Year: 2020

6 February 2020 at The Basement Denmark’s ARTILLERY are easily appointed as one of Europe’s earliest exponents of thrash metal, and the band’s contribution to the classic genre is difficult to ignore. Delivering a sinister […]

8 February 2020 at Westside Massive The City Of Churches delivered Adelaide’s premier Thrash Metal Festival Churches Of Steel for the fourth time on Saturday. It was an amazing event held at the ever-popular Westside […]

Australian thrash metallers Warrior Within released their second EP In Light Act II on 8 February 2020. The EP follows their first act EP In Darkness Act I. The EP can be ordered via Bandcamp. […]

9 February 2020 at The Tivoli Brisbane’s beautiful heritage Tivoli Theatre was the backdrop for tonight’s entertainment & as always the atmosphere from the building alone makes the concert even more enticing.  Upon entering the […]

8 February 2020 at The Crowbar At the new Crowbar (indoors at the Brightside) we hide in a sold out crowd away from the rain that we have been wishing for months. Beginning the evening […]

The age of “Quadra” has begun: The Brazilian thrash metal masters SEPULTURA release their new gem today and mark the occasion with a stunning music video for their new single “Means To An End”. Guitarist […]

LAMB OF GOD has revealed a brand new single and video, ‘Checkmate’, from the band’s first release in five years and the first to feature new drummer Art Cruz. The self-titled “Lamb Of God” is due out […]

[Credit: Stefan Heilemann] CREMATORY remains Unbroken – a somber ode to transience, love and pain Prepare for an electrifying synergy of industrial harshness and dimness: German pioneers of European gothic metal, CREMATORY, have released their new single, “Unbroken”, off of their upcoming […]

After an incredibly successful 2019 that saw the band tour North America as well as Europe (the latter even twice) and release their worldwide charting new album, Macro, Ukrainian modern metal frontrunners JINJER return with […]

God Dethroned have unleashed their new album, Illuminati, via Metal Blade Records.  For a preview of Illuminati, a video for the new single “Book of Lies” (the third of three interconnected short movies) can be viewed at:  God Dethroned guitarist/vocalist Henri Sattler comments: “‘Illuminati’ is out […]

Photo credit: Alex Morgan Last March, Whitechapel released their 7th full-length, The Valley, to critical acclaim, and toured the world in support of it. Today, the band has released three live videos, featuring tracks from The Valley Check out “Forgiveness Is Weakness”, […]

The cold fingers of “The Ghost Of Orion” reach out for the world to wrap it in desperate misery, heavy melodies and hopeless misery: MY DYING BRIDE release their new album on March 6th via […]

Photo Credit: Stephen JensenL to R: Zoltan Bathory, Ivan Moody, Jason Hook, Charlie Engen, Chris Kael Record-breaking rock juggernaut FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are gearing up for the release of their highly anticipated 8th studio album, F8.  To celebrate […]

When Finnish sextet NIGHTWISH announce a new studio album people tend to take notice. They know that something special is brewing. The band’s new and ninth record “HUMAN. :II: NATURE.” will be released on 10th […]

On April 17, The Black Dahlia Murder will release their new album, Verminous, via Metal Blade Records.  For a preview of Verminous, a lyric video for the title track can be seen at: Verminous is The Black Dahlia Murder‘s most dynamic, rousing and […]

Australian blackened death metal outfit EARTH ROT are now unveiling the second track of their upcoming opus ‘Black Tides of Obscurity’, which will be released on March 06, 2020 via Season of Mist. The music video for […]

Thrash metal outfit INSANITY ALERT are now releasing a new live video for the song “A Skullcrushin’ Good Time”, taken from the band’s latest album ‘666-pack’. The video was recorded at Hellfest in France on […]

So it’s my pleasure to introduce to you an Adelaide based band that, up to the point of which I was asked to review their latest recording, I had never heard of. Formed in 2010 […]

5 February 2020 at Lion Arts Factory Corrosion of Conformity in their first show of the tour in Adelaide with Emergency Rule. Line-up: Corrosion of Conformity, Emergency RulePhotocredits: Lisa Vincent Photography

Australian thrash metallers Warrior Within are about to release their second EP In Light Act II this week on Saturday 8 February 2020. The EP follows In Darkness Act, released on 12 May 2018. In […]

Aftermath by Greek Melodic Death Metal band Exomnia was released on 19 September 2019. The band went on a promotional tour with four shows, two in Romania along with the Romanian death metallers Saddayah and […]

DREAM THEATER, twice Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans, are thrilled to announce their April 2020 Australian leg of their most recent “Evening With” touring cycle; featuring a celebration of the band’s latest record, Distance […]

Venezuelan metallers Sick Feel announced that in this year their new album will be released, which album name is called “Chapters of Hate”, it will be released althought in physical and in digital format.  “With […]

ALTARIA, the melodic metal legends from Finland, are back. The band celebrates its resurrection with a new edition of the successful album “Divinity” from 2004, which has been remastered and will be released on vinyl […]