Metal greats DELAIN recently released their highly-anticipated new studio album, Dark Waters, out now via Napalm Records. To celebrate their latest masterpiece, the band has just announced an exciting North American tour to take place this fall 2023. The tour will feature support from labelmates and fellow symphonic metal frontrunners VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, who will […] …Continue Reading
Riding With Killers, a heavy rock outfit featuring current and ex-members of Taproot, Cathercist, Avalon Black and Wild Fire, have announced the release of their newest single, Hostility. The track comes on the heels of their 2022 single What Comes Next, and doubles down on the band’s ferocious energy, being led with a massive 90s […] …Continue Reading
HissThroughRottenTeeth is the debut album by Melbourne blackened deathhore group Mélancolia, out Friday, April 21 via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast Records. Immersing listeners in a torturous tale of birth, life and death, HissThroughRottenTeeth follows a fallen deity, cast down from a godly realm and met with the punishment of reincarnating as a human with […] …Continue Reading
Ohio rock band Neon Straightjackets bring 90s punk and grunge elements to the alternative scene with their new single, $#!7CANNED. The new track is the first glimpse into their DIY-driven, explosive new EP, Ex-Girlfriends and Ecstasy, out across DSPs on April 15, 2023. In support of the release, the band will be embarking on a […] …Continue Reading
The demise of festivals such as Soundwave not only robbed music lovers of opportunities to witness large-scale international festivals in this country, but it also created a reduced capacity for touring this side of the world for many bands who based Australian tours around such events. One of those bands that suffered through lack of […] …Continue Reading
Tasmanian self-proclaimed thrash metal royalty Coward Punch are certainly a force unto themselves. Cloaked in only the most expensive bank robber style ski masks with accents that sound like a cross between deep Southern drawl and the seedier side of The Bronx, Coward Punch are what can only be described as a musical enigma, and, […] …Continue Reading
Pennsylvania band Another Day Dawns have shared the video for their crackling new single Bitter. Watch the clip, directed by Max Portnoy (drummer for Code Orange, Tallah), below. “‘Bitter’ really goes to the root of uncomfortable situations with people in our lives that never get addressed, and there’s just this kinda ‘off’ feeling about them,” […] …Continue Reading
Out Now Words by Kris Peters Names can often be misleading. Just take music project The Angel Affair for example and hit play. Heck, just read the press release for the bands latest EP Def-Eye: The Renaissance Part 1 and you will discover a world void of angelic creatures, replaced instead by a bleak dystopian […] …Continue Reading
In a short amount of time Melbourne rock outfit Coolabah Kings have managed to use the power of music to entrench themselves musically in the hearts and ears of an Australian public yearning for more fun in their music. Since announcing their arrival with the 2021 single Spineless, Coolabah Kings have sprinkled their infectious DNA […] …Continue Reading
Australian metalcore trailblazers THE AMITY AFFLICTION today announce their highly anticipated Australian tour Not Without My Ghosts with special guests Silverstein, Earth Caller and Winnerz Circle. The national run will begin at the band’s hometown Brisbane at Fortitude Music Hall on October 19 before heading to Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall, Melbourne’s […] …Continue Reading