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The Darkness Have Finally Been Given Permission To Land In Australia
After an abrupt departure in 2020, UK rockers The Darkness return to Australia this October for their national 'Motorheart' album tour.
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The Butterfly Effect Return After 14 Years With New Music
It has been 14 long years since The Butterfly Effect released an album, and boy have they made it a good one.
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Review: Violent Soho (Until Next Time) @ The Fortitude Valley Music Hall (Brisbane)
The Fortitude Valley Mall is chockers and as I near The Fortitude Music Hall the line to tonight's final Violent Soho (SOHO) show (10 September) is snaking down to Brunswick
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5 Favourite Conspiracy Theories Shared By BLUSSH
A Brisbane band brought together by a shared love of '90s punk-grunge (think Hole, L7, The Distillers and Babes In Toyland), last week BLUSSH released their second EP,
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Review: KISS @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
It's Brisbane turn to witness KISS' The End Of The Road Tour (6 September) and outside the Brisbane Entertainment Centre (BEC), a KISS army is waiting behind the barricades,
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After A Couple Of COVID Glitches Steel Panther Are Finally Headed Back To Australia
It has been four years since glam rockers Steel Panther hit Australian shores, and after multiple cancellations of their tour due to COVID, they're well and truly over the
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Premiere: Watch 51st Avenue's New Music Video 'ICU'
Laden with vivid and stimulating synth samples and an anthemic chorus that ignites a passionate energy, Sydney pop-rockers 51st Avenue latest release is the emotive new
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Future Static Are On The Road To BIGSOUND
Melbourne metal quintet Future Static are bringing the noise to BIGSOUND (in Brisbane) earlier September, armed with a vicious new single and led by freshly minted frontwoman
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Review: 2022 Monolith Festival @ Eatons Hill Outdoor (Brisbane)
The Brisbane leg of Monolith Festival brings lovers of prog, experimental rock and metal to Eatons Hill Hill's outdoor venue (13 August). Seven impressive bands are set to
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Review: The Hu @ Eatons Hill Hotel (Brisbane)
Despite the language barrier that separates fans and their leather-clad Mongolian metal-rock superheroes, there is a sense of shared spirituality, a collective love of
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Steel Panther 2022 Australia Tour
Strap yourself in Australia 'cause the 'wildest, wettest, and dirtiest' big hair, heavy metal outfit stalking the planet is finally headed down under.
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Crossfaith 2022 Australia Tour
Regular visitors to Australia, Japanese metallers Crossfaith will finally headline their own run of shows down under later this year.
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Melbourne Prog Metallers Circles Have Woken From Their Slumber With New Music Ahead Of A Tour
It's been four years since Melbourne band Circles released their last studio album ('The Last One'), which was the group's debut with frontman Ben Rechter.
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5 Influential Movie Soundtracks Shared By Brisbane Prog-Metallers Citadel
Comprised of former members of Osaka Punch, Wildheart and Bayharbour, Brisbane progressive-metal quartet Citadel introduced themselves earlier this year with 'Sundered
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Review: Black Veil Brides @ Eatons Hill Hotel (Brisbane)
After the umpteenth rescheduled announcement, Black Veil Brides' (BVB) Australian tour, the tour that refused to be cancelled, is finally HAPPENING! Yes siree, BVB are back
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Raise The Horns As The Hu Bring Their 'Rumble Of Thunder' Down Under
When The Hu last visited Australia for their debut tour, it didn't go exactly as planned.
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Review: While She Sleeps @ The Triffid (Brisbane)
It's a Friday night (1 July) and The Triffid (Brisbane) has opened its doors to welcome the herd that has gathered in anticipation of copping an earful of UK's While She
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Review: Northlane @ The Tivoli (Brisbane)
The great thing about metal gigs in winter? We get to keep a mild sense of decorum in a packed house.
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Introducing Electronic Alt-Rock Band Planisphere
Originally starting life as a two-piece in 2018 named Canondrome, after the original drummer relocated to Melbourne last year, singer-guitarist Lorcan Coates recruited two
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Good Things Festival 2022 Line-up
After a three-year wait, one of Australia's leading alternative music festivals, Good Things Festival returns to the calendar in 2022 with three gargantuan events in
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