Touring

ANTHRAX stands as one of the legendary “Big Four” of thrash, a band whose breakneck riffs and mosh-pit anthems have shaped heavy music for over four decades. On their 2026 Australian tour, Anthrax will ignite stages in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, performing a career-spanning arsenal of classics. Fans can expect a high-octane set packed [...] Continue Reading

They say there is no rest for the wicked and that is certainly the case for Max Cavalera and Soulfly this holiday period. Soulfly has been spearheading the movement of groove metal for decades now, reaching into limitless directions while seamlessly retaining the expert quality and perfection that bears the Cavalera seal of approval. Coming […]

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Off the back of their well-received The Last Will And Testament album Swedish prog rockers Opeth have spent most of the last year on the road playing to sell-out audiences. Now for the first time in six years the band is about to head to Australia where they have promised that their set list will [...] Continue Reading

What better way to spend Halloween than to sit down with Wednesday 13 himself. From his time with the legendary Murderdolls through to his stunning solo career – which has seen him create one of the best Halloween anthems of all time with I Walked With A Zombie – Wednesday 13 has been wowing Australian [...] Continue Reading

The original voice of Skid Row Sebastian Bach has spent the last few years wowing audience around the world with shows that has seen him re-create the band’s self-titled album to pure acclaim. Now Bach is heading to Australia to bring the shows here and he has added a special show in Melbourne that will […]

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If you have ever sat down and read Cherie Currie’s autobiography Neon Angel or seen Floria Sigismondi’s 2010 film The Runaways you will know that Currie is a battler and more importantly a survivor. Thrust into the world of rock ‘n’ roll at just 15 years of old Currie experienced the highs of the industry […]

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  Bay Area legends TESTAMENT are set to lay waste to Australia in June 2025; their first headline tour since 2010. Since emerging from the San Francsico Bay Area Testment have delivered some of the greatest metal anthems of all time.  ‘Over The Wall’, ‘Practice What You Preach’, ‘Rise Up’, ‘Into The Pit’, ‘Brotherhood Of The Snake’, ‘Low’, ‘The […]

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  Burning Witches are a Swiss Heavy/Power Metal band, founded in 2015 by rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl. She was soon joined by Romana on rhythm guitarist, bassist Jeanine Grob, drummer Lala Frischknecht, singer Laura Guldemond and guitarist Courtney Cox. Ushering in a new wave of Heavy Metal – Burning Witches soon developed a steady fan base and started to deliver some awe-inspiring albums. With just a sip of their [...] Continue Reading

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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  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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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 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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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

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

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

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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When Scottish punk band The Exploited  arrive on our shores next week it will be an absolute miracle that they are here. I don’t use the word miracle in a form of journalistic shock either, it will be a true miracle as lead singer Wattie Buchan has had a number of heart attacks over the […]

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Metalcore Gods Atereyu are at the point of their career where they could just sit back and rest on their laurels. They have just celebrated twenty years in the business, their albums chart each time they have a new release and they have toured alongside greats such as Slipknot, Chris Cornell, Linkin Park and Avenged […]

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It is hard to believe that the legendary The Quireboys have never been to Australia before. The hard rockers started out in Newcastle, England way back in 1984. Back then of course they were actually called The Choirboys before a reworking saw them become The Queerboys. However 1987 saw them change their name to The […]

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Rue Morgue Records fave Chelsea Wolfe is set to tour Australia in June… Straight from her Facebook Page…   Happy to announce my New Zealand and Australia tour with Emma Ruth Rundle (Solo) supporting will be in June 2020 Presented by Sargent House & The Bird’s Robe Collective JUN 05 Wellington, NZ @ San Fran […]

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photo by Alex Morgan Since its arrival on the stages of Boston’s heavy scene in 2006 Revocation have become a band who have used their unique blend of thrash and death metal to repeatedly change the sound of the genre. That time period has seen them deliver seven studio albums including the Lovecraft inspired The […]

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Photo by Alex Solca Long before most people had any idea at all what climate change meant one band was already out there spreading important information about social issues such as the climate and the deplorable treatment dished out to many innocent animals around the world. That band has been Cattle Decapitation a band who […]

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