“I guess the hiatus between touring that part of the world I guess that fosters a bit of love…” From Release: Cradle of Filth, led by the inimitable Dani Filth, continue to reign as the most influential and enduring name in extreme metal. Their reputation as a singular artistic force and as one of the most insanely entertaining live acts […]

“If it stinks it’s all on me *laughs*…” From Release: After four decades as the driving force behind Skid Row, bassist and songwriter Rachel Bolan steps forward with his first-ever solo album under the name BOLAN. “Gargoyle of the Garden State” is a bold, deeply personal debut rooted in the grit, attitude, and storytelling spirit of his New Jersey upbringing. […]

“It’s kind of fun for me because I find myself going oh maybe I can sing this one better than I sang it on the recording which that’s always the goal, hey this is a chance for me to actually improve what I was doing back then…” From Release: So Cal punk royalty, Descendents return to Australia and New Zealand […]

“We’re actually good at our instruments now, it only took twenty years but we are good at them finally. We’re sharp now there’s just this intensity but we still have this raw element, this realness you can’t replicate it just comes from our era, our culture …” From Release: For over two decades now, Escape The Fate have been one […]

“I knew at the point when I came over from that tour this is an opportunity to really start coming back to Australia regularly…” From Release: KT Tunstall live on stage is a force. Her shows are electric; loop pedals, powerful vocals and an engaging stage presence that makes everyone in the crowd feel like she is singing directly to […]

“I think that’s why we call it the church of Hot Milk so to speak because I think it feels like a religious experience for not only us but the people that are really into us as well because it is a cathartism on both sides…” From Release: The incendiary duo of Hannah Mee and Jim Shaw are headed back […]

“You never know about the future and we don’t have to decide anything now…” From Release: As the curtain falls on an extraordinary career spanning more than four decades, SEPULTURA are preparing to close their final chapter at the end of this year. With over 40 years of band history, 14 gold records, and performances across more than 80 countries, […]

“It’s the best thing in the world and the reason we do what we do…” “Seeing the smiles and seeing the positivity and seeing how in real time how our music can affect people. We’ve been a band for 17 years now and been playing music and touring for longer than that and that never gets old, even just thinking […]

“It’s the best thing in the world and the reason we do what we do…” From Release: Australia, get set to be bowled over in 2026, with beloved UK folk punk act Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls joining forces with Texan pop punk mainstays Bowling For Soup for a monumental co-headline Australian tour this May. Bringing two prolific live […]

“You have to go through things to get to where you’re at, you know you have to go from point A to point B to get to the other side of everything…” From Release: BLACK LABEL SOCIETY kicks off 2026 with ENGINES OF DEMOLITION, their first studio album since 2021, Zakk began writing ENGINES OF DEMOLITION in 2022 during his […]

“I’ve always been Femme Fatale, I’ve always been Lorraine Lewis, you know it’s my own brand of rock and roll and I got back to being myself…” From Release: Australian fans will finally get to witness Femme Fatale frontwoman Lorraine Lewis live for the first time. A beloved icon of the ’80s hard rock scene, Lorraine has recently fronted Vixen […]

“Still to this day people ask oh aren’t you bummed out your success didn’t last longer? Kind of, but you know what I’m more thankful that we were part of it and we got what we got…” From Release: TRIXTER captivated fans with their youthful energy, rebellious image, and unstoppable hooks. But it was on stage where the band truly […]

“People have always asked about you know how the bands influence each other and all that, so it’s always been in the back of our mind that at some point we want to find a way to merge them…” From Release: Born more than two decades ago as the creative and experimental offshoot of LA punk heavyweights The Bronx, Mariachi […]

“I feel like this record is almost kind of a continuation of the last one. I mean we walked into the studio this time and it felt like the next day…” From Release: A.R.S.O.N. marks the next evolution of Story Of The Year’s signature sound and raw, personal lyricism – elements that have earned the band a dedicated global following. […]

“It’s not a problem, it’s just a conundrum that when it comes to The Tea Party playing with an orchestra it becomes mathematical because we have to understand the ins and the outs…” From Release: Performing five shows in Australia, The Tea Party explore a new live musical theme around Elements, with Symphony shows in Melbourne and Sydney aligned to […]

“I want to apologize to all Australians because we have neglected you for far too long…” From Release: CKY are the flag bearers for big, raw, authentic, earth-shaking rock liberated from useless pretence. They burned it all down, with a raucous, anarchic rock sound soaked in the skate-punk culture that birthed them; and a hard-partying lifestyle onstage and off that […]

“We can play in a room to five people and it looks like we’re playing in front of 50,000 because we never want to let anybody down… they have to leave thinking they’ve seen the best thing in the world” From Release: Biffy Clyro have announced they’re returning to Australia for the first time in 8 years. Headed to Melbourne, […]

“Here we are 40 years later, been around the world dozens and dozens of times and you know it’s just been quite a journey and quite a trip and if anything it’s just more surreal than anything it’s just hard to believe how quickly time has flown…” From Release: With the worldwide excitement around the recently completed European tour, GRAMMY®-winning, […]

“I’m still not gotten over the fact that I play music for a living. I’m pretty blown away by the fortune that has brought me and how incredibly special and rare that is/ I have not gotten over it, or bored of it, or used to it yet so I’m very much still in the fan space mentally when it […]

“I have come to understand more and more through the years that yeah it’s nice if I understand what we have done at the end of the writing, but you don’t always have to know exactly where you’re going in the beginning…” From Release: The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as AVATAR have finally unleashed their latest masterwork Don’t Go […]

“I wanted to do something different for the 20th anniversary, something I’ve never done, and I had this idea a few years back…” From Release: From the raw, heartfelt strums of a lone acoustic guitar in a Californian bedroom to global stages filled with thousands singing his lyrics, John Vesely, better known as Secondhand Serenade, has carved a legacy that […]

“The first time is always the first time, and it can only happen once, but it always has a lot of expectations and a lot of like things building up towards it…” From Release: Rock stars in their homeland of Finland since their first album, Peep, went Gold when they were just 16 years old, The Rasmus have built a […]

“It’s so hard to have an identity and for some reason Garbage has a very strong identity and now we look at that as an incredibly powerful asset.” From Release: Returning to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade, GARBAGE aren’t ones to rest on their laurels. Led by vocalist, guitarist and bonafide ’90s icon, Shirley Manson, the […]

“I tell people all the time, we’re your favourite band you just don’t know it…” From Release: Wednesday 13 returns on the back of a sold out Australian tour in 2023 celebrating his former band Murderdolls. The pairing of Kim Dracula and Wednesday 13 is a stroke of evil genius. Fast and dirty, raw, chaotic and macabre. It’s tongue-in-cheek horror […]

“No matter where we play it always feels like we’re doing it not for the first time but I treat it like it’s the first and last show all the time…” From Release: For the first time since their sellout 2001 Australian tour, multi-platinum and BRIT award winning, Scottish alternative rock band Travis is coming to Australia, to perform classic […]

“Some of them were a bit daunting just thinking about playing them, and then when you get into it you get the muscle memory back, and you just realise how screwy the songs were…” From Release: PIXIES have announced a 2025 Australian tour which will see the alt-rock legends perform two consecutive nights in each city. On the first night, […]

“It’s great because we have an opportunity to be able to play in front of a lot of people that normally would not see us, and some maybe never heard of us or for whatever reason never saw us…” From Release: Exactly two years since their last visit, Suicidal Tendencies return in late 2025 with a series of firsts, which […]

“It was cool because we were not under any pressure from the label or anywhere to do anything quick or fast, so we kind of took our time with this one…” From Release: SOULFLY has been spearheading the movement of groove metal for decades now, reaching into limitless directions while seamlessly retaining the expert quality and perfection that bears the […]

“I feel like I’ve been doing so many things on my own and doing as much as I can on my own, and now I feel like we’re going to go to radio for the first time and we’re going to be able to do things that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to do on my own anymore, and so […]

“We are in a chapter for this band that is in our minds is unheard of to be doing what we’re doing now and I think we’re truly if not already we’re very much on the cusp of this being bigger even than Ocean Avenue was…” From Release: ‘Better Days’ is the band’s first full feature length album in almost […]