“If people like it, that’s great, that’s awesome, I make music for my fans, I make music for myself first, but I wouldn’t work so hard of it if I didn’t want to get it out to the world. I just do not care if there are naysayers or there’s the people that don’t like it or do like it, […]

“This is an album we can really put our stamp of approval on it and this is something we can really call Dream Theater because we felt like this is so representative of where we are as musicians and as people that if anybody asks ‘what is Dream Theater all about?’ well in 2013 this is our presentation, it’s who […]

“Well we didn’t really set out to make an album that sounds electro or anything like that, but for myself I listened to a lot of different types of music and we’d driven down that big guitar driven album a few albums now, and I think I was a bit bored of it, I wanted to do something different and […]

“In coming together it will always sound like Soilwork, but there’s always something, so for that it’s really exciting for me. So I’m grateful that I’m still excited about creating music and having to make that same damn album over again to be able to stay above the surface.” From Tour Release: Sweden’s SOILWORK have long been regarded by many […]

Bio: Your Favorite Enemies’ distinctive blend of dirty and polished type of sonic textures, along with their introspective poetry and symbolist type of lyrical approach gathered fanatics from all different musical backgrounds into a defining communion of high level noise, post-punk, psych, shoegaze and prog rock. Well known for their old school DIY dedicated ethos, for being fierce human rights […]

“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 […]

“The sound has definitely progressed and our song writing skills have definitely improved as well. We are growing up too! The last album was years ago and since then we have all grown up as musicians and more importantly as human beings. This does directly translate to the music.” From release: Crossfaith combine metal, hardcore, samples and electronica to create […]

“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 […]

From Bio: Vanity Riots have honed their sound over the past 3 years on the stages of Sydney’s dirty rock n’ roll pub scene. Since their debut in an over-crowded club in Kings Cross, Vanity Riots have been constantly writing, playing shows, touring and have released 2 EPs. Vanity Riots’ DYI attitude and work ethic has seen them gain recognition […]

“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. […]

“If you’re uncomfortable when you’re challenged by listening to something, if you want to listen to stuff that is something that your ear is always accustomed to hearing, you won’t like Meshuggah, and that’s the point, that’s why we sound like we do.” From tour release: Nothing feels safe when you’re listening to Meshuggah. Meshuggah’s dense, polyrhythmic roar elevates tech-metal […]

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, […]

“So it’s just little things like that that we’ve taken on board and made sure that this whole album is going to be good live, and we wanted to write something explosive and hit hard physically and sonically but also emotionally.” From Release:  After recording their 2011 debut album What Are You So Scared Of? in Los Angeles with Mark […]

Happy double digits to Anberlin, as tonight marks the tenth visit to Australian shores for these Florida natives who may as well call Australia home as they are so loved here. Tonight is special as they have brought along some friends in the form of former The Academy Is… singer William Beckett and The Maine, both who have graced our […]

“Satyricon is basically a parallel world and basically it was there on this album, it felt like a statement and the album felt like a journey through that world that is Satyricon and hence it became natural to actually title the album after the band, Finally after more than twenty years that statement actually felt natural, it was no lack […]

In Summary: “Crossfaith may just be the future and the something new and different that we haven’t really got in music at the moment” One of my highlights of Soundwave 2013 was completely unexpected, welcome Crossfaith from Japan and they showed Australia how it’s done. If you missed them at Soundwave, well you have a chance to see them very […]

“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.” […]

“There’s definitely pressure, that’s unavoidable but what do you do? You can’t do anything about it, you’ve just got to suck it up and hope for the best, but every album we’ve written has been better than the last, so I’m not worried, it is stressful but I’m not concerned that we don’t have it in us to write a […]

“Well we all basically like party and we don’t like doom and gloom and there’s a lot of bad shit going on in the world and we thought let’s just make a record that’s fun and have a big party while doing it and we like to call it a soundtrack to your next hangover, and it’s a party in […]

“I noticed that I couldn’t write just one lyric about the subject which is my burn-out. And so I wrote three lyrics that look at it from different angles. I connected them by the title even though musically they’re not connected.” Floor Jansen’s voice is already known for its wide range and variety, you may know her from After Forever, […]

Avenged Sevenfold are back, well they didn’t really go anywhere, but they have had some time off, and this marks their first album in three years and their first completely ‘Rev-less’ R.I.P…  and as sorely missed as he is, the band marches on and in a big way with their sixth album ‘ Hail To The King.’ What isn’t missing […]

I’m awake, I’m awake!! Sorry, if I was in any way dozing, I am no longer as the new DevilDriver album ‘Winter Kills’ begins, so does my treatment for the mini heart attack I had as my volume was up all the way… my fault, but at least I’m alert now. Welcome back DevilDriver! ‘The Oath’ is the one that […]

From Bio: Ashes of Ares is a band which represents the culmination of experiences, trials and tribulations of founding members Matt Barlow, Van Williams and Freddie Vidales. Within months of their departures from the iconic metal bands ICED EARTH and NEVERMORE, the trio came together with a renewed drive to create a sound which is a true collaboration of their […]

I always get intrigued when I have an album to review and I find out that the band has been around for quite some time (over ten years in fact) and I’ve never heard of them. Shame on me, shame indeed. Although in reading up on this new album by Misery Signals, I find that it’s been five years since […]

The ‘Nostaglia’ tour seems to be the flavour of the, well, last few years actually… bands are heading back into their catalogue and dusting off the usually never touched album tracks and giving fans a taste of generally their favourite album in a start to finish live experience. I love these things; I do, and often get excited when I […]

“If you’re a DevilDriver fan you’re gonna love it, if you’re not, it may turn you around and if you’ve never heard of us, as soon as you’ve heard this you’ll want to go back in the catalogue, so I’m very proud of this record.” DevilDriver are back with a new album titled ‘Winter Kills’ and trust me, this one is […]

“It’s amazing, and just to see that kind of support for a local band is incredible and it just shows me that there is hope from the music industry and the corporatized structure of it and it now becoming collaboration between your audience and the band, you know for me it’s really exciting. It’s still in its infancy, it’s a […]

“I think it’s going to be pretty evident on the album for people to see how I’ve grown as a writer and a performer and just I think overall freeness of the song writing and the lyric, not that I wasn’t able to accomplish that before which was the end of the band, I think that certain pressures and outside […]

In their return to Australia since their last time here for Soundwave in 2007, and this time with new singer Kristen May who replaced original vocalist Lacey Sturm last year, it’s always daunting to try and get a new voice to fans that are used to what they know. Now, Flyleaf’s newest album aptly titled ‘New Horizons’ did feature Lacey […]