On their Facebook, Melbourne’s In Vanity deem themselves to be of the ‘metalcore’ persuasion. Well, if they are to be considered thus, they are certainly bringing a new flavour to the metalcore table, a rumbling, unrelenting industrial...

It’s great to see a band, and especially an Aussie band, that doesn’t really exist within the realms of the ‘prog’ sub-genre, that’s injecting something new and very different into rock music. There is much going on...

This band has been around for 20 years and has released some fabulous music in that time. They certainly have a very solid worldwide following, to the point where they toured Australia a few years back (hopefully...

Images: Ben GunzbergWords: Rod Whitfield Second night in Melbourne at the Thornbury after a sold-out first night a week or so ago, and second review for this lucky writer. The great man expresses concern and insecurity about...

This Sydney-based heavy alt-rock four-piece recently released their debut seven track EP, and it displays a band on the brink of finding their true voice. All the elements of a potentially great alt rock act are here,...

Wow, what a bolt out of the blue. When a friend whose opinion I very much respect recommended this album to me, I immediately expected something very special. Exactly how special, I was completely unprepared for. As...

I remember when the first Slipknot album came out, and all the ‘true’ metalheads started howling that it’s a ‘fad’, it’s a ‘flash in the pan’. Here we are, two decades later, they’ve just released their sixth...

Don’t let the fact that this EP is only three tracks put you off, Cartographers of Human Purpose is 25 minutes plus of highly enjoyable music from a very promising Aussie band. This is instrumental post-rock, straying...

One of the issues with an excellent local mini festival like this is scheduling clashes. They are very unfortunate, but just as unavoidable, so the idea is to catch the bands you’ve never seen before, not the...

Artists’ creative processes and journeys are eternally fascinating areas of study and discussion. Where do creative people’s ideas come from? How do they form? How do creatives develop and nurture their ideas? How do they take them...