Alt metal
Live Gallery & Review: Bring Me The Horizon in Sydney 12.04.2024
Bring Me the Horizon unleash a storm of melodies and mayhem in Sydney
News: Supersonic Festival 2024 announces a stellar cast celebrating the vast sound of the underground.
Well the line-up that Birmingham’s mighty Supersonic Festival assembled last year for its 20th anniversary was awe inspiring and then came this announcement for 2024. Yes the bill is a slayer, a statement of intent to celebrate the vitality of underground music, a wish list that any leftfield listener would find hard to imagine. But …
Album Review: The Body & Dis Fig – ‘Orchards of a Futile Heaven’: One extraordinary partnership delivers an experimental doom statement piece.
For seminal Portland doom metal duo The Body, co-working with other musicians has long been part of their modus, ensuring their music never stands still. Alongside the influential releases carrying ‘The Body’ nameplate, Chip King (guitars etc) and Lee Buford (drums etc) have unleashed around fifteen collaborative albums since 2011. Recently these efforts have diverged …
Track: Taking post-rock further – New Age Doom & Tuvaband preview new album ‘There Is No End’ with the climactic title track.
Now here’s some news from the consistently beneficial We Are Busy Bodies to lighten up the post summer gloom. The Toronto label will be releasing the new album ‘There Is No End’ from experimental rock collective New Age Doom on 27th October. Centring around the core partnership of drummer Eric J. Breitenbach and guitarist Greg …
EP Review: Perth’s Onslow release an operatic, anthemic and dynamic self-titled debut
Rising Perth debutantes Onslow (duo Sean Harmanis and Scott Kay) have a remarkable breadth in their music: songs that range from jingle jangle melodic delicacy to full-throated metal screaming within seconds, and within one song. The result is something that is quite extraordinary: a hard to define genre that has an anthemic infrastructure with thundering …