Clear the Lane! OG Heavy-Hitters Deez Nuts are hitting the road around Australia this December on the 'You Got Me F*cked Up' 2019 Australian Tour, presented by Destroy All Lines! We got to chat with frontman JJ Peters about the new album, keyboard warriors, changing their sound and plenty more.

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Visionary Swedish metallers, Soilwork, will be hitting up Australia for some very special shows in promotion of their eleventh  studio album. The bands brand new album "Verkligheten" is out now via Nuclear Blast Records, which further cements Soilwork as a fantastic melodic death metal band that shows no signs of tiring 20 years into their career. We got to speak with vocalist, Björn "Speed" Strid, whe...

Cradle of Filth keyboardist and vocalist LINDSAY SCHOOLCRAFT, an accomplished singer, songwriter, harpist, and pianist in her own right, and having just released her debut solo album.  Martyr, co-written by former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray, offers eleven tracks of entrancing gothic rock, influenced by Schoolcraft's background in classical music.  Fans of Evanescence, Nightwish, and the like w...

Straight out of Kentucky, one of the hottest hardcore acts going right now, Knocked Loose, have released their highly anticipated new album, A Different Shade of Blue. A mammoth of a sophomore release and massive step forward for the band and for hardcore and metal as we know it.  Recorded by producer Will Putney, the new LP was approached slower and more methodically. Abandoning the previous 'live in studi...

Down in Tasmania, deep in isolation, lives a man that has created his own legacy of black metal and more recently blackwave music. His name is Striborg. Since 1994, this one man band has made some of the most haunting, artistic, depressive and atmospheric music that you'll perhaps ever hear. Inspired by his fascination with forests, darkness, night, misanthropy and death, Striborg and his music has evolved over the years, but...

The masters of spook rock are back this September with their 8th album “Necrophaze”. Currently touring with STATIC-X and DOPE. This latest, full length offering from the ghouls of WEDNESDAY 13 will be available on September 27th, 2019 via Nuclear Blast Records. Heavily influenced by the real life night terror occurrences of Wednesday himself, historical serial killers, and a slew of 80’s horror films, the ideas behind "Necroph...

The Ramones – like AC/DC, like Motorhead – are true and singular rock icons; a band whose music became its own genre; a band who influenced every other band who ever smoked an amp in their wake. And in the Ramones case it wasn’t just subsequent punk bands from The Sex Pistols to The Buzzcocks to The Misfits to Green Day to The Living End - it was also hard rock/metal bands. Metallica, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam, even Kiss –...

When you talk about classic albums shaping genres 'Cruelty and the Beast' by Cradle Of Filth sits proudly and menacingly at the top of the tree for extreme music. The British extreme metal legends are bringing the 'Cruelty and the Beast' show down under next month. In the lead up to the tour, I was asked if I wanted to interview Dani Filth, of course I said yes! 

First of all, I have been a huge fan of your since I was 14, that...

Canadian progressive heavy music genius, Devin Townsend, will be coming back to Australia this September for a very special ‘An Evening With’ solo acoustic tour. The intimate evenings will feature Devin performing tracks from across his catalogue, as well as taking part in a Q&A where fans will get to know more about what Devin is up to at this stage in his career and the newly released album, Empath. This will prove to be a u...

Written by Steve Jenkins 

With a fire lit underneath and them, post-hardcore outfit, Drown This City, are set to make their mark this year with a huge label signing to UNFD and an upcoming release for their massive sounding new EP titled Alpha // Survivor, out Friday, July 5th. It's a new era for this exciting and fierce group, who are experiencing a resurgence, more focused and energised than ever before. Drown This City have...