REVIEWS

THY ART IS MURDER are a relentless touring machine and what better way to kick things off in 2023 with sold out shows across Australia for their Decade Of Hate tour

The Good Things Festival finally returned! It was back in 2019 in the ‘before time’ that we first attended the alternative music festival Good Things, and we had nothing but good things to say about the experience. For 2 years we all waited patiently for the music industry to get back on it’s feet after those cursed covid years and the wait was oh so worth it.

Cover shot - Mitch / EVERYDAY METAL Swedish heavy metal legends SOILWORK hit Australian stages this November in celebration...

DEFEATED SANITY Playing the Northcote Social Club as part of their co-headline tour with DISENTOMB

There’s no better introduction to a set than “Welcome to the Sleeps Society” Sheffield’s pride and joy While She Sleeps undeniably proves why they’ve been selling out shows for the better part of two decades

After what feels like an eternity, live music is starting to return to Australia, from local bands in tiny backroom gigs to stadium-filling behemoths. For those unfamiliar with the Melbourne venue The Forum, it’s a grand building with a highly detailed and imposing façade, and a cavernous interior adorned with high blue ceilings and Romanesque-style columns and statues. This place couldn't be more fitting for the evening’s proceedings.

With MOUNTAIN WIZARD DEATH CULT, unfortunately, coming down with the rona, the lads in MUNT took up the mantle as the evening's headliner. Things were kicked off by locals ALGAROTH and KULL, successfully warming up the crowd for an extended and exceptionally brutal set from MUNT.

Heavy music fans converged on Fitzroy's Evelyn Hotel for an evening filled with sludge and Doom. The evening was opened by TUMOUR, followed by BURN THE HOSTAGES, WHITEHORSE and finally local headliners ISUA

On Friday the 9th of July, King Parrot kicked off their 10 Year Anniversary Tour at Maxx Watts in their hometown of Melbourne.

Samplers, compilations, mixtapes… these come to us in all sorts of ways. You might get one in the mail along with an order from a label. You might grab one from the merch table at a gig (remember those? I remember those…). That hottie in maths might have made you one and scrawled your name on it with a sharpie back in ’98. You might even purchase one, either to support a band or a label, or as part of a fundraiser for one cause or another. And usually, you’ll listen to it once or twice, pick out which newly-discovered bands you love, and it’ll later end up scratched to hell, lost under the passenger seat, or melted beyond recognition when your housemate’s water heater explodes. But that’s another story.