail released their second full-length album ‘Ride the Void’ last month. Following the release of the album, Metal Obsession had...

After almost 6 years, numerous line up changes and a noticeable change in sound, Melbourne death metal band Internal Nightmare have finally released their debut album, ‘Chaos Reborn’. It was mixed and mastered by Dean Wells (Shredville...

Perth's self-proclaimed "power-speed-death-thrash-rock-metal" band Psychonaut certainly aren't new to the Australian metal scene, but definitely should have more recognition across Australia. Forming in 1999 and releasing their debut album 'Masters of Procrastination' in 2004, the band returned...

Melbourne thrash/grind band King Parrot have dominated the Australian music scene this year. With the release of a brand new album ‘Bite Your Head Off’ which was very well received, and extensive touring across Australia (most of the shows...

I have been hanging for the best of news from Melbourne’s newest speed/thrash band MetalStorm to be released, and now that it has been, I can finally make this post. After a lot of hype on their...

It’s that time of the year where you can’t really expect anything new to be released, and you think to yourself… “What have the best releases of 2012 been?” I have listened to as much as I...