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While he may not be the first person that people think of when they think of great modern day horror film directors, but Eli Craig is somebody that should certainly be on the radar of any true horror fanatic. After all this is the man that wrote and directed one of the best horror comedies […]

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Known for their lunatic personas and stage antics backed by solid musical skills and songwriting chops, D-A-D made their international breakthrough in 1989 with the album No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims which spawned the hits ‘Girl Nation’, ‘Jihad,’ ‘Point Of View’ and the MTV favourite and global smash single ‘Sleeping My Day Away’. Now with D-A-D about to hit Australian shores for a tour […]

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  The dangers of making a movie based on a video game is that a filmmaker can either make the movie so unlike the game it is hated by gamers or relying on so much game-lore that it becomes a confusing mess for anyone who has never played the game. Some films have escaped those […]

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  Burton C. Bell, the iconic voice that defined futuristic anxiety, existential desperation, and steadfast resistance across the industrial metal world, is set to captivate Australian audiences this June 2025 with a special run of intimate shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Newcastle. Fresh off his induction into the prestigious Metal Hall of Fame, Burton continues to solidify his legacy [...] Continue Reading

Legendary hard rock band WINGER is set to electrify Australia for the final time, bringing their farewell tour to rock fans across the country. For one unmissable tour, all of the original members— Kip Winger (vocals, bass), Reb Beach (guitar), Rod Morgenstein (drums),  Paul Taylor (guitar, keyboards) and  John Roth (guitar) —will travel to Australia to deliver the ultimate send-off, celebrating decades of iconic music in […]

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Ten years ago Melbourne metal lords Witchgrinder delivered one of their most seminal albums. Haunted saw the band move away from the sound that they had established on The Demon Calling two years earlier and saw the band tackle something fresh with new band members. With the release of the Splatter Vinyl 10th Anniversary Edition […]

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40 years of Balls To The Wall: This milestone anniversary of Accept’s iconic album simply couldn’t remain uncelebrated by Dirkschneider, an incarnation to pay tribute to the musical past of their frontman Udo Dirkschneider.  Except releasing two live albums, Dirkschneider had never been a recording band, but that has changed today as they are releasing [...] Continue Reading

Do you remember that excited feeling that you used to have as a music lover when you scored a cassette or CD compilation? Whether it was one you picked up on the counter at your local music store or one that you had to carefully peel over the cover of a music magazine, there was [...] Continue Reading

The wait is over, and we have finally seen the release of ‘Overdriver;, the fantastic new album by high-energy rock'n'roll royalty, THE HELLACOPTERS, who are commemorating their 30th anniversary as a band with their ninth full length. The successor of their glowingly praised, chart-storming comeback album, ‘Eyes of Oblivion’, is filled to the brim with roaring guitars and earth-shattering grooves, [...] Continue Reading

One of the architects of ‘The Gothenburg Sound’ Dark Tranquillity will storm Australian shores this month for the first time in over a decade, delivering three exclusive shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane! Masters of melodic death metal, Dark Tranquillity emerged from Sweden’s west coast in the early ’90s, alongside titans like In Flames, At The Gates, and Soilwork. […]

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In a time period where cinema trailers are often accused of giving away plot points that should have remained secret it is has been kind of nice to see a trailer released that actually leaves the public asking questions. When the trailer for Sinners dropped audiences were left with the following question ‘okay it looks […]

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There is no doubt that Hollywood has programmed audiences to see Artificial Intelligence is a bad thing. While movies like Short Circuit, Chappie and Wild Robot suggest the opposite films like the Terminator and The Matrix are just too powerful at portraying AI as the villain. Even in recent months audiences have watched as AIs […]

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In just a few weeks Australians will once again be able to witness the power, the presence, and the uninhibited, inhuman vocal range of the one and only Tim ‘RIPPER’ Owens. If you have ever seen Owens live before you know that he is about to bring some of the wildest moments in Metal to […]

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Mike Tramp, the iconic voice of White Lion, is set to perform the songs of White Lion in Australia for the first time in 20 years. This marks Mike Tramp’s first tour of Australia since 2008, and it promises to be a spectacular celebration of White Lion’s timeless hits. Over the past few years Mike Tramp’s White Lion has now released two volumes […]

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It is not an overstatement to say that filmmaker Leigh Whannell is one of the men responsible for changing the face of modern-day horror. His screenplays introduced us to the world of Saw and Insidious while his directing skills have brought us the fresh and creative Upgrade while The Invisible Man took him to a […]

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The modern-day cinematic journey into the Universal Monsterverse has been a rocky one. The Tom Cruise led The Mummy became one of the most unfairly maligned films in Hollywood history while films like Dracula Untold barely raised a blip on the radar. The sad truth is that the Monsterverse has really only come to life […]

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Cavalera is a name with its fingerprints all over the history of heavy metal, an inspiring family legacy built upon decades of musical aggression, starting all the way back in 1984 in Brazil with Sepultura.  Over the last couple of years, Max and Iggor Cavalera revisited their first three releases, Morbid Visions, Bestial Devastation, and Schizophrenia, re-recording them with a new level of intensity [...] Continue Reading

Given my usual aversion towards remakes I must confess that I did have some scepticism before stepping into the screening of Nosferatu. Largely due to the fact that when it comes to classic cinema the original 1922 version is at the top of the tree. The F.W. Murnau version is not just the pinnacle of [...] Continue Reading

There is very little that extreme metal artists Cradle of Filth haven’t done over their career – but according to front man Dani Filth there was one thing he felt they needed to do – make their first live album in twenty years. Filth gets his wish with Trouble And Their Double Lives which was [...] Continue Reading

  IN FLAMES are one of the biggest metal bands in the world – never shying away from pushing their artistic boundaries, crafting music that’s as catchy as it is crushing. Formed in 1990, the band is considered one of the forefathers of melodic death metal and the purveyors of the ‘Gothenburg sound’. With thirteen studio albums […]

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No matter where you look in music press over the past years outlet after outlet have been praising the work of the brutal Arch Enemy. Their lives shows have been described as brute force and their latest album Deceiver was called a work of slaying art. Mind you the band have overcome some things that […]

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Legendary vocalist GEOFF TATE is coming back to Australia after his highly successful shows performing Operation Mindcrime in its entirety back in pre-Covid 2020. This time, Aussie fans are in for a real treat, Geoff Tate and band will perform two classic QUEENSRŸCHE albums in their entirety, Rage For Order and Empire!  Stylistically the two albums couldn’t be further apart. Rage For Order was more progressive than [...] Continue Reading

They say that sometimes great adversity leads to something special. That is certainly the case when you consider new Australian blackened death metal outfit Black Lava. While Australia was enduring some of the harshest pandemic lockdowns in the world the inception and birth of Black Lava came to life when ex Ne Obliviscaris drummerDan Presland [...] Continue Reading

Over the years a number of bands and artists that I have interviewed have often mentioned that one of their biggest influences on them as youngsters was the 1980s born hard glam rock band Faster Pussycat. While Faster Pussycat may not have reached the heights of some of the other bands haunting Sunset Strip at […]

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Halestorm has grown from a childhood dream of siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale into one of the most celebrated rock bands of the last two decades. Called a “muscular, adventurous, and especially relevant rock record” by Rolling Stone, their Vicious album earned the band their second Grammy nomination and led one magazine to name Halestorm “Rock Artist of the Decade” in 2019.   In Australia Vicious [...] Continue Reading

Clocking in almost four decades, it’s no stretch to say that Grammy-nominated Swedish epic doom legends Candlemass are still one of the heaviest metal bands on earth. As the godfathers of epic doom metal, the band defined the genre with releases such as Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) and Nightfall (1987). Through their evil riffs, crushing rhythmic attack and dramatic vocals, they [...] Continue Reading

Music documentaries can be strange beasts. It has seemed over the past few years that they either became a tabloid doco where a filmmaker sets out to expose an artist or they become a vanity affair where the main aim is to showcase an artist’s career or in some tragic cases simply boost album sales. […]

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Being a Fear Factory fan is a little bit like being on a constant roller-coaster ride with a little bit of ghost train thrown in for good measure. Over the thirty years that the band has been operation for there have been plenty of highs, a couple of lows but added to that is the [...] Continue Reading

It is hard to pinpoint an exact sound for Melbourne’s very own HZED. Some have said that their style of rock conjures up memories of  Chrissy Amphlet while others say they have had the unique ability of capturing 50 years worth of rock all in one track. While a lot is said about them one [...] Continue Reading

Well it is not exactly Christmas coming early, but this year we will see an extra AusMusic T-Shirt Day thrown into the calendar, Rising to popularity in 2015 the first AusMusic T-Shirt Day was held in order to raise money for SupportAct, a charity that is designed to help out artists and those who work […]

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“We released a single with Rue Morgue Records last year so it was a pretty easy step to just keep that relationship going that was already there. We’ve been really happy with John and I think that he has been really happy with us so it was just common sense to keep that relationship going.” […]

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Australia’s very own Rue Morgue Records started off as a dream for acclaimed music photographer John Raptis. That dream started off as wanting to set up an online record store that would eventually become a bricks and mortar store… along the way it evolved into a record label that has just celebrated its second birthday. […]

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After a year of pandemic lockdown Melbourne artist Karly Jewell is brushing off the musical cobwebs and jumping headfirst into 2021. Not only has Jewell been able to announce that her latest track ‘Dancing With The Devil’ is set to appear on the new Murder In The Rue Morgue Vol II compilation but she has [...] Continue Reading

  If you are a fan of the hit television series Vikings then chances are you have heard the music of alternative band Wardruna. Not only have the band had music feature on the show but one of their main performers, Einar Selvik, has appeared in the show a number of times. Of course Wardruna’s [...] Continue Reading

At times over the years it has felt like the compilation album is dead and buried. I still remember those days of buying the latest music magazine and then having to get past that sticky stuff (what the hell was that?) to get my prized sampler of new music off the front of the cover. [...] Continue Reading

It was early in the year 2000 when the buzz started to go around the music scene about this brand new band called Linkin Park. People were starting to talk about this band out of California, people knew there was something great coming but couldn’t quite put their finger on what it was. I remember […]

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What makes a great cover song? That is perhaps going to be a question that will float around for as long as music itself exists. I guess in a way that questions can be answered differently by every single music lover in their own way, it all comes down to taste. I know there are […]

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Recently I heard radio listeners voting on what they believed were the best Nirvana tracks of all time. As I listened to it I begun to realise that to the new generation of music fans Nirvana never really existed outside of their award winning Nevermind and MTV Unplugged: Live In New York albums. Of course [...] Continue Reading

The mighty Finns are back! With sold-out world tours and some of the highest selling albums of the past decade it is hard to imagine that the talented juggernaut that is Nightwish could get any bigger. Yet the release of their brand new album Human :II: Nature last week has seen the band reach new […]

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SOLD OUT! Witchskull: A Driftwood Cross $70.99 Read more While some bands have gone into hibernation during the Covid-19 quarantine one band that certainly hasn’t is Canberra’s Witchskull. Not only has their latest album, A Driftwood Cross, been released during this period but when the ACT’s quarantine restrictions were lifted slightly the band managed to [...] Continue Reading