Brisbane’s favourite progressive/alternative rock sons Dead Letter Circus have released a selection of re-recorded and re-imagined versions of previously released songs before, when they did their Stand Apart EP back in 2014, so it will come as...

I am a massive and committed fan of the more proggy/techy styles of heavy music. I remain a little unconvinced by these Canadians, however, even though they are 15 years and five major releases into a pretty...

Images: John Raptis Words: Rod Whitfield Click here to view the full gallery. This is really quite a surreal feeling. I have never actually been inside the hallowed house before, and seeing one of my all time...

Ocean Grove – Luke Holmes Some bands get a little toey in that sometimes awkward phase between the completion of the recording, mixing and mastering process of their new album and its actual release. The band members...

Words: Rod Whitfield Photos: Jess Miller (Click here to view the full gallery) It is a tropical night in Sydney, the heat and humidity are high and the crowd lined up along the side of the Metro...

Tomas Haake – Meshuggah Swedish titans Meshuggah are inarguably one of the most seminal and influential bands in heavy music today. You can detect their impact on the sound and style of a myriad of newer bands...

I remain unconvinced by Pain of Salvation. They have been around for a long, long time, have released no less than 10 albums, and every time they release a new one I get excited and am keen...

When a band replaces a member, and especially a frontman, the band’s fans often start to feel a little insecure about who the replacement will be, how different they will be from the member they replaced and...

Melbourne’s genre-smashing gentlemen of rock Twelve Foot Ninja are set embark upon what will actually be their very first extensive tour of outer suburban and regional Aussie venues, places like Newcastle, Mulgrave, Fremantle and so on, and...

Here we have a case of a band with overwhelmingly lofty ambitions who have made a very good fist of attempting to achieve them, but have possibly just fallen slightly short. At times, anyway. The intention here...