ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 27 NOVEMBER 2014 Brisbane death metal mob Disentomb’s new album Misery’s outlook is suitably pessimistic, not to mention being heavier than a busload of Sumo wrestlers. Ahead of their national…
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CALIGULA’S HORSE – Charcoal Grace
100% For more than a decade now, Brisbane’s Caligula’s Horse have been carving a niche for themselves on the world wide prog scene with a series of deeply layered, richly melodic and…
HOUSE vs. HURRICANE: A Crooked Path
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 24 JULY 2012 It’s July 2, a week out from the release of their album Crooked Teeth and quietly spoken House vs. Hurricane guitarist Ryan McLerie is in the office of…
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…
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…