Live Reviews

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Dan Maynard  Some bands push the boundaries of progressive metal. Between The Buried And Me have spent more than two decades redefining them. Blending technical mastery, crushing heaviness, jazz fusion, blues, death metal […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose Brisbane’s metal faithful packed The Tivoli on Thursday night for a pairing that perfectly balanced groove-laden aggression with gothic theatricality. With DevilDriver making their long-awaited return to Australian stages alongside […]

Review: Christian Stanger Crowd photos: Mic O’brien The Dead of Winter is a bit different this year. The last one I got to was in 2018 and it was like an occupation of Fortitude Valley. […]

Review: Alison Gustavson Photography: Luke Petty What do you get when you combine a couple of bands with Swedish frontmen and the iconic heavy Taylor Swift masterminds? The 2026 Australian Violent Nature Tour. After three […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose On a cool Sunday evening, the Princess Theatre played host to a lineup that perfectly represented hardcore’s past, present and future. Local favourites Wetwork opened proceedings, Iron Mind reinforced […]

Review: Jack Price Photography: Luke Petty Two gigs at The Tivoli in as many weeks. What a lucky boy I am! And this time, it’s another band that not only shaped and supported me as an […]

Review: Jack Price The year is 2006. A much, much, MUCH younger me, eye lined and scene haired, sat staring down the old glass screen computer monitor in my high school pc lab. A friend […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose On Wednesday night the Brisbane Entertainment Centre hosted one of the more eclectic heavy lineups to hit the city in recent memory, with Ecca Vandal, Interpol and Deftones bringing together punk, post-punk, shoegaze and […]

Review: Joshua Hobbins Photography: Nate Rose There’s a whole generation of newer heavy bands now pulling equally from metalcore, shoegaze, post-hardcore and alternative music without really caring where one genre ends and another begins. Last […]

Review: JD Garrahy How was Hammersonic a week ago already? Suffering from severe amounts of post festival depression, to which there is only one known cure. More live music! Prove to me that I’m wrong and ill […]