An image flickers on the screen, the burning insignia of the Order of the Dragon to the backdrop of “At the Gates of Midian”. This could not have been a more enthralling setup for the recent Cradle of Filth Livestream and as a long-time fan, I [...]
2001. Nu-metal is sowing deep roots as a major sub-genre, its audience expanding at an unprecedented rate. Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park lead the charge, and for a moment ‘Iowa’ by Slipknot seems like the only alternative to this [...]
The Melbourne music scene has incubated over the past year and what’s been churning out has been nothing less than magnificent! A cross-section of this talent pool was on show this past Friday night at the legendary Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood with [...]
If you ever needed more proof that hell can freeze over once in a while, Staind can provide it. In 2019, the multi-platinum metal sellers reunited for a comeback performance at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, making it a hometown affair. The [...]
The wonderful thing about the Melbourne music scene is its resilience to things like a silly little worldwide pandemic. From what I observed last night, it was like one never occurred. Many friends and varied groups had come together to have a good time [...]
If there is one thing the pandemic has taught us, it is how to adapt. With close to no possibility of live concerts in the near future, there has been a steady rise in the number of people willing to pay to watch bands perform via live-streamed shows. Of [...]
We are almost at the end of the first quarter of 2021 and the live music industry hasn’t recovered from the hard blow dealt by the pandemic in 2020. THE OCEAN COLLECTIVE, a music collective based in Berlin, Germany, had originally planned two [...]
Lacuna Coil took a devastating blow with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The outfit, which was in the early stages of promotion for their new album, found themselves dead center in the outbreak in early March. Adapting to the situation, as many [...]
