Abbath, Ruins & Hybrid Nightmares @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 17/10/2015

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Abbath, Ruins & Hybrid Nightmares @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 17/10/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Mark Hoffmann (Click here to view the full gallery) Here was a show I was most looking forward to. It was the final night of Abbath’s exclusive east coast Australian tour and I am most...
- Posted 9 years ago
Helloween, Dark Symphonica & The Stranger @ Max Watt’s, Brisbane 17/10/2015

Words: Jake Patton Images: Rebecca Reid (Click here to view the full gallery) I’ll let you in on a little secret, I’m a closet Power Metal fan. Maybe it’s the fantasy nerd in me, maybe it’s the anthemic nature...
- Posted 9 years ago
Thy Art Is Murder, Aversions Crown, Feed Her To The Sharks & Colossvs @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne 16/10/2015

Sauntering on to the stage with little fanfare, Colossvs spent their entire set straddle between DYI hardcore and theatrical black metal. Having seen them on fucking heaps of tours lately I’m glad tonight they got the mix they’ve needed. Even as openers, the...
- Posted 9 years ago
TesseracT, Caligula’s Horse & Plini @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 16/10/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Mark Hoffmann (Click here to view the full gallery) Taking place at Max Watt’s House of Music (formerly the Hi-Fi Bar), Melbourne, I was both intrigued and excited for what was on show tonight. The...
- Posted 9 years ago
Abbath, Ruins & Vyrion @ Max Watt’s, Brisbane 15/10/2015

Words: Jake Patton Images: Rebecca Reid (Click here to view the full gallery) Black metal is not a genre I profess to be an expert on, it is something that I only dabble in and enjoy in bits and...
- Posted 9 years ago
Helloween, Damnations Day & Horizons Edge @ 170 Russell, Melbourne 14/10/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Matt Allan (Click here to view the full gallery) It’s been three decades now since Germany’s Helloween first came to be in the city of Hamburg. With 2015 marking the band’s 30th anniversary, the German metallers who...
- Posted 9 years ago
TesseracT, Plini & Caligula’s Horse @ The Zoo, Brisbane 14/10/2015

It’s been some time since I have arrived bright and early to a show to wait on the street for half an hour or so to get in, not that I ever intentionally miss any openers but this was...
- Posted 9 years ago
HammerFall, Elm Street & Taberah @ 170 Russell, Melbourne 13/10/2015

Images: Matt Allan Words: Jonathon Besanko HammerFall are a band that hold a special place in my heart in terms of their music, the ever-positive attitudes of its band members (both on and off stage), and just how fun...
- Posted 9 years ago
KISS @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 08/10/2015

Images & Words: John Raptis Click here to view the full gallery. It finally happened. It finally came to pass. The stars aligned. The heavens parted. The Earth shook! Oh boy did it! After almost 10 years of being a...
- Posted 9 years ago
Behemoth, Watain & Bölzer @ 170 Russell, Melbourne 04/10/2015

Images: Rebecca Houlden Words: Mitch Alexander Click here to view the full gallery. It’s not often that a band has my jaw literally agape, gawking like a moron at their sound, musicianship, passion and fury, totally unable to comprehend...
- Posted 9 years ago

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Abbath, Ruins & Hybrid Nightmares @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 17/10/2015

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