Melbourne symphonic power metal super group Bane of Winterstorm, featuring members of Anarion and Orpheus Omega have released new details regarding their highly anticipated debut album, ‘The Last Sons of Perylin’. The band are currently taking pre-orders...

The sheer energy contained within the Royal Melbourne hotel during the sets of local heavy outfits; Ire, Feed Her to the Sharks, Aversions Crown, and US headliners Oceano all but threatened to break out of the venue...

Porcupine Tree’s 2010 tour was an unexpected surprise. Despite going into it being very disappointed with The Incident as an album, the whole thing live was an enthralling experience. With that in mind, Steven Wilson’s The Raven...

Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem will be retuning to Australia next January to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The band will be performing in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Tickets on sale next Thursday (10th October). When it comes...

Melbourne’s Elm Street have been chosen as the European support for Iced Earth‘s upcoming “Plagues of Babylon” tour in 2014. Metal Obsession wishes the guys the best of luck! Pick up “Barbed Wire Metal” via Massacre Records....

If there’s one word to sum up Jack The Stripper‘s new album Raw Nerve, it would simply be “awesome”. It’s chaotic, crazily heavy and exploding with energy, which is exactly what you want from this Converge-inspired style of music. There’s not...

From all reports, Cyberne’s last Aussie tour was a string of devastatingly intense performances, so we’re pretty stoked to see them coming back. But hell, even if they weren’t that great and everybody is lying (which we doubt,...

Featuring ex-members of Whoretopsy, Blackwater, Empty the Throne and Anarchsphere, The Arbiter are the newest band from Melbourne. Influenced by plenty of bands, notably Pantera, Meshuggah and Hatebreed, The Arbiter deliver a ridiculously heavy groove metal sound. They recently recorded their debut demo with Roman...

Click here to view full photo gallery. Excluding the festivals that they have been a part of, America’s groove metal giants Lamb of God and Sweden’s extreme metal masters Meshuggah had never toured together. No one would...