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  • Hammers – Kicking Goals

    The first thing you’ll notice about the new six track EP from Queensland heavy rockers Hammers is the sheer Aussie-ness of it all. And not just in the true blue blokey delivery and vernacular of singer Fish, it’s also...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Diamond Construct – DCX2

    Most of the best bands across rock and metal history have grown, expanded, experimented even, whilst retaining core sound and audience, and that’s what we have here. Three releases in, and this most forward thinking of bands from Taree...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Figures – Operating in Unsafe Mode

    Operating in Unsafe Mode is a very appropriate title for this, the debut album from Melbourne heavy alternative band Figures. It also finds a band who are approaching the early part of their career in the right way: two...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Abramelin – Never Enough Snuff

    The sun-scorched corpse of Australian extreme metal oozes the stench of bands that have played a handful of shows and shared band members amongst themselves across the spectrum of genres. Very few achieve a reach beyond cult status, and...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Warnings – Event Horizon

    Australia seems to produce high-quality alternative/progressive rock and metal acts like it’s shelling peas, and here is yet another one. Warnings are a Melbourne-based duo who have only recently put themselves together, but they have found their songwriting feet...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Lune – Ghost

    This Melbourne five-piece haven’t been around very long, but this, their debut five track EP, displays a band that has hit the ground running, taken the ball and kicked a booming torpedo punt through the big sticks (which, for...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Wardaemonic – Acts of Repentance

    It can often take bands a considerable length of time for some to find the sound which they are looking for. This needs to possess the right mix of musicians and driven attitudes to succeed in a time where...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • Xenobiotic – Mordrake

    To the ears of this humble fan and writer, there is just something more interesting about progressive heavy bands, or even bands that inject a little progressiveness into their sound, than about non-progressive bands. It’s the increased dynamic awareness,...

    • Posted 6 years ago

  • I Built the Sky – The Zenith Rise

    Always threatening to, Melbourne maestro Rohan Stevenson has now entered the big time. Instrumental progressive music has become a niche worldwide phenomenon over the last 10 years or so, and virtuoso guitar instrumentalists have become a niche phenomenon within...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • The Molotov – Resistentia

    It’s great to see a band, and especially an Aussie band, that doesn’t really exist within the realms of the ‘prog’ sub-genre, that’s injecting something new and very different into rock music. There is much going on within the...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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