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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

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Album Review: Vanishing Point - Dead Elysium
"'Dead Elysium' has all the hallmarks of the Vanishing Point sound."
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Album Review: In Hearts Wake - Kaliyuga
"In Hearts Wake serve a key role within the modern heavy scene."
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Album Review: Bury Tomorrow - Cannibal
"Its familiarity may be the LP's greatest strength and pitfall"
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Album Review: Lamb Of God - Lamb Of God
"This release doesn't lack intent or conviction, being perhaps their most incensed, socio-politically motivated affair in a while"
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Album Review: Aversions Crown - Hell Will Come For Us All
"The eight-string guitar-wielding metallers' approach remains heavier than a bag of spanners on Jupiter"
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Album Review: Daemon Pyre - Serpent Gods And A Dying Sun
"There's plenty to embrace, from the classy guitar solos and guttural vocals, to thrashy inflections and concussion–inducing brutality."
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Album Review: Testament - Titans Of Creation
"There's enough contrast – heavy and melodic, light and dark – to maintain attention"
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Album Review: Body Count - Carnivore
"You know what you're getting."
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Album Review: Five Finger Death Punch - F8
"[I]t's meat and potatoes, and at times tedious."
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Album Review: The Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic
"'Aeromantic' reinforces they aren't a jokey pastiche."
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'It's Been Just As Surprising For Us': Even Polaris Are Blown Away By Their Success
After a rapturously received debut, Sydney metalcore stars Polaris may soon have to pack in their day jobs, as lead vocalist Jamie Hails tells Brendan Crabb.
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Album Review: The Amity Affliction - Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them
"[T]he formula seems not so much tired as asleep on the couch, snoring loudly."
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