80% Probably because the only expectations they’ve most tried to live up to have been their own, Parkway Drive has continued to confound everyone but themselves. While the mainstream of the industry…
Category: Metal
RELIQA – I Don’t Know What I Am
90% So many bands have been labelled “a burgeoning force” or “rising stars” since Australia started to accept it actually had a heavy music scene a few years back that it’s hard to…
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…
SUPERHEIST – MMXX
60% Superheist has a long and storied history in the Aussie music scene, having been around since the early 90s. As such, even through different guises and a hiatus, they are one…
4ARM: Distant Early Warning
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 29 JANUARY 2012 Melbourne thrashers 4ARM have done the hard yards to get to the point they’re at today. Formed almost seven years ago, during the past couple of…
WEREWOLVES – From the Cave to the Grave
85% Werewolves obviously have no plans to change. Three albums in and their modus operandi remains the same as it always did, bludgeoning riffs played at blinding speed, unimpeded by melody, fancy dynamics…
CRYPT CRAWLER – Future Usurper
85% Australia is flush with bands producing quality output at the moment, particularly in the eastern states, but a quick dig through whoever you get your music through will soon show you how…
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…
THE NEPTUNE POWER FEDERATION – Le Demon de L’amour
95% Five albums in and The Neptune Power Federation continue to find way to surprise and fascinate their growing legion of fans. Always a band no stranger to concept albums, this time they…
FRANKENBOK – Overdose
90% Not too many bands could go through five vocalist changes and a seemingly endless cycle of other personnel reshuffles and still come out not only swinging, but landing punches. 25-year Australian…