Metal
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5 Favourite Live Concert DVDs Shared By Daybreak
Between getting early support from triple j Unearthed, to playing sold-out rooms around the country with Polaris, Parkway Drive, Make Them Suffer and Alpha Wolf, Daybreak
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2020 Download Festival Dates And Venues
Clear your calendar and get ready to raise your horns as heavy metal juggernaut Download Festival confirms dates and venues for 2020.
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2019 Good Things Festival Sideshows
Good Things Festival just got a little better as they roll out headline sideshows from artists on this year's line-up.
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Tempest Rising Showcase Their Alter Ego At WAMFest
After forming in late 2012, WA's Tempest Rising have established themselves as one of Australia’s most individual, alternative metal acts.
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Void Of Vision Celebrate The Good Old Daze
Melbourne metalcore band Void Of Vision have embraced the lingering darkness to produce their new album 'Hyperdaze'.
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The Mark Of Cain Are Ready For Battle
John Scott from The Mark Of Cain has a theory.
“My theory is grunge was exported from Adelaide to Seattle then re-exported back to the world,” John... -
Apocalyptica Review @ Sydney Opera House
Classical cellos and heavy metal shouldn’t work. Yet cello-metal maestros Apocalyptica have established a career (now 26 years strong) doing just that - merging metal with
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The Amity Affliction: Heaven And Hell Brisbane Festival Review @ The Riverstage
Guitar feedback pierced through the air above Brisbane’s The Riverstage (14 September).
Brisbane has a strong history of heavy music, beginning in 1976 with The... -
It's Alive Festival 2019 Line-up
It's Alive is a new, yearly mini-festival in Brisbane that serves up a potent brew of rock, metal, stoner and punk bands – both old and new.
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2019 Good Things Festival Line-up
Well, well, well. What do we have here. Good Things Festival have dropped their 2019 line-up and it's a doozie.
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13 Years Later. . . Tool Have Finally Completed Their ‘Fear Inoculum’ Homework
If it sounds like Tool drummer Danny Carey was on fire while recording his drum parts for the band’s new album, ‘Fear Inoculum’, it may be because at one point he nearly
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Stream Now: TOOL's First New Song In 13 Years 'Fear Inoculum'
TOOL have released their first single in 13 years 'Fear Inoculum', the title track to the highly-anticipated fifth album due on 30 August.
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Brisbane Review @ The Tivoli Review
I recently decided that the topic: ‘Why are men in their late teens/ early 20s so fixated by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard?’ was unequivocally worthy of a thesis
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Prog Metallers COG Keep On Turning
Australian heavy music fans you are indeed a lucky bunch, as the mighty COG reaffirm their dominance as prog-metal luminaries on their 'Drawn Together' tour.
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Maurice And The Metal: Metal And Comic Books Together At Last
Metal music and comic books – the combination we didn’t realise we needed.
Brisbane metal lover and writer, Aaron Sammut has made the unusual yet ingenious choice... -
Pagan Brisbane Review @ Crowbar
A neon pink inverted cross flickered in the darkness. A few moments passed, then the stage lights beamed to reveal the excited crowd gathered close to the stage at Crowbar
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Beastwars Are Back From The Grave, Kinda
With a sound that cascades from savage to tender and back again, NZ stoner metallers Beastwars return (with a new lease on life, literally) with their fourth album –
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Russian Circles Melbourne Review @ Max Watt’s
An enormous line snaked out the door of Melbourne’s Max Watt’s (26 April) in anticipation of the night of post-metal ahead.
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Despite Recent Tragedy Brisbane Punks Blowhard Will Continue At 2019 Dead Of Winter Festival
Before the recent death of Blowhard frontman Brentyn 'Rollo' Rollason, the Brisbane punks had been booked (but not announced) by Dead Of Winter Festival (DOW) as the headline
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Sevendust Brisbane Review @ The Tivoli Theatre
The Tivoli Theatre (in Brisbane) rocked hard on ANZAC Day, with American heavy alternative metal rockers Sevendust dishing out southern love in a dense 14-course
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