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Review LAMB OF GOD “Into Oblivion”
Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Lamb Of God grew to become one of the most influential bands in modern metal. Their fusion of thrash metal, metalcore and groove metal is unique and easily identifiable. Another important aspect of Lamb Of God’s musical identity is the vocals of Randy Blythe, and the band’s stable line-up has also… Continue Reading → -
The Hunter Valley’s THRASHVILLE Announces Line Up For 2026 Return Featuring FEAR (USA), Disentomb, The Bennies and More…
March 12, 2026: Set amongst the lush bushland confines of Dashville, at Lower Belford in the Hunter Valley, Thrashville returns, ready to rejoice at the darkest time of year, Saturday 27th June 2026.
Today the festival announces the first portion of the line up, with a broad range of bands from right across Australia, plus one special international guest, coming together for a one day explosion of punk, rock, metal and all in between.
The special international guest is a American punk pioneers FEAR, who for the first time ever in their fifty year career, are heading to Australia!
Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, FEAR didn’t just help shape punk rock – they defined its confrontational spirit. In 1981, the band made history as the first punk act to appear on national television in North America with their infamous Halloween performance on Saturday Night Live, courtesy of John Belushi. The chaotic set left the studio in shambles, landed the band on a permanent ban list, and was later ranked the #1 musical performance in the show’s history by Rolling Stone.
Their landmark debut album has sold over 500,000 copies and is widely regarded as one of the ten greatest punk records of all time.
Other leading acts on the bill include internationally acclaimed, Australian brutal death metal act Disentomb, and Australia’s most loveable high-energy punk rascals The Bennies
The full line up is below:
FEAR (USA) | Disentomb | The Bennies
Dregg | Hybrid Nightmares | Turtle Skull
Good Sniff | Private Wives| Couch Wizard | Catpiss
Purple Disturbance | Pyrefly | Whisperhead | Shacked!
Happy Fuckin Family | Immortal Within | I Hate PeoplePLUS Thrashville will add the four winners rising from the Thrashville Regional Battles, which happen across NSW at the following regional locations:
Crossroads Bar – DUBBO – 9th May
Pot Belly Bar – CANBERRA – 18th April
The Servo – PORT KEMBLA – 22nd May
Blah Bar – LISMORE – 31st MayTickets for these regional battles will go on sale in coming days, alongside an announcement on the 16 or so bands that will join those line-ups.
Thrashville 2026 Early Bird tickets sold out in a couple of days, and with today’s incredibly unique and heavy line-up announce, it’s all positive signs that 2026 will be a big year for this fiercely inclusive regional festival, which holds its own as an outing like no other.
Rolling off the success of last year – where the 2025 event trialled a new time of year and a four-stage layout, and seemed to take the throne as the best edition in the festival’s history – the 2026 festival will, in most cases, remain exactly the same: a few minor tweaks at best, but mostly the return of all the good stuff.
In 2026, Thrashville is pleased to announce that the festival is supported by the Australian Government’s Revive Live program. Providing financial support towards the regional battle events and other festival programming and infrastructure.
The festival will be a huge day of live music, accompanied by an evolving mix of awesome attractions, including pro-skateboarding displays, roaming performers, a tattoo parlour, select stalls and live art displays.
Thrashville is rated MA+15. Whilst under-age persons are welcome to attend, they must be in the immediate presence of a responsible adult at all times.
Tickets for Thrashville are on sale and available via the Dashville website. dashville.com.au/thrashville
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JOHN KEENAN Releases New Single “Forget You”
Brisbane based singer/songwriter John Keenan shares his latest single “Forget You”. In his most refined form yet, “Forget You” sees John’s compelling vocals and rich storytelling take centre stage. Produced and co-written with
Boy & Bear’s Tim Hart, the soulful track is just the beginning of what’s to come. Drawing you in from the beginning, John’s profound songwriting is undeniable, leaving a lasting impression with his earworm hooks and velvety vocals.
John talks through the themes, “This song dives into all corners of a relationship, the rollercoaster peaks and lows, both the mesmerising and messy moments which to me is what makes unconditional love”
He talks through the recording process, “Working with Tim was an absolute dream come true. Our artistic vision completely aligns and we had such a great time bringing this track to life”
Since 2019, Brisbane singer/songwriter John Keenan has made a lasting impression on industry and audiences alike. Landing the love of triple j with his debut single “If You Saw Me”, the track gained multiple spins before “Tired Eyes” won hearts with Abby Butler praising the song for its “gorgeous folky beauty”.
A spellbinding performer, John has played some of Brisbane’s best venues including The Triffid main stage, Black Bear and more, sharing the stage with names like Hope D, Camille Trail, Jordy Polbodetto (Selfish Sons) and more. After years of delicately honing his craft, John is re-emerging from his songwriting cave with a brand new single “Forget You”. Co-written and produced with Boy and Bear’s Tim Hart, the soulful release is already turning industry heads. With new music and live shows on the horizon for 2026, John is ready for his biggest year yet.
“Forget You” is available today across all music platforms
“Forget You”
John Keenan
Written by John Keenan and Tim Hart
Recorded and produced by Tim Hart
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JOSH PYKE ‘Kingdom Within’ New Single & Album Announcement
Photo Credit: Michelle Pitiris With his eighth studio album, ‘Kingdom Within’, out June 12th, via ADA Music, Sydney singer-songwriter Josh Pyke delivers a masterfully crafted collection of songs that explore humankind’s shifting moral compass in a rapidly changing technological landscape, how society values human creativity, love, loss and family.
Produced by ARIA Award winner Chris Collins (Matt Corby, Royel Otis) ‘Kingdom Within’ is a bold artistic statement that demands examination and repeat listens, this album reaffirms Josh’s place as one of Australia’s most compelling storytellers.
In the title track, ‘Kingdom Within’, he sings, “With no Kingdom within such a rudderless thing we become.”
“This song is really about reconnecting with your moral core,” he explains. “The Kingdom Within I am referring to is our rich internal life. In a world that seems really fraught at the moment and is really fragmented by not only what is going on in the political landscape but also in social media, I think it is more important than ever that we reconnect with what is important to us. This is different for everybody, but for me it’s creativity, art, nature and most important of all, family.”
Josh is currently rounding out 38 intimate shows across Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and the ACT for his Feeding the Wolves and Other Stories Regional Solo Tour.
‘Kingdom Within’ LP out June 12 via ADA Music Pre Order now
‘Kingdom Within’ Single out now via ADA Music
Feeding the Wolves and Other Stories Regional Solo Tour 2026
Remaining Shows
Tickets are on sale now
https://www.joshpyke.com/shows
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SANGUISUGABOGG Sell Out Melbourne’s 170 Russell, & Advise Low Ticket Warnings For All Other Shows
Shat out of hell? Indeed. The epically unpronounceable, utterly indecipherable and altogether uncompromising gore merchants, Sanguisugabogg, are returning to Australia in June 2026 with special guests PeelingFlesh.
And fans are loving it. Perth and Brisbane recently had their venues upgraded to fit more miscreants in and now Melbourne’s huge 170 Russell has officially Sold Out!
All other shows are dangerously close to being sold out too so those tyre kickers who have yet to get a move on, better do so quick cause once the tickets are gone, they are gone!TOUR DATES
Friday 12 June: Magnet House, Perth 18+ LOW TICKETS
Saturday 13 June: Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide Lic AA LOW TICKETS
Sunday 14 June: 170 Russell, Melbourne 18+ SOLD OUT
Wednesday 17 June: Manning Bar, Sydney 18+ LOW TICKETS
Thursday 18 June: Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle 18+
Friday 19 June: Tivoli, Brisbane 18+ SELLING FASTWhat’s left of the tickets are available at..
https://daltours.cc/sanguisugabogg
www.destroyalllines.comHaving left Australian crowds in bloody heaps on their debut tour in 2024 via their now infamous tradition of playing ‘murderball’, where a football is thrown into the heaving pit with the promise of some free merch for the one maniac who is still standing and holding the ball at the end of the next song, Sanguisugabogg are ready to up the ante this time with their good, friendly, violent fun!
The sonic stench that permeates their latest release, Hideous Aftermath, has become the benchmark for modern death metal. With the torch being passed to them from their heroes in Cannibal Corpse, Mortician and Suffocation, the ’Bogg deliver queasiness-inducing tracks such as Necrosexual Deviant, Face Ripped Off, Skin Cushion and Dragged By A Truck, all of which test the limits of the human body with gurgling abyssal lows and bowel rattling heaviness.
No longer that band of meme-inspiring miscreants, their blasts of sludgy riffing and tongue-severed-from-cheek, gross-out humour are backed up by their devastating musicianship. Sharper, meaner and more lethal than ever, their grotesque gore-obsessed, psycho-sexual, body-horror artistry may seem perverse or fetishistic to some but to the ‘Bogg, it’s perfectly normal.
Adding to the carnage are Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh, the slamming, gangster-groove juggernaut making their long awaited debut on Aussie soil.
Prepare for nothing less than total sonic dismemberment, a night of horror-drenched depravity and refined carnage that hits like a sledgehammer to the sternum. Together, this bill is a demented double dose of pure, unfiltered brutality.
What’s left of the tickets are available at..
https://daltours.cc/sanguisugabogg
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Jack Osbourne Welcomes Baby Girl: Here’s How Her Name Honors Ozzy
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Album Review: Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks
Album Review: Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks
Reviewed by Matthew Williams
If you are in the market for some short sonic blasts of nihilistic black metal then look no further than “Satanic Scum Punks” from Manchester’s finest, Wolfbastard. This is proper in your face, pedal to the metal aggressive noise, as the band release new material for the first time in four years, with eleven new tracks that show you no mercy whatsoever.
The trio of Dez (guitars/vocals) Si (bass) and drummer Dave, aren’t here to make friends and influence people, they are here to bring you filth, fury and menace with their turbo charged belligerence. The madness begins with opener “It’s Fucking Dark” which has a simple opening riff alongside a gently pounded drum before you get the anguished scream and mighty shout of “Fuck Off” and like an atomic bomb, it explodes into life!!!
The album title track follows, and it starts that relentless hammering that black metal is famous for. Its fast and furious with layers of demonic screams and shouts but more importantly, its bloody enjoyable and their riffs have that angry edge to it, that I love most about other bands in the genre like Midnight. They also have a scornful range of song titles, “Let The Bastards Burn” being just one, and it works beautifully with their destructive compositions, and you know that this trio would ignite the flames of those fires.
You get a mighty rush of adrenaline on “Hail Satan Kurwa” as they ramp the tempo up further with merciless drumming and frenzied, deathly screams from Dez. “F.O.T.D.” is like a battering ram to your senses, and what’s impressive is that they don’t waste their notes by over complicating the songs, as it’s a full-frontal assault, and woe betide anybody getting in their way. There’s a slightly more measured approach on the opening of “Blood on Steel” but they are soon back to their hostile selves, with more screeching guitars and booming bass.
There’s a tidy bass intro from Si that starts “Drink for Hell” and I can see this becoming an anthemic song, with the chorus being chanted by audiences far and wide. It’s rapid and unapologetic with rage before it leads into the fabulous “Fuck The Bastards”, which sees their ballistic anger go off the charts. It’s over way too quickly, but that’s why it works so well, as they don’t elongate the songs, but they leave you wanting more.
With that in mind, “Manic Street Creatures” hurtles into your eardrums at one hell of a pace, and is probably my favourite track, as it’s 97 seconds of unadulterated chaos. I’m sure that “You Fucking Rat” must be aimed as someone they dislike, and they finish how they started with a mighty venom filled “fuck off” at the end of “B.I.F.F.O”.
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LIME CORDIALE’s Climate-Focused Lime Green Festival Welcomes New Partner – The Australian Conservation Foundation
Announcing their climate-focused festival Lime Green earlier this year, brotherly duo and organisers Oli and Louis Leimbach of Lime Cordiale today share news of an important new partner joining the festival’s initiative, The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
One of Australia’s most influential environmental organisations led by Adam Bandt, the ACF prides itself on its bold advocacy that works towards a future where both nature and people thrive. From climate solution campaigns and grassroots mobilisation to rigorous legal action and environmental investigations, the organisation works to activate everyday Australians to help hold government and corporations accountable for environmental harm.
ACF CEO Adam Bandt says, “We won’t save the planet with doom and gloom – our plan is to have fun and dance alongside great Australian artists while also working hard to hold government and big corporations to account for trashing our environment,”
Bringing their core mission to the festival, ACF CEO Adam Bandt will be present, encouraging climate conversations before hitting the stage for one of his much-loved DJ sets.
“I can’t wait to warm up Lime Green Festival with a DJ set and meet lots of folks in the crowd to chat about meaningful ways to take climate action. Hats off to the organisers for pulling off a music festival for climate action – this is the type of dedication we need from all industries to turn down the heat on the climate crisis.”
A deeply aligned partnership, Oli and Lou share their excitement about ACF’s involvement. “We’re so stoked to have the ACF on board with our festival. They really are one of Australia’s climate leaders and we’ve always looked up to everything they do. And now they’ve REALLY stepped it up by putting their CEO on the lineup as the opening DJ!”
THE LINE UP
The Lime Green Festival will feature a carefully balanced program of live performances and activations that spotlight community and business leaders and innovators from the growing regenerative movement.
The music line-up boasts established Australian talent, along with pathways to showcase emerging and local artists, featuring;
Lime Cordiale
The Dreggs
aleksiah
PASH
Plus new additions to the line up
TONIX
Sticky Beak
and triple j Unearthed Winner to be announced
Joining the line up are Adelaide’s very own fast-rising electro force TONIX. Turning heads with their extra-terrestrial sound and immersive live shows, fans of Rüfüs Du Sol, M83, Ruel and LCD Soundsystem will be in awe of their performance.
Bringing their upbeat riffs to the Lime Green stage are four-piece surf rockers Sticky Beak. Another homegrown SA act much-loved for their catchy melodies and wiggy sound, their explosive live set is one you won’t want to miss.
In partnership with Chugg Music, Lime Green Festival is a bold experiment in what the future of live music can look like when climate action is placed at the centre of the experience. Designed as a 100% off-grid event, the festival is built on a commitment to reducing environmental impact while still delivering a vibrant, high-quality day of music, culture and connection.
Tickets to Lime Green Festival are on sale now via limegreenfestival.com
If you would like more information or are interested in donating to The Australian Conservation Foundation, please visit their website www.acf.org.au
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Welcome To The Freakshow With SAMORA SQUID
Photo by Matthew Hedges Internationally renowned Lutruwita/Tasmanian genuine sideshow freak Samora Squid will be doing an hour of their most full-on material for SQUID’S SUNDAY SIDESHOW, a DIY punk residency at famed Naarm/Melbourne venue The Tote, and don’t say you weren’t warned. Sword swallowing. Live piercing. Extreme contortion. A Samora Squid show is shocking, confronting, […] -
Rebels Opera drop video for new single “Love Like A Live Wire”
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