History

When people think of the origins of occult rock and heavy metal, the names Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, or even Aleister Crowley often rise to the surface. But long before Sabbath dropped their first doom-laden chords in 1970, another band had already summoned the Devil onto vinyl, flashing the horns of Satan and recording a [...] Continue Reading

April 2013 Black Sabbath – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Quite possibly the most iconic shot I’ve ever taken, and without question the most profitable. But the story behind it is just as legendary as the photo itself. It was at Black Sabbath’s Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena, and us photographers were being ushered into […]

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Born Again, released in 1983, is one of the most bizarre and polarizing albums in Black Sabbath’s storied history. Marking the only studio appearance of former Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan, the record stands as a sonic and stylistic outlier within the band’s catalogue. It emerged during a period of transition and uncertainty, following Ronnie […]

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Photographer: Keith “Keef” Macmillan Location: Mapledurham Watermill, Oxfordshire, England When Black Sabbath unleashed their self-titled debut on Friday the 13th, February 1970, it wasn’t just the music that sent chills through an unsuspecting world — it was the imagery. That eerie woman in black, standing still among the autumnal fog outside a centuries-old English mill, […]

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I’ve always loved Dressed to Kill, and here we are, 50 years later, and I’m still spinning it like it just came out last week. The fact that this album is half a century old is mildly terrifying, but what’s even scarier? Realizing I was just 9 years old when I unwrapped it on Christmas […]

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Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti Turns 50: A Monument to Rock’s Golden Age Fifty years ago, in February 1975, Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti, a double album that not only solidified their dominance over the rock world but also became a landmark in music history. As we celebrate the half-century milestone of this genre-defining masterpiece, [...] 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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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 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

40 Years Of Music From The Elder I remember it as if it were only days ago. It was November 11 1981 and my last day of school before summer holidays. It had turned out to be a good year for yours truly and I was excited to kick off the summer holidays with the […]

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75th Birthday Celebrated By Launch Of First Ever Official Website   Iconic AC/DC singer Ronald Belford “Bon” Scott would have turned 75 years old on Friday, July 9, 2021.   To mark this occasion, Bon’s family is launching the first ever official Bon Scott website which will serve as a destination for fans keen to discover more about the legendary […]

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ORDER HERE! Five-LP Collection Includes Original Album Plus Rare Quad Mix Along With The Vinyl Debut Of Two 1970 Concerts Also Available Digitally And As A 4CD Set Wildly regarded as innovators of the musical genre which came to be known as Heavy Metal, legendary Birmingham-bred Black Sabbath celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2020 of […]

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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