I feel like a broken record that gets stuck once a year around this time, but it’s been yet another stunning year in music. What is interesting for me this year, though, is that there has been...

The Brissie lads have done a terrific job on this five-track EP. Opening track New Chapter veritably bursts out of the speakers with full-frontal prog-metal fury, the technical riffing, tempo changes and frenetic drumming flying every which...

Twelve Foot Ninja – Kin Etik Melbourne’s mighty masters of metal and rock ‘fusion’, Twelve Foot Ninja, released their second opus Outlier just over a year ago, and since then have been traversing the globe, bringing their...

This American metalcore act has hit upon quite a heady, intoxicating sound on this, their fifth album. They have found a very sweet balance between the heaviness, which when it hits is poundingly, face-smashingly heavy, and the...

Wow, this band have really spread their wings, musically and songwriting-wise. Beginning their career as a band that wrote raw, short, brutish prog/djent metal tunes (which are absolutely enjoyable in their own right, and as a fan...

Progressive and experimental music, in Australia and across the globe, is experiencing what could be deemed an ‘ongoing renaissance’, that is, for several years we the aficionados of this style of music have been treated to a...

From the moment opener Ruin Me veritably bursts from the speakers, you know you’re in for a wild and ballsy rock n roll ride across 11 tracks on the newie from Melbourne female-fronted three-piece Shadowqueen. This is...

When a band calls their album ‘Good’, the obvious question that arises when you listen to it is ‘does it live up to its title?’ The answer in the case of the newie from Melbourne prog masters...

I personally left the old-school, blues-based hard rock sound literally decades ago. It’s a style that has been beaten to death, had its lifeless corpse attempted to be resuscitated several times, only to be put down again,...

36 Crazyfists – Brock Lindow One of the first things that strikes the listener when experiencing Lanterns, the newie from long-running Alaskan powerhouse 36 Crazyfists, especially when opener Death Eater explodes from the speakers, is the sheer anger...