Great Aussie black metal

Uncouth, moshy, and over-and-done with before you know it — yet strangely satisfying all the same.

Making their debut with this self-titled album, the Australian quartet of Drug Cult pack in ~40 minutes of sprawling stoner doom across nine tracks,...

  The announcement of the first ever Download festival down under has gotten Australians very excited. With massive headliners such as Korn (playing their only...

With their latest album, Mammoth Mammoth keep up the party-friendly stoner hard rock style that they've long been working, cranking out “Yeah!”s and chunky...

Progressive metal, as the name implies, involves advancing the sound and trying new, sometimes experimental concepts. Caligula’s Horse follow this ideology to the letter,...

The Norwegians of Hypermass have an approach to melodic death metal that, while quite pleasant, isn't exactly what you'd call groundbreaking. They seem to be quite connected...

Wearing their respect for '80s thrash and its descendants on their cover art and band photos, Harlott spice up the nuclear madness of that...

Holy War, the latest release from the Australian deathcore quintet Thy Art is Murder, represents a definite progression. The first track alone, “Absolute Genocide,”...

The worldwide resurgence in traditional heavy metal has been simply astonishing. It seems like new bands channeling the spirit of the NWOBHM keep popping...