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Metal Obsession @ Hellfest 2016, Clisson – Day 1

Images & Words: Prarthana Venunathan When you love metal and travel as much as I do, Hellfest is certainly the happiest place on Earth. From the moment you enter through the Gates of Hell (which ironically resembles the structure of...
- Posted 8 years ago
Brewtality Festival @ The Tote/Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne 06/08/2016

Words: Bailey Graham Images: Matt Allan (Click here to view the full gallery) It’s that time of year, the time where dozens of Australia’s premier hard rock and heavy metal acts gather around the infamous Bendigo and Tote hotels...
- Posted 8 years ago
Sweden Rock Festival @ Sölvesborg, Sweden (Part Two)

Click here to read Part One. Sweden Rock Festival (Part Two) June 8th – 11th Loudness are one of very few Japanese heavy rock bands to have made any kind of impact on a world scale. Their catchy hard...
- Posted 8 years ago
Sweden Rock Festival @ Sölvesborg, Sweden (Part One)

Sweden Rock Festival (Part One) June 8th – 11th For metal fans the world over the act of partaking in the journey to a European metal festival has long been seen as an act of pilgrimage, a rite of...
- Posted 8 years ago
Be’lakor, Hybrid Nightmares, Eye Of The Enemy & Hadal Maw @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne 23/07/2016

Words: Bailey Graham Images: Mark Hoffmann (Click here to view the full gallery) Deep within the inner suburbs of Melbourne, four of the finest death metal bands in the scene today were set to take over Richmond’s Corner Hotel; a...
- Posted 8 years ago
Steel Panther & Black Stone Cherry @ Festival Hall, Melbourne 18/06/2016

Words: Damo Musclecar Images: Matt Allan (Click here to view the full gallery) There are two things one can always expect at a Steel Panther show: seriously bitchin’ tunes and an abundance of naked female flesh and tonight delivered both. It’s like 1988 all over again...
- Posted 8 years ago
Primal Fear & Black Majesty @ Northcote Social Club, Melbourne 11/06/2016

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Luke Doddrell (Click here to view the full gallery) For the first time in their nigh-two decades long career, German heavy metal outfit Primal Fear have come to Australia. Though only short, with two dates...
- Posted 8 years ago
Fear Factory, Circles & Tensions Arise @ UNSW Roundhouse, Sydney 03/06/2016

Words & Images: Martin Michea (Click here to view the full gallery) Due to heavy Vivid traffic I arrive at the Roundhouse a bit later than expected on this very gloomy Friday evening. Turns out that didn’t matter too...
- Posted 8 years ago
Cherie Currie, Tequila Mockingbyrd & Wild Violet @ Corner Hotel, Melbourne 28/05/2016

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Carl Neumann (Click here to view the full gallery) To start off sounding as cheesy as possible, it was a freezing cold night in Melbourne last night but the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll was...
- Posted 8 years ago
Angelus Apatrida, Asylum, Lavidius & Kaustic Attack @ The Back Room, Brisbane 26/05/2016

Have you heard of Brisbane’s ‘The Back Room’? This is probably one of my favourite venues in this city, having come and watched local gigs aplenty in here. It honestly stacks up against some of the best venues in...
- Posted 8 years ago

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