theMusic's Guide To Soundwave

21 February 2013 | 4:25 pm | Sally Anne Hurley

Every band. Every story. Every review.

So Soundwave finally kicks off this Saturday in Brisbane and we wanted to make sure you were all well equipped to know who is on this epic lineup - there are shitloads of bands so it would be near impossible for you guys to know it off by heart. We've been covering all the artists on the bill, from the controversial news bits to the sit-downs with your favourite frontmen. Here's what they've all been up to in theMusic sphere.

METALLICA

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LINKIN PARK

Our take on Linkin Park's 2012 effort Living Things.

BLINK-182

They announced a few sideshows and their support bands.

A PERFECT CIRCLE

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

SLAYER

THE OFFSPRING

We reviewed The Offspring's Days Go By album back in June.

PARAMORE

GARBAGE

We also reviewed their fifth album Not Your Kind Of People.

They then released a best of album – the Absolute Collection, which we had a listen to.

TOMAHAWK

Here's our take on their latest album Oddfellows, which was released in January.

STONE SOUR

Our Brendan Crabb reviewed their 2012 release House Of Gold & Bones Part 1.

KYUSS LIVES

And Kris Swales tried to get us to understand Kyuss. The guy is a big fan, incase you haven't noticed.

ANTHRAX

SUM 41

CYPRESS HILL

B-Real got real with Lochlan Watt ahead of their Soundwave appearances.

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE

BRING ME THE HORIZON

BME did endure some controversy ahead of the Soundwave tour, with Australian guitarist Jona Weinhofen being replaced in January.

Crowd funding platform PledgeMusic launched a pre-order campaign for the new Bring Me The Horizon album, the first international pre-order partnership for the company in Australia.

BILLY TALENT

Long before their appearances at Soundwave were announced, the boys from Billy Talent made a quick trip to Oz to promote their latest single.

AMITY AFFLICTION

DRAGONFORCE

Earlier in the year, we reviewed Dragonforce's album The Power Within.

ALL TIME LOW

FLOGGING MOLLY

DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK

We reviewed the band's latest album Go back in June.

Sidewaves were announced for the punk rockers, with The Early November and Deaf Havana set to join them.

THE VANDALS

THE SWORD

We reviewed the “pure stoner awesome” album from The Sword, Apocryphon.

Then vocalist-guitarist JD Cronise told us about Apocryphon, which he described as a “Sasquatch of a record”.

CHELSEA GRIN

SHARKS

NORTHLANE

MILESTONES

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE

SICK OF IT ALL

THE BLACKOUT

We reviewed The Blackout's most recent release Start The Party.

GALLOWS

THIS IS HELL

CEREBRAL BALLZY

POLAR BEAR CLUB

THE EARLY NOVEMBER

VERSUS THE WORLD

The band announced back in May that they had signed a deal with Soundwave's record label 3Wise.

CONFESSION

LAWRENCE ARMS

KINGDOM OF SORROW

FOZZY

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS

CANCER BATS

We reviewed the band's latest album Dead Set On Living.

MADBALL

VISION OF DISORDER

PIERCE THE VEIL

PERIPHERY

OF MICE & MEN

MISS MAY I

DANKO JONES

WOE IS ME

WHILE SHE SLEEPS

This Is The Six was released by the guys in 2012. Here's our take on the record.

LUCERO

We chatted with the Memphis country rockers not once, but twice this past year.

theMusic also reviewed their most recent record Women And Work.

SIX FEET UNDER

DEAF HAVANA

RED FANG

CHUNK! NO CAPTAIN CHUNK!

MEMPHIS MAY FIRE!

THE DEAR HUNTER

PUSCFIER

Awesome last minute announcement for Soundwave, Puscfier will play at the Sydney and Adelaide legs.