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Live Review: Infected Rain, Butcher Babies and Black Spikes. Club Academy, Manchester 27/03/2026

Last night in Manchester, we were served a visceral, sweat-soaked metal experience that smaller venues do best. From the moment doors opened the anticipation was electric, fans were packed tightly…

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Live Gallery: Anthrax prove their enduring power with high-velocity show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 28.03.2026

Anthrax Enmore Theatre Sydney review – The Enmore Theatre feels like a pressure cooker tonight. Long before Anthrax appear, the floor is already shifting with anticipation, bodies packed tight, voices…

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Live Gallery: Avalanche and The Datsuns crash headfirst into Sydney’s Crowbar with high-octane sets 27.03.2026

The Datsuns Crowbar Sydney review: high-octane rock at full throttle.

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EP Review: STAHR interrogate memory and momentum on debut EP BLIP

There’s a particular elasticity to memory that STAHR tap into on BLIP, their debut EP that treats emotional upheaval less as permanence and more as distortion. What once felt seismic now flickers in…

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News: Escape The Fate return to Australia with The Word Alive for June tour

This June, Escape The Fate return to Australia not as a band still operating at full throttle, bringing two decades of hard rock muscle back into rooms that have been waiting far…

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News: Sunk Loto return with new single ‘Dead Shadows’ and intimate August shows

here’s a particular kind of return that doesn’t rely on nostalgia so much as it destabilises it. Sunk Loto’s re-emergence has carried that energy since 2022, not a reunion framed as revival,…

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Track: ‘Labour Of My Love’ sees For Nina refine their quiet intensity

There’s a quiet kind of confidence that doesn’t announce itself, it just settles in and refuses to leave. On ‘Labour Of My Love’, Dublin trio For Nina lean into that space, returning with…

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Track: ‘An Absent Lover’ finds Davey Lane stepping outside his comfort zone

Some collaborations feel inevitable. Others arrive sideways, built from instinct rather than intention. ‘An Absent Lover’ falls firmly into the latter, a track that began as a loose idea during…

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News: Avatar return to Australia with new album Don’t Go In The Forest

Avatar have always understood that metal thrives on immersion. Not just volume or velocity, but atmosphere, the sense that stepping into their world requires a degree of surrender. With their…

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News: Jungle announce 2027 Australian arena tour alongside new album Sunshine

Jungle have spent the past decade refining a sound that feels engineered for movement, somewhere between precision and release, built as much for the body as for the ear. With…

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