Live Review
Live Gallery: The Ghost Inside Bring Redemption and Fury to Perth 19.10.2025
The Ghost Inside’s first Australian headline tour in more than a decade opened in Perth with a cathartic, high-voltage performance that proved why the Californian metalcore veterans remain one of the genre’s most resilient forces.
Live Review & Gallery: Connan Mockasin Visits The Sydney Opera House – 16.10.25, Eora Land/Sydney
Before Connan Mockasin took the stage, the crowd was greeted with a bizarre opening: a homemade parody of a disturbing after-school special, starring the musician himself. It was the first of many pranks to come. A blonde-haired figure appeared on stage and settled behind the drum kit, making themselves comfortable. Another layer of misdirection in …
Live Gallery: Bear’s Den Bring Islands Home at Sydney’s Vanguard 19.10.2025
At Sydney’s Vanguard, Bear’s Den revisit Islands in its purest form. Alone with a guitar, Andrew Davie delivers a night of quiet intensity — an intimate, decade-spanning reflection on love, loss, and the craft of song.
Live Gallery: Burna Boy Brings No Sign of Weakness Tour to Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena 18.10.2025
At Qudos Bank Arena, Burna Boy turns his No Sign of Weakness tour into something more than a show — a seamless blend of rhythm, movement, and connection that transforms the arena into a single, beating pulse.
live review: killswitch engage, hatebreed, fit for an autopsy, decapitated. leeds academy 13/10/2025
Tonight was the turn of Leeds to get an injection of brutality in the city and this time it was the turn of Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Fit For An Autopsy and Decapitated, and they absolutely crushed the Academy to its core. So the night started off with some Polish technical Death Metal and the masters …
Live Review & Gallery: More Music at SXSW Sydney Day 4 – 16.10.25, Eora/Sydney
By day four, we’ve stopped checking schedules. You just followed the noise and hoped you ended up somewhere good (it’s all fantastic). I caught locals Sweetie at the Heaps Normal pop-up as the sun was going down, walking from Redfern Station into Chippendale. You could hear them before you saw them, echoing down the city …
live review: thrash of the titans tour 2026, testament, obituary, destruction, nervosa. manchester academy 10/10/2025
Tonight in Manchester we were witness to something pretty darn special because tonight was the night that the Thrash of the Titans package had steamrolled into town and it was epic beyond belief on all levels. First up on the brutal package were Nervosa and they absolutely crushed the venue with their brief opening slot. …
Live Gallery: Bullet For My Valentine Celebrate 20 Years of The Poison at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion 16.10.2025
At Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion, Bullet For My Valentine revisit The Poison with the weight and precision of a band still sharpening their edge. Joined by While She Sleeps and The Devil Wears Prada, the night feels less like a reunion and more like a reaffirmation — proof that metalcore still breathes in full force.
live review: paradise lost, messa, high parasite. new century hall, manchester. 09/10/2025
With the autumnal evenings elongating at a rapid rate now I made my way across the Pennines for an evening of Gothic inspired Doom Metal courtesy of one of West Yorkshires most successful exports, the death-tinged Doom advocates Paradise Lost. Not long after the doors flung open we were being carved open by the iron …
Live Review: Katy Perry – Lifetimes Tour. The O2 Arena London, 14.10.25
Say what you like about Katy Perry, this could be one of the shows of the year