GET READY FOR A NIGHT OF FLAMBOYANT GLAM METAL ROCK WITH BLISTERING GUITAR SOLOS, MUSCULAR RIFFS AND DEEPLY KOHLED EYES AS BLACK VEIL BRIDES TAKE TO THE STAGE IN SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE Black Veil Brides kicked off 2013 confidently with the release of their third full-length album, Wretched and Divine. This massive opus sees the Los Angeles quintet deliver a […]

Firmly established as one of the biggest bands in the UK following the amazing success of their current album Opposites – which debuted at #1 in the UK and #22 in Australia – BiffyClyro have announced two side-shows ahead of their appearance as part of the 2014 Soundwave Festival. Biffy Clyro’s live chops are well established internationally, the band having headlined the infamous Leeds […]

Get ready for a ‘blissed out dirty rock ride’! EAGLES of DEATH METAL are bringing their unique blend of double – entendre boogie to Australian stages again for the first time in 7 years! Its Jesse Huges! Its sex, humour and fun! It’s churning guitars and hook-driven choruses and a band whose only agenda is to have a good time! […]

Multiplatinum alt-rock band AFI return to Australian stages for the first time in 4 years! The band released their 9th studio album (“Burials”) in October last year to rave reviews around the world from fans and media alike. “Between hooks galore, exceptional vocals, and a dark, spacey vibe, there’s little not to love…a welcome inclusion to the AFI canon! – Absolute Punk […]

Renowned for their distinctive vocal style Seattle rockers, ALICE IN CHAINS, have announced just 2 Sidewave shows that will see them bring their monster sound to Sydney and Melbourne stages! Having sold over 25 million albums the band emerged during the nineties as part of the Seattle grunge scene and crossed over with their critically acclaimed second album in 1992 […]

The recording of the new album has now gone beyond schedule and sadly the availability of the recording studio, engineers and the producer or lack thereof dictates that the band have had to cancel their upcoming engagements. In line with our commitment to bring you great replacements, we are pleased to announce that Australia’s finest live rock band, THE LIVING […]

Effusive, cathartic, influential and brilliant, LESS THAN JAKE never fail to bring the good times and Australian fans will lose their shit as the band take to the stage in Sydney and Melbourne with pop punk perfectionists BOWLING FOR SOUP and the distinctively punk inspired ZEBRAHEAD! With over twenty years clocked up LESS THAN JAKE are a band obsessed with interacting with its fans, both online and […]

“Megadeth still play with the brutality of an exploding planet!” – The Guardian Get ready for the monstrous roar of multi-platinum, heavy metal legends MEGADETH as they hit the stage up close and personal in Sydney and Melbourne! The nasty snarl is back, Dave is back and he is bringing 2 of Metal’s finest exponents with him for two blistering Sidewaves. Long […]

“…we love Australia and we love coming and playing in Australia and I think particularly because it’s so far away, it’s a whole other world, it’s completely different environment yet culturally it’s so comfortable and it feels so much like home.” From Bio:  The Dillinger Escape Plan’s creative energy and unwavering artistic commitment has reverberated through underground subculture and in […]

SOUNDWAVE TOURING IS PROUD TO ANNOUCE A FURTHER 8 ARTSITS TO THE MONSTER 2014 LINEUP! Joining the already existing line-up will be legendary Bon Jovi guitarist , RICHIE SAMBORA, known for his raw vocals, indelible song writing and world-class guitar playing will be  be no doubt joined by an all-star band featuring Alice Cooper/Michael Jackson guitarist Orianthi Panagaris. Get your […]

Having recently released their seventh studio album and with a career spanning 17 years, PLACEBOwill be playing just 2 very special side shows in Sydney and Melbourne. When Brian Molko – singer songwriter with bleak-hearted rock three piece, Placebo – began writing his band’s seventh studio album (LOUD LIKE LOVE) released in September last year, his intention was to sketch […]

“There’s a synergy between these four men that’s characteristic of all legendary rock ‘n’ roll” – ArtistDirect.com “I’ve loved STP since I was 13 years old and they’ve had a huge influence on me, when the opportunity came up to do something creative with them, I jumped at the chance” – Chester Bennington Having sold nearly 40 million records worldwide, STONE […]

In a night guaranteed to make fans salivate, ROB ZOMBIE and KORN will take to the stage in Sydney and Melbourne with a feral, fiery and live ferocity that will be unmatchable! A rock icon and auteur filmmaker with insight and unlimited vision, ROB ZOMBIE has continuously challenged audiences as he stretches the boundaries of music, film, and publishing. As […]

Rock juggernaut’s ALTER BRIDGE will be strutting the stages in Sydney and Melbourne and joined by none other than funk-metal royalty LIVING COLOUR for a series of incredibly special Sidewave shows!! ALTER BRIDGE have firmly placed themselves as one of the most routinely acclaimed and adored hard rock bands on the planet. With 3 brilliant albums already under their belt […]

“All I want to say is great job keeping the pressure on Australia, one run through your country was not enough, we’ve only begun to infect your minds, and Gwar is returning for the next Soundwave festival, get ready for the biggest show in rock and roll history, get ready for GWAR!” From Bio: 2013 is a packed year for […]

“The album as a whole, I don’t know, we all just get in the studio and do our own thing, and whatever comes naturally comes out and we don’t really go in to change anything when it comes to albums, we do what we do best and that’s just work off each other for every song, and it’s what we […]

UK genre-straddling rock powerhouse SKINDRED will release their fifth long player ‘Kill The Power’ on January 31, 2014.   WATCH ALBUM PREVIEW VIDEO HERE The digital single for the album’s title track ‘Kill The Power’ will be unleashed on December 9 and  includes killer remixes from Cyantific, Rednek, Zed Bias, Subsource and Licarus.   In keeping with their tradition of making people move while singing […]

A DAY TO REMEMBER MASTODON HIM / PENNYWISE / JIMMY EAT WORLD / GLASSJAW / PANIC! AT THE DISCO/ EAGLES OF DEATH METAL / MAYDAY PARADE / SEVENDUST / CROSSES / SUICIDE SILENCE / THE PORKERS / GOJIRA / BLACK VEIL BRIDES / ZEBRAHEAD / SATYRICON / DREAM ON DREAMER / MUTE MATH / DESAPARECIDOS / STIFF LITTLE FINGERS / […]

Green Day has announced that their documentary film ¡Cuatro! will be released on DVD on Friday 8 November.  ¡Cuatro! pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities around the U.S. to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their recent trilogy of albums: […]

“… it was time to capture that and just showing where Testament is today in our career. I see a new fan base of new metal heads out there and I thought it would be more appropriate to where we are today, more of the style we’re writing today. So it just made sense that it was time to do […]

“Seems to me every time we go down there and play Soundwave we come back and we’ve received so many more fans each time around. It’s just unbelievable how big of a festival it is and how smoothly it runs, it’s one of the top festivals in the world and we just love being in Australia and touring there.” From […]

In Summary: “They may not completely be the Korn of old, but they’re sure as hell on the way back…” There are a couple of things I’m intrigued to get into about this new Korn album, firstly after their last album ‘The Path of Totality’ which was interesting to say the least, it can’t be any worse, and the fact […]

“Well, I mean physically we try to give 100% during our shows, that includes any festival shows, we don’t cut corners, we don’t usually have anything too crazy like lasers, or motorcycles on stage or anything, it’s pretty much music, that’s what people come for.” Four years after their last album, AFI are back, and if the first two releases […]

“I’m just really excited to play these new songs and really digging into them and just now in the last week or so getting into the new material and we haven’t played together in over a year in front of an audience, so we’re just ready to just get this ball rolling man…” Alter Bridge are back with a new […]

“Things have been so natural as we’ve gone along, we’ve never really had to force many changes, it’s always been, whether there’s been harmony or not it’s always kind of created a good sort of relationship together and we’re really strong after all this time together.” From Bio: The story of Biffy Clyro is as romantic as it is archetypal. […]

Bowling For Soup are one of my favourite bands and I’ve been there with them since back in ‘Nam… mind you, I actually wasn’t there when the honourable ones rocked on or when they did it for Johnny but I was there when they were drunk enough to dance and have been ever since, there for them, not drunk, well, […]

Grammy award winning, multi-platinum hard rock kings, KORN have released a brand new video for Never Never, the totally addictive lead track from their new album The Paradigm Shift. Directed by Dutch-Italian filmmaker Giovanni Bucci – known for his crisp visuals and gothic themes – the video features the rejuvenated ensemble performing some Matrix-like maneuvers to avoid being struck by the […]

“The Frenzal tour we did in 2009 did come out of the blue a little bit and like I said before that perhaps showed that it wasn’t all finished, but I can guarantee going forward we’ll be playing less than we will be more and I don’t know how much we have left in us.” From Bio: The year is […]

“It’s nice to be able to land in a foreign country and know what’s going on and have it all run smoothly, but yeah, we had a great time doing Soundwave last time, met a lot of bands and made friends and met up with a lot of our older friends, so yeah, looking forward to our second Soundwave trip.” […]