Tag: "Heavy metal music"

Arctic Monkeys : Electricity
0 Comments. 597 Views. Posted 2 May 2012 @ 2:43pm.
  Even heavier than its precursor, Electricity is the B-side to R U Mine?,released to support Record Store Day. This one is a mess of distortion, the vocals buried beneath the slapping would-be Dave Grohl drums and the rolling QOTSA guitar line. Doesn’t sound like it was much of a song to start with, but the production makes it one big forgettable stew of sound. Read More
Joe Bonamassa Announces Melbourne Show
0 Comments. 1,023 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 9:55am.
With a growing reputation as one of the world's greatest guitar players, Joe Bonamassa is coming to Melbourne to play the Palais Theatre in October. The charismatic blues-rock musician continues to create more and more of a virtuoso mix of roots-influenced Delta sounds and lively 1960s British blues-rock enthusiasm, heard through his work on his last two albums, Dust Bowl, and Black Rock, which... Read More
Graham Coxon : Ooh, Yeh Yeh
0 Comments. 570 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 6:55pm.
  The second single from A+E has a churning Velvet Underground vibe, with Graham’s beloved guitar distortion married to a lazy but flowing vocal melody, a cruising sixties garage sound with a buried hook. Not mind-blowing, but quietly charming.     Read More
Fu Manchu
0 Comments. 878 Views. Posted 25 Apr 2012 @ 8:24am.
  In the 1970s Leonard Nimoy held audiences spellbound with his sombre, occasionally dire, narratives of natural events and unexplained supernatural phenomena in the television series In Search Of…. At age six I was convinced a swarm of killer bees would descend upon my parents’ house, hopefully just after witnessing the inevitable invasion of aliens from outer space.  At age 11,... Read More
Sub Atari Knives @ The Evelyn
0 Comments. 1,354 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:51pm.
  Another ripping night of Melbourne alternative music. An extremely varied bill more suited to the open minded among us. Thankfully, there are a number of those in Melbourne, and a very solid crowd jammed into the classic surrounds of the mighty Evelyn this cool early autumn Melbourne evening.   Featuring two members of one of Melbourne’s best known alternative/heavy acts Sydonia, I... Read More
Ned Collette & Wirewalker : Il Futuro Fantastico
0 Comments. 594 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:47pm.
  A preview of the second album by Ned Collette & Wirewalker, called 2. The single is a heady mix of squirreling electric guitar played in an acoustic Spanish style, deadpan vocal delivery and muted drums; a collection of sounds all struggling mightily to seem blasé, the energy dampened by Ned’s now-customary hipster gothic style. I dunno. It’s incredibly interesting but also kind of... Read More
Angus Stone : Bird On The Buffalo
0 Comments. 1,211 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:28pm.
  A second single from the soon-to-be-released solo album. Bird On The Buffalo is a West Coast desert rambler, a hazy, peyote cowboy shuffle under endless blood orange skies. The rhythm slaps, the electric guitar spirals and Angus sings like Dylan, relaxed and reborn.     Read More
Mesa Cosa : Infernal Cakewalk
0 Comments. 1,315 Views. Posted 11 Apr 2012 @ 1:13pm.
This formidable debut is as picturesque as the moment you decided to shelf your first pill, swig the remaining dregs from last week's goon bag, tonsil slap your best friends younger sister and donkey punch your way into the mosh pit. So, in layman's terms, Infernal Cakewalk is one fuck-off debut! Mesa Cosa are six suburban rat bags thrown into a city of unknowns, living in (no doubt) dilapidated... Read More
60 Seconds With... Desecrator
0 Comments. 614 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 10:37am.
Define your genre in five words or less: Chaotic Australian Thrash Metal.   When’s the gig and with who? Unholy Good Friday is being massacred on Friday April 6 from 6pm by six of the most ungodly Thrash Metal acts in Australia. Hobb's Angel of Death are possibly the biggest cult metal act to ever come out of Australia, and right beside them are recently re-... Read More
Single Of The Week: Alabama Shakes : Hold On
0 Comments. 999 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 2:12pm.
  There’s a southern blues breeze astir in the USA – a growing crop of much-hyped bands playing soulful, classic rock music that is unconcerned with contemporary music trends; a blessed absence of synth. At the head of the pack are Alabama Shakes, a four-piece from Athens, Alabama fronted by the matronly-looking Brittany Howard. The 22-year-old former post woman has a voice that makes... Read More
Damn Terran : Rebels
0 Comments. 926 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 9:33am.
  Local belligerents Damn Terran toured with Children Collide and DZ Deathrays last year (they also played this mangy house party in Brunswick, which being 20 mere metres away from my house, gave me the opportunity to see the band without having to make anything resembling effort – win). Their opening salvo for 2012 is this clatter-punk single, a moody, pounding cycle of noise that rolls... Read More
DZ Deathrays : Bloodstreams
1 Comments. 1,886 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 7:54am.
  DZ Deathrays embody all that is good about rock‘n’roll, in the way that bands like Kiss and Motley Crue set the standard in the '80s, DZ Deathrays are quickly becoming the epitome of rock‘n’roll in today's climate. There's no crotch enhancing devices, face paint or questionable haircuts – in fact DZ Deathrays could probably walk down the street unnoticed in their jeans and t-shirts – but... Read More
System Of Venus
0 Comments. 1,210 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2012 @ 7:31am.
  It’s still pretty rare to find women in heavy music. Specifically, stoner rock is possibly even more bereft of the fairer sex. To find an all-girl, or even mostly female stoner rock band is harder than finding the proverbial needle in a haystack on a pitch black night. But Melbourne, in all of its diverse musical glory, has exactly that. System of Venus, up until recently, were an all-... Read More
Crunch! - March 21, 2012
0 Comments. 1,022 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2012 @ 5:52am.
  Gig Alert: Clash Of The TitansClash Of The Titans is a huge Aussie metal fest at the Espy on Saturday April 14 featuring Ennui Breathes Malice, Teramaze, Scar the Surface, Bronson, Internal Nightmare, Divine Ascension, Deliverance We Prey, Abreact and Dreams In Monochrome. Doors at 6pm, tickets are $20.   Gig Alert: Easter Weekend at The PragueKick off Easter Weekend with Apache... Read More
Deep Sea Arcade : Outlands
0 Comments. 1,307 Views. Posted 16 Mar 2012 @ 9:21am.
 On the strength of Outlands, it would be extremely tempting to label the Sydney five-piece a ‘beat combo,’ the lingering influence of the '60s on their sound almost deems the tag suitable.   Lead single Girls could easily soundtrack the summer of love, with its meaty chord changes, kaleidoscopic production and even some ‘sha la la las.’ By the group’s own admission it was originally... Read More
Crunch! - March 14, 2012
0 Comments. 1,349 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2012 @ 1:39pm.
  KUNVUK Call Limp Bizkit Out So get this: the other day Limp Bizkit announced that they're working on, and I quote, the "heaviest, most crazy metal record of all time." Well Sydney-based metallers KUNVUK aren't gonna let them get away with such an absurd statement. "The audacity of a band like Limp Bizkit to make such an absurd statement is almost incomprehensible," they said. "It’s the... Read More
Jeremy Neale : Winter Was The Time
0 Comments. 851 Views. Posted 14 Mar 2012 @ 1:40pm.
  The lead singer of Brisbane 12-piece Velociraptor returns with another brash and brazen output of '60s psychedelic scuzz-pop. Lo-fi melodies are blasted furiously underneath aching vocals which seamlessly drift away in little over two minutes in a livid, enraged but ultimately forgettable release. Read More
Decimatus : The Betrayer EP
0 Comments. 1,397 Views. Posted 9 Mar 2012 @ 2:31pm.
  This is pretty brutal thrash metal from Melbourne. Primitive, raw and completely in your face, just the way many people like it. Having said that, there’s also some decent songcraft and some nice grooves going on amidst the primal onslaught here. Opening surprisingly with a tasteful, mostly acoustic instrumental piece, The Stand Off, this six track EP then proceeds to come at you with all... Read More
Psycroptic : The Inhereted Repression
0 Comments. 1,052 Views. Posted 8 Mar 2012 @ 9:26am.
  The great Tassie quartet is a band I have followed pretty closely for several years. They’re a band who have been extremely intelligent with the management of their musical evolution. And of their career overall, they are inarguably Australia’s premier extreme metal act.   Their newie, which is their fifth long player, is another step forward in that progression. And what it is that... Read More
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
0 Comments. 1,196 Views. Posted 7 Mar 2012 @ 9:46am.
  Arctic Monkeys sling one out there for the fans – an out of cycle single that doesn’t appear on their current album. R U Mine? is a power rocking orphan child, although it does bear some similarity to the grind and fuzz of Suck It And See, particularly because Alex’s vocals are elevated in the otherwise bass heavy tune. It’s heavy and dirty, but the lyrics are sharp, and after a few spins... Read More
60 Seconds With... Dallas Fresca
0 Comments. 1,054 Views. Posted 2 Mar 2012 @ 10:00am.
  So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Dallas Frasca .... I sing, I howl at the moon, I play guitar, I save fish, I drive a tour van around the world and I paint sound.   What do you reckon people will say you sound like?  A grannies fart with her ring gear busted (that was my guitarist's first answer) I would say: "Slabs of guitar riffage, mammoth drums... Read More
Sleigh Bells : Reign Of Terror
0 Comments. 1,366 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2012 @ 8:52am.
I wasn’t the only one that was blown away when the demo for Crown On The Ground leaked back in two-thousand-and-whatever. The sheer overblown bombast was undeniably infectious – and for the first time in a while, music seemed exciting. Since then, Sleigh Bells have set sail on a course of unabashed mediocrity. The edginess of Crown On The Ground was smoothed out for their middling debut album,... Read More
The Smoking Hearts
0 Comments. 852 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 1:22pm.
As far as rock'n'roll lore goes, the story of how The Smoking Hearts first came together isn’t exactly up with stories of the 'red snapper' calibre. Yet it’s a fairly juicy one, nonetheless. Shortly after the release of their debut full-length, Pride Of Nowhere, The Smoking Hearts were left high and dry by their original vocalist, Rodd Lethal, who left the band inexplicably via text message. But... Read More
Blackened : The Sense In Violence
0 Comments. 896 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 9:13am.
  Blackened may be a new force in the Melbourne metal scene, but the long haired thrashers have already earned their stripes in bands like Stiff Meat, Attack and Maniaxe. The benefits of this experience are instantly obvious. Their music is tight, to the point and free of any wishy-washy filler which can plague a first release.The Sense In Violence is pure thrash. It comes out kicking with... Read More
Iowa : Panic Attack
0 Comments. 824 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:22am.
  Melbourne three-piece Iowa follow Complete Control with an ode to the fuzzier side of grunge rock, a heavy but melodic churn of guitars that follows in the shoe-gazing footsteps of Dinosaur Jr. Panic Attack is a dynamic and thoughtful revision of the genre, but it’s not terrifically memorable. Could make for a killer live show, mind you.   Read More
Martyr Privates : Bless
0 Comments. 921 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:18am.
  Bless is proper lo-fi noise, with a driving rhythm and clattering drum beat. Brisbane three-piece Matyr Privates have channeled The Jesus And Mary Chain into their own homespun brand of stealth alt-rock, complete with drawling, belligerent vocals and a swollen guitar sound. Nice.   Read More
Scaramouche : Access Denied
0 Comments. 1,084 Views. Posted 28 Feb 2012 @ 2:08pm.
From their name reminding you of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, to kicking off their EP with a classic rock countdown – you’d figure Scaramouche were a ‘classic’ rock band. However, the former Canberra, now Melbourne-based five-piece quickly unstack those preconceptions, and start throwing musical curveballs.   Set Sail begins with punky vigour, its dashing rock tempo soon establishing vocalist... Read More
Crunch! - February 23, 2012
0 Comments. 769 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 8:32am.
  Metal, heavy rock, Classic rock local and international good shit with Peter Hodgson: crunchcolumn@gmail.com   Black Sabbath Reunion In Doubt So I guess the biggest metal news this week is that the planned Black Sabbath reunion is seriously in doubt, with all of the band's gigs cancelled except their Download headlining set – and even that depends on Tony Iommi's health as he... Read More
60 Seconds With... Battle Axe Howler
0 Comments. 1,420 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 7:59am.
  So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? Battle Axe Howlers.  Mikey belts the drums and sweats a lot, Deano plays lead guitar in his moccasins,  Pauly plays guitar and buys beer, Cog is on bass and owns an esky,  and myself, Diesel, is on vocals, and I drive two to four hours every Friday to band practice.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of... Read More
Pulled Apart By Horses : Tough Love
0 Comments. 1,002 Views. Posted 23 Feb 2012 @ 7:11am.
  Fusing together a myriad of styles can be an arduous task for a band, but often (and in this case) one worth attempting. Combining the energetic rock ‘n’ roll infused punk of the Bronx, the jagged guitar lines of Future Of The Left, the best bits of 90s Seattle rock, and even slotting in a pop harmony or two – Pulled Apart By Horses have explored quite the terrain on their sophomore... Read More
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