Prog Stomp 2026 brings four of Australia’s heaviest progressive metal bands to Southeast Queensland for one massive weekend this May. Blending thrash, death, and modern metal with groove, classic influences, and jazz, the lineup delivers […]

GOPHER is party metal / electro fun from Australia and unlike anything you’ve heard before. Originally hailing from Fanny Barks, UK, and forming in 1790 after arriving on the First Fleet to what was then […]

Equal Vision Records, Civilians and Sparta are excited to announce the Friday 29 May release of Cut A Silhouette, the forthcoming album from the celebrated El Paso, TX-based alt-rock band (pre-save, pre-add and pre-order here). Produced, engineered and recorded in seven days at Magpie Cage […]

Over 20 years ago, THE AMENTA released their debut album, “Occasus”. An unrelenting hybrid of the darkest death metal, black metal grandeur, and sickly electronic interjections, “Occasus” was marshalled by the unhinged bestial roar of Mark “Cesium […]

Sydney-based nu-metal/hardcore group Deficit return with their vitriolic new single “Only God Knows.” “Only God Knows” blends crushing, heavy riffs with confrontational, furious lyrical content. The result is an unrelenting, dark and gritty track, fusing […]

Today, multi-platinum selling artist mgk announces an additional opening act for the highly anticipated Australia and New Zealand leg of global tour, The Lost Americana Tour in support of his seventh studio album Lost Americana. Produced by Live Nation, the […]

Continuing to prove themselves as one of metals most exciting up and coming acts, Japan-based metalcore outfit Prompts tread new ground on silky smooth new single “Death of Me“, out now via Greyscale Records in partnership with Papercut Records (US). Leaning into a […]

You feel it before you hear it. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. A low, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been […]

THIS IS YOUR MOMENT• OPENING BAND COMPETITION • One band will rise.One band will open the ritual! Necrosonic Festival returns for Year Three and we are giving one band the opportunity to step onto the […]

Tasmanian devils THE ABSOLUTION SEQUENCE have set a summer 2026 release date for their highly-anticipated full-length album, Dread Cycle. Following a string of EPs and singles, the album promises to be the band’s most incendiary work […]