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  • Machine Head announce Australian tour

    As hinted by the band on social media last week Machine Head are coming to Australia for their first headline tour since 2010, on the back of their killer new album Bloodstone & Diamonds. “Hailing from Oakland, California, Machine Head are one...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Blind Guardian return to Australia for two shows

    Blind Guardian, a name that redefined a genre and made it their own. It is a name that continues to have legendary and mystical qualities attached to it by encapsulating, engrossing and breeding loyalty from a tremendous cross section...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Australian Premiere: stream Carach Angren’s new album “This Is No Fairytale”

    Carach Angren‘s new album is huge in the same way that bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse and Septic Flesh are; grand orchestrations combined with fast riffs and even faster drums, albeit more blacker than those two. This Is No Fairytale is excellent, to put it simply, and we’re...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • “A Night In With King Parrot” this week in Adelaide

    Ahead of their Soundwave performance the mighty King Parrot are hitting up Adelaide’s Australian Rock & Metal Institute (aka ARMI) for “a night in”; answering questions about their fast rise in the metal scene and their hard touring life, and running...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • The Eternal announce live DVD and shows with Uriah Heep

    Back in late 2013 The Eternal launched their fifth studio album When the Circle of Light Begins to Fade at Melbourne’s Evelyn Hotel with a whopping 80 minute set covering material from their early days through to now. On March 20th, they’ll release...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Music for Nations gets local distribution

    Music For Nations, the celebrated British independent rock and metal record label responsible for signing, collaborating and distributing the likes of Metallica, Tool, Opeth, Manowar, Cradle of Filth and Paradise Lost (among others), are back in business. Sony Music Entertainment Australia...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Witchgrinder Announce “Bloodlust” Single Launch Shows

    Melbourne industrial metal unit Witchgrinder led a maelstrom of gigs and tour spots in the year past. 2015 looks set to continue this trend for the quartet as they gear up in April for a pair of shows in...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Animals As Leaders and Ne Obliviscaris announce sidewave

    This week surely can’t get any better, can it? First Harold Bishop returns to Neighbours, and now we get the best news of all! Animals As Leaders and Ne Obliviscaris have announce a special Soundwave sidewave in Sydney. This awesome...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Black Majesty announce new drummer

    Melbourne power metallers, Black Majesty, have announced the departure of long time drummer, Pavel Konvalinka. The band’s forthcoming new album “Cross Of Thorns” will be the final album to feature Pavel on drums. We would like to inform BM fans that...

    • Posted 11 years ago
  • Two new tunes from Rebel Wizard, more on the way

    Sometimes good tunes can come from the most unexpected places. Not that the harsh noise of Nekrasov wasn’t excellent, but you’d never think the same man behind that would start releasing riffy (but admittedly still noisy) NWOBHM-ish metal tracks. But here we...

    • Posted 11 years ago