Latest Album: BAT : Under the Crooked Claw. Label: Nuclear Blast. The horror genre and thrash metal subculture have always gone hand in hand. Any aficionado of 80’s splatter is likely to recall the hard rock and metal soundtracks associated with the more extreme claret spilling variety of the horror prosthetic gore effects craze that
Unleash the Archers + Firestorm & Thraxas!Thursday, the 6th of June 2024Manning Bar, Sydney UniversityRating: Five skulls. Canadian power metal band Unleash the Archers have been steadily gaining ground in the metal scene as the band to watch. Fronted by powerhouse vocalist Brittney Hayes [aka Brittney Slayes], backed by a sensational progressive metal band, and
Latest Release: The Road Not Taken. Label: Celtic Collections [independent]. Folk music is a wide and varied musical style that can encompass everything from traditional songs, steeped in various cultures, to more contemporary fare that could be seen as musical poetry. Whatever the case, much like blues and roots music, there are no limitations to
Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton + Blues Arcadia : Death Wish Blues TourMetro Theatre, SydneyThursday, 16th of May 2024Score: 4 ½ / 5 Samantha Fish is a Grammy nominated established guitarist and formidable singer-songwriter. Whilst her musical style is largely blues-based, her music delves into other genres, including rock, rhythm and blues, Americana, and to
Yngwie Malmsteen + RagdollLiberty Hall, Moore Park, SydneySunday, 19th of May 2024.Rating: five skulls. The Swedish guitar maestro known as Yngwie Malmsteen, was recently in Australia, whipping through the Australian East Coast to upset road crews for load-ins, and load-outs of many amplifier cabinets and amplifier heads, neatly arranged in an incommensurate backline game of
Latest: The Algorithm. Label: Golden Robot. Filter became a household name in rock and metal circles when the hit song “Hey Man Nice Shot” took the world by surprise in 1995, from their debut album, Short Bus. Given the band was formed by frontman Richard Patrick upon leaving his tenure as touring guitarist for Nine
Filter + Black Smoke TriggerMetro Theatre, SydneySaturday, 6th of April. American industrial and hard rock act, Filter, is essentially frontman Richard Patrick’s project nowadays, stemming from the band he formed after moving on from a touring guitarist role for Nine Inch Nails many years ago. Since then, he has been able to craft a varied
Alice Cooper, Blondie, The Psychedelic Furs, and Wolfmother. The Pandemonium Festival was indeed aptly named.
Headlining: Skillet. Support: Bad Moon Born Enmore Theatre, SydneyThursday, 4th of April, 2024 American Christian hard rock band Skillet last played Sydney in November 2018, at the Big Top, Luna Park. That was a huge show, full of rock bombast, and attended by a sea of eager fans. Now, to kick off the tour of
www.skillet.comLabel: AtlanticLatest: Dominion American hard rock band Skillet are one of those huge international bands that you might not have heard of [if you’ve been living under a rock, or are of a certain vintage], but they have a legion of dedicated, fervent fans who devour all that they do with unbridled enthusiasm. Their first