Tuomas Holopainen, the mastermind, composer and keyboardist behind Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish returns with his debut solo release The Life and Times of Scrooge. While many bookworms and literary lovers would instantly make a connection with...

Danish progressive metal band Royal Hunt have cancelled their Australian tour due to a last minute impasse. The band’s debut appearance in Australia was meant to take place in Melbourne on Wednesday, 2nd April. However, both parties...

Californian stoner metal band High on Fire will grace Australian shores this July for a series of shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. High on Fire last performed in Australia in 2012. July 16 – Brisbane...

After stunning audiences and scoring 3 accolades from America’s leading metal website, Metal Injection at the recent SXSW festival in Texas. Melbourne extreme metal juggernauts King Parrot are set to return to Australia for another bout of...

In late February we announced extreme tech death metallers Origin will be gracing our shores in May. Melbourne’s A Million Dead Birds Laughing and Brisbane’s Eternal Rest were then chosen to support Origin on their six date...

Indonesia’s annual heavy metal festival Hammersonic returns this April for its third installment in Jakarta. Taking place on Sunday April 27th 2014 at Lapangan D Senayan (about an hours drive from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport) in Jarkarta, the line-up...

Melbourne heavy metal fans will be pleased to know that Jackson Voorhaar and Mitch Alexander of Satan’s Finest will return this April for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to partake in their new heavy metal stand-up comedy...

German Teutonic thrash metallers Tankard will be gracing our great southern land this July. Earlier last year Tankard joined forces with Sodom, Destruction and Kreator for The Big Teutonic 4, a celebration of German thrash metal at...

Industrial metallers Darkc3ll (the same chaps who performed at the years Soundwave Festival) and Witchgrinder (those goth rockers who supported Ghost on their recent Australian tour) are joining forces for a special industrial metal tour this April....

Melbourne melodic power metallers Knightmare have launched their debut music video, ‘Unity Through Chaos’. The music video was co-directed by Melbourne based filmmaker Steve Ravic of Majestic Film, best known for his work with Dungeon, Mystery and...