Soundwave 2012 Sidewave – Cobra Starship, Forever The Sickest Kids, These Kids Wear Crowns, Kill Hannah Date: Monday 27 February 2012 Venue: The Forum, Melbourne, Australia Photo’s by: Lens Of Rock (www.lensofrock.com) Check out the full gallery by clicking the link below: Photo Gallery – Kill Hannah, The Forum, Melbourne

Official album press release: “With their unique mixture of Hardcore, Metal and Groove/Rap, Biohazard crested the Mount Olympus of the international Hardcore and Metal scene at the beginning of the 90s.  What started out with Biohazard (1990) found its worthy continuation in Urban Discipline (1992) and State Of The World Address (1994).  Of Urban Discipline over one million pieces were […]

“Truthfully, I’m about to take a pretty good long break.  I finally got out of Los Angeles and moved back to the beach and in this period where I’m writing and recording and experimenting and just having fun bring back in a place where I can see a lot of people I haven’t caught up with in a while.  So […]

Do Not Look Down, a second track off the upcoming new album Koloss by Swedish extreme technical metal band MESHUGGAH, is available for streaming in the Nuclear Blast USA Web Shop. Click on any pre-order bundle item to get to the Soundcloud player. To order anything within Europe, please head over to the Nuclear Blast EUROPE Web Shop.  Koloss will be released in Europe […]

Having played the very first Soundwave Festival and now saddling up for around their 25th visit, Unwritten Law sure are a band who have an affiliation with Australia!  The band that brought you hits such as Up All Night and over a million album sales, released their latest studio album ‘Swan’ in July last year.  Numerous lineup changes in recent […]

“I mean you’re supposed to expect that the guy that you bought a ticket to see is up there working his ass off to give you something and it’s surprising when you look to your left and your right and those people are also working their ass off to give it back, I guess that’s the state of things at […]

“I think that for us there’s still plenty to say and plenty to do and I can still honestly say that when people ask, “what’s your favourite record, I can answer with “I hope we haven’t made it yet…” Forming in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion have been one of the true mainstays of the […]

“Well you never know what to expect and at the same time you really can’t cater to everybody, but what we try and do is make an album we are really proud of and which we will like in about 20 years because we know we have to play songs from this album for a long time! “ Leading the […]

LETLIVE. RELEASE NEW VIDEO Band in Australia next week for Soundwave Festival Heavy music’s breakout stars letlive. have just released a brand new video for their song “Muther” from the band’s Epitaph-Records debut album Fake History. The video was filmed in Los Angeles and offers a cathartic interpretation of romantic jealousy, featuring singer Jason Aalon Butler, who Kerrang! Magazine recently […]

“You know, all we’ve ever really done as a band is approach each show like it was the last show we were ever going to play.” From Bio:  Staind is a band that has sold 15 million albums worldwide, had eight top ten singles across multiple formats with three songs hitting number one, and wrote the most-played rock song of […]

In 25 words or less: Heavy. Heavy. Heavy. Awesome. Lamb Of God are back in a big way. This new album Resolution is so good that it’s hard to put into words. This is the heavy album I know I’ve been waiting for and although I got to hear it in November it was refreshing to hear it again in […]

“HEAVEN SHALL BURN are a phenomenon.  Instead of roaming distant shores in order to seek for innovations the five-piece from Saalfeld/Weimar, Germany is rather heading for well known territories in order to shed their collective skin.  For years they have been drawing creative impulses from the long-term friendship between the individual members.  Despite releasing new studio albums regularly they are […]

SLIPKNOT IN AUSTRALIA FOR SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL AND SIDEWAVE SHOWS LEAD SINGER COREY TAYLOR ANNOUNCES SYDNEY BOOK SIGNING SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor will be in the country performing with SLIPKNOT at the national Soundwave Festival, as well as SLIPKNOT headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne. Taylor has announced that he will be signing copies and reading from his international best-selling book ‘Seven Deadly Sins: Settling The Argument Between […]

“We’re probably not going to get back together…  Alter Bridge probably won’t get back together until I’d say November of this year, so it’s something else we can put out there that keeps the fans interested and keeps it alive.” Four years after their last visit to Australia, Alter Bridge are finally returning for the Soundwave Festival as well as […]

“I mean I’d say it’s very much a modern album, there’s some real rockin’ up tempo stuff, more doomy stuff but it’s all very guitar orientated but it’s very now, that’s for sure.” Over twenty years into their career, Gothic Metal pioneers Paradise Lost are just about to release a new album this April, their thirteenth, titled ‘Tragic Idol’ which […]

“We have so many different variations of how we like to describe ourselves.  First we have action rock, then there was energy rock, now we call it Chuck Norris rock, it’s like a karate kick to the face (laughs)!” Hailing from Malmö, Sweden, Royal Republic are loud, funky and whilst some bands need a little time to work their way […]

“This time we thought it would be cool to have the title represent the way we feel the album sounds like, it is a denser album, it’s a heavier album, it’s groovier and it’s like a ‘colossus’.” Whilst Soundwave Festival this year features a plethora of heaviness, as far as intense live performances go, few bands are likely to top […]

“Everyone’s got that album that they like to put on before going out, I know I do, you know to get yourself ready before a big night, we wanted to create that album for everyone and I think we have.” When The Smoking Hearts release their rambunctious collection of rock n roll that make up their new album Victory!, indeed […]

THE PRETTY RECKLESS have made hard rock sexy again! Fronted by the multi-talented Tyler Momsen, THE PRETTY RECKLESS are blazing a trail throughout the rock world that is hard to ignore…“She is physically and vocally everything that a frontwoman could wish to be” – Kerrang! THE PRETTY RECKLESS’ debut album ‘Light Me Up’ runs the gamut of emotions alternating at […]

(NEW YORK, NY) – CHIMAIRA have released a behind the scenes video of the band rehearsing for their upcoming appearance on Australia’s Soundwave Festival and European/UK dates to follow after. View the video below! The band released their most recent record, “The Age Of Hell” over the summer to much critical praise. “Despite being conceived in the face of such […]

UNEARTH proudly stand at the forefront of modern metal leaving a trail of mosh pit devastation in their wake. UNEARTH have delivered their most compelling statement with their 5th full length ‘Darkness In Light’ driving a fist into the collective gut of every image-obsessed wannabe metal band currently cluttering up the landscape. UNEARTH set the new standard with Revolver magazine […]

UNDEROATH have evolved and thrived during a decade-long progression that has elevated them into a realm that few bands can lay claim to. Their latest album Ø (Disambiguation) is an artistic rebirth, which empathically surpasses its predecessors…“it’s a master-class in compelling, ambitious heavy music” – Rock Sound With a reputation for adrenaline charged live performances UNDEROATH will bring the mayhem […]

Over the last 20 years, there have been very few that have amassed such a prolific, diverse and mind blowing collection of releases as Devin Townsend.  Whether it be from first singing with Steve Vai, through to Strapping Young Lad, a plethora of solo releases and most recently four Devin Townsend Project releases, every single one of them has pushed […]

“We’re really looking forward to finally seeing them and coming over, we’ve had a month off so we’re definitely stoked and really full of energy.  We’re just really ready to come and play so it’s going to be really good.” From Bio: Kvelertak shamelessly draw inspiration from every corner of something that could fit into their idea of good hard-hitting […]

“It’s usually a wild, crazy, energetic kind of show, I’m not sure what we’ll be able to do production wise as I assume we’ll be playing in the afternoon so it’ll be a little bit stripped down from our normal club shows but it should be just as energetic and hopefully entertaining.” From Bio: For the six men in UNDEROATH, […]

When Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and former Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach got back together and released a new album under the banner of Times Of Grace, titled The Hymn Of A Broken Man, as Jesse explained himself, not even they themselves could have anticipated the level of interest worldwide in the band.  Not just in terms of the […]

MASTODON TEAM UP WITH NOTED FINE ARTIST ON VIDEO FOR ‘DRY BONE VALLEY’, THE FOLLOW-UP TO GRAMMY-NOMINATED ‘CURL OF THE BURL’ FROM BAND’S ACCLAIMED ALBUM THE HUNTER To create the video for their new single ‘Dry Bone Valley’, Atlanta rock icons Mastodon have teamed up with noted fine artist Tim Biskup a long-time friend who has amassed a cadre of […]

With their dark-edged punk attitude and cock-rock swagger BLACK VEIL BRIDES are ready to take their place among the most popular young rock bands in the world today. The hard rock industry is beyond saturation so anything that steers away from the norm seems like a blessing. Their sophomore album ‘Set the World on Fire’ has alternative press declaring it […]

“Come with an open heart, that’s the main thing.  A lot of people often laugh and joke when they are confronted with something that is too much for them, and that’s fine, that’s a human thing to do, but I mean try.  Come to a Watain concert and try to take it for what it is, it’s a ceremony and […]

“We’ve been writing for the new album since our last album pretty much, we just kinda never stop.  We have a bunch of material that we’re going to need a whole frickin year to go back and listen to, but hopefully we’ll be done by July or August and get that album released this year” A Day To Remember have […]