Monthly Archives December 30, 2015

It is still a few weeks away, but a number of shows on Luca Brasi's January tour with Endless Heights and Brawlers are starting to run thin. Barely stopping to draw breath after hosting their own music...

Californian science fiction power metal band Helion Prime will release their debut self-titled album independently on February 15th, and pre-orders are available now. All pre-orders from Bandcamp will be...

Fresh from selling out shows on their final 2015 tour, The Bennies are wrapping the year at Ding Dong in Melbourne on New Years Eve, and tickets are just about gone. The band recently released the first...

New York pop punk band State Champs recently released their new album 'Around the World And Back' for Pure Noise Records. The band return to Australia next week, on a national tour with friends Neck Deep...

Long running Californian surf punk / rock band Agent Orange will commence their Australian tour dates this Wednesday night in Adelaide. Being the first to combine the melodic California surf guitar sound...

UNIFY, the upcoming two day boutique camping and music gathering set in the beautifully picturesque pastures of South Gippsland, a relaxed two-hour drive from Melbourne is just about at capacity. The final 250...

Bofolk Ballico loves movies. This year alone he’s sat down and watched 228 of them (and counting), so it was inevitable that sooner or later he would start writing songs about them too. This is not to say...

Byron Bay's Valhalla Lights have announced details of their new album 'My Gracious Highway' and return to Sydney tonight for a show at Frankie's Pizza on a lineup that also includes Dead City Ruins, The...

On February 13th, Club 54 in Launceston will host the inaugural Metal Fusion festival. The event is set to be headlined by Psycroptic, with support from Whoretopsy, Graves, Hollow World, Zeolite, Down...

The Mis-Made and Blackbreaks have announced an East Coast run of shows together in January & February. Members of these two bands are no strangers to sharing the stage, having members of both hailing from...

Southern California's Ignite are streaming the track 'This Is A War' from their soon to be released new album, 'A War Against You', which is the long awaited follow-up to the 2006 album, 'Our Darkest...

After recently joining the Resist Records roster, Central Coast hardcore punk outfit Choke are set to kick off 2016 by releasing their debut album 'Left With Nothing' on January 8th. Pre-orders are...

This year saw Beatdisc in Parramatta celebrate 20 glorious years as an independent record store. As part of the celebrations, a short film 'Twenty Years Of Beatdisc' by film-maker, Seb Alvarez was screened...

Thy Art Is Murder have announced that vocalist CJ McMahon is no longer a part of the band. With an ever busy tour schedule, the band will continue on with the help of Nick Arthur of Molotov Solution on...

In celebration of the release of their seventh studio record, New York’s Stray From The Path return to Australia for a run of headline shows in a couple of weeks time. The tour will wrap with an...

Local progressive metal band Voyager recently announced a co-headline tour with Norway's Leprous kicking off in late January and through the first week of February. Sydney, Perth, Brisbane & Melbourne will...

We Came As Romans have premiered a superhero themed music video for their single 'Who Will Pray?' The song comes from the band's self-titled, fourth full-length album, which is out now on Equal Vision...

What a year 2015 has been for Byron Bay heavyweights Parkway Drive. They soared straight to the top of the ARIA charts for the first time with their fifth record, 'IRE', previous efforts have come...

Back in October, Fat Freddy's Drop released their new album 'Bays' via The Drop / Remote Control Records. They also announced a run of Australian tour dates for next February which are filling up. Two...

You can now check out a video of Nick van Breda from Pinch Hitter playing the track 'I Like That You Make Bad Decisions' in the Riverside Tunnel in Manhattan, New York as part the 'A Banjo in A Bando'...