ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 14 FEBRUARY 2011 Perth band Mhorgl recently visited the east coast to unleash their hellish, old school black metal on appreciative audiences. With their second album Antinomian about to receive European release,…
Category: Archive
MORTAL SIN: Psychology of Thrash
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 5 JULY 2011 Formed in 1985, Sydney’s Mortal Sin are Australia’s undisputed giants of thrash metal. Like most bands that have lasted a quarter of a century, Mortal Sin have…
NANCY VANDAL: Return of the Zombie Skate Poets
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 18 SEPTEMBER 2013 Sydney’s Nancy Vandal were a legendary institution on the local punk scene in the 90s with a blitzkrieg of buzzsaw guitars, bad acting, ridiculous cover songs…
NE OBLIVISCARIS: Through the Portal
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 11 NOVEMBER 2014 Three years ago the future looked bleak for Ne Obliviscaris. Drummer Dan Presland had departed and French guitarist Benji Baret was stuck in his homeland without…
NEKROFEIST: No Remorse
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 24 JULY 2012 Wollongong metallers Nekrofeist have just unleashed their new album …Without Reserve or Regret and have a series of shows planned to promote its release. Bassist Rob Giles spoke…
NORTHLANE: Quantum of Success
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 12 JANUARY 2014 If a year could belong to a band, last year would be Northlane’s. A group on the rise during the previous twelve months, by the end…
OUR LAST ENEMY: Building an Empire
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 31 MARCH 2011 “It all started with the magic of the Internet,” Our Last Enemy’s singer Oliver Fogwell says with a chuckle as he explains the band’s association with…
PARKWAY DRIVE: Wave of Anger
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 6 OCTOBER 2015 “We took a bit of a risk taking a departure from the sound of the last four albums,” admits Parkway Drive drummer Ben Gordon during a…
PETER BLACK: Clearly Loving It
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 27 NOVEMBER 2015 “Fuck! We forgot the main thing and that’s to give my new solo record a plug!” Peter “Blackie” Black and I have been chatting about so…
PSYCROPTIC: Inheriting Progression
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 16 JUNE 2014 Hobart death metal veterans Psycroptic are currently on the road with Belgian monsters Aborted this month, and should have a new album out by the end…