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On Saturday 13 March, 2027, a fresh curation of heavy metal and hardcore punk extremity will be inaugurated in Melbourne, Australia with Lucidity. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of their iconic Jane Doe record, legendary metalcore pioneers CONVERGE will crown their first visit to Australia since 2019 with a rare and exclusive performance of […]

Featuring veterans of the Adelaide heavy scene with members from Japam and Colibrium, Control The Sun kicked off the year with their first ever gig, opening Froth And Fury in Adelaide and dropping two epic singles, Say It’s Over and Pyre. Now they bring us a hefty serving of prog with their third single release […]

Australian gothic/modern metal act VICTORIA K unveil their new single Incubus, taken from their forthcoming third studio album The Pleasure of Sorrow. The release comes ahead of a busy October for the Melbourne-based band, who opened for Katatonia over the weekend and are set to support Paradise Lost on their upcoming Australian dates later this […]

Thirty years is a long time in heavy music. Scenes change, trends come and go, venues disappear and bands form, implode, reform and disappear again and again. Segression are still here. Formed in Wollongong in 1996, Segression emerged from an Australian heavy music scene that would go on to produce some of the country’s most […]

Deafheaven have dropped a new three-track EP out of nowhere titled ‘At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb’, and it finds them at their most unflinching and vicious.

Serving as the follow-up to 2025’s sensational full-length ‘Lonely People With Power’, it less so picks up where that epic left off and more so builds on the malice, intensity and bile-drenched anger that was found in its foundations.

Made up of two sprawling masterpieces and one atmospheric interlude, it is an EP that grips the throat, squeezes and has no intention of letting go. From the breakneck pace of ‘Hunter’, to the scorched Earth relentlessness of ‘Sorry Laid The Hearth’, it is a release inspired by very real and very raw actions that could come to fruition.

Taking its title from Robert Del Tredici’s photo book of the same name, a document that showcases the normal lives being lived around the production of nuclear weapons, it sits somewhere between the mundane and the mayhem. Of pondering what it takes for life, and world, alterting things to take place, and how as a society it is in the absolute ordinary that our destruction could unfold.

It’s close to the bone, thoughtful and sensationally crafted, everything that should be expected from Deafheaven at this point in their journey. Yet, somehow, they just keep on getting better and better.

You can check out the short film created to accompany ‘Hunter’ below, a collaboration between vocalist George Clarke, director Nico Poalillo, Pulse Films and academy-award-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminsky.

And here is the full release:

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It is a good time for Nickelback, as the incredible new album Everything Under The Sun is ready to be launched worldwide, with UK tour dates in the offing for next year as part of a world tour. To celebrate the run-up to the unleashing of this new opus, the band are in town to spread the word, and in amongst the festivities, bass player Mike Kroeger is chairing a knock-out contest of the ages deep in the heart of Soho.

Nickelback’s World Cup Of Rock

Karma Sanctum Soho, London – 8 October 2026

Words: Paul Monkhouse

Photography: Manuela Langotsch

This was going to be an event where some of the biggest bands ever to walk the Earth battled it out to be supreme leader of the league table, a bloody and relentless battle where the mighty fell, and heroes would rise.

Co-hosted by DJ Claire Sturgess, the set-up was simple. She and Kroeger sat in front of a specially invited audience at the famed hotel, and each of the pair randomly picked one band each round to compete in a head-to-head.

With the choices an equal mix of the bass player’s picks and the top choices of the audience assembled, two cards were given out each round, pulled from a shuffled stack and the bands revealed in pairs. This was the cream of the industry, and anything could happen as Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys, Sex Pistols, Metallica, Nirvana, The Beatles and others were thrown into a contest savage enough to make Squid Game look like a walk in the park.

Would it be AC/DC or Guns N’ Roses who rose from the fight to get another round to prove themselves, or would Slayer crush all the opposition?

Kroeger and Sturgess are perfect as hosts, the two trading thoughts and the avuncular musician often turning to the audience members nearby to share thoughts or pull out comments when decisions were dangerously difficult.

Some of the draws drew gasps from those assembled as various camps clashed, reasons given for each of the two choices in that round to be top dog and the court of public opinion in full and fruity voice. With plenty of laughter ensuing, things heightened with each round and when the brutal clash of Zeppelin and Black Sabbath happened, there was a sense of just how serious things got.

Hotly contested and much debated, with the hosts passing decisions over to the assembled throng by way of a cheer-ometer, the final victory was won in the most apocalyptic of conflicts by Black Sabbath, the Birmingham godfathers and inventors of Heavy Metal gaining the crown.

This was not just a scrap, bitterly fought by giants, but also a chance to hear more about the dynamics of Nickelback, the new album and the plans for the future.

Like the fellow much-maligned James Blunt, the band seem to thrive on the unfair attacks and derision they suffer, dealing with it all with a great sense of humour and the best responses ever in killer albums and sold-out arenas.

For anyone looking at brotherly conflict between Mike and Chad, it was revealed that the two get on incredibly well and the four members of the band are bonded like family, the longevity of the line-up as they fast approach their twenty-second year as this formation and their thirty-second year as a band.

With bibliophile Kroeger giving some great book tips and meeting every person in the room, always smiling and with another few stories to tell, it is impossible not to hold the band to your heart, especially when they continue to produce albums as good as Everything Under The Sun.

Black Sabbath may have won the battle of the bands, but Nickelback were the ultimate victors that night, and long may they continue.

For the tour, artist presales start on Tuesday 13 October at 10am local time, with general tickets going on sale on Friday 16 October at 10am local time through Live Nation. VIP packages will also be available.

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Since releasing their third album, Cartoon Darkness, in 2024, Amyl and The Sniffers have blazed a trail around the world – taking in Grammy and Brit Award nominations and ARIA Award wins, global tours and festival spots such as Glastonbury and Coachella to name a few, and fitting in the release of a live country […]

Merle Haggard was one of the defining voices of American country music, a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader whose recordings traced the lives of working people with unusual honesty. Born in Oildale, California, on April 6, 1937, he grew up around Bakersfield and became one of the principal architects of the Bakersfield sound. His music retained the bite of honky-tonk and Western swing while bringing tremendous emotional depth to songs about family, prison, heartbreak, and independence. Haggard began recording for Tally before his Capitol Records years turned him into a major country star. Songs such as ‘I’m a Lonesome Fugitive,’

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Few bands manage to weaponise raw, unadulterated musical chaos quite like Germany’s Half Me. Bursting onto the heavy scene with a catastrophic blend of modern metalcore, nu-metal bounce, and visceral post-hardcore, the Hamburg five-piece have rapidly evolved into one of Europe’s most formidable sonic juggernauts. Following the massive success of their devastating debut Soma, the […]

Get your dancing shoes polished and your neck muscles thoroughly warmed up, because post-hardcore royalty is finally heading back down under! That’s right, heavy music lovers—the absolute icons of progressive, chaotic, and infectious math-rock-infused bliss, Dance Gavin Dance, are gearing up to storm Australian shores for what promises to be an unforgettable run of shows. […]