Articles by Andrew Massie

US heavy rockers Soil are heading to Australia with Static-X this May in what will be their first tour down under in almost a decade. The band are set to perform tracks from their breakthrough […]

GRAMMY® Award-nominated SEVENDUST are back with the announcement of their 14th studio album Truth Killer, slated for worldwide release via the band’s new label, Napalm Records. Truth Killer is the follow-up to the band’s 2020 critically acclaimed release Blood & Stone that saw the band […]

Dedicated to the Musical Legacy of Morbid Angel. I AM MORBID, the band featuring former MORBID ANGEL members David Vincent (bass, vocals) and Pedro “Pete” Sandoval (drums) will Host  its “Morbidfest”   Australia Only Shows  in […]

The Southern River Band have well-earned their reputation as the future of modern Australian Rock ‘n’ Roll. Between electrifying passion in their nationally touring live show, a 2022 W.A.M. Rock Band of the Year award, loveable larrikin personalities […]

American shoegaze-meets-black-metal trailblazers DEAFHEAVEN have announced their most extensive Australian & New Zealand headline tour to date, scheduled for May & June 2023. Their first visit in over 4 years will see them play in […]

April 28, 2023 will see dark and extreme metal masters, GRAVEWORM, return with their brand new album, entitled Killing Innocence, through AFM Records. It’s the band’s first studio album in eight long years! Following previously-released first singles, “Dead […]

Chart-storming power metal warriors GLORYHAMMER are back and proudly announcing their highly anticipated upcoming fourth album, Return to the Kingdom of Fife, out June 2, 2023 via Napalm Records! Wasting no time, the band has released the epic […]

One of the most captivating bands in pagan metal, the adherents of heathen temple ARKONA, have finally announced the upcoming release of their eerie, captivating ninth studio album, Kob‘, out June 16, 2023 via Napalm Records. After […]

Aussie blackened sludge veterans Lo! have returned in 2023 bigger and better than ever. To celebrate the release of their highly anticipated new album The Gleaners out now via Pelagic Records, they announce a string of headline shows in June and July for The […]

LA-founded hard-rock hellraisers, L7 perform their landmark album ‘Bricks are Heavy’ in Full (Pretend We’re Dead, Shitlist, Wargasm, Everglade, Slide etc) L7 debut album came through Epitaph, run by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz. Their second album Smell the Magic […]

Groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER recently made their triumphant return with part two of their Dealing With Demons saga, their 10th full-length, Dealing With Demons Vol. II, out May 12, 2023 via Napalm Records. Once again produced and engineered by Steve Evetts with additional engineering […]

Australian fans of Texan prodigies Polyphia have made their presence known. The band’s upcoming tour in June has resulted in SOLD OUT shows in Sydney and Melbourne in little over a week and Brisbane is not too […]

The end is only beginning for Australia’s VOID OF VISION, announcing their Das Ende Australian Tour set to celebrate their completed CHONICLES EP series live in action this August with special guests LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES (USA), VARIALS (USA) and ANNALYNN (THAI). Kicking off at […]

LIGHT THE MATCH! Setting the scene ablaze, the rough and rowdy OVERKILL have reappeared to bludgeon your ears with their twentieth, that’s right, twentieth studio album: SCORCHED. For over 3 and a half decades their bottom line crazy […]

Fresh off winning Best Rock Album of the Year at the iHeart Radio Music Awards, Ghost announces the coming of PHANTOMIME, a five-song covers EP intended from the start to follow last year’s international chart-topping opus IMPERA. A diverse […]

Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records follows Brian Slagel’s critically acclaimed 2017 book, For the Sake of Heaviness, which delivered a compelling inside look at how a metal-obsessed California teen built […]

MISSION IN BLACK release the title track “Profit Reigns Supreme” from the upcoming album. In contrast to the first single “What Does It Take To Be Alive”, “Profit Reigns Supreme” is much darker and harder, […]

Roughly one year after releasing their latest album “To Hell Or Kingdom Come”, Danish Viking-inspired melodic metallers HEIDRA are back with a new video. “Cloaks And Daggers” – one of the most melodic death metal […]

The legend that is UDO Dirkschneider finally made his debut in Australia on Thursday night at The Manning Bar in Sydney performing classic Accept songs alongside original Accept bassist Peter Baltes. It was a long […]

In 2021, Danish heavy prog rock luminaries TIMECHILD entered the scene with a bang, operating an impressive mix of the right influences, raw talent, and an unusual bold personality for a new band. Now, “The Dying Tide […]

Welcome to the “Sabbath Of The Rat”. Armed with their most crushing lineup in ages, Danish cult extremists PANZERCHRIST release their first new music and official video in a decade. And the final result is a convincing […]

Industrial metal pioneers FEAR FACTORY have solidified their importance and have become champions of the Metal community. Today, the band is proud to announce that Re-Industrialized and Mechanize will be available as re-issues on June 23rd via Nuclear Blast Records. In celebration of […]

The Cup Of Pestilence, it spilleth over. So, it’s time to pour it out all over your gig-loving faces. Frenzal Rhomb release their tenth album tomorrow, and so it’s time to oil up the guitars, sharpen the […]

Australian doom merchants OCEANLORD have released the haunting new single, Come Home, taken from their forthcoming new album “Kingdom Cold“. Oceanlord’s Peter Willmott says of the track: “Come Home was written as a haunted tragedy, prompted by the thought that if ‘Home […]