Blind Guardian, Divine Ascension & Taberah @ The HiFi (Max Watts), Sydney 20/06/15

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Blind Guardian, Divine Ascension & Taberah @ The HiFi (Max Watts), Sydney 20/06/15

Words: Lilen Pautasso Images: Michael Goddard (Click here to view the full gallery) As with a lot of power metal shows, there are unique moments where you feel like you could transcend the confines of reality and be transported...
- Posted 9 years ago
Blind Guardian, Divine Ascension & Bane Of Winterstorm @ The HiFi, Melbourne 19/06/2015

Tonight was a very special evening for me for a number of reasons. For a start, I have loved the music of Blind Guardian ever since a friend of mine first introduced me to them in my early high...
- Posted 9 years ago
Yngwie J. Malmsteen @ The Tivoli, Brisbane 11/06/2015

Words: Jake Patton Images: Amanda Brenchley Click here to view the full gallery There are many reasons that musicians decide to take up the guitar, whether that be for enjoyment, creativity, to play in a band – or even...
- Posted 9 years ago
Yngwie J. Malmsteen @ 170 Russell, Melbourne 10/06/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Cameron Stewart Click here to view the full gallery Yngwie Malmsteen, the Swedish guitar virtuoso, is someone who seems to set fans and spectators into one of two categories: people either laud him or they...
- Posted 9 years ago
The Morgue Presents ‘Metal Asylum #4′ @ The Evelyn Hotel, Melbourne 06/06/2015

With the long weekend well under way, I found myself heading to the Evelyn Hotel last night for an array of heavy metal goodness. It was my second time having the pleasure to catch ‘Metal Asylum’, having reviewed the...
- Posted 9 years ago
Voyager, Klone, Mish & Dawn Heist @ The Factory Floor, Sydney 23/05/2015

It’s almost a feeling of déjà vu at the Factory Theatre this Saturday. Voyager are playing at the Factory Floor again, almost 10 months since their last show at this venue. The release party for V back in July...
- Posted 10 years ago
The Haunted, Insomnium & Orpheus Omega @ The HiFi, Melbourne 15/05/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Ben Gunzburg I’m going to preface this by saying that this following review is written simply going off my memory. I wrote this review as a favour to one of my Metal Obsession co-workers, so if...
- Posted 10 years ago
The Haunted, Insomnium & In Death @ The HiFi, Brisbane 14/05/2015

Words: Jake Patton Images: Amanda Brenchley The ‘Scandinavian Metal Storm’. The name conjures up images of a blistering blizzard set in a luscious forest or open green plains with a few bands playing a mighty show against the elements....
- Posted 10 years ago
Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper & Muscle Car @ Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 12/05/2015

Words: Jonathon Besanko Images: Matt Allan Twilight blossoms over the foggy horizon on what is one of Melbourne’s coldest nights in a while. I have the onset stages of a cold, I’m rugged up like an eskimo, and I’m...
- Posted 10 years ago
Inferno Metal Festival 2015 @ Oslo, Norway – Day 2

Images: Imanuel d’Anjou Words: Prarthana Venunathan The best thing about most European festivals especially Inferno is that it doesn’t just stop with one day of ear-drum obliterating madness. No. It’s four days. For any metal head, those four days...
- Posted 10 years ago

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Blind Guardian, Divine Ascension & Taberah @ The HiFi (Max Watts), Sydney 20/06/15

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