REVIEWS

Still masters of conveying dark, atmospheric introspect through their music, Swedish metal legends Evergrey are set to return with their eleventh studio album, ‘The Atlantic’ in early 2019. Spread thick with melody and [...]

Soilwork have been a consistent operator throughout their career. From their inception they took the powerful Swedish melodic sound that their peers created, and fused it into their own style, which quickly saw the bands star rise amid their commitment [...]

Ukrainian metal act Jinjer has been making waves in the metal scene in recent times ever since they gained prominence by winning the Best Ukrainian Metal act award of 2013 and the award-winning music video of, I Speak Astonomy from 2016’s King of [...]

The beginning of 2019 marks the release of a new record from American prog-metal/djent frontrunners Born of Osiris entitled ‘The Simulation’. With the group’s previous full-length studio album ‘Soul Sphere’ having been [...]

Three years since their last London show, Nightwish returned to Wembley Arena with their ‘DECADES: WORLD TOUR 2018’ to take us a trip down memory lane featuring rarely heard material from the earlier era, such as “Come Cover Me” [...]

While the past few years has seen a rapid increase in the amount of bands touring Australia off their own back, the real highlight of the Australian music scene has always been the festival. While it has taken a few years to fill the voids left by the [...]

First and foremost, “flying witch puppet” vocals abound! The aptly applied phrase coined by my wife to describe falsetto metal shrieks (derived from the vampire puppet musical in the Judd Apatow comedy ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’) [...]

Death and thrash metal go together like peanut butter and jelly. Few bands capture the essence of a riff-driven thrash sound with sheer death-like anger so well like Dutch masters Legion of the Damned, who managed to successfully make a name for [...]