THE SMASHING PUMPKINS reveal their newest recruited touring band. Billy Corgan re-unites with mainstay Jeff Schroeder on guitars, alongside Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine on drums and Mark Stoermer from The Killers on bass. In a recent statement, Billy Corgan says, “We’re absolutely thrilled and humbled to have Brad and Mark helping us out…and if our rehearsals are […]

Listen now at www.fallinginreverse.com Band To Tour Australia For The First Time, Appearing On Soundwave 2015 Falling In Reverse has released a new song God If You Are Above available for streaming at www.fallinginreverse.com. God If You Are Above is the first new song from the band since their 2013 release Fashionably Late. Australia, be prepared! Ronnie Radke and co. […]

THIRD ARTIST ANNOUNCE IS HERE! THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in musical history having sold more than 30 million albums, and won multiple Grammy Awards in the process. Having recently released the first of 2 new albums (Monuments to an Elegy), fans can anticipate the release of the second album (Day For […]

LISTEN NOW AT WWW.MARILYNMANSON.COM Last night, Marilyn Manson premiered ‘Deep Six,’ the first single from his forthcoming new album The Pale Emperor out January 23. Listen to ‘Deep Six’ at www.marilynmanson.com. A recent interview in The Fader said, “Rock stars went extinct but Marilyn Manson is still here.” Read the entire interview here. Manson collaborated on the new album, his […]

SOUNDGARDEN is internationally recognised as one of the world’s most influential rock bands. With an exemplary career and GRAMMY®-winning catalogue, SOUNDGARDEN started a musical transformation that inspired a generation and helped redefine alternative and hard rock. With Cornell’s absurd vocal range, from the rich and piercing to the guttural and buttery SOUNDGARDEN deliver live performances that can still leave fans […]

Soundwave are delighted to announce they will be returning to their spiritual home in Melbourne, the RAS Melbourne Showgrounds for Soundwave 2015. Ticket holders: All existing tickets purchased for Flemington remain valid, no exchange necessary. Warning:  As a result of this move, they are now operating with a reduced capacity and expect that weekend passes will be sold out promptly. […]

“…it’s like a dream come true situation for us, we’ve been talking about trying to get to Australia to play some shows seriously for about the last three or four years and we’ve just been chasing it every opportunity and now that it’s actually going to become a reality we’re just kind of shocked but really, really excited man to […]

A FURTHER 15 BANDS ANNOUNCED FOR THE ALREADY MASSIVE SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL 2015 THERE WILL BE A THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND TIMETABLES COMING BEFORE CHRISTMAS AS WELL!   ANIMALS AS LEADERS: ‘CAFO’ BAYSIDE: ‘Devotion and Desire’ THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: ‘Born To Lose’ DRAGONFORCE: ‘The Game’ (Featuring Matt Heafy of Trivium) EVERGREEN TERRACE: ‘Chaney Can’t Quite Riff Like Helmet’s Page Hamilton’ ‘ FUCKED UP: ‘Queen Of Hearts’  HE IS […]

“…being in Australia is amazing. Definitely a place when you’re a kid growing up in The States you’re not sure if you’re gonna go or if you just plan for it to be a place you wanna go, so being able to go there and see so many parts of it and actually tour is pretty special…” From Bio: Since […]

“…that’s the thing, people are already talking about our legacy saying we deserved better or we deserved to be bigger or whatever, which is nice, but I would hate to be remembered that way because it makes us look like we were so shitty *laughs*” From Bio: THE SWELLERS got their start in 2002 when brothers Nick and Jonathan Diener […]

“…it’s hard for a band like us who you know what you’re going to get when you get an Unearth record, but we kind of wanted to change that, we took it so extreme and we upped the technical level so much that I think it’s gonna make some noise and people are going to be forced to talk about […]

To say 2014 has been a bit of a whirlwind year for The Bennies would be somewhat of an understatement. And if you know anything about The Bennies, you’d probably appreciate that they’ve no time for subtleties.  In the midst of a mental touring schedule, The Bennies will release their brand new EP, Heavy Disco digitally on Poison City Records on November 11 before […]

“Yeah, this is it man, people who are fans of the band and see we’re playing or haven’t seen us yet, or want to see us for the last time, this tour is definitely one to attend.” From Bio: From the schizophrenic opening cut, the sarcasm-dripping, sound effect-laden “Hail to his Majesty” to the thrash-punk riffs and booming bass reverberations […]

“I feel like we have kind of this new beginning in a way, I feel like the band is closer than we’ve ever been, I also feel that one of the biggest things why I also love being in my band is that we can be who we are without having to worry about anything.” From release: New Found Glory […]

“…we’re just a good time rock and roll band so we come along and bring the noise and bring big riffs and big shows and stuff like that so we’re just all about having a good time and having fun, so we’ll come on stage and get everyone involved, get everyone’s hands clapping, having a drink and just having a […]

“…it’s been a roller coaster that’s for sure, it’s evolved into a business machine that’s really kept up with the times, managed to stay relevant, managed to mostly put out good music, you can’t always hit a home run, but we’ve always put out the music we believe is right and pertinent to the times…” From Bio: The shadow of […]

“So to take that much time off and come back and it’s like wow, I can’t believe people are so excited to see us, we didn’t even know how things would be, we have no idea what to expect, so it’s kind of like the unknown leaving us now knowing how to feel yet until we get there and get […]

Thanks to our very good friends at Sony Music Australia, we have TEN copies of the brand new album from Slash feat Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators to give away to ten of our lucky readers. It’s an absolute rocker, we loved it and you can read what we thought about it HERE So if you want to set the world […]

“…that’s my favourite tour or festival show or whatever you want to call it, in the entire world, man. When we played there literally man that’s a story I’m going to tell my grandchildren is when we played Soundwave, it’s my proudest moment of being a musician…” From Bio: Most recent album, ‘Ungrateful’ was a rebirth of ESCAPE THE FATE […]

This FRIDAY AUGUST 29, Soundwave Festival 2015 1 DAY TICKETS along with 2 DAY TICKETS will go on-sale to the general public at 9am local time. 1 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET $132.00 + BOOKING FEES 2 DAY FESTIVAL TICKET $188.00 + BOOKING FEES. For tickets and more information head to  soundwavefestival.com / facebook.com/soundwavefestival / twitter.com/soundwavefest DAY ONE FAITH NO MORE / SOUNDGARDEN INCUBUS / LAMB […]

Hot on the heels of their inclusion as a headliner on the 2015 Soundwave line-up, Slipknot has announced the next phase of their uncompromising history – the release of .5: The Gray Chapter. Their fifth studio album, .5: The Gray Chapter will be released in Australia on October 17th. Slipknot unleashed The Negative One earlier this month, marking the ground-breaking band’s first new music in more than six years. The song immediately […]

For the first time in its history, Soundwave 2015 will be held over 2 action-packed days…Holy Smokes! This means better value, better staging, better production, longer sets and minimised clashes… In Adelaide and Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane each days line-up will criss cross between each city. 2 day tickets go on sale for Soundwave members this Friday 22 August, 9am […]

“…we’re ready for anything that comes and I think the hardest part is that there was never a big scene in Japan, there wasn’t a lot of people that listened to a Japanese band that only sang in English, so there was a little bit of those kind of bumps but I think everything we’ve done over the years has […]

UK’s MONUMENTS bring new life to the progressive metal scene. They push the envelope with complex instrumental metal grooves and are the fourth band to be announced on the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Now with Chris Barretto (ex-Periphery, Ever Forthright) on vocals, they have forged their own path staying ahead of the pack with their mind-bendingly progressive tech-metal artisanship. From […]

Hailing from the City Of Angels, BUTCHER BABIES offer redemption from the overplayed underground, exorcising internal demons with a visceral sound matched only in scope by their explosive stage show. BUTCHER BABIES are set to bring their high-energy live show to Australia as we welcome them as the third band added to the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Frontwomen Heidi Shepherd […]

PATENT PENDING is an acrobatic gang of musical misfits from Long Island, New York. With a never-say-die attitude and enough live energy to power Times Square, we are proud to announce them as the second band to be added to the Soundwave Festival 2015 line-up. Growing in size from basements to amphitheaters, from VFW Halls to sell out headlining shows […]

Soundwave Festival 2015 will be held over 2 days in each city – Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. Half the bands play day one. The other half play day two. They criss-cross Saturday/Sunday in each city. Adelaide & Melbourne will be the 1st weekend of the festival. The dates for these two cities are Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 of […]

“… I’d almost go as far as to say we’re grownups now, possibly… I don’t know… we’re certainly the right age to be grownups, but I don’t know we’re mentally grownup yet, we kind of went from school bus straight onto tour bus, so that’s just put us in a perpetual state of adolescence…” From Tour Release: Biffy Clyro have […]

“Well we always stay true to our core which is sex, drugs, rock and roll and heavy metal, that’s just what we do, but this record we decided that you know what, people are moshing to ‘Community Property’ we need something fuckin’ heavy, a little bit darker, a little edgier…” If you’re not aware of Steel Panther, then this interview […]

Date: Friday February 28, 2014 Venue: Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Photos by: Peter Coates – Inside Edge Photography Images should not be reproduced without consent of photographer and MTRBWY Gallery features: AFI, Alice In Chains, Alter Bridge, Amon Amarth, Avenged Sevenfold, Bowling For Soup, Clutch, Darkc3ll, Devildriver, Graveyard, Green Day, Heaven’s Basement, Panic! At The Disco, Placebo, Rocket From The Crypt, […]