Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Glenn Waller, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Swervedriver, Iowa, White Walls
Having played Raise fully through, the encore brings with it Last Train To Satansville, and the change in audience mood is immediate, bodies moving with renewed vigour.
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Album Review: Saviour - First Light To My Death Bed
Tracks like Amber sum up the band’s hammer-and-tong sound that drops and stops in all the right places. These guys deserve to make some waves.
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Side Effect
This isn’t one for grandma – more for the discerning weirdo.
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Album Review: Soulfly - Savages
There’s enough going on musically to keep the initiated sated and the newcomer entertained, while the perpetually frustrated continue waiting for a Sepultura reunion
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It's Happening In The Space Between My Face And Yours
Not one that should go unnoticed, this play is deserving of packed seats and open minds.
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Album Review: Scar The Matyr - Scar The Martyr
Formulaic to the point of pedestrian, not even Jordison’s typically water-tight drumming is enough to save Scar The Martyr from sub-par banality.
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Live Review: The Cat Empire, Tinpan Orange, Animaux
The Cat Empire exit the stage as the hometown heroes that they undoubtedly are.
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Album Review: Mark Lanegan - Imitations
Like a smoky single malt aftertaste, Imitations lingers and requires more than one shot to fully appreciate its understated charms
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Album Review: The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18
With plenty of chugging breakdowns and heart-palpitating beats to keep the faithful happy, this album sees TDWP at the top of their game.
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Straight
Standout performances are delivered by the two more sexually liberated characters, Steph and Waldorf, who provide plenty of laughs, especially Steph, whose charismatic vagueness at times threatens to steal the show.
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Live Review: The Fauves, Doctor's Orders
The top three songs are The Charles Atlas Way, Dogs Are The Best People and, not surprisingly, Self Abuser. It’s great to hear these tracks in the live arena played by this shameless bunch of Aussie larrikins.
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Album Review: The Cactus Channel - Wooden Boy
How they’ve managed this at such a tender age is anyone’s guess, but they’ve done it again.