REVIEWS

Think about walking down a giant water pipe. You hear faint water droplets in the distance, echoing through the long seemingly endless pipe with the whispers of rats, so used to the environment, they are […]

Wolfheart, originally birthed as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Saukkonen, shortly after became a full band by 2014. COVID may have pulled out the stop signs on their planned 2020 tour, but it was […]

Ouroboric’s album release Dead-boy: Zero is a scream into the dark; a lashing out at an uncaring system; a playful look at the issues in this life, and I must say, I enjoyed the journey. […]

The progressive metal and rock scene within Australia are growing more than ever before. Bands signing with internationally recognised labels, successful albums each year from different bands, and new bands uprising and coming to the […]

Today I have reviewing Operating in Unsafe Mode by Figures, and goddamn, this album scratched a fantastic-90s-based itch for me. This album is Melbourne’s answer to the question of what if 90s-alternative-metal and my-forty-year-old-insatiable-appetite-for-Rage-Against-The-Machine opened […]

In this sun-bleached land of Australia, it has long been a tradition here, that due to the tyranny of distance we have made our own unique sound. In all forms of music, it is very […]

Who’s feeling thrashy? Wanting to just wreck your neck? Wartooth will take you on a journey to quench your requirements with their album ‘Programmed Dichotomy’. You better be strapped in and ready to ride this […]

‘Pentafixion’ is the latest release by Cuban black metal outfit – Mephisto. Featuring a very tight and well-produced sound, this latest offering takes a lot of the various elements and styles within the genre and […]

Having reviewed the Tygers latest studio album here on this very page not that long ago, It’s a good feeling to be reviewing yet another. This time a compilation album, now there are two camps […]

Aetherial is a death metal duo from Melbourne, Australia. In late 2020 they released an 8 track album titled “Nameless Horrors” which the band describe as “album is a collection of spells and stories outlining […]

This four-piece Sydney Progressive Metal band set forth unto the studio to record their first full album. buy xenical online https://cnei.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/png/xenical.html no prescription pharmacy After years of touring and preparing for their big moment, what […]

After releasing the very successful debut EP ‘Ad Astra’ (which has now at the time of writing, amassed 200,000 plays on Spotify), Sydney based prog outfit Intrøspect have released their second EP named, ‘Midnight Sun’. […]

Let me set you the scene, it’s a sunny Autumn day here in the capital city of this wide brown land, and time for this reviewer to set his thoughts to paper on the latest […]

I didn’t have much energy so I connected some jumper cables to the album and myself and I jolted myself back to life! Hailing from Adelaide, South Australia the 4-piece Laced in Lust debut album […]

If you are looking for that classic melodic death metal sound, then German band Empyreal Sorrow is one too watch. With the release of their debut album Praey, the band gives a nod to those […]

Death metal has for many years been transforming, twisting, and turning into a plethora of different sub-genres. All of them really not much different from the next, but for a few technical and emotional differences. […]

If you are of the camp that believes that heavy metal has lost its way, then you may want to invest in this release. With darker lyrical content, heavy and driving guitars, almost hauntingly hypnotic […]

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Coming in for the kill – ephemeral Aussie progressive thrashers BEZERKER from Adelaide take off with a 30th-anniversary reissue of their one and only album LOST. Though unintentional, the album title fulfils its own prophecy […]

Set the lights for a party in your room – Melbourne rising pub-punkers Private Function are travelling one way, no stops! This album dives deep into a sea of simplistic fun. You’ll be met with […]

While you cannot say that German Hard rockers Rovar are re-inventing the wheel in terms of hard rock, you cannot deny their skills as musicians and composers. A versatile band that is blending a soulful […]

Their tagline on Facebook is “Serious music by people who can’t be taken seriously” and I cannot think of a more a great way to describe what I imagine the approach to writing music that […]

Have you ever opened up one of those snack blocks of chocolate as a kid and have no idea what each of the flavours was? You knew there was going to be chocolate, but you […]

If you were around the music scene at end of the ’90s then you would have heard of Elephant Gun as they reached the height of their career. Playing along the lines of other great […]