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News / Music
Ice Nine Kills channel their inner American Psycho with ‘Hip To Be Scared’
Ice Nine Kills have to return some videotapes on their new American Psycho-inspired pop-metalcore outing.
Features / Music
Premiere: Lower Automation whip up a noise-punk racket on 'Vegan Neuroscientist'
Lower Automation are one of the best new bands in this math & noise-rock realm.
Features / Music
Premiere: Shangrila continue to mature with the heartfelt 'Lift Me Up'
Perth's Shangrila only continue to grow with cool new songs like 'Lift Me Up.'
News / Music
Make Them Suffer release new song 'Contraband' featuring Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox)
Not even a feature from Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante can save this new Make Them Suffer song.
News / Music
Employed To Serve head in a more metal direction on 'Exist'
Listening to new Employed To Serve songs to forget I exist.
News / Music
Jinjer are back on their groove-metal bullshit with 'Vortex'
'Vortex' is a firm reminder that Jinjer really are one of the coolest, most promising metal bands around today.
News / Music
'Pennsylvania Furnace' and the ascension of Lingua Ignota
With the Appalachian folk, classic and gospel-hymn mood of 'Pennsylvania Furnace,' Lingua Ignota refuses to copy herself.
News / Music
'Alkaline' and the meteoric explosion of Sleep Token
Sleep Token are the future.
Features / Music
Alexisonfire: ranking the post-hardcore luminaries four albums
Alexisonfire do not have a bad record, but which of their four albums is the best of the best?
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Chasing Ghosts - 'Homelands'
Always was, always will be.
Features / Music
Premiere: Sedative call out to the void on debut track, 'Cough Medicine'
Perth's Sedative offers an invitation of the void's destruction with head-caving debut single, 'Cough Medicine.'
Features / Music
UNFD: ten of the Aussie record labels best and worst releases
With UNFD turning ten in 2021, we look back at some of the highs & lows of their catalogue.
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