Articles by Michael Lueders

In August was released a new compilation from the hellish guys from the MAYHEMIC. The compilation is named “The Darkest Age”. To the chagrin of the band’s fans, this release has become nothing more than […]

Well, listen, friends, “Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions ”  from Inanna is a fucking cool album! The guys have 20 years of fruitful creativity and musical mastery behind them. If someone else was not aware, […]

Dan Brooklyn (or Daan van Breukelen) is a solo Dutch artist who brought out his debut album, The Great Beast, on December 1st. The album follows the life and teachings of one of the more […]

Seeing only seven songs on an album can feel a little short. Then you check out the track listing and realise you are in 7 songs of epic mastery from progressive blackened death metal band […]

Taking their name from the Indian deity of Destruction, Singapore’s underground legends Rudra returns with their tenth full-length album.  Throughout their career, Rudra has never been content with simplistic notions, and Eight Mahavidyas is a […]

Greek Extreme metal stalwarts, the mighty Rotting Christ, have dropped a collection of rare unreleased tracks and covers for the fan for the first time on digital. These are not new recordings but the originals […]

Melbourne’s BLACK LAVA has unleashed a furious debut offering within a year of their formation. Soul Furnace featuring members from HADAL MAW, NE OBLIVISCARIS and BLACKHELM, is a truly brutal offering, and the calibre of […]

Led by Julius Mite, Veliu Namai invites you to experience the Baltics’ mystical world- to feel its ancient past’s sacredness. Alkai represents the tapestry and musical emotions woven into a ritualistic tapestry of dark folk, […]

Project 34 is a completely immersive experience that chronicles the life of man over 19 tracks. Based In Australia, it is a project that involves over 30 musicians and styles from every part of the […]

The album begins with the title track Overgivenheten a foray of acoustic guitars and other fretted instruments like the banjo and mandolin. It slides guitar, which is accompanied slowly by orchestral keys with a beautiful […]

Riverstage Brisbane hosted all time 90’s punkrock bands Sum 41 and The Offspring during their Australian tour. It was my first time seeing them live and I was certainly not disappointed. Sum 41 got everyone […]

Tides is the debut release by San Francisco’s melodic metalcore outfit, Swept to Sea. It’s an ABSOLUTE BANGER. Released on the 2nd of December via Eclipse Records, there’s a lot of promise from this band […]

Hailing from Nortallje, northeast of Stockholm. Fredlös is a new outfit that will release its self-titled debut album at the beginning of 2023. Liv Hope’s vocals are quite frankly incredible. online pharmacy http://www.suncoastseminars.com/assets/png/xifaxan.html no prescription […]

Slovakian Metal Band Ramchat unveil their latest masterwork, the mighty Krveľ, their fifth release in as many years that further cement their status as an unpredictable force of nature within extreme music. From the opener […]

Liverpool (UK) Omega Throne follow up their debut release, In Loving Memory of Humankind, with their new EP, ‘’There’s No Hatred as Great as Dictator’s Love-Prelude to Empire,’’ A massive slab of old school death […]

More good things at Brisbane’s The Triffid with Sleeping With Sirens, The Beautiful Monument, Bad/Love bringing a bit of the Good Things Festival sideshow action on Tuesday night. Live music is well and truly back […]

Sicily’s Sirrush stunned the underground with their debut Ep the Era of Išhtar in 2011 and have been silent ever since. The trio returned 11 long years later with Molon Labe.  A conceptual offering that […]

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 […]

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). […]