Articles by Andrew Massie

DISPYRIA‘s long awaited third album “The Story Of Marion Dust” finally announces “OUT NOW”! Composer and mastermind Jürgen Walzer has pulled out all the stops for this album and brought with Zak Stevens (SAVATAGE), Ralf […]

Hailing from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in Canada, Odinfist are well known around the country for their distinctive brand of traditional heavy metal that is wrapped up in a fun-loving and energetic package. They’ve been around for […]

THE REVENANTS release the next single a few days after the release of their first song “Ghosts”. The journey leads to “Los Angeles“. The Stuttgart-based trio around “End Of Green” singer Michelle Darkness shows from […]

Step into “The Abstract“, the latest single from Melbourne heavy independants, Villa Morta. Recorded by Jamie Marinos (Pridelands, Inhibitor), mixed by George Lever (Sleep Token, Loathe) and mastered by Jens Bogren (Thornhill, Spiritbox, Monuments), Villa Morta’s latest offering demonstrates a step up in maturity and […]

The Melbourne-based sludgy death-metal project AGLO created by Aaron Osborne have recently shared another track off the new EP “Into The Maze“, which is scheduled for release on February 16th via Gutter Prince Cabal. The new song titled “Collector” is playing at No Clean Singing, who had this […]

The wait is finally over! Today Helsinki’s longest serving gothic rock vampires THE 69 EYES come out from their crypt announcing the new studio album titled »Death Of Darkness«. The record will see the light of the […]

LINKIN PARK will celebrate two decades of their GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum landmark sophomore LP, Meteora, with Meteora 20th Anniversary Edition, arriving on April 7, 2023. It will be available in various configurations, including a Limited […]

ENFORCER have returned with gigantic news! Four years after their last studio album Zenith, and two years after the release of their second live album Live By Fire II in 2021, the Swedes now announce their sixth studio […]

After releasing their latest record, Deceivers, last year to critical acclaim, extreme metal masters Arch Enemy have returned today with a new video for the album track, “Poisoned Arrow“. Produced by Mirko Witzki (Witzki Visions), […]

As the book The 100 Best Australian Albums highlighted, “The Angels can lay claim to being Australia’s longest-lasting band.” And when you’ve been around since 1974 and had 13 classic albums, the hardest part of […]

Robb Weir is never a man to take what he has for granted. Having led TYGERS OF PAN TANG since their first album through a number of line-up changes, he recognises that the current Tygers are probably the […]

Brisbane Emperor fans, you have demanded and we have heeded the call! Due to the overwhelming online response and the sheer volume of messages received from the metal hungry public of your city, Soundworks Direct […]

Spacegoat is thrilled to announce the release of their new single Earthquakes, available everywhere now. “Earthquakes is essentially an acknowledgement that sadness has its place and is as valid and useful as any of the […]

Melbourne progressive thrashers, Alarum are primed to deliver 5 action packed shows across Australia over the coming months. These are the bands first shows since their world acclaimed fourth album Circle’s End, was released in June […]

46 years after releasing their groundbreaking debut, “Damned Damned Damned”, UK music pioneers The Damned return with “DARKADELIC“, their first studio album since 2018’s UK top 10 “Evil Spirits”. It follows on the long dark coattails […]

The cards are well and truly in our favour in 2023, with Australian heavy weights In Hearts Wake revealing the Decade of Divination Tour, an extra-special run of shows this April and May celebrating the album that […]

To celebrate the one year anniversary of Korn‘s latest album, Requiem, the band releases a new five-song EP. A year ago, the band delivered one of the most unique performances of their career – a […]

Delivering a maelstrom of diamond-hard riffing wrapped around cinematic melodies, thunderous drumming and towering vocals, ARCH ENEMY are unstoppable and sound incredibly energized and they are headed back to Australia and New Zealand in February […]

“Lost in Paradise” is the fourth single from Melbourne death-doom metal band Tiger Driver and the accompanying track to their 2022 release, “Deceiver”. The lyrics tell the story of a land promised to be a paradise, only […]

2023 will mark the final chapter in the long history of Germany’s legendary Thrash Metal act HOLY MOSES, celebrated with the bands upcoming new studio album “Invisible Queen” (Release: April 14th, 2023) and a last run of live […]

KNOTFEST, the music and counterculture experience destination festival created by the multi-platinum sonic phenomenon SLIPKNOT will be making its Australian debut in March 2023. KNOTFEST AUSTRALIA has already sold out in Melbourne with Brisbane and Sydney […]

The bastard child of the 90’s punk, metal and hardcore movements, Darkest Hour combine the passion, energy and soul of punk & hardcore with the speed, vengeance and fury of melodic speed, thrash and death […]

In the faint light that separates dreams from reality, lies from truth and heaven from hell, lives the Acid Magus. Meditating, surrounded by darkness and light, energizing the air with electric anticipation. Come forward and […]

UK trio BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE are proud to announce their brand new album “Tempus Veritas“! The new offering will be released upon this earth on April 14, 2023 via Season of Mist. The band is […]