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Live Review & Gallery: Nine Bands, One Unrelenting Day at New Bloom Festival – Roundhouse, Eora Land/Sydney, 09.03.25

Nine bands and thousands of punters, all more than willing to throw (nay, hurl) themselves headfirst into a day of hardcore goodness. From the jump, the crowd was locked in,…

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Live Review & Gallery: Knotfest Sydney Ignites: A Day of Chaos, Hardcore, and Heart 8.03.2025

Knotfest storms into Sydney with relentless energy, as bands from hardcore upstarts to metal veterans ignite the pits, industrial chaos rumbles under ominous skies.

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News: New Bloom Festival Returns in 2025 With a Stacked Lineup & Drain Headline Sideshows!

After a wildly successful debut in 2024, selling out in Naarm/Melbourne, New Bloom Festival is back for round two in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of alt-rock, post-hardcore, grunge, and…

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News: DRAIN announce new album ‘Living Proof’

NorCal hardcore trio DRAIN announce their highly anticipated sophomore album ‘LIVING PROOF’ due for release on May 5th via Epitaph Records, pre-order HERE. Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God’s Hate, Suicide Silence) and mixed…

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