A ‘Sidewinder’ is a highly poisonous type of snake, found mostly in North America. A Sidewinder is also a type of air to air missile. So Sidewinder is a highly appropriate title for the new release from...

For the uninitiated, Melbourne’s The Omnific is a three-piece, all instrumental band. Two bass guitars and drums, no guitars, no vocals whatsoever. What sounds, on paper, to be fairly simplistic, in reality, is anything but. These three...

On paper, this lineup looks kinda samey, in reality, the musical palette and experience is about as broad as can be imagined on such a bill. Three bands that mine similar musical terrain, that reside in a...

Every time I review one of these types of releases I say something along the lines of ‘the world is a treasure trove of progressive instrumental guitar music right now’, and so it goes on. Stephen Taranto...

There are certainly some great bands out there, doing some good stuff with death metal, and especially with progressive and techy death metal. As a whole however, the genre is a little stale, and is in need...

Sometimes I find it virtually impossible to ignore a band’s previous output when writing a review of their new album, and so this is the case again with the newie from US progressive deathsters Fallujah. Even viewed...

First up, this is a ‘biopic’. The very term seems to trigger something in certain filmgoer’s brains, trigger a default ‘I’m going to hate on this movie’ position. These types of films must be taken and experienced...

The entire world is a veritable treasure trove of heavy and progressive instrumental guitar wizardry at the moment. If you dig this type of stuff, it’s just a great time to be alive, and you will certainly...

How do you measure success? Just as there are different levels of success, there are also different types. The type that comes to most people’s minds of course when the word is spoken is a financial and...

Melbourne genre-fusing five-piece Twelve Foot Ninja has been around for well over ten years now, and have seen their star rise steadily across the nation an around the globe during that time. So much so that they...