rock/metal
News: The Dillinger Escape Plan Australian Tour Is A Heist You Can’t Miss
The Dillinger Escape Plan Announce Explosive Return to Australia
Live Review: Anachronism / Wingz Of The Monkey / The Wednesday Flowers – Pealie’s Barn, Northallerton 01.02.2025
The first gig of the year happened to be at a venue I was aware of but had never visited. Pealie’s Barn is tucked away just north of the middle of nowhere but is well worth the find. It is possibly one of the nicest-smelling venues, with hanging lavender, a working pizza oven and other …
Track: The Damn Truth – Better This Way
Canadian rock and roll band The Damn Truth release their self-titled album on Friday, 14 March, via Spectra Musique. In anticipation, the band have shared another track to whet our appetites with the new single ‘Better This Way’. ‘Better This Way’ sees the band delve into some nostalgia with a laid back, cleaner, more pop sound. …
black sabbath to play one last gig and they will be joined by an all star line up for a one day charity festival
Ozzy Osbourne will be joining Black Sabbath for one last time and it will see the first time that the original Black Sabbath line up has been together in 20 years. The one day festival, to be held at Villa Park on 5th July, will feature a mouth watering array of Heavy Metal heavyweights including …
News: New Bloom Festival Returns in 2025 With a Stacked Lineup & Drain Headline Sideshows!
After a wildly successful debut in 2024, selling out in Naarm/Melbourne, New Bloom Festival is back for round two in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of alt-rock, post-hardcore, grunge, and punk acts to Meanjin/Brisbane, Eora/Sydney, and Naarm/Melbourne this March. Tickets are available here. New Bloom has quickly become hallowed ground for the next generation of …
Live Review & Gallery: Soft Play Lay Waste to The Factory Theatre – Gadigal Land, Sydney, 29.01.25
Soft Play’s return to Australia hit like a damn battering ram and the sold-out crowd at Factory Theatre didn’t stand a chance. The second Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent tore into ‘All Things’, the floor turned into a writhing mess of bodies, a seething mass that never stopped squirming. Vincent barely made it through the …
News: Apropos the Death of Marianne Faithfull, Fascism, Apartheid, the Manics and Music
Faithfull’s death sparks reflections on how apartheid South Africa’s battle with music censorship mirrors today’s ongoing struggles with authority and repression.
live review: the poisoned ascendancy tour 2025. bullet for my valentine, trivium, orbit culture. co-op live arena, manchester. 30/01/2025
A double celebration of landmark albums was on the cards in Manchester tonight and carving open the evening with a massive Swedish sledgehammer was the unequivocally crushing Orbit Culture and boy did they absolutely annihilate us from the opening chords of ‘Descent’ to the punishing bars of the absolutely colossal ‘Vultures Of The North’. The …
News: Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar Unleash A Fiery New Collaboration ‘Fortune Teller Blues’
Blues-rock titan Joe Bonamassa and rock legend Sammy Hagar have teamed up for an electrifying new single, ‘Fortune Teller Blues’, out now on all major streaming platforms. This powerhouse collaboration blends Bonamassa’s searing guitar work with Hagar’s unmistakable vocals, delivering a high voltage track steeped in grit and mystery. A blues-drenched tale of fate and deception, “Fortune Teller Blues” …
News: Ally Venable Announces New Album ‘Money & Power’
Critically acclaimed Texas based blues rock guitarist and vocalist Ally Venable will release her highly anticipated new studio album Money & Power via Ruf Records on Friday 18 April 2025. Pre-order the album here Check out the her latest video for song Do You Cry, Below: Rules are there to be broken. Expectations are there to be defied. Glass ceilings are there to …