Tag Australia
Don’t you just hate in when things get lost in space? Well it was cyberspace that gobbled up a load of promo emails from Belgian based label Immortal Frost Productions but liking their output I agreed to play catch up… Continue Reading →
An instrumental project, Vipassi proved their worth on their colourful and adventurous debut album “Sunyata” (2017). The band has been around since 2007. “Lightless” promises something more technical and experimental. Although there is gloom, the sounds are diverse and colourful… Continue Reading →
No shortage of stuff coming out of Australia at the moment and following hot on the heels of albums by Resin Tomb and Vipassi here we have another band Tanin’iver from Adelaide. During the last few nights I have also… Continue Reading →
Brisbane is not the first place you think of for filthy gnarly, sludgy Death Metal. I was there in the mid 90’s and I just remember the fake beach on Australia day, extreme humidity and a lot of Hahn Ice… Continue Reading →
Domination Campaign is the brainchild of Psycroptic frontman Jason Peppiatt, and he is joined by Psycroptic bandmate, Joe Haley, making this 50% of the Tasmanian Technical Death Metal giants working on a musical venture which exists to act as a… Continue Reading →
I reviewed Biolume 2 for Ave Noctum. Biolume 3, on the other hand, is instantly more memorable and pleasing to the ears. It’s Midnight Odyssey returning, albeit reluctantly, to his astral black metal roots, and giving us a metaphorical middle… Continue Reading →
This Australian band contains members of The Amenta, Fuck I’m Dead, Eaten By Rats, Werewolves, The Red Shore and The Day Everything Became Nothing. With this in mind you would have thought they could have picked a better moniker than… Continue Reading →
Treebeard are from the same progressive post-rock stable as sleepmakewaves, We Lost the Sea and other similar Australian artists. This album, which is the band’s debut, was released two years ago and now being re-released. Mystical sounds accompany the opening… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I reviewed a very decent album called “Entheogen” by an Australian progressive metal band called Mish. The leader of Mish went off and formed Hence Confetti, and this is their debut EP. The “emotional heavy… Continue Reading →
Cover albums are not only a good way for a band to express their interests but also can allow them the freedom of expression. I’m stating the obvious here but it all stems down to the choices the band make… Continue Reading →
Can we talk for a second about how pretty Stansted is? I began listening to Bolt Gun’s third full-length The Tower on a rail replacement bus journey passing through it. You see, I thought it would be the perfect soundtrack… Continue Reading →
Pagan black metal is one of the more mysterious and ambiguous black metal sub-genres and has berthed many a fine work of metal that delves into the darkest and most obscure of pre-Abrahamic beliefs and ideals over the last 30-plus… Continue Reading →