Message to heavy bands, local and otherwise: book more shows at this venue. It’s killer. I had never been here before, and it’s certainly not the best known band venue in this great musical city, but one...

What an evening this promises to be. One of the most iconic and storied rock/metal vocalists in history, playing what this humble rock/metal fan and writer considers to be the greatest concept album ever released, and one...

The weather app on my phone told me it fleetingly hit 44deg Celsius in Melbourne this day, and it is still steaming when Geelong’s Formiles hits the Workers stage at around 8.30pm. Sweaty gigs are always fun,...

Metalcore/post-hardcore is one of those sub-genres that has been bagged mercilessly by the ‘true’ metalheads as being a ‘fad’ and other such nonsense, but is now making them eat their words due to the incredible longevity it...

The Glass Ocean and Opus of a Machine tour, in fact the entire Melbourne lineup, may seem somewhat of a mismatch on paper, but when you are there enjoying this snapshot of the wondrous diversity inherent in...

Instrumental rock music is an acquired taste, especially when it’s the eclectic and less accessible style pushed by these two masterful Aussie acts. But when you acquire that taste, there’s no going back, it hooks you in...

Rohan Stevenson, the man behind burgeoning Melbourne-based instrumental guitar project I Built the Sky, recently made the very bold move of quitting his day job to focus entirely upon the creation and marketing of his music. In...

While they both have wildly differing degrees of mainstream/commercial acceptance, it cannot be denied that both Star Wars and heavy metal music are true cultural phenomenons. If you get something that combines both you have something rather...

It’s fantastic to hear a young, newer band do something a little different with extreme metal. Freedom of Fear hail from Adelaide and have only been around for a few years, but they are making a big...

Always threatening to, Melbourne maestro Rohan Stevenson has now entered the big time. Instrumental progressive music has become a niche worldwide phenomenon over the last 10 years or so, and virtuoso guitar instrumentalists have become a niche...