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Album Reviews

  • Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites

    Losing an influential member of a band can have a massive effect and one which can influence record sales, turnouts at shows during tour cycles and disrupt the dynamic within the process for an album. Dallas Toler-Wade was part...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • The Great Old Ones – Cosmicism

    French Atmospheric black metal maniacs The Great Old Ones have been channelling the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft for 10 years now and within that time released some jaw-dropping extreme music. Having first heard of them during a visit to...

    • Posted 5 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 5 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 5 years ago

  • Klone – Le Grand Voyage

    This band has been around for 20 years and has released some fabulous music in that time. They certainly have a very solid worldwide following, to the point where they toured Australia a few years back (hopefully they return,...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • Code Atlantic – Eclipses

    This Sydney-based heavy alt-rock four-piece recently released their debut seven track EP, and it displays a band on the brink of finding their true voice. All the elements of a potentially great alt rock act are here, the tones...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • Sabaton – The Great War

    Swedish metal giants Sabaton have returned with their ninth album The Great War to deliver their usual fare of anthemic war-themed power metal. The album is themed around the First World War, telling a variety of short tales that...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • Shadow of Intent – Melancholy

    Wow, what a bolt out of the blue. When a friend whose opinion I very much respect recommended this album to me, I immediately expected something very special. Exactly how special, I was completely unprepared for. As a massive...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • 9 Foot Super Soldier – Party Violence

    9 Foot Super Soldier is set to unleash their sophomore release entitled Party Violence later this month.  ‘Party Violence’ is a term the band have used to describe their sound for some time now and is a fitting title for...

    • Posted 5 years ago

  • LORD – Fallen Idols

    Australian power/trad band LORD is back in full force with their sixth album Fallen Idols. LORD has been a mainstay in the Australian metal scene for decades, stretching back to their original incarnation as Dungeon, yet Fallen Idols shows...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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