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  • An exclusive first track from the new Okera album! (updated with pre-order details)

    UPDATE: Pre-orders have now gone up over at their newly established Bandcamp page. The digipack edition is limited to 500 copies, and comes with an instant download of “I Hope” (the track below) and “The Black Rain”. Once the release...

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Electrik Dynamite announce departure of singer (Post updated with audition information)

    Just the other day, Metal Obsession filmed an interview with Electrik Dynamite’s bassist Duane “Ice” Jackson. So as the video is currently being edited (and will be online over the next couple of days), we certainly didn’t expect this announcement....

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Make Them Suffer announce national tour and release their second music single ‘Widower’.

    Perth’s Make Them Suffer announce their national album launch tour and unveil lyric video for their second single, 'Widower'.

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Be a nice person and sign up to Music Victoria

    Music Victoria, a not-for-profit music industry body who do all sorts of great things for Australian music (including taking part in removing the link between live music and violence, remember that whole thing?), are currently in the midst of...

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • A new release and video clip from The Amenta

    New material from The Amenta is always a good thing. In mid May the band will release their latest offering Chokehold digitally through Listenable Records (who have also released things from Gojira, Textures, Immolation, Gorod and the list goes on)....

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Cannibal Corpse “Australian Torture” tour

    Press release: After three long torturous years, death metals titanic kings, Cannibal Corpse, return to Australia for a sarcophagic frenzy of sordid and demented proportions! Their new ceaselessly hostile album release, Torture, proves that when it comes to combining unrestrained...

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • The Exploited cancel/reschedule Australia/NZ tour

    Press release: Unfortunately The Exploited tour in Aust-NZ is cancelled due to a very serious family situation of the bass player. Rob has travelled today back to Ireland to stay with his family for the next few weeks and...

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Derek Roddy’s Australian drum clinic tour kicks off this weekend!

    Widely known as the brutal force behind death metal pioneers Hate Eternal, Malevolent Creation, Nile and Serpent’s Rise.

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • Tour dates for US sludge/post-whatever gods Rosetta

    US sludge/post-metal/whatever gods Rosetta are (somewhat unexpectedly) coming back to Australia. If you saw them last time then you will no doubt be at one or several of these shows. If you haven’t seem them before, do yourself a...

    • Posted 14 years ago
  • The Slow Death have a new album out

    We somehow managed to miss this news (and even simply the fact that a new album was being worked on), but it seems NSW-based death/doom band The Slow Death (who feature members of Backyard Mortuary, Murkrat, Mournful Congregation etc) have just...

    • Posted 14 years ago