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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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When Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album on February 13, 1970, they effectively altered the landscape of popular music. With its dark atmosphere, heavy riffs, and foreboding lyrics, Black Sabbath is widely regarded as the birth of heavy metal. Though heavy music had its precursors in bands like Led Zeppelin and Cream, no one [...] Continue Reading

“Becoming Led Zeppelin” is a 2025 documentary directed by Bernard MacMahon that chronicles the formation and rapid ascent of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. The film delves into the individual musical journeys of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham during the 1960s, leading up to their convergence in 1968. It [...] Continue Reading

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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A Tribute to David Lynch: The Architect of Dreams David Lynch is not merely a filmmaker; he is an architect of the subconscious, a weaver of dreams, and a poet of the uncanny. In a world that often demands clarity and resolution, Lynch dares to embrace the shadows, the silences, and the strange beauty of [...] Continue Reading

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

Paul Di’Anno will forever be identified as a crucial key in the development and success of Iron Maiden. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest bands in the world, with a legacy that has lasted 50 years. The news of his passing is sad as Paul has struggled with health issues for the last 10 to 15 years. […]

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Hello Rue Morgue Records customers! We appreciate all you do for us and those who constantly return and give us your business. Well, we want to give you a little something back! Introducing the Rue Morgue Records Loyalty Program. You will have noticed that the more you interact with the site, the more points you [...] Continue Reading

We've been extolling the virtues of Amigo The Devil on this site pretty much from day one. He also happens to be one of our biggest-selling artists, as no matter how much of his vinyl we stock, we sell out. It's happened a few times! Having said all that, boy, are we stoked he is [...] Continue Reading

Forty Three Years Ago!  That’s just something so hard to comprehend when I can remember it all detail for detail as if it happened yesterday! Yeah, forty three years ago, I went to my first gig, KISS at VFL Park. I wasn’t alone. 45,000 people attended too that day, making it for the time – […]

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Alice Cooper – iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® Inductee revs up as loudly as ever on his latest solo album “Road” and reveals the first single “I’m Alice” today. Produced by longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, it’s written, composed and recorded with his trusted, longtime bandmates – Ryan Roxie [guitar], Chuck Garric [bass], Tommy [...] 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

Shot down, traumaticTime haunted by the past When your back catalogue of music contains arguably the greatest Metal album of all time, is it any wonder that everything you do will always be judged (harshly) against that. And that is disappointing because since said greatest Metal album, 1986’s Master Of Puppets, that vast majority of […]

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  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

English heavy metal group Iron Maiden outside the Island Queen pub in Islington, London, 1982. Back row, left to right: singer Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith. Front row, left to right: bassist Steve Harris, drummer Clive Burr and guitarist Dave Murray. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images) In The Mist Dark Figures Move And Twist! [...] Continue Reading

Straight from Metallica HQ the world woke up to some HUGE news: Yes, you read that correctly... we have completed recording at HQ, and our 12th studio album is coming your way! It’s been six years since Hardwired…To Self Destruct, so we think it’s about time for some new music. With 12 tracks totaling over [...] Continue Reading

By: Rod Whitfield First up, I have personally written a review of this album previously, but when John from Rue Morgue Records asks you to write more about the great Dev, you damn well accept! To make it different, I will make this a track-by-track examination of the main album Lightwork, and then a discussion [...] Continue Reading

The forthcoming Celtic Frost box-set has received the stamp of approval from Tom Gabriel Warrior! And that, ladies and gentlemen, has us very, very excited for this release! To quote Tom from his blog... As a life-long vinyl album collector, I have always felt that a record company's decision to compile a box set is [...] Continue Reading

There have been a lot of questions asked about Melbourne metal lords Witchgrinder over the years. Are they industrial? Are they thrash? The answer to those questions is that Witchgrinder is an entity and a sound all of their own. There was nothing before them that was similar and nobody has managed to emulate their [...] Continue Reading

SLIPKNOT will release its new album, "The End, So Far", on September 30 via Roadrunner. The official music video for the LP's new single, "The Dying Song (Time To Sing)", can be seen below. Directed by the band's own M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, the clip sees one of the world's most popular and deeply enigmatic [...] Continue Reading

You know, the term 'old bastard' gets thrown in my direction a few times, but when you got to be a child in the Seventies, you can throw any name at me you like... the Seventies were the BEST times to be a kid. No contest! Social Media and the internet were all years away [...] 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

What's the buzz, tell me what's happening! Winter has surely hit us hard in the Southern Hemisphere! Well, as hard as a Australian winter can hit I guess. And the colder months find us all at Rue Morgue Records facing an extremely busy period. Both the online store and the record label are experiencing a [...] Continue Reading

Whilst putting together the compilation albums we are doing at Rue Morgue Records, with every campaign we usually get 50-60 bands who send through their music. Which is great! I love getting the opportunity to hear stuff I otherwise would not have. The most disappointing aspect of this process tho, is telling a band that [...] Continue Reading

It was a Friday night sometime in 1989. I was visiting the boys at Metal For Melbourne which had become a weekly ritual in that year. They unpacked a bunch of new stuff that had come in and out of the cardboard box came a record called The Real Thing by Faith No More. "Who [...] Continue Reading