Tony MacAlpine, legendary US guitar virtuoso was scheduled to tour Australia this October thanks to Thump Music. Unfortunately, MacAlpine has postponed his upcoming Australian tour due to a shock discovery which might be cancer of his stomach...

Dead Letter Circus‘ highly anticipated third studio album Aesthesis has debuted at #2 on the ARIA Charts. The album was in tough competition for first place position with UK heavy metal act Bullet For My Valentine taking that...

Legerity is a Technical Progressive Metal Band hailing from the northern suburbs of Melbourne who take influence from bands like Periphery, Northlane and The Dillinger Escape Plan. The band features Paul Hammond (Internal Nightmare) on vocals, Josh Saunders...

If you didn’t think the month of October in Australia for heavy metal tours was busy enough, think again! American thrash metal pioneers Megadeth have announced their triumphant return to Australia with very special guests, Children of...

Abbath (Olve Eikemo), legendary frontman of Norwegian black metal pioneers, Immortal, will venture to Australia this October for an exclusive east coast tour. Tickets on sale August 20th from 9am via Destroy All Lines. In 2015 Abbath split with Immortal...

US metal supergroup Hellyeah, (featuring vocalist Chad Gray of Mudvayne; drummer Vinnie Paul of Pantera; Guitarist Tom Maxwell of Nothingface; bassist Kyle Sanders Bloodsimple, Monstro; and Christian Brady from Überschall) will conclude their massive 17 month world tour promoting their...

Melbourne power metal band Black Majesty have released a teaser for their forthcoming new album “Cross Of Thorns” due for release on September 4th through Pride & Joy Music. Cross Of Thorns is dedicated to Dirk Illing,...

Melbourne power metallers Horizons Edge have unveiled a lyric video to accompany the first single ‘Vagabond’, taken from their forthcoming new album “Heavenly Realms” due for release this September. The band have scored the opening support on the...

UK metallers Bullet For My Valentine are the first band to be announced for the 2016 instalment of Soundwave, Australia’s biggest travelling music festival. The band are currently promoting their brand new album ‘Venom’, out now via JB Hi-Fi...

Last month, Metal Obsession had the extreme pleasure to premiere a track from US death metal band Hate Eternal and their crushing new album, ‘Infernus’. Track 7 to be exact, dubbed “Zealot, Crusader of War”…and what a brutal track it...