ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 2 AUGUST 2022 The band with the coolest name in Australian extreme music has had a mixed twelve months. After releasing an EP they weren’t able to properly promote,…
Category: Metal
MOUNTAIN WIZARD DEATH CULT: Enlightened By Darkness
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 27 JULY 2022 There’s been a prevailing popularity of hardcore-inflected sludge bands over recent years and one of the rising lights (or maybe darkness) over the local landscape is…
SULDUSK: A Certain Slant of Light
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 19 JULY 2022 Suldusk is the vehicle of Melbourne musician Emily Highfield. Emerging with an EP of dark acoustic folk in 2017, Suldusk’s Lunar Falls of two years later saw the…
DISKUST: From the Dark
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 23 JUNE 2022 Mask-wearing is something that has not only existed since performing and story-telling began, but on a deeper level is a thing we all do at some point…
PSYCROPTIC: Ashes of Empires
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 17 JUNE 2022 “I’ve never lost two jobs in a day before,” Psycroptic drummer Dave Haley says wryly in response to a question about how he was affected during…
THE NEPTUNE POWER FEDERATION: Demons of Love
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 16 JUNE 2022 The Neptune Power Federation celebrates ten years since their debut vinyl album release Mano a Satano in 2022, a career that got off to a bit of a…
CHRISTOS ATHANASIAS: Electric King
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 16 DECEMBER 2021 While he’s had to face the same obstacles and hindrances as any other musician over the last two years, 2021 has been a productive time for…
TO THE GRAVE: Oh, the Horror
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 Sydney deathcore unit To The Grave recovered from tragedy this year with a signing to the legendary US underground label Unique Leader for their latest album Epilogue. That…
12 GAUGE RAMPAGE: Unleash the Grind
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 6 SEPTEMBER 2021 It’s a familiar story: a band starts getting its wheels turning when the guitarist leaves, so they start again with the bass player doing all the…
BLACK RHENO: Ready for Battle
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 10 APRIL 2021 Since first descending on the country’s stages in 2015, there’s been very little to stand in the way of hyperactive sludge trio Black Rheno. Together, the…