News
-
Blacken Open Air returns in April 2020.
Australia’s uniquely isolated open-air heavy metal festival, Blacken Open Air, held yearly in the dead centre of Australia will make its return for its eighth consecutive run. This year, the festival will be held at Ross River Resort, some...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Supports announced for Artillery Australian tour in February 2020.
A few weeks ago we announced the return of Churches of Steel to Adelaide. An annual one-day music festival dedicated to traditional and contemporary heavy metal music. The 2020 instalment will feature an exclusive performance by Danish thrash metallers...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Slayfest returns to Perth in March 2020 with grindcore kings, Carcass.
Slayfest, the long-running hard and heavy music festival based in Western Australia will return the Capital & Amplifier in Perth on Saturday, 28th March 2020. Headlining the festival will be grindcore kings, Carcass, who will also be performing at...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Download Festival Sideshows confirmed.
Live Nation Australia has confirmed sideshows to coincide with Download Festival in Australia next year. The sideshows include performances from Deftones, Ministry, In Flames, Testament and The Hu. Deftones Supported by Baroness Live Nation / Ticketmaster Presale: Wed 4th...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Download Festival Australia 2020 sideshows confirmed.
Download Festival Australia is fast approaching. While we still have three months to go until the festival kicks off, the presenters have included additonal sideshows to coincide with Download Festival in Melbourne and Sydney. The sideshows include performances from...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Wicked Smile, featuring ex-members of Black Majesty and Eyefear.
A new hard rock ensemble has emerged in Melbourne’s ever-expanding music scene. Wicked Smile, featuring Danny Cecati, ex-vocalist of Melbourne’s Eyefear and Steve Janevski, ex-guitarist of Melbourne’s Black Majesty. Both professionals in their respected fields of music have joined...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Grunge rock icons L7 touring Australia in May 2020.
Grunge rock legends, L7, have announced exclusive tour dates across Australia in May 2020. Following their 1992 breakthrough release ‘Bricks Are Heavy’, the band became one of the most highly regarded and sort after grunge rock ensembles of the...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Opeth Australian tour supports announced.
This December, Swedish progressive metal pioneers, Opeth, will return to Australia to perform a string of shows around the country to promote the band’s latest release In Cauda Venenum, available now via Nuclear Blast Records. David Roy William Entertainment,...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Tool announce additonal Melbourne show to meet overwhelming demand.
For those who were patiently waiting in the Ticketek / Frontier Touring pre-sale queue to purchase their tickets to see Tool in Australia, you would have noticed tickets were snagged up relatively quickly for the initial Melbourne show on...
- Posted 5 years ago
-
Lochlan Watt returns to Triple j’s ‘The Racket’ in January 2020.
Earlier this year, Lochlan Watt, host of Triple j’s ‘The Racket‘ had to undergo aggressive radiation chemotherapy to treat a diffuse grade III glioma after doctors discovered a tumour in Lochlan’s brain. After months of chemotherapy treatment, Lochlan has...
- Posted 5 years ago
Latest News
-
Pioneering Aussie metal drummer Matt ‘Skitz’ announces 2021 national tour.
One of Australia’s pioneering metal drummers, Matt ‘Skitz’ Sanders (Damaged,...
- Posted 4 years ago
- 0
-
Be’lakor tease new album studio updates.
Melbourne’s Progressive Death Metal masters, Be’lakor has recently dropped new...
- Posted 4 years ago
- 0
-
Psycroptic release details of upcoming EP “The Watcher Of All”.
Tasmanian death metal masters, Psycroptic have unveiled their latest single...
- Posted 4 years ago
- 0
-
Chaos Divine releases their brand new album ‘Legacies’.
Perth progressive metal masters, Choas Divine has released their long-awaited...
- Posted 4 years ago
- 0
-
Tyr and Arkona reschedule Australian tour dates for 2021.
Overdrive Touring, the crew behind the upcoming Týr and Arkona...
- Posted 4 years ago
- 0
Like us on Facebook
Album Reviews
-
El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
- Posted 4 years ago
-
Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a...
- Posted 4 years ago
-
Plini – Impulse Voices
The new album from Sydney instrumental guitar prodigy Plini...
- Posted 4 years ago
-
HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel
Ex-Kevelertak frontman Erlend Hjelvik is about to open the...
- Posted 4 years ago