Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Seance Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Forming almost twenty years ago, Australia’s Pestilential Shadows are no strangers to the themes of death and disease. They have returned 18 months into the pandemic with their sixth full-length Revenant, following up 2019’s compilation album The Fate…
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Interview with Pestilential Shadows
Pestilential Shadows Interview with Balam (vocalist, guitarist, bassist, lyricist) Interview by Kira Levine Hello and thank you for your time. Please state your name and position in Pestilential Shadows. Hails Metal-Rules! Balam from Pestilential Shadows here. I take care of guitar, bass, lyrics & vocals. As an introduction, could you…
Sydney’s AVALON’S PEAK release ‘Levitate’
Sydney-based AVALON’S PEAK have released their powerful new single ‘Levitate’. The band formed in 2016 creating music combining cinematic influences with modern rock and metal. Opening up about their personal struggles with mental health, ‘Levitate’ offers the vital message of hope to heavy music fans who may be struggling with…
Australia’s melodic death metal band ENDVS release new single ‘A Storm’s Clarity’
Sydney’s melodic death metal resurging veterans ENDVS release their empowering new single ‘A Storm’s Clarity’ from their upcoming album ‘Cessation’ due for release on September 24 via Octane Records. ‘A Storm’s Clarity’ showcases the band’s second to none songwriting skills, drawing the listener in with rhythmically sophisticated guitar work complemented…
The Plague – Within Death
Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Bitter Loss Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It is something of a cliché for a band of any genre to call themselves “old school”, particularly if the said genre has a wide, versatile and eclectic or experimental canon of practitioners like death metal. However,…
Stormtide – A Throne of Hollow Fire
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Hell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith There is a lot of symphonic death metal around these days, and I mean a lot. In fact if you Google exactly that you get a hit with a page of ‘Top symphonic death metal artists’ which…
Australian metal legends THE AMENTA release new album “Revelator”
February 19th marks the date of the official return of Australian avantgarde metal band THE AMENTA. Their fourth album “Revelator”, a complex, yet highly engaging puzzle of nine compositions, is now released and officially available via EVP Recordings. Ornated by a thoughtful cover artwork designed by Metastazis (MORBID ANGEL, BEHEMOTH),…
Australia’s STEVE HUGHES releases first new music in 22 years
One of Australia’s founding fathers of heavy metal is about to unleash his first new music in 22 years! Steve Hughes, known to the world for the last two decades as the cutting edge stand up comedian who pulls no punches when it comes how he sees the state of…
Temple Nightside – Pillars Of Damnation
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Hailing from Australia and founded just a decade ago, Temple Nightside will be releasing their fourth full-length Pillars Of Damnation on August 7th, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Their label states: “By now, Temple Nightside require little to…
Sydney death metal band DAEMON PYRE release their long awaited second album, Serpent Gods and a Dying Sun May 22 2020
The end of DAEMON PYRE? In 2014 DAEMON PYRE burst onto the Australian death metal scene and redefined it. The band’s members came from a long list of acts that were critical to the genre in the decade that came before it but they weren’t merely a sum of their…
Lord – Fallen Idols
Reviewed: September, 2019 Released: 2019, Dominus Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Ambra Chilenwa Originally from New South Wales, Australia are power and traditional heavy metal band Lord who have been releasing music since 2003. This band consists of Lord Tim on vocals and guitar; Andy Dowling on bass and Mark Furtner…