Staff Writer, Journalist

If you've never checked out the band Polyphia, go watch the tracks/clips on their Youtube channel and come back. Tell me you haven't wanted to just put down your instrument and never touch it again, cos chances are you'll never hit that level of technical proficiency and musicality. Still.... CRACKING tunes and chops. Mesmerising to watch and hear. Cop this new one, it's called Playing God.

There is just a breed of heavy band out there who bring the party. They aren't serious at all, they take the piss out of all sorts of things, not least of which is usually heavy music culture itself. It's Party tunes for people who like their music heavy AF, their humour dark and their beer cold and FLOWING. Brojob, Electric Callboy, Berried Alive, Austrian Death Machine, the list keeps on going. I just came across Party Cannon from Scotland. It's a time.

“In every show I go to something has to happen, but this time I think I’ve outdone myself haha.”

Sunk Loto are one of those Australian bands lost to the sands of time, but hot damn there was a minute there where they really dominated in the heavy scene - and there is an incredible amount of people wishing and willing them back into existence. Today, they're starting to change their social media profiles etc's profile pictures, and... could this be it? Could this be perhaps a tour or live show? New Music? Sunk Loto, we need answers!

With a pretty massive headliner hint...

Albury-based non-binary artist Jay Groenveld launched new project Rain Maiden last month. The debut track was a cracking track called MANIC. It's excellent and we wanted you to know more about the artist, so Alex Callan had a chat!

"It's been so hard to keep this a secret."

Neil Foley is a talented AF producer and solo musician out of Sydney - his Old Haunts project has seen him collaborate with Licka from Dead Letter Circus and producer Forrester Savell on a plethora of music - and his new single The Scene is seriously captivating, uplifting and sprawling. Check out Alex Callan's chat with him about it all.

"He never adheres to social norms and breaks stereotypes of how men should be and behave."

In absolutely off-its-guts news, Redhook have been booked to play both Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in Germany alongside A Day To Remember, Muse, Green Day and more.

Babirusa and Analepsy. With names like these, this ain't a pop-rock tour. It's possibly the most deathcore tour ever. Brutality and technical proficiency rolled in to one, with Babirusa rolling out their Mandatory Malevolence single on June 3.