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  • 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 3 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 3 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 4 years ago

  • 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 years ago
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