“You never stop to doing new things, we still have a lot to say musically…….. exams never end!!!!!” From tour release: Across the course of a career that has spanned three decades Goblin have been providing the spine tingling soundtrack to the celluloid nightmares of a generation of horror movie lovers. The Italian ensemble have become masters of a musical […]

“It took about six months to finish this record and we felt like in the end the fact that people wanted a record from us the way they did, and also the fact that they deserved a good record is kind of how this record culminated and how it all came to fruition.” From press release: It’s been awhile since […]

No stranger to the Australian music scene, you may have seen Simon Meli perform before without even knowing it. Now that he’s been on TV he may be a lot easier to recognize, but his talent and his voice has been killing it for years around the live traps both supporting huge international artists as well as playing his own […]

From tour release: For the past eleven years, the institution known as The Amenta has steadfastly refused to do anything by the book. With a strong desire for experimentation and the avant-garde, and a sadistic pre-occupation with all things ugly, decayed and rotten, the band have consistently released challenging and ground breaking material beginning with Occasus, through to nOn, the […]

“Up until maybe 2009 I thought it would probably never happen, but, I always made sure I kept a Marshall half-stack around in case it did, so maybe subconsciously I always thought that it would happen some day.” Cast your mind back to 1992 when this band hated everything about you, wanted us to be their Neighbour and a cover […]

From Bio: THIS CENTURY formed in 2007, and has quickly become one of the more exciting pop/rock bands to enter the scene. Their unique combination of anthem pop and a die-hard grassroots fan base has led them to extensive tour dates with the likes of Good Charlotte, The Maine, The Ready Set, Breathe Carolina, Hey Monday and many others. The […]

I love a bit of pop rock, you just can’t beat that easy to listen to element of it and there are bands out there doing it and doing really well from it. I think of bands like ‘All Time Low’, ‘The Maine’ and ‘Hot Chelle Rae’ that have carved their niche. Enter This Century with their second album ‘Biography […]

“Well… it’s not exactly power metal, it’s not exactly thrash metal, I’ve been in the business too long and I hate putting a description on it, but I would say it’s Heavy Metal, it’s just Heavy Metal. It’s got bits of everything in it, brutal, thrash, power, it’s just the only thing I can say it’s just righteous Heavy Metal. […]

“I would say Ronnie doesn’t want to limit himself to any specific genre… I feel like he wants to write whatever he wants to write, and so one day he might write like a sad song, or a country song, he might want to write hardcore, he just doesn’t want to put any limitations on his writing which I think […]

Christian rock for some reason always gets somewhat frowned upon by some music fans, in particular rock fans, especially when it’s widely known that a band represents that. Look at bands like Stryper who have always maintained their beliefs, and I’m not scared to say that I caught a Stryper bible at one of their shows and I dug that. […]

“The album is a very spiritual journey of trying to find hope in a hopeless world, and trying to find faith and say who am I and rising above these things that keep us chained.” Following your ‘big’ album is a daunting task, so after 2009’s ‘Awake’, an album that took Skillet to new places (literally) and had the band […]

“Well for me after all these years of touring, and playing live I just wanted The Dead Daisies to be a true band, no bells and whistles, just keep it really simple and make it rock and good melodies and guitar riffs.” A legend of the Australian music scene for well over twenty five years now, Jon Stevens is of […]

“We all have a few different influences… I guess it’s all about the moment. We listen to all types of music we don’t have a partially genre or style. From old to new to right down the middle.” From Bio: ‘Power and grace, passion and dynamics, unique and memorable’, Melbourne five piece MY SECRET CIRCUS (MSC), breathe life back into […]

“I like to let each musician shine a bit in their own light, and I like to have a bit of an acoustic set and at least one part of the set that is a bit outlandish. This time I came up with something absurd. At one point in the show I invite a few audience members up to build […]

From the opening seconds of putting on ‘Warmaster’, this assault and onslaught of Metal has me intrigued, intrigued meaning excited and eager to hear what this new band is all about. This opening track, aptly named after the band that plays it ‘Death Dealer’, is fast, furious and to me takes shades of every metal band that paved the way […]

From Tour press release: Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher. With a band like the BellRays it’s all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide. And Australian audiences are about to witness all the above things when the BellRays return this June for a 5-date tour. Bob […]

“The road has helped shape our band. We have found what we like and dislike about our music and what we do well and poorly. All of these things have led us to becoming a real band. I feel that the more we tour the more there is to learn.” From Bio: The Maine is an American rock band from […]

“Well, new things are always waiting for us. Even though more than 20 years have passed, we haven’t changed much since we were onstage at small clubs in Tokyo. We still feel like rookies. Would you ask a rookie about career highlights?” From Tour Release:  Boris have earned a rabid cult following thanks to their uncanny ability to expertly blend […]

“There’s no real gimmicks with us and we just try and stay true to ourselves and I think that’s part of the reason they follow us, partly because of the music, but partly us as people because we take the time to talk to people, we drink beer with the fans, there’s no real difference it’s almost like a blue […]

Gritty, rockin’, dirty, bluesy, sweaty, loud and louder. That was my instant reaction to when I put this album on, and that’s a good thing. From straight out of the gates it was on, and if you didn’t tell me this was an Australian band, I never would’ve guessed, as this sounds like it’s straight out of the Southern swamps […]

“The fact that it was in Australia that we received our first silver and gold record, and pretty much Australia was the first country to really embrace Fear Factory from ‘Soul of a New Machine’ on. It was like we owe it to our fans.” No strangers to touring Australia, Fear Factory are headed Down Under again, but this time […]

From official bio: The term Rock n’ Roll gets thrown around pretty haphazardly. One can go as far as stating it’s been bastardized to the point of being unrecognizable, ironically shouted on stages worldwide, and classified dead or MIA by the very musicians that once upheld its standard. Enter Monster Truck. There’s something comforting about a band name that delivers […]

Twenty years is a long time between releases and especially for a band that was so big in their hey day like the Baby Animals were, but here we are now in 2013 and Suze DeMarchi and Dave Leslie thought it was time to return, and what a time it is. ‘This Is Not The End’ sees Suze and Dave […]

Dallas Green and his magical musical beast City and Colour finally releases his new album ‘The Hurry and the Harm’ this week and I know that in the music world the words ‘highly anticipated’ get thrown around a little, but with City and Colour there are so many that wait with baited breath, with good reason too as this act […]

Genius isn’t a word I throw around much. I could simply review this album with that one simple word ‘Genius’, as I feel like it is. I’m now into my fifth listen through the album and not because I needed to get into it to review it, but because it’s simply THAT good. I don’t know what it is about […]

From Bio: Brisbane rock newcomers Aerials kicked the door of the Australian live music circuit wide open in 2012 with the release of their explosive single, ‘Silhouettes’. Having received nods from Triple J Unearthed and RAGE, the band wasted no time in hitting the road with respected acts such as The Red Paintings, Over:Reactor and Greenthief. Aerials debut EP drops […]

Doing the rounds of Sydney for quite some time now, Devine Electric have been a band that we’ve featured before on the site, and their no nonsense rock and roll has been a favourite by many in the scene with a live show that is loud and proud and a sound reminiscent of that late 70’s early 80’s rock which […]

Diesel has been a part of the Australian music scene for over twenty years now and tonight we get to see a special side of him was he gives us a solo & select show, and part of it involving a tailored set allowing the crowd to choose the set via fliers filled out before the show where you select […]

“When we started, it was clear to us from the very beginning that we want to work hard and we want to work a lot to get where we are as a band and move forward, but if you’re within that it’s more like taking one step after another, in that sense, everything that we ever did is important to […]

“We’re the kind of band that’s a live band, we always just want to be touring and playing shows but at the same time you’ve got to tell yourself that you can’t do that until you write a good album and make sure you do it right and release it *laughs*.” From Bio and this sums the band up perfectly: […]