ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 18 OCTOBER 2010 Embrace Eternity is a Brisbane band that’s gone through some ups and downs and disbanded at least once before. Now they’re on track with a steady…
Category: Brisbane Metal Bands
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER: Southern Sludge From the North
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 18 OCTOBER 2010 High Plains Drifter is a stoner band from Brisbane. In late ’09 they released their debut album Heaven on Your Minds. Loud got Liam Guy to catch up with…
ASYLUM – Tyrannicide
80% Asylum is a three piece out of Brisbane that offers nothing but breakneck old school thrash – nothing more, nothing less. From the opening moment, Tyrannicide is wall to wall aggression and neck-snapping…
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT – IV
90% After a gulf of years wider than the lifespan of most bands, The Butterfly Effect has finally released their fourth album. Fourteen years since The Final Conversation of Kings left fans and critics…
MINUS LIFE – Contorted Reality
90% Minus Life were well on their way to being Australia’s ‘next big thing’ before dissolving in a haze of work/life balance and inter-band drama and tension. A lot of growing up…
DISKUST – A Dark Place
85% DisKust have been kicking dust up and working pits up around Australia for the last few years. Drip feeding singles here and there of their output to keep their hungry fans…
DESCENT – Order of Chaos
85% Brisbane based Descent are among a group of excellent metal of all kinds making their way out of Australia’s underground into broader notice – at least until the world when arse up….
ASTRIAAL: Return of the Dark
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 28 MAY 2012 Brisbane black metal battalion Astriaal have been silent since making some brief appearances in early 2011. As winter settles over the country, the band returns to the…
AVERSIONS CROWN: Dare to be Different
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 29 AUGUST 2012 Eight-string guitar-favouring Brisbane deathcore bruisers Aversions Crown aim to craft a more technical slant on what has been a much-criticised genre. Having released their debut album Servitude last year,…
LAGERSTEIN – Live in Brisbane
75% Pirate metal is the weird and weirdly popular off-shoot of folk metal, which is often just as strange. Lagerstein are by far Australia’s sharpest and wildest exponents at this caper and…