GIG REVIEWS

Its fairly criminal that The Manning bar is probably only about half-full when Nunchukka Superfly saunter onstage, but they don’t give a hoot as they crank into their first offering, a rolling lumbering beast called […]

The Manning Bar’s usual trick of opening the doors just as the first band starts, means that the Plague are already playing as we climb the stairs. What sounds like the dying screams of a […]

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 […]

For the first time since 2019 (thanks, Covid), These Four Walls are headlining a series of shows in New Zealand and Queensland! Since their last time out, the band have released their critically acclaimed 3rd […]

After a whirlwind tour across the country, melodo-death masters Arch Enemy returned to Perth on Sunday night to close out a mega successful tour and an obvious indication the band are certainly spreading their wings […]

A festival like no other, The Other Festival returned this weekend, bringing all of the rock, riffs and rollicking good times to The Tivoli in Brisbane on Saturday. Following its inaugural event in 2021, The Other Festival has […]

Glam Fest 2023 is finally upon us. It seems pretty appropriate, given most of these bands are from Hollywood CA, and the music from that late 80’s Hollywood scene never fails to remind me of summer, […]

Brash, unashamed, loud and in your face, GLAM FEST is here Australia. Catering to fans of throwback glam metal (think ‘80s era Sunset strip), sleaze, shock rock, hard rock and everything in between, GLAM FEST offers fans of the […]

Far beyond legendary and a living monument to fearless creativity, MAYHEM have cast an icy shadow across the world of heavy music for nearly four decades. Subversive students of the metal underground from the start, MAYHEM single-handedly pioneered a […]

Sci-fi electro rockers Powerman 5000 finally made it down under this past week after an almost 3 year delay due to the pandemic. Originally slated in 2020, it was a huge relief for many fans […]

Australia’s premier extreme metal merchants Thy Art Is Murder have been plowing through Australia this past week celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their landmark album, Hate, with their biggest tour yet featuring a stellar line-up […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Fresh from releasing their chart-topping 2021 album ‘Fortitude’, French progressive metal behemoths GOJIRA unleashed all the earth-shattering polyrhythms, blast beats and thought-provoking thematics fans have come to know and love on Australian soil on Tuesday […]

Witchskull returned to The Basement on Friday 25 November with Melbourne’s finest exponents of brutal, primitive, thrash metalpunk REAPER, and Sydney’s one-man, master of electro industrial punk and synth crust, Schkeuditzer Kreuz. With album number […]

Pirate metal favorites Alestorm continued their Australia tour in Sydney on Thursday night with support from Valhalore and Evocatus. Snaps below courtesy of Daniel Millhouse.   ALESTORM [su_custom_gallery source=”media: 25106,25105,25104,25103,25102,25101,25100,25099,25098,25096,25094,25093,25092,25091,25090,25089″ limit=”50″ link=”lightbox” width=”80″ height=”80″ title=”never”] […]

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO FROTH! WE SALUTE YOU! The hangover from the inaugural Forth & Fury Fest 2021- a huge sold out weekend full of heavy, alternative, underground music and beer at Pirate Life Brewing […]

Lookout Australia, ALESTORM cannonball a long overdue return to P.A.R.T.Y.! Come to Australia we asked and come to Australia they did, for what will be hot on the hooks of the release of their seventh […]

BRUTEFEST 2022 – Where all extremities find their way home.. A day of heavy on heavy music approaches with blast beats, dark dissonance and howls from the roof of Crowbar Sydney on Saturday November 12th. […]

Influenced by the death metal legends of the late 80’s and early 90’s, Californian Death Metal Aggressors SKELETAL REMAINS have been inspired by the likes of Pestilence, early Gorguts, Death, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Sepultura, Disincarnate, […]