80% After first being formed in 2014 as a product of ‘the questionable mind of’ Katoomba’s Matt Downey (Cousin Betty, Death Mattel), the recording project known as LITTER have released their debut…
Category: Music Reviews
THE OWEN GUNS – Dawn of the Brain Dead
80% The Owen Guns are blazing their way through the modern Sydney rock scene as a thinking person’s punk band with lyrical substance and unapologetic attitude. Their debut album, Dawn of the Braindead,…
ASYLUM – Tyrannicide
80% Asylum is a three piece out of Brisbane that offers nothing but breakneck old school thrash – nothing more, nothing less. From the opening moment, Tyrannicide is wall to wall aggression and neck-snapping…
PARKWAY DRIVE – Darker Still
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…
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…
DEAD CITY RUINS – Shockwave
85% Having been forced to cool their heels for over two years doesn’t seem to have diluted the indomitable rock and roll spirit of Dead City Ruins. Always a band that knew…
THE CHATS – Get Fucked
75% Aussie punk rock is making a stab at the mainstream again lately and these Sunny Coast reprobates are in a big way responsible. Get Fucked sees The Chats leaning even harder into…
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…
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…