Articles by Andrew Massie

The Amity Affliction return with their first new music of the year, leaning into their heavier side with the new single “Show Me Your God“. “‘Show Me Your God’ is the first song of our first self-produced […]

Time flies! Looking back at the last year, vicious thrash metal legends DESTRUCTION saw many successes, celebrating their 40th anniversary with the release of their impressive latest full-length record, Diabolical. Catapulting you straight into the seventh heaven of metallic […]

2 of Perth’s Legendary 1990’s Perth bands will come together on stage for the first time in over 25 years! Recently reformed Vanadium B.C. will bring their Thrash influenced Pure Australian Metal for a limited […]

“Ignis” is the first digital single and video of what’s to be Danish band Lotan‘s debut full-length album and is a midtempo black’n’roll sledgehammer. The song is a comment on the world of chaos that […]

Currently on tour in Europe with Powerwolf and Warkings, DragonForce has dropped a new video today for fans, as a special holiday surprise! Inspired by Skyrim, the epic clip for “The Last Dragonborn” can be […]

Psych rockers Earthless have announced their return to Australia in March 2023. Formed in 2001 in San Diego and citing Japanese psych bands like Blues Creation, and Krautrock bands like Amon Düül II as early inspiration, Earthless have risen to the top of the hard […]

Metallica has confirmed the title and release date of its forthcoming 12th studio album: “72 Seasons” will be available April 14, 2023 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with Metallica’s James […]

Public Sales for the eleventh voyage of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, will start Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 12PM EST (9AM PST, 18:00 CET and respectively 17:00 GMT). Round 11 will sail […]

If ever a tour was not to be slept on, it’s the exciting announcement today that the UK underground entity known only as Sleep Token will return down under in 2023, with five Australian headline shows locked […]

For the upcoming NASHVILLE PUSSY Australian shows, some of Australia’s Hard Rock Elite have been added to the local bills. Get in early, you don’t want miss out on some of the finest local talent, world class […]

“Weird Al” Yankovic burst onto the scene over four decades ago and never looked back. Making his first concert excursion across international waters in over eight years, the world’s foremost musical satirist and five-time Grammy-winner […]

When it comes to groundbreaking bands in the Christian hard-rock genre, STRYPER is renowned for its distinctive brand of “heavenly metal,” extraordinary crossover success, with both Grammy nominations and Dove Awards to their name, and their venerable […]

Swedish hard rock act Horse Of Troja have released a video for their track “Leaving” which can be seen below. Reminiscent of classic acts such as Rainbow and hints of Ritchie Blackmore, Horse Of Troja […]

UK-based heavy metal band, Graphic Nature, have announced their highly anticipated debut album ‘a mind waiting to die‘, which will be released on February 17, 2023, via Rude Records. The band has released a new single and […]

Brisbane 5 piece metal band Depuration have released their latest single and video for the track “Refuse To Rest“. The track follows the release of their debut EP “Dissolution” which Metal-Roos stated in their review “…is a […]

Australian theatrical glam rockers CROSSON have shown their tongue- in cheek side with the release of their new video and single ‘Stop Pretending That You Love Me‘.  With it’s ‘catchy as chlamydia’ chorus, this song […]

Next week, Caliban will hit the road across Germany with labelmates GHØSTKID, plus Resolve and League Of Distortion, for a special run of shows (see below for dates). To celebrate this upcoming tour kickoff, the […]

Black Lava was founded by drummer Dan Presland (Vipassi, A Million Dead Birds Laughing, ex-Ne Obliviscaris) and guitarist Ben Boyle (Vipassi, AMDBL, Hadal Maw). They draw influence from old school death and black metal bands […]

Bergen visionaries Enslaved are proud to announce their 16th studio album, Heimdal, set to be released on March 3rd 2023, via Nuclear Blast Records. Today’s news is accompanied by the release of a blistering new single, titled ‘Congelia‘, alongside an emotive, […]

Only 8 more sleeps until Good Things Festival will be here igniting the mosh pits along the east coast of Australia. Headlined by one of the world’s most electrifying and successful rock bands BRING ME THE HORIZON, the stacked line-up […]

Over the course of their career, which commenced in 1997, genre bending punk, rasta, soul gangsta rockers, HED PE have remained constant with relentless touring and a genuinely unifying live show bringing together fans of the multiple […]

Polish heavy metal act Airstrike has unleashed their debut album, available on CD and all major streaming platforms! Titled “Power in Your Hand“, the new release features  11 tracks of classic heavy thrash tunes that […]

Brisbane metal outfit Zagtar are something of an enigma. Despite doing the rounds since 2016, the band have only released one E.P – Deadly Curse – in 2017 and played only a handful of live […]

Metz, France’s technical/progressive death metal quartet CATALYST today delivers another new video in the form of the title track from their recently released second LP, A Different Painting For A New World, out now on Non Serviam Records. […]