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,…
Category: Metal
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…
AVERSIONS CROWN: From Enslavement to Obliteration
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 16 OCTOBER 2014 Queenslanders Aversions Crown are the latest Australian band to be snapped up by German metal mega-label Nuclear Blast. The band has been drip-feeding tracks from their…
ALICE THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD GLASS: A Brutal Awakening
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 19 DECEMBER 2012 Sydney brutalists Alice Through the Windshield Glass have been building towards the release of their album since it was recorded more than a year ago. The…
BURIED IN VERONA: The Notorious B.I.V.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 22 MAY 2012 Buried in Verona’s Richie Newman is about to take a seat in the tattooist’s chair when the call goes through. The extremely laidback guitarist is less…
BLOOD DUSTER: KvltAsFvck
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 15 OCTOBER 2012 Blood Duster have been grinding and grooving away all over the Australian metal landscape since before many of the people reading this were born. Virtually inactive…
Cruciform at The Vanguard, Sydney
Cruciform, The Veil, Magma One, Amammoth at the Vanguard, Newtown. 15 October, 2022 The Vanguard is closing in on its twentieth year as a venue and there’s some special stuff coming up…
BEYOND TERROR BEYOND GRACE: A Change of Pace
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 24 OCTOBER 2012 Sydney outfit Beyond Terror Beyond Grace pulled off a rare trick recently. After playing more than 55 shows throughout Australia, Europe, the UK and the US…