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From Monday 17 February 2025

HANDS LIKE HOUSES – ‘A T M O S P H E R I C S’

Australia’s Hands Like Houses are back, ready to blaze into their new era with their latest offering ‘A T M O S P H E R I C S’. A sixteen track double album, the group have split this into four volumes – Tropo, Strato, Meso, and Thermo. Each

Wednesday 12 February 2025

Lacuna Coil – ‘SLEEPLESS EMPIRE’

Late one night, you can’t sleep, you’re flicking through the channels and you see a nature documentary. It triggers something; thinking about time. Thinking about life cycles. Mayflies famously live for less than 12 hours. Some cicadas appear every 17 years. Both types of creatures start out

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Dream Theater – ‘Parasomnia’

A lot can happen in fifteen years for the average person, but for Dream Theater, who float in their own dimensional bubble distant to the rest of us, the time can pass in the blink of an eye. Drummer Mike Portnoy is back after a three album absence for

Thursday 06 February 2025

Jinjer – ‘Duél’

If every time someone said a band tore up the rule book, we’d probably be facing a global shortage of reference guides to metal. But how often do we see a band writing their own story in the world of heavy music, with each song a narrative wrought in

Tuesday 28 January 2025

RØRY – ‘Restoration’

Success has been a long time coming for RØRY, but who else can channel four decades of hardship into a debut released at an age when many rockers are considering slowing down? The songwriter, social media activist, author and split-hair-aficionado channels a bared soul and unflinching honesty on ‘Restoration’

Friday 24 January 2025

Slowly Slowly – ‘Forgiving Spree’

Aussie four-piece SLOWLY SLOWLY’s latest offering, ‘Forgiving Spree’, has one simple goal – to be “a really solid rock album that has no filler on it.” It’s a bold and daring claim to make ahead of release, and off the back of a second Top Ten album in the

Wednesday 22 January 2025

Vukovi – ‘MY GOD HAS A GUN’

Vukovi pride themselves on walking the road less taken. They might be slightly disappointed to learn that their fourth album, ‘MY GOD HAS A GUN’, is perhaps their most accessible yet, it’s provocation open and inviting to those who seek just a little bit more from their heavy music.

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Pet Needs – ‘Kind Of Acoustic’

Pet Needs had a mission: to create “something warm, raw and organic. Something acoustic. Something that felt like the most true take as opposed to the most perfect” as frontman Johnny Marriott put it. The acoustic album that offers the other side of the coin on a band’s sound

Friday 29 November 2024

Hidden Mothers – ‘Erosion / Avulsion’

For most bands, the first track of an album is them setting their stalls out early, giving a brief but fully packaged taste of their sound, and lets the listener know what to expect. So as expected, the first track on ‘Erosion / Avulsion’, the debut full length from

Monday 25 November 2024

RedHook – ‘MUTATION’

Nothing defines the modern world like the rush of information. It’s difficult to sit and think without your brain being stimulated from hundreds of different directions. It can be exhausting. Just deciding what is important becomes a task in itself. Nothing exemplifies this more than TikTok. If