Howling Mountain’s Self Medicate is as intoxicating as its subject matter, steeped in grunge and a thick vocal performance by Sarah, we hear the tragedy of lost love and the inability to cope. Following from Fingertips, this single shows a new side of the trio, taking their heavy elements to the absolute edge. Formally Sarah […]
Brisbane 3-piece punk rock band The Arturos will release their long-awaited debut album, “Tokyo-A-Go-Go!” on September 18th. Pre-Save Album HERE Hot on the heels of “Morticia”, the album’s first single & video (watch HERE), “Tokyo-A-Go-Go!” is a 16-track onslaught of hard-hitting guitar driven tunes that is unapologetically grounded in punk rock and uniquely their own. Vocalist/guitarist Rob Garry […]
Today, Sydney punk rock band Kids Of Yesterday announce their debut album Escape Planet, to be released Friday November 6.The first single to drop is the punk rock banger Reefer Madness. Reefer Madness draws heavy influence from the film of the same name released in the 1930’s and seeks to undo the damage it caused to an industry that could quite literally […]
BIGSOUND 2020 has dropped the mic on its first (and hopefully last) ever 100% virtual program on October 21 and 22, bringing together a stacked first announcement of keynote presenters to lead a program to re-future a challenged industry with positivity, connection and reality. Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Prophets Of Rage, the Nightwatchman) leads the first […]
UK five-piece Nothing But Thieves have today released their new single ‘Impossible’. The new release directly follows recent singles ‘Is Everybody Going Crazy?’ and ‘Real Love Song’ taken from their forthcoming third studio album MORAL PANIC. Nothing But Thieves are no strangers to powerful anthems and with ‘Impossible’ the band have written another vast soundscape. Produced by Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys and Wolf Alice), ‘Impossible’ is an […]
“It’s hard to sum up the life of a band in an hour and a half,” explains vocalist and guitarist Justin Sane of politically-fueled punk rock band Anti-Flag. We started Anti-Flag out of a passion for punk rock with the belief that punk music had the power to change people’s lives and have a positive impact on the […]
On September 25th, The Ocean will release their 8th full-length, Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic. In 2018, The Ocean released Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic – the first half of a sprawling but superbly cohesive paleontology concept album. Now, the group is ready to release the eagerly-awaited concluding parts of the Phanerozoic journey. For a preview of Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic, a video for the […]
Scandinavia heads down under as Silverback Touring bring you two of Sweden’s finest Hard Rock exports H.E.A.T and CRAZY LIXX. This will be the first Australian Tour for both bands and the action takes place in April / May 2021. Over the last several years H.E.A.T have established themselves as one of the leading bands in the melodic rock […]
Ukrainian modern metal leaders JINJER have announced the official release of the audio recordings from one of the last metal shows played on the planet before the global Covid-19 lockdown: their ferocious sold out Melbourne, Australia performance on March 5, 2020. Their newly announced upcoming live album, Alive In Melbourne features stunning artwork by gifted JINJER fan Gabriel Nicoletti, includes 17 tracks […]
Melbourne, Australia’s The Mercy Kills are back, with the release of their newly remastered single, Fall and accompanying video. Fall comes from their upcoming EP X, which will be released on October 2nd. The seven songs that appear on X, were painstakingly hand-picked by THE MERCY KILLS. After many squabbles and fights over which songs would make the cut, the band settled on the best seven songs that […]