BRING ME THE HORIZON have been threatening to deliver on a world dominating scale and their incredible new album ‘Sempiternal’ has finally tipped them over the edge. It was Australian fans leading the charge catapulting the album to a No.1 debut. Any lingering doubts about whether BRING ME THE HORIZON could maintain their status as one of the world’s premier […]

“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 […]

Floridian 5-piece, Anberlin will celebrate their 10th anniversary by bringing brand new anthems and a pair of international support bands to Australia this September. Anberlin’s live show is a force to be reckoned with. Such a massive part of the band’s continued success and the basis of their creative inspiration; their live performances manage to exude warmth and intimacy regardless […]

Off the back of Aerosmith’s Australian tour, The Dead Daisies are now preparing an invasion of U.S. soil in August & September 2013 for the fourth annual Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival. Alongside heavyweight rockers Alice in Chains and Jane’s Addiction, the band will Headline the COLDCOCK Herbal Whiskey Showcase Stage which will also feature performances from breaking talent Beware Of […]

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 […]

Destroy All Lines & Killyourstereo.com present – OBEY THE BRAVE – Australian Tour 2013 Forming in Canada and featuring ex-members of Despised Icon and Blind Witness, Obey The Brave are heading to Australia for the first time this coming August. Despite having formed a mere 18 months ago, Obey The Brave has already made an impact on the metalcore scene […]

Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band have revealed that their recently announced Australian Tour will be in support of a brand new five track EP/10” vinyl release via Poison City Records. Titled ‘Don’t Fuck With Our Dreams’, it’ll be out August 9   Pre-orders are available from Tuesday June 18 – those who pre-order on that day will go into the draw […]

The Frontier Touring Company confirm Yellowcard will be returning to Australia when Ocean Avenue Acoustic, The Tour hits our shores this October. The pop-punk rockers have re-imagined their most successful album to date, 2003’s Ocean Avenue ten years on from its original release. The band’s announcement of their album reissue, Ocean Avenue Acoustic (Available August 16, UNFD), coincides with the […]

Recorded in Los Angeles at Blue Room Studios with producer Bob Marlette, FILTER‘s latest album The Sun Comes Out Tonight follows 2010’s The Trouble with Angels. The band’s decorated history also includes such platinum and gold recordings as Short Bus (1995), Title of Record (1999), The Amalgamut (2002) and Anthems for the Damned (2008). The album was written and recorded […]

Thanks to our friends at Universal Music Australia, we have five copies of the brand new Megadeth album ‘Super Collider’ to give away to our lucky readers.  Well if you want a copy, it’s as simple as sending us an email and at random you may be picked as one of our lucky winners. To win one of the big […]

JAPANESE ELECTRO-MOSH FIVE-PIECE CROSSFAITH – SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM  ‘Apocalyze’ To Be Released Via Halfcut Records in August Crossfaith are totally unique. Even on their home turf, in the world’s most culturally and creatively captivating country- Japan- this quintet are groundbreaking. They combine metal, hardcore, samples and electronica to create their own distinct musical formula that truly transcends genres. […]

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 […]

DEVILDRIVER have confirmed that the title of their new album is Winter Kills, out August 23 via Roadrunner Records Australia. The band recorded the album in Florida at Audio Hammer Studios and vocals in Los Angeles, CA at Dez’s home studio with Mark Lewis (Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, All That Remains) handling production duties.   DEVILDRIVER has worked with Lewis previously on Beast and […]

MelodicRock.com & Rock Soldiers Present : PAUL LAINE DOWNUNDER IN DECEMBER Paul Laine will be heading to Australia in December 2013 and will be playing two live shows backed by Oz rockers The Radio Sun. This will be Paul’s first ever live dates in Australia and he will be playing a selection of songs from his solo work, Danger Danger […]

The legendary Fleetwood Mac, one of rock and roll’s most enduring bands, are set to bring their extraordinary show including exquisite harmonies, incomparable chemistry, sleek perfection and classic hits to Australia beginning November 10th in Sydney. The tour continues through November and December. Fleetwood Mac’s spectacular two hour plus show reunites the multi Grammy winning, Rock & Roll Hall of […]

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 […]

“With worldwide sales of more than 30 million, and a seat at the top of the headbanging pantheon… Megadeth is a force.” – Billboard Magazine MEGADETH, a heavy metal band that’s been around for nearly three decades, selling more than 38 million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including 11 Grammy® nominations, scoring five consecutive platinum albums—including 1992’s two-million-selling Countdown to […]

Pop punk perfection… that’s ALL TIME LOW in a nutshell! Not many bands can continually lay claim to constantly selling out shows whenever they tour Australia, but ALL TIME LOW can proudly wear that badge. ALL TIME LOW have succeeded where so many have failed; in bringing back the glory days of pop punk and their latest album ‘Don’t Panic’ […]

  FEAR FACTORY’s ‘Demanufacture’ is “a landmark of ’90s metal that defied categorisation and remains a touchstone of the genre. “ – Kerrang! Metallica’s Black album may have set the marker for highest selling metal album on the 90’s, but only 1 album can lay claim to being the decade’s most innovative and revolutionary: FEAR FACTORY’s ‘Demanufacture’. Metal Hammer recently […]

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM: ‘HOW I LEARNED TO STOP GIVING A SHIT AND LOVE MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE’ ON JUNE 21 via 3WISE RECORDS For more than 15 years Mindless Self Indulgence has been making their infamous electric madness for anyone who wants something unique… After successfully achieving the second highest kickstarter campaign ever, Mindless Self Indulgence release […]

Overnight Queens Of The Stone Age revealed the full 15-minute long animated promo video for their forthcoming new record …Like Clockwork via http://likeclockwork.tv Or you can watch the full video below Over the past week Queens Of The Stone Age have been revealing snippets of tracks from forthcoming album …Like Clockwork via beautiful and disturbing animations. These animations for snippets of tracks […]

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 […]

Grinspoon, one of Australia’s most loved live rock bands have confirmed a new run of shows on their 2013 Black Rabbits Tour which will see the band touring through Western Australia before heading back east to Jindabyne, Sydney and Melbourne. In September last year Grinspoon released their seventh studio album, Black Rabbits, which debuted at No. 8 on the ARIA […]

THE SMITH STREET BAND SELL OUT CORNER HOTEL SHOW ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR WITH JOYCE MANOR (USA) & CHEAP GIRLS (USA) Melbourne favourites The Smith Street Band have been busy; they really don’t know how to be anything else. As well as working on a batch of new tunes, they’ve put together an Australian tour, enlisting Poison City Weekender pals Joyce […]

BON JOVI “BECAUSE WE CAN – THE TOUR” – MELBOURNE- SECOND SHOW ADDED! GENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS TO BOTH SHOWS ON SALE 12NOON TODAY! Tickets for BON JOVI’S Because We Can Tour go on sale at 12noon TODAY. When the box office opens to the general public at 12noon today, there will be two Melbourne shows going on sale: Saturday 7th […]

“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 […]

After crushing audiences with their main stage performances at Soundwave 2012, July brings the welcome return of Florida’s pop-mosh lords, A DAY TO REMEMBER, armed with their brand new album, Common Courtesy. With 5 albums under their belt, each one further cementing the band’s reign as true leaders of the genre, ADTR effortlessly blend brutal breakdowns and melodic choruses, “A […]