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Story of the Year: Taking it Back to 2003
Story of the Year are heading back to Australia this week to celebrate 20 Years of their iconic album, Page Avenue. Together, with Senses Fail, who will play through their 2004 record, Let It Enfold You, helped to shape the post-hardcore landscape from the early-mid 2000s. Ahead of these celebratory shows, we caught up with…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Pizza Planet – Stay Gold, Melbourne
Saturday 27 July Local pop punk pioneers Cordiform launched new mini-festival, Pizza Planet over the weekend and we were there to witness its christening into the scene. With the genre currently transitioning through a boom of nostalgia and next-generation greats on a world scale, in Australia, these bands tend to get shunned and forgotten about…
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Cordiform: Reigniting the Spark Back into Australian Pop Punk
A band who are growing steadily in the Australian pop punk circuit is Melbourne four-piece Cordiform. Bringing with them all-too familiar melodies from the mid-2000s that remind us of Neck Deep and State Champs, these guys are sticking to a musical formula that plays to their strengths. With their latest single ‘Doomsday‘ a result…
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It’s Official – Busted Are Finally Touring Australia!
In what is the biggest newsbreak of the week for anyone who grew up as a teenager in the early 2000s, Busted will FINALLY visit Australia this October/November up the east coast in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. The UK pop punk poster boys exploded across the UK with boppy hits ‘Crashed the Wedding’, ‘What…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: Caskets – Amplifier Bar, Perth
Friday 10 May Supports: The Home Team, RinRin It’s a treat when an international band graces us with their presence more than once in the space of 12 months here in Australia – especially so when you’re in Perth. That puts Caskets squarely in the good books as they make their triumphant return to…
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Polaris Announce Mammoth Tour of Regional Australia This Winter
First Amity, now Polaris?! Aussie metalheads sure are spoilt this week! Polaris have just announced a run of regional tours across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, WA and Tasmania this June and July. This huge onslaught of shows will see the boys hit up all the regional hotspots that our amazing country has to offer.…
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The Amity Affliction to Tour Let the Ocean Take Me This November!
It’s a fantastic start to the week for heavy music fans in Australia. Just as we’re still recovering from the onslaught of Bring Me the Horizon being in the country just last weekend, The Amity Affliction announced this morning that they’ll be returning to the motherland for a very special run of shows. The…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: Bring Me the Horizon – The Riverstage, Brisbane
Saturday 20 April Supports: Sleep Token, Make Them Suffer, Daine Bring Me The Horizon rounded up their mammoth Australian tour over the weekend with two sold out shows at the Riverstage. While weather deemed an issue for many Queenslanders for night 1 of the band’s epic production in the state, that far from deterred…
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GIG REVIEW & GALLERY: Simple Plan – The Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Sunday 14 April Supports: Boys Like Girls, We the Kings, JAX Canadian pop punk icons Simple Plan haven’t been to our corner of the world since before the pandemic (Good Things Festival 2019 was their last appearance down under for those wondering), so it is no wonder that their first Australian tour in four…
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Diamond Construct Let Loose with ‘Hell Inside You’
Diamond Construct have always been one of my favourite upcoming metalcore acts in this country. Why? each time they drop a new song, it is just as refreshing and invigorating as the next one. ‘Hell Inside You’ is very much that, but honestly, so much more. It’s innovating metalcore that sees the band veer…
