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5 Acts We’re Hanging to See on New Bloom Festival 2025!
Festivals in the mainstream circuit may be dying far and wide, but in alternative/heavy world, things are anything but. With Good Things Festival set to kick off the Australian festival season in just over a month, heavy music fans are in for a scorching summer of live music. Earlier this year, New Bloom Festival crashed…
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GIG REVIEW: Ocean Grove – The Triffid @ Brisbane
Friday 4th October Supports: Paledusk (Japan), Inertia, Sunbleached Ahead of their forthcoming LP release Oddworld next month, Melbourne alt/nu-metal groovers Ocean Grove embarked on a short run of shows this weekend up and down the East Coast. As longtime fans of the boys, we couldn’t pass up the chance to hear what the world is…
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GIG REVIEW: While She Sleeps @ The Tivoli, Brisbane
Friday 27 September Supports: Stick To Your Guns, Ocean Sleeper, Boundaries We’ve been lapping up all of the metal this month, what with all the Parkway pandemonium. So what better way than to continue the mania with none other than British metalcore legends While She Sleeps?! The boys kicked off their second return to Australia…
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While She Sleeps Kick Off Aussie Tour This Week!
UK metalcore act While She Sleeps are set to cement their legacy in Australia this week as they return to our shores less than 12 months out from their 2023 Good Things Festival appearance. Since December though, the boys have unleashed their sixth record, SELF HELL, which explores more of their bolstered sound and passion…
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GIG REVIEW: Parkway Drive – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Friday 20 September Supports: I Prevail, The Ghost Inside, Void of Vision 2024’s biggest metal event of the year was no doubt the 20 Year anniversary for Parkway Drive. Joining the Byron Bay juggernauts for the celebrations included well-loved US acts in heavy music and need no introduction to Australian fans, I Prevail and The…
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GIG REVIEW: Scene Queen – The Brightside, Brisbane
Saturday 7 September Supports: CHEZ, Peni Parker Brisbane’s The Brightside was transformed into a pink sorority house (akin to that of Elle Woods, Legally Blonde) for Scene Queen’s final SHAKE YOUR AUS sold out show on Saturday night and you can bet that music fans came out in droves. Well before doors opened, the line…
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GIG REVIEW: Stand Atlantic – The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Saturday 31 August Supports: Sly Withers, Vana (NZ) Sydney alternative/rock outfit Stand Atlantic rounded up their recent WAS HERE album release tour in Brisbane over the weekend and it was a huge night for all involved. Having just played to Melbourne and Sydney audiences and then finding out the band had debuted on the ARIA…
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Good Things Festival 2024 is Here!
Cull the rumours and band predictions, the real Good Things Festival lineup has finally arrived. Falling on the weekend of 6 – 8 December across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, this lineup is a trip down nostalgia lane, so it’s all sorts of epic and some names may send shockwaves down your spine. Headlining 2024’s event…
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GIG REVIEW: Story of the Year – The Tivoli, Brisbane
Sunday 11 August Supports: Senses Fail, Behind Crimson Eyes For many of us in our formative years of growing and development, Story of the Year are an emo/rock icon. Whilst some of us grew up amidst the sounds of the early 2000s, pop punk runs through our veins. In 2003 however, a new sound was…
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As December Falls Announce Debut Australian Tour
If your playlist is lacking in the pop punk and after something fresh, we’ve got you with this announcement. UK quartet As December Falls will make their way Down Under for the very first time in February 2025, offering a new contemporary taste of the genre for Aussie music fans. Fronted by vocalist Bethany Hunter,…
