“I hope it will do well, honestly I have some high expectations after Soundwave, but this is gonna be great and were gonna try to party every day with everyone on stage and a lot of craziness, a lot of crazy stuff.” From release: French pop-punkers Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! will be returning to our shores for their first headline tour of […]

UNFD are extremely proud to announce their newest signing to the label, Japan’s Crossfaith for Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United Kingdom. The band will release their UNFD debutXeno on September 18. Pre-orders are available now at 24Hundred. Crossfaith are no strangers to Australian shores, having played Soundwave Festival in 2013 and 2015, as well as a massive tour with Bring Me The Horizon and Of Mice […]

Northlane will release their new album Node on July 24 via UNFD. The album is one of the most ambitious heavy records in recent years and will be their first with lead vocalist Marcus Bridge, who joined the fold in November. The monolithic lead single ‘Obelisk’ is now available to stream, buy or watch online. Watch the incredible video for […]

Dead Letter Circus will release their new single ‘While You Wait’ on May 8th via UNFD, and will be doing a series of intimate shows in major capitals this coming July in support of the track. Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, the track is set to be the lead single from the yet-to-be-announced third album, expected for a late Winter release. […]

“We have always been a band that likes to let things come together organically you know what I mean? If you head into an album or head into a studio to write songs with something set in your mind of it has to be this or it has to be that or has to remain in the compounds of this […]

“…the record started taking shape as we started writing songs but we definitely knew we wanted to push things, we wanted to make a dynamic record, we didn’t want to do a repeat of the one we had just put out before. Those were all the things that we went in with to start and then I think when we […]

In Hearts Wake have announced their new album Skydancer, to be released on May 1, with lead single ‘Breakaway’ being premiered on triple j today at midday. A documentary on the creation of the album is available to watch now at skydancerproject.com All pre-order links and bundles will be available on the website tomorrow along with the video for first […]

Chart-topping, award-winning rock band All Time Low is back in a big new way. The group – Alex, Jack, Rian and Zack – grace the cover of Alternative Press Magazine’s February 2015 issue to officially announce their sixth studio album, Future Hearts, in which the publication describes as the “number one most anticipated album of 2015.” Band members Alex Gaskarth […]

Architects will return to Australia in April 2015 for their first national headline tour since 2010. In September 2014 they did two small capacity headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne, selling each of them out in less than 48 hours. Joining them for the ride will be Stick To Your Guns (USA), Being As An Ocean (USA) and Stories (AUS). Formed in 2007, Architects have been one of the […]

“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 […]

“Not that we’ve died and gone and came back but we feel that we’ve put a lot of what we used to be and things that we weren’t fond of and our mistakes of the past, we just buried them and let them die and came back as the new entity that we are now…” From release: Motionless In White […]

OK, yeah I know, this album has been out for a little bit now, and I’ve listened to it more than a handful of times, but what’s interesting about this album is knowing that it’s the band’s last album, this made it a little difficult to express my ‘feelings’ towards it, so now after some digestion of the idea of […]

Motionless In White have released the title track to their forthcoming album Reincarnate, out September 12 via Fearless Records/Unified. Named by Alternative Press as one of their Most Anticipated Albums of 2014, the album was produced by Dan Korneff (My Chemical Romance, Lamb Of God), and features guest vocals from Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Maria Brink (In This Moment), and Tim Sköld (Marilyn […]

Architects have announced their first Australian headline shows since 2010, playing club shows in Sydney and Melbourne this September as side shows from their massive arena tour supporting The Amity Affliction. Joining them as support are US hardcore band Stray From The Path, and Sydney boysHand Of Mercy. Architects are no stranger to Australian shores. They supported Parkway Drive (2009) and The Amity Affliction (2012) and […]

Avenged Sevenfold, one of the world’s biggest rock bands, have announced the release of Waking The Fallen: Resurrected on August 29 via Hopeless Records/Unified. The multi-platinum band personally curated this rare, never before seen look at their fan favourite, genre defining, breakthrough album Waking The Fallen. The new release includes 11 never before heard songs, 23 total tracks, new artwork, the original first cut of the music […]

ARCHITECTS have unveiled the brand new video for the single ‘Gravedigger’, taken from the new album, Lost Forever // Lost Together, out now via UNFD. Click below to watch. The band have just been announced on The Amity Affliction ‘Let The Ocean Take Me’ national tour this August/September with Issues, Stray From The Path and Deez Nuts. PRESENTED BY TRIPLE J, BLUNT MAGAZINE AND CONVERSE IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNIFIED […]

The Amity Affliction have announced their biggest headline tour to date, in support of their recently released smash hit album “Let The Ocean Take Me”, which was released last Friday June 6. The tour will take in some of Australia’s most iconic venues and will include support from some of the hottest heavy music acts in the world. “Let The […]

Following on from this morning’s appearance on triple j’s Like A Version, Dead Letter Circus have announced three intimate shows in which the band will perform as a full band acoustic / unplugged version of themselves. This morning on triple j’s Breakfast Program, Dead Letter Circus covered ‘Killing In The Name’ by Rage Against The Machine in their first appearance on the Like A […]

What is punk? Goddamn that’s a question that causes some fights eh!? For some, its the clothes you wear. For others, the clothes you avoid wearing. Straight Edge, Hardcore, Crust, the dreaded Pop Punk – who gives a fuck! For me it was always and will always be about living life. Seeing your country and weird lands that abound overseas.  It […]

Byron Bay metal / hardcore outfit In Hearts Wake will release their second album,Earthwalker, via UNFD on May 2, 2014. In an effort to counteract the effect global warming is having on Australia’s natural flora and fauna, In Hearts Wake have joined forces with Carbon Neutral – a carbon solutions provider and bio-diverse reforestation developer that helps organisations and individuals minimise their impact on […]

Dead Letter Circus are pleased to announce The Insider Tour, with 19 shows sweeping across all points of regional Australia. After spending January co-headlining capital city dates with old friends Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus can’t wait to get back in the van and take their high impact, powerfully emotive performances to their loyal regional fans. ‘Insider’ is the latest single […]

“Do what you want no matter what anyone says or does to sabotage you. Take action as just thinking positive does not cut it in this life, you want to achieve life goals etc. you have to work for it and a lot of the time sacrifice many things. But the end result is always worth it.” From release: Since […]

Since their first show in June 2013, Hellions have wasted little time in establishing themselves as one of the country’s freshest sounding, heavy acts. Drawing comparison to artists as diverse as Stray From The Path, Defeater, Rage Against The Machine and A Day To Remember, the Sydney-based collective made an instant splash with the release of their first single, “Infamita,”which […]

Buried In Verona have a message for anyone that has ever doubted them; Go fuck yourself. That message is delivered alongside the news that the Sydney metal band will release their fourth studio album, Faceless, on March 7 via UNFD. Fans have already had a taste of the record via it’s searing fan-track “Splintered“, which was released late last year. Next […]

TAKING BACK SUNDAY TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘HAPPINESS IS’, OUT 19 MARCH – Includes instant download of “Flicker, Fade”  Featured on The Cover Of The February “Most Anticipated” Issue of Alternative Press Magazine: Hear Album Version Of  “Flicker, Fade” HERE Taking Back Sunday will release their new album, Happiness Is, on March 19 via Hopeless Records/ Unified produced by Marc Jacob Hudson (Saves […]

“…I suppose we’ve just gone out to our little niche I suppose that it is that we do and yeah, we’ve gone for a fun record, something that people can maybe relate to a little bit and just chuck it on and enjoy it and there’s not too much thinking involved, you can just chuck it on and have a […]

BODYJAR TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘ROLE MODEL’ ON OCTOBER 18 NEW SINGLE ‘FAIRYTALES’ – FREE DOWNLOAD NOW! Seminal Australian punk band BODYJAR will return with their first album since 2005, “Role Model”, out via UNFD on Friday 18 October. Fully recorded and ready to go, the Melbourne four piece have been tracking the album in secret. Officially on hiatus since 2009, the […]

I always get intrigued when I have an album to review and I find out that the band has been around for quite some time (over ten years in fact) and I’ve never heard of them. Shame on me, shame indeed. Although in reading up on this new album by Misery Signals, I find that it’s been five years since […]

“Anytime you get to do something new like this it’s what keeps it fresh you know, being able to plan for a tour like this and rehearse for a tour like this, it just provides a fresh new energy for the band and it’s going to be cool to see how we all come together and put our own personal […]

In summary: This project was a perfect one for Yellowcard, the songs translated perfectly, they are played perfectly and ten years on I have that feeling of excitement I had when I first picked up ‘Ocean Avenue’ in 2003, and hopefully when you listen to it you will too… First off, it’s hard to believe that Yellowcard’s album ‘Ocean Avenue’ […]