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  • Stardrifter – Volume 0

    Adelaide drone metal two-piece Stardrifter has recently released a demo tape titled Volume 0 that I came across online and decided to give a listen to. A two-track affair coming in at around 21 minutes, Volume 0 shows a...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light

    Illimitable Dolor has been gradually garnering attention in the doom metal world, ever since their formation in 2014 in tribute to Gregg Williamson, former vocalist of The Slow Death. Indeed, the band are in part driven by members of...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Superheist – Sidewinder

    A ‘Sidewinder’ is a highly poisonous type of snake, found mostly in North America. A Sidewinder is also a type of air to air missile. So Sidewinder is a highly appropriate title for the new release from legendary Melbourne...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • The Omnific – The Mind’s Eye

    For the uninitiated, Melbourne’s The Omnific is a three-piece, all instrumental band. Two bass guitars and drums, no guitars, no vocals whatsoever. What sounds, on paper, to be fairly simplistic, in reality, is anything but. These three artists have...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Stephen Taranto – Permanence

    Every time I review one of these types of releases I say something along the lines of ‘the world is a treasure trove of progressive instrumental guitar music right now’, and so it goes on. Stephen Taranto is a...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Trancestate – Planetary Awakening

    There are certainly some great bands out there, doing some good stuff with death metal, and especially with progressive and techy death metal. As a whole however, the genre is a little stale, and is in need of a...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Orpheus Omega – Wear Your Sins

    Melbourne melodic death metal mainstays Orpheus Omega have recently released their fourth album Wear Your Sins. Following up 2015’s Partum Vita Mortem, Wear Your Sins represents a codification of the various elements that go in to Orpheus Omega into...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Hybrid Nightmares – Obelisk

    Hybrid Nightmares, an extreme progressive metal act from Melbourne, are due to release their new EP Obelisk in April this year, hot off the heels of touring alongside heavyweights such as Anaal Nathrakh and Watain. A follow up to...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • Myoora – Moon Grotto

    The entire world is a veritable treasure trove of heavy and progressive instrumental guitar wizardry at the moment. If you dig this type of stuff, it’s just a great time to be alive, and you will certainly dig this...

    • Posted 7 years ago

  • M0DAL1TY – Synthes1s

    Man, these guys move quickly. Less than a year after the untimely demise of Melbourne band Branch Arterial, two of the members, frontman Nigel Jackson and drummer Adam Zaffarese, have put together a whole new band and written and...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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