News : Stormrider Festival 2017 – Full lineup announced!
The full lineup for the much anticipated next instalment of Perth’s annual Stormrider Heavy Metal Festival has been announced. Now in its fourth year, Stormrider festival is back to once more celebrate the stylings of power, thrash, speed, prog, trad-metal, and now, Viking-folk!
With the event continuing to grow and gain attention year-to-year, next year’s event will be held at The Badlands Bar in Perth, WA on Saturday 25 March. Featuring eleven of Australia’s top bands, five of Perth’s best, and six from around the nation, the 2017 festival will feature the largest selection of interstate bands the annual event has seen yet.
Playing across two stages and kicking off at 6:00pm, the stellar lineup is as follows!
Headlining the day are Australia’s top power metallers, the mighty Silent Knight who have a stack of international touring dates lined up for the Euro summer too!Making the trek west for the first time, Sydney’s own Viking warriors, Bane Of Isildur will pillage and plunder their way through their epic slabs of pure, triumphant war metal and Odin help anyone standing in their way!Melbourne’s heavy metal masters Elm Street will be showcasing their new collection of fist pumping anthems from their second album ‘Knock Em Out…With A Metal Fist’ which was released in June to western metallers for the first time too!Melbourne speed metal young guns, Espionage killed it at SRF 2015 and are once again bringing their energetic live show, soaring vocals and twin guitar harmonies that are reminiscent of the glory days of 80’s metal!One of the nation’s best live bands, Brisbane’s kings of thrash, Malakyte are prepping for the follow up to their debut album Human Resonance which will see them push the envelope further. Be ready to snap your neck!Combining thrash, prog, power and neo classical metal influences, Adelaide’s Shadow Realm are beginning to turn heads all over the country. Shredding guitars meet jazz drumming and operatic vocals. Whats not to love?!
With aggressiveriffing, killer vocals and powerful drumming, Brisbane thrashers Asylum will leave you feeling mentally insane and physically exhausted! Local Perth lads, Bounter Hunter have honed their cross over thrash attack and are ready to make you believe its the early 90s all over again!Pairing soaring melodies with blistering speed and sledgehammer aggression, Perth up and comers, Remission have the ambition and drive to take on the world!Australia’s finest purveyors of viking folk metal, Claim The Throne have been building their empire for over a decade. The Perth quintet will be treating their hometown crowd to a very rare, very special acoustic set of their classics.Bringing Stormrider 2017 to an epic close, Perth trio Agnesis will deliver a set of prog/alt metal goodness at the official after party kicking off at midnight!
This year the Stormrider Heavy Metal Festival 2017 Spotify Playlist will feature tracks from performing artists.
Don’t miss out on what’s guaranteed to be an unforgettable evening of pure Australian metal!
About Jonathon Besanko
Jonathon is an aspiring fantasy/sci-fi novelist and music journalist. Thanks to the influence of the music he grew up with, he has always possessed a keen interest in metal and rock. He is also a huge fan of mythology, legend, and folklore from all across the world. You should follow him on Twitter.Latest News
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