This British institution has been around for decades, and as a fan of progressive rock and metal, they are a band that have intrigued but eluded me for a long time. Whenever I actually sit down and...

When you play in a band, internet-hate is just about inevitable. Haters are always out there, watching, waiting for their opportunity to strike, to unleash their relentless volleys of vitriol at any act that happens to fall...

It’s only been eight or nine months since the release of this Melbourne band’s debut EP, so it’s great to see a band prepared to put in the sheer hard work required to release regular music, and...

Figures – Paul Callow Hard hitting Melbourne-based alt rock act Figures are set to release their second EP, and as with most entirely-independent bands, the question as to their next move is a daunting one. Another EP? A...

Volumes – Myke Terry Replacing an iconic singer in a high-profile band can be a daunting and difficult process. For any number of reasons, fan backlash, adapting to new personalities and new ways of working, ensuring your...

The thing that strikes the listener as she or he experiences Different Animals for the first time is the sheer, unadulterated variety on display. You may or may not like everything they attempt on this record, but...

Images: Clinton Hatfield Words: Rod Whitfield Fleshgod were here a few years back, with Septic Flesh, in what was a very fleshy lineup. It was more of a co-headlining thing, and the night I saw them they...

Words: Rod Whitfield Photos: Lilen Pautasso (Click here to view the full photo gallery) The great Canadian geniuses’s genuinely humble style apparently now extends even to his merch design, as well. His new tee-shirt has a self-description...

When two drummers of prodigious talent get together to tour and play together, it truly is something very different and absolutely compulsory viewing. Virgil Donati and Thomas Lang are two of the greatest drummers the world has...

Fleshgod Apocalypse – Tommaso Riccardi The bombastic Italian symphonic extreme metal juggernaut Fleshgod Apocalypse is on its way back to Australia again, but for those in this country still uninitiated with the explosive live aura that this...