40% Scowl lunged forward from the California hardcore scene as yet another ‘big thing’ band to watch around the same time as the great plague that shan’t be named engulfed the world,…
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Nunchukka Superfly Drop New Track Ahead of Album Release
Sydney unclassifiable prog noise merchants Nunchukka Superfly have prefaced the release of their first (new) album in yonks with the single What’s Ya Week Like. With the clip made by Hard-Ons film…
SPIRITBOX – Tsunami Sea
50% The first Spiritbox album changed my perception of what modern heavy could be. I knew what the members of the band were capable of, as you only had to look at their…
WHITECHAPEL – Hymns in Dissonance
100% Whitechapel once stood atop a mountain of soundalike deathcore bands, arriving on the heavy music landscape when what they did was considered ignorant and heavy, with nothing fresh to add to…
THE RUMJACKS – Dead Anthems
70% The once Sydney-based Celtic punk mob has spread their wings with success in Europe and parts of the US, aided by a vocalist replacement in the Boston-based Mike Rivkees. The first…
ALARUM – Recontinue
90% Alarum have long been at the forefront of interesting progressive death metal in Australia. Early albums took their lead from Cynic and Atheist, blending a grinding death metal style with jazz….
CRANKEES – Settle Down
80% Here in Australia we have a special way of taking musical form and creating something individual to us with it. Crankees are a Sydney based punk band doing just that. They…
RONNIE SIMMONS AND THE REDBACK SPIDERS – Bite! Part One
70% Birthed during lockdown in an LA apartment, these songs are the first real flowering of Ronnie Simmons as an artist in his own right. After years as a skilled sideman, Bite!…
ABRAMELIN – Sins of the Father
85% Our homegrown death metal masters are back at work with another unrelenting splatterfest. Draped in appropriately gory art, Abramelin’s fourth album rips open with the savagery of Conflagration of the Dreamers,…
VOID OF VISION – What I’ll Leave Behind
80% Moving further away from their early hardcore and metalcore roots, Void of Vision’s newest release is an exploration of the darkest thoughts and depression through the health battle of vocalist Jack…