Articles
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Mitch Booth’s Not-So-Unexpected Best Of 2012 List(s)
2012 has been a ridiculously good year. I’ve been working on this list for days now; flicking through my music collection, adding and removing bands over and over again. In fact, they started as top 10’s, but it simply...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Lachlan Dale’s best albums of 2012
This year I found much music to inspire me and compel me onward.
- Posted 12 years ago
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Patrick Emmett’s Top 10 Australian Releases of 2012
It’s that time of the year where you can’t really expect anything new to be released, and you think to yourself… “What have the best releases of 2012 been?” I have listened to as much as I can this...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Face the Music – Music Industry Conference
Face The Music – The Art Centre, Melbourne – Friday, 16th November Needless to say I was excited to be attending this year’s Face the Music conference. With guest speakers such as; Michael Chugg, AJ Maddah, Luke Loggeman, Edwin Tehrani...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Brace Yourselves… Change is Coming
You may have noticed that we’ve been a tad slower than usual on the news front lately (with the exception of the past 48 hours where we’ve been playing catch-up). That’s because there’s a whole lot of cool things...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Wacken Open Air @ Wacken, Germany 02 – 04.08.2012
This was my fourth Wacken Open Air Festival. Three days of some of the biggest, loudest bands on the planet. Three days of sweat. Three days of black t-shirts. Three days of bad food (actually, the food was great!)....
- Posted 12 years ago
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Metal Obsession in Europe 2012
It's that time of year again for excessive head banging, drinking and partying til all hours of the morning.
- Posted 13 years ago
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Metal Obsession’s YouTube channel: Interviews, music and live footage!
Metal Obsession has had a YouTube channel since the website was made in 2008, but it’s never really been used much until the start of this year. On our YouTube channel, we take footage of bands live, do video...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Five fantastic free local releases you should have, the third
It’s about time we did another one of these, hey? Wolfe – I A fairly full-on assault of harsh, blackened grind out of Melbourne. This is only a demo, and a cassette rip at that (which is why it’s...
- Posted 13 years ago
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11 important things that every band should or shouldn’t do
It’s amazing how many simple things bands and/or band members do wrong, especially when it comes to internet presence. As somebody who spends more or less every spare minute watching band’s online profiles, replying to emails, or trying to...
- Posted 13 years ago
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Album Reviews
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El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
- Posted 4 years ago
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Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a...
- Posted 4 years ago
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Plini – Impulse Voices
The new album from Sydney instrumental guitar prodigy Plini...
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HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel
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