Year: 2022

Formed in 2010 Hungarian duo Vocalist/guitarist Roland Neubauer and keyboardist Karola Gere is the essence of WitcheR. An Act that is unafraid to pursue, challenge and entrap the listener with its haunting yet eloquent atmospheric […]

Well, it was time again for Good Things, Australia’s new heavy festival. And what a time it was, especially after years of concerts cancelling and postponing. Everyone was just glad to finally get back into […]

Aptly titled after the German warhead. Singapore’s mysterious Sprengkopf unleashes a debut album of hateful blackened thrash on an unsuspecting world. Gloriously old school and full of the vitriolic hate that dominated the eighties, from […]

Melbourne hard rockers HZED have released a new single “You Know“, the follow up single to the previously released track Point of View. Vocalist Michelle says about the song: “Its about looking from the outside of someone else mental […]

One of Australia’s most enduring bands, Boom Crash Opera, return with a national tour – Bettadaze – in June 2023. After a long hiatus Dale Ryder, Peter Farnan, Peter ‘Maz’  Maslen and John Favaro are […]

BEYOND THE BLACK release their fourth and last single ‘Dancing In The Dark‘, before the album drops on January 13th. With ‘Dancing In The Dark’, the band delivers the perfect anthem to leave the past behind and welcome […]

Raised on a diet of Marshall stacks, Gibson Guitars, Jack Daniels and weed, NASHVILLE PUSSY is the bastard offspring of foul-mouthed, demented, hillbilly, ice-cream man Blaine Cartwright and tractor driving, nude art school model, guitar prodigy Ruyter Suys. Born deep […]

With eleven full-length records under their belts, Swedish melancholic metal masters KATATONIA don’t need to prove anything to anyone. Yet, it comes as no surprise that the band is about to impressively solidify their unique stance in […]

After one of the busiest weekends on Adelaide’s social calendar since covid which included several gigs, and the V8 Supercars, I was pleasantly surprised to arrive at the iconic Lions Arts Factory to a large […]

Airstrike is a heavy metal band from Poland formed in 2014, releasing its debut album ‘Power In Your Hand’ in 2022. Featuring eleven songs of heavy metal with a strong thrash leaning, the debut album […]

Freternia is a power metal band from Sweden formed in 1998, releasing two albums in quick succession – ‘Warchants & Fairytales’ (2000) and ‘A Nightmare Story’ (2002) – and then disappearing from the limelight for […]

It’s been a long time since I dusted off the camera and got back into shooting gigs. What a blessing I got on Friday night deep in the darkness of the Crown and Anchor (Adelaide). […]

It’s a beautiful sunny day in Sydney as the various tribes descend on Centennial Park for the first Good Things since Parkway Drive set the place ablaze back in 2019. Watching the punters file in, […]

Australian hard rock outfit Mammoth Mammoth have released new double A-side singles ‘Sittin Pretty (Live)‘ and ‘Love Gun (Live)‘ via Golden Robot Records. The release of this double A-side marks the first release for the band since 2019 and […]

Medusa Touch is a heavy metal band from the UK formed in the early eighties just as the burgeoning NWOBHM movement was beginning to take over the world. Dogged by numerous line-up changes during their […]

Legions Of The Night are a power metal band from Germany formed in 2020, releasing their debut album ‘Sorrow Is The Cure’ in 2021 and sophomore album ‘Hell’ in 2022… …maintaining an incredible five-decade line […]

Stryper is a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 1983, releasing fourteen albums across a four-decade career, which includes a ten-year hiatus between 1993 and 2003. The band are regarded as pioneers of […]

Mantric Momentum is a heavy metal band from Norway formed in 2011 by multi-instrumentalist Christer Haroy. The band’s debut album ‘Trial By Fire’ was released in 2022… …featuring Terje Haroy (Pyramaze) – Christer’s cousin – […]

Leatherwolf is a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 1981, releasing three albums – ‘Leatherwolf’ (1984), ‘Leatherwolf’ (1987), and ‘Street Ready’ (1989) – before splitting up. Reforming ten years later in 1999, the […]

Incursion is a heavy metal band from the USA, formed during the early eighties by bass player Maxx Havick and guitarist Michael Lashinsky. The band released one demo before going on hiatus for three decades […]

NE OBLIVISCARIS are proud to announce a new European tour, together with PERSEFONE! The trek will kick off their ‘Exul’ EU/UK tour at the Tavastia venue in Helsinki (FI) on May 5 and sees the […]

Today, the new era of progressive power metal highflyers INDUCTION officially begins! The band’s sophomore full-length album, »Born From Fire« is out now via Atomic Fire Records and is filled with 12 progressive symphonic metal anthems and catchy earworms, mixed and […]

Long-running South American metallers CULTURA TRES are back with a bang! Finally, the brothers Alejandro and Juanma Montoya break the silence announcing the new album “Camino De Brujos” due for release on April 7th 2023 […]

Fresh Melbourne hardcore outfit HEAVENSGATE release their furious sophomore single “SHEMOVESLIKETHUNDER” via Greyscale Records in partnership with 1126 Records. “SHEMOVESLIKETHUNDER” is the second single to be released by the band following their visceral debut “CHEMICAL HEAVEN”. The track is a personal song written in reflection of a past relationship. Binding hard hitting drums and aggressive […]