ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON May 16, 2014 Thirty years is a long time in rock n’ roll. For any band to last that long is tough. When the band started out as three…
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FRENZAL RHOMB: Blokes You Can Trust
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 12 NOVEMBER 2015 Frenzal Rhomb are bona fide legends of the Australian punk rock scene. After 23 years and eight albums they’re as strong as ever as they shape…
DREAM ON DREAMER: No Love Lost
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 20 JULY 2013 When the time came for Melbourne’s Dream on, Dreamer to produce their debut long-player, Heartbound, two years ago, the then six-piece band spent seven weeks in Orlando,…
DEAD IN A SECOND: Dead in Your Lounge Room
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 28 FEBRUARY 2013 Sydney hard rock/nu metallers Dead in a Second will team up with Karnivool member Steve Judd’s new project The Arsonist for a late February/early March tour….
DAWN HEIST: Down to Zero
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 25 MARCH 2012 Sydney’s Dawn Heist aren’t afraid to tackle the scene head on. Before their first official release had even been recorded they had self-financed a tour through…
DARKCELL: The Satanic Verses
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 14 FEBRUARY 2014 Gold Coast industrial heavy-hitters Darkc3ll are among the crushing Australian contingent participating in this year’s Soundwave juggernaut. To prepare, Loud cornered vocalist Jesse Dracman about the festival shows,…
CONTRIVE: A Dialogue with Andrew Haug
ORIGINALLY POSTED 12 NOVEMBER 2010 Melbourne heavy metal trio Contrive have been mighty busy of late, getting the word out about their new album The Internal Dialogue, the follow-up to their 2005 full-length…
BORIS THE BLADE: The Cutting Edge
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON 12 SEPTEMBER 2012 Since forming in 2010, Melbourne bruisers Boris the Blade have made a serious play for the country’s modern death metal/deathcore crown left vacant by the premature…
BENTO: Some Days are Diamonds
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 18 OCTOBER 2012 As the drummer with Silverchair, Ben Gillies had five consecutive #1 albums, won more ARIA Awards than Springsteen has Grammys and sold in excess of six…
A BREACH OF SILENCE: Hitting the Road
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 8 OCTOBER 2014 With sophomore album The Darkest Road about to drop and with an impending tour in support of Drowning Pool in the U.S, Loud caught up with guitarist Mat Cosgrove to…