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Live Review + Photo Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival – Show Me The Body deliver incendiary set at The Odeon Theatre, Hobart 12.06.2025

A large crowd witnessed New York’s hardcore punk outfit, Show Me The Body (SMTB) take to the stage as part of the return of Hobart’s world class festival, Dark Mofo…

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Album Review: Harvestman –‘Triptych: Part One’ : a breath-taking opening to an epic drone-folk series.

Steve Von Till (aka Harvestman) has always been a deep thinker who aims to reach beyond the surface level with his music. Probably more widely known as guitarist/vocalist/lynch pin of…

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Gallery and Set-lists: Corrosion of Conformity / Jimmy Coup / Plainride – The Academy, Dublin 01.05.2023

Corrosion of Conformity made a visit to The Academy in Dublin for the start of their European tour, opening the night were German heavy rock band Plainride and a surprise…

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Album Review: Melvins – Working With God

Rip-roaring return to form for West Coast sludge veterans on their 24th album.

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EP Review: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – The Helm of Sorrow

Dark folk singer’s collaboration with Louisiana sludge metallers bears yet more fruit.

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Album Review: -(16)- return to form with Dream Squasher

-(16)- return with their new album, Dream Squasher this month via Relapse Records. A testament to the power of loss, every moment of Dream Squasher casts the San Diego band into new, deeper depths.…

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See: -(16)- releases new video for Me And The Dog Die Together and announce album news.

Godfathers of Sludge -(16)- share the official ‘Me and the Dog Die Together’ music video from their upcoming 8th full-length Dream Squasher via Relapse Records Guitarist and lead vocalist Bobby Ferry comments: “For this song…

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News

NEWS: ORANGE GOBLIN HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR.

Diehard exponents of the noble art of heavy metal since 1995, Orange Goblin have spent the last two and a half decades steadily but surely establishing themselves as one of…

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Track: Eye Flys – Guillotine

Following their ‘Context’ EP which was one of last year’s musical highlights for fans of the sort of noise-metal that Amphetamine Reptile would have put out back in the 90s,…

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