Swedish progressive rock and metal titans Opeth are playing at the Sydney Opera House. Even just speaking that sentence sends proverbial shivers down the spine, let alone actually experiencing it. Guitarist Fredrik Akesson is humbled and excited...

France has exploded with metallic brilliance over the last 10 to 15 years, and Mantra are yet another Gallic act who are making a very strong statement with their output. This band wears their influences reasonably openly...

The scene is absolutely awash with djenty progressive metal acts at the moment, and many of them are exceptionally good – you simply have to be good to play this style of music convincingly, to have an...

I rate this Polish act’s last album Living Mirrors among my favourite albums of all time, by anyone. So anticipation for the follow-up was possibly unreasonably high. Does it live up to the precedent set by that...

You might think, looking at the illustrious pedigree of the members of this ‘supergroup’ (including members of Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age and At the Drive-In), that Echolocation would be a stoner rock fan’s wet dream....

Warpath is a highly appropriate title for this album, the new album from this Melbourne-based extreme act destroys all in its path, leaving nothing but smoking carnage in its wake. That said, this band have developed and...

I say it every single year, and I’ll say it yet again in 2016, what a year for new releases! I ended up having a grand total of 28 releases that were in the running for a...

This (r)Adelaide band is not attempting to re-invent any wheels or experiment with the artform that is rock ‘n’ roll whatsoever, that is not the point. These boys just want to turn their guitars up to 10,...

I’m not sure if this band, or their fans, will actually appreciate such a close comparison to another band, and maybe this is faux pas for a reviewer. But just about everyone in the Aussie alt-rock scene...

Douglas Skene – Hemina If you’ve been privy at all to the previous works of this Sydney-based melodic progressive metal band, no doubt you would have been impressed by what you heard. However, set that aside for...