'It’s Hard To Push Back The Fear': Jay Watson Steps Into The Light As GUM

Tom Hersey, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Boris, Dreamtime, Grieg
"As intense as the show gets while Boris are hitting the drone metal they are best known for, there’s an unshakeable lightness to proceedings."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Miles Away, Blacklisted, Shackles, The Gifthorse
"The dudes don’t waste any time getting reacquainted with Brisbane fans tonight, tossing the refined, technically proficient, newer cuts down alongside the blasts of hardcore aggression"
Features / Music
Why Heavy Music Is Good Music
"It is pretty natural for us because those influences are like our blood so deeply and it’s pretty hard for us to resist against it"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Red Fang, King Of The North, Hobo Magic
"It’s this ability to offer up equal parts cool and crude that’s liable to permanently consign Red Fang to the fringes of the metal scene"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Everclear, BodyJar, AntiHeroes, Art VS Science, The Strums
"He drops syllables at the start or end of most lines and does all the regular rock star tricks to cover his tracks"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Peaches, Monster Zoku Onsomb, MKO
"Beyond the spectacle of the performance, Peaches’ tunes are all on point tonight"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Hard-Ons, Goon On The Rocks, Walken
"No-frills has always been a part of the Hard-Ons' modus operandi, and tonight is no exception. The closest the dudes come to any kind of real production value is taking their shirts off in tandem."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Napalm Death, Carcass, Extortion
"Here they are tonight, missing guitarist Mitch Harris ... but still absolutely, absolutely killing it."
Features / Music
Why Their Latest Record Was A Long Time In The Making
"But for as long as I’d had the idea, I didn’t know how to approach it."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Norma Jean, Belle Haven, Bayharbour, She Cries Wolf, Dire Wolf
"...what better soundtrack for a pre-public holiday piss-up than gnarly hardcore."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Billy Idol, Cheap Trick, The Angels, The Choirboys
"Even if the bad boy sexypants shtick is a harder sell when you look exactly like Dolph Lundgren, Idol still throws himself into the set."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Psycroptic, Goatwhore, Disentomb, Ouroboros
" that in-your-face immediacy of the best punk and hardcore shows to technical death metal..."
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