ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 29 AUGUST 2012 Eight-string guitar-favouring Brisbane deathcore bruisers Aversions Crown aim to craft a more technical slant on what has been a much-criticised genre. Having released their debut album Servitude last year,…
BACKTRACKIN’: Allegiance – Perth’s Thrash Legends
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 4 JULY 2013 Perth writer James Birkin gives us this retrospective on one of Australia’s greatest thrash bands – Allegiance! Formed in 1990, Perth band Allegiance were an institution to…
BACKTRACKIN’: Taramis – Melbourne’s Early Metal Titans
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 17 OCTOBER 2010 Taramis were one of the very early contenders on the Australian metal scene in the 1980s, and just like other early local groups like Nothing Sacred, Taipan…
LAGERSTEIN – Live in Brisbane
75% Pirate metal is the weird and weirdly popular off-shoot of folk metal, which is often just as strange. Lagerstein are by far Australia’s sharpest and wildest exponents at this caper and…
Winter Magic Revival Festival, Katoomba
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TEMTRIS – Ritual Warfare
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INTRØSPECT: Midnight Sun
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Monolith Festival, Sydney
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Blacken Open Air 2022
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Dr Colossus at the Duke
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