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…
Category: Music Reviews
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…
POD PEOPLE – Oblivion
90% The return of Canberra riff mongers Pod People is now complete, with the release of their third full length album, Oblivion. In the mid-90s when most of Australia’s metal bands were…
IN HEARTS WAKE – Incarnation
80% To me, In Hearts Wake have always seemed like also-rans in the popular metalcore genre. You know the type: not bad, just not good enough to really stand out, unlike some…
WEREWOLVES – Die For Us
95% Melbourne maniacs Werewolves are on the attack once again, and if you’ve been following what they’ve unleashed previously, don’t expect to be surprised this time. Die For Us is another slab…
RUN – True Heaviness is Time
90% Lochlan Watt has always had an intrinsic understanding of heavy music. Long before he was bringing the noise to a nationwide audience on Triple J, Lochlan was fronting bands and publishing…
BLACK LAVA – The Savage Winds to Wisdom
55% Black Lava’s second album starts out very similar to their debut, a long fade from silence into raw, old school Swedish-style death metal, except on Soul Furnace the tension was spread…
THE INCANTUS – The Incantus
50% The Incantus are an Australian band that began in the depths of New South Wales before blooming into full band existence in Victoria, playing a style best described as melodic death….