Coronavirus has rocked our world. It has especially rocked the rock world, the music industry, the arts and so on. But new Queensland heavy alternative rock act Torizon have been truly and directly touched by the disease....

Australia seems to produce high-quality alternative/progressive rock and metal acts like it’s shelling peas, and here is yet another one. Warnings are a Melbourne-based duo who have only recently put themselves together, but they have found their...

This Melbourne five-piece haven’t been around very long, but this, their debut five track EP, displays a band that has hit the ground running, taken the ball and kicked a booming torpedo punt through the big sticks...

As has been proven over the years, full-blown concept albums can be hard to pull off. For every instance where the artform was executed to seeming perfection, for every Operation: Mindcrime, The Wall or Scenes From a...

The name With Heavy Hearts may not be the most well-known amongst Aussie heavy music fans, but that situation may very well change over the coming 12 months or so. The Swedish melodic death metal four-piece recently...

Most big corporations and other organisations have ‘mission statements’. Some bands even have them. Iconic Brisbane progressive heavy act Caligula’s Horse actually have a formalized one, and in these very heady and uncertain times when the band...

News of the Coronavirus outbreak is sweeping the entire planet as I mosey over to the Worker’s Club this night. I’m thinking it may possibly affect the attendance at what is a very special night for Tim...

In progressive heavy music circles, the name ‘Intronaut’ no longer needs any intro, they have been around for a decade and a half and Fluid Existential Inversions is their sixth full-length studio album. In the niche that...

StKilda’s world-famous Esplanade Hotel is back. Well, it’s partly back to its old glory. The front section looks extremely different, and the fact that the front band bar is gone is saddening, but at least the mighty...

To the ears of this humble fan and writer, there is just something more interesting about progressive heavy bands, or even bands that inject a little progressiveness into their sound, than about non-progressive bands. It’s the increased...