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  • El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors

    Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has been around for quite some time, and this is their second full-length album. Forgotten Ancestors finds them progressing strongly from their debut, 2017’s Pathways (which itself was excellent), winding out...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces

    A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a Melbourne-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and currently frontman for extremely promising progressive heavy rock outfit Cirrus Crown. This is his debut solo record. And it’s an interesting ride, with a broad...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Malcura – Malcura II

    Wow, talk about coining a sub-genre. Or at least getting as close to doing that as you can these days. This Aussie band features members of Annihilist, Orsome Welles and Kettlespider, and have created a sound that can only...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Plini – Impulse Voices

    The new album from Sydney instrumental guitar prodigy Plini far from outstays its welcome. At eight tracks, only two of which stretch out to longer than five minutes, and under fourty minutes of music all up, it redefines the...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • AC/DC – Power Up

    Due to the long arc of their career, can anything AC/DC release at this point contribute to their legacy? Stick around because I’ve had a thorough listen to their new album, Power Up, and I’ve got an answer. On...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Depravity – Grand Malevolence

    The sophomore album in a band’s career usually ends up being a definitive statement in crafting their own sound. The likes of Ride the Lightning by Metallica, Hell Awaits by Slayer and Morbid Angel’s Blessed are the Sick are...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Eternum – Alone But For The Breath Of Beasts

    Steve Hughes, the renowned comedian and trailblazer of Australian metal, has unleashed his first new music in twenty-two years. Hughes has made a resounding name for himself on the comedy beat, but as we are aware, he also has...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Chaos Divine – Legacies

    A decade and a half and four albums into their career, it is obvious that this classic Perth heavy act is still fresh, hungry and inspired, and putting out slammin’, crowd-pleasing melodic progressive metal. In fact, listening to Legacies,...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Absent Hearts – The Peak and the Valley

    The palette is pretty broad here on Metal Obsession. Some might complain that an album like this doesn’t really belong on a metal website, but to hell with attitudes like that, I say. Modern metalheads can generally be a...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Vanishing Point – Dead Elysium

    Unlike such sub-genres of heavy music as thrash, glam, grunge, nu-metal, metalcore, Djent and so on, power metal has never really had a time in the sun, a moment when it was the focus of a majority of heavy...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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