Aotearoa/New Zealand Pop-Metal artist Vana is returning to Australia this September to Tour with local Metalcore legends Ocean Sleeper. In celebration we have put together our dream setlist. Vana typically has a seven or eight song setlist for festivals and eleven for a headlining spot so Will Slingsby so we are going to keep within that range for our wishlist. Vana debuted in January 2022 with the SXMPRA track BLACK SHEEP, following it with her single You're Not the Only One

Hard Rock band GenarationZ of Springfield, Missouri, USA have recently unleashed their third single Probably Death, following earlier releases, Something Wicked and Seance. GenarationZ have become synonymous with a dark, atmospheric and hauntingly melodic soundscape, with Probably Death slipping right into the ongoing theme. Without further ado let's jump into the deep end of GenarationZ latest drop. I've lost my way, I'm in too deep, Last breath I take, Before I leave, My li

Springfield Missouri, USA hard rock band Cognition has released their debut singles The Game and The Washer. With all possible respect, I won't be reviewing The Washed today due to personal reasons. "“The Washed” was written as a healing anthem to support all those affected by the fentanyl epidemic." I encourage you to listen to The Washed. If you need support with a drug addiction and live in Australia, you can call the Lifeline National Alcohol & Other Drugs Hotline on 1800

Cardiff, Wales, Post-Hardcore band Holding Absence kicked off their Australian Tour on August 14th at the Princess Theatre with supports Kingdom of Giants (from Sacramento, USA) and Stepson (of Brisbane, Queensland), and we were lucky enough to be there. I do have to add the caveat that I was unable to stay for the full Holding Absence set, due to a family emergency, however, I will report everything I experienced up to that point. The night began with a line looping around

Bonny Lad is a Skate-Punk/Melodic Hardcore band from Newcastle/Sunderland, England and they have dropped their debut EP Hard-Fought. Hard-Fought follows the release of debut single The Disclosure in May this year. We have six tracks to go over, so let's jump into the EP. Yes, and the hatred of mining communities, Who have a right to expect our men and women, That they stand together when we're fighting against a common enemy, What those people are doing, Is betraying our move

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of ground breaking Album Count Your Blessings, released on the 4th of December 2026, Bring Me The Horizon have unleashed Count Your Blessings l Repented. After the announcement of their intentions to re-record the Album and the subsequent performance of the full Album, for the first time ever in a star studded display in Manchester, England on July 10th 2026, Bring Me The Horizon lit the Global Metal community on fire with the addition o

Sheffield, England Skate Punk artist Hike The Peak has returned after the Elements Album drop in May, featuring an amalgamation of the previous five part Elemental EP series (you can read our review of WATER here). For those of you not initiated to Lee and his music, he invites vocalists to antoxleyphoto feature on his tracks so every single song he has released has a completely different feel and sound. This unique process had led to Lee collaborating with musicians from acr

I think it is safe to assume that collectively as an alternative music scene we are all not okay with the latest Bring Me The Horizon single drop, Dehumanized. If you were around for the OG Deathcore Oli Sykes vocals days like myself, you are more than likely pulling out your skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors (or Vans if you are wrong) and the colourful band t-shirts in celebration. While it has been an amazing journey of musical discover through the years of the expanding discogra

If you would have told my teenage self that the band that I was watching on RAGE on a Sunday morning while I ate my cereal, would in 20 years be on a PR and Media list for a company I created I would have told you, you were a crazy person. But here we are, reporting on not only Bowling For Soup but also Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls. With hour-long sets each, and the support set from Talk Heavy to cover, there is a lot of mayhem to cover, so let's jump right in. In pas

With a little over a month to go until the release of Album Season of Surrender, August Burns Red have dropped their latest single Sonic Salvation featuring Polaris vocalist Jamie Hails. The Pennsylvanian Paxton Powell metalcore band have released ten Albums and three live Albums in their 20+ career so far. As the band surrounds themselves with Australian acts Polaris, Make Them Suffer and The Amity Affliction I would be lying if I said I wasn't excited about what their forth

Electric Callboy have been popping off with music and scheduling announcements recently so let's talk about it as we rapidly head towards their Australian tour. TANZNEID marks the 8th, non-live version, Album to be released from the genre bending Electric Callboy throughout their sixteen year career, and will hit streaming services worldwide on August 7th. TANZNEID features the single HYPERCHARGE and the subsequent collaboration of the faced paced multiplayer mobile game Bra

Enter Shikari dropped a surprised Album on April 9th, Lose Your Self, with no public announcements, cryptic clues or teasers, and honestly, I fuck with that. In an era of information hunts that have led fans on cross- Kate Hook country Easter egg hunts, entire history and lore systems to learn to understand entire Albums and grand gestures, it was honestly refreshing to see a "mic drop" in the form of an Album appearing on streaming services with no warning, like "here you go

Hollywood legends Black Veil Brides have released their fourth single for the year with Revenger featuring the metal giant Robb Flynn of Machine Head. Revenger is featured on the forthcoming Seventh Album Vindicate; which will be available on the 8th of May. Black Veil Brides have reached the everyday audience recently with an iconic move from the WWE who used the previous release BVB hit Woe & Pain as the soundtrack for the Cody Rhodes VS Randy Orton for Wrestlemania 42. Aft

You know you are going to have a good night when you walk past the line of concert goers and see razor blade hair cuts, raccoon tails, more skinny jeans than you can poke a stick at and fish skeleton hair clips. With the 20 year celebration of Saosin's Self-titled Album and the resurgence of Emo culture, the timing was perfect for Saosin to return to Australia to bring the heat with Senses Fail and Fallweather. Standing at the top balcony on day one of the tour I was prepped

Chilean pop-punk two-piece band ØCEANÍA released their latest single Racconto in November last year, following their debut single Constelación in 2019, EP Inmersión (2019) along with further singles Cuervos (2020), Ayer (2021) and Imperios (2025). Growing up with bands like Blink 182, Yellowcard and Good Charlotte, you know I was excited for this one. I will freely admit that I don't know any Spanish so I am going to have to respectfully skip over the contents of the lyrics,

Within Reach is a press proclaimed 'Teenage Metalcore Sensation' from London, England, debuted onto the scene in 2021 with their single 'Our Change', following it up with their EP 'Pariah' in 2023 before coming to land on their latest release 'Hesitate'. Hesitate is the second single to be unleashed this year, leaving us in a space to watch what is yet to come next from this up and coming metalcore force. From where I stand, could you see through the haze? Take my hand, I'll

Deutschland/German Melodic Metal Band Pyogenesis have unleashed their latest single 'Uncontrolled' onto the scene. Pyogenesis marking the beginning of an illustrious career, took to the scene in 1992 with their debut Album 'Ignis Creatio' followed by Albums, 'Sweet X-Rated Nothings' (1994), 'Twinaleblood' (1995), 'Unpop' (1997), 'Mono...Or Will It Ever Be The Way It Used To Be' (1998), 'P...Or Different Songs in Different Sounds' (2000), 'She Makes Me Wish I Had A Gun' (2002)

Whitechapel is hardly a band that needs an introduction, with a nearly twenty year career under their belt, but good luck getting me to shut up about how much I love Whitechapel and how incredibly talented they are, so we are going to do it anyway. As a side conversation for a second, I have been on a one sided friendly banter campaign on Instagram with Whitechapel, trying to encourage them to return to Australia for a tour. This campaign has included comments like "This woul

São Paulo, Brazil Industrial metal band Dollflesh have unleashed their "visceral weight of metal and the mechanical pulse of electronic music, its identity unfolds in distortion, dissonance, and raw emotion" since their debut single 'Zero' in June 2025. Dollflesh have since released eight singles including most recently 'The Beauty' last week and 'DJ Big Toxic' in August 2025, which we will be talking about today. Elvis bit me today and Marilyn called me, In the green fields

Leeds Groove Death Metal band Godeth have unleashed their latest single,'Vestige'. Godeth hit the scene in 2018, releasing their debut single 'Scald' in 2023, followed by several singles and the EP 'The Path of Destruction' (2024). As a teenager/young adult of Lamb of God and Gojira, I knew this was going to be a fun one and I wasn't wrong. If you like crushing guitars, rolling drums, frantic screaming and shaking your arse, 'Vestige' is definitely the track for you. So let's