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  • Lamb of God & Meshuggah @ Festival Hall, Melbourne 22/09/2013

    Click here to view full photo gallery. Excluding the festivals that they have been a part of, America’s groove metal giants Lamb of God and Sweden’s extreme metal masters Meshuggah had never toured together. No one would have thought...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Parkway Drive & Confession @ Palace Theatre, Melbourne 22/09/2013

    Images by: Callum Broom Words: Jonty Simmons Click here to view full gallery. It’s official. Parkway Drive haven’t lost any energy since they exploded onto the live scene from a town worlds away from the crushing metal only Parkway...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Hell on the Bay @ Docklands, Melbourne 07/09/2013

    What happens when you get 250 metalheads and stick them on a boat with a couple of great metal bands, and heaps of alcohol? You get Hell on the Bay. An idea conceived by Brimstone Bookings, one of Melbourne’s...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Summer Breeze Open Air @ Dinkelsbühl, Germany 15 – 17/08/2013

    Summer Breeze Open Air is fast becoming one of the biggest and best metal festivals in Bavaria. The festival takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, a small town 100km from Nuremberg. The festival is easily accessible via various major cities...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • The 2013 Festival Review

    So, after months of procrastinating – don’t worry, I’m a professional – here’s my review of the four European metal festivals I attended in 2013. Masters of Rock: The Smokey Festival Metal Days: The Pretty Festival Wacken: The Largest...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Wacken Open Air 2013 @ Wacken, Germany 01 – 03/08/2013

    Click here to view Wacken’s full 2013 gallery. Wacken Open Air, the mecca of heavy metal celebrates its 24th anniversary this year on the holy grounds of Wacken, a small town nestled in the northern regions of Hamburg, Germany....

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Saint Vitus, Monarch, Clagg @ Hifi Bar, July 20th 2013

    A typical Melbourne winters night played host to what was looking to be a less than expected HI Fi Bar crowd during Melbourne sludge veterans Clagg. The five piece presented their doom with a monolithic stage presence amidst the...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Fear Factory & Twelve Foot Ninja @ The Palace, Melbourne 07/07/2013

    Photos: John Raptis (www.visceralindustry.com) Words: Nick Tevelis Click here to view the full gallery. Eighteen years after its original release, “Demanufacture” is still considered the album that really defined industrial metal and established Fear Factory as one of the...

    • Posted 11 years ago

  • Cradle of Filth, Advent Sorrow, Claim The Throne @ Metropolis, Perth 12/05/2013

    For a Sunday evening, Metropolis in Fremantle was alive. The bloodstock of youthful and mature metal heads lined up on the side pavements like junior scholars waiting for the recess bell except these folks were anticipating a show. Not...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Beastwars; one of the best things New Zealand has ever produced

    If you read our review of Blood Becomes Fire, the second full length from New Zealand’s Beastwars, and pay any attention to our Facebook account, you probably will have gathered that we were all pretty excited about them hitting Australia for the first...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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