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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Features / Music
After A Cathartic Release, We Lost The Sea Are Moving On
"I don't think we could write another album like that, because the emotion behind it was just so raw, and you can't fake that."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Iron Maiden, The Raven Age
"Enraptured fans of all ages were afforded a reminder that no one does arena-metal theatrics better."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hatebreed - The Concrete Confessional
"Hatebreed's metallic hardcore venom hasn't dissipated one iota."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: DevilDriver - Trust No One
"A cohesive metal machine tighter than a miser's wallet."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Massive - Destination Somewhere
"What Massive lack in innovation they regularly compensate for with unadulterated vigour."
Reviews / Arts
Brian Posehn
"Riffs on fatherhood and masturbation helped make the set more relatable to the wider gathering."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tremonti - Dust
"The fusion is aggressive, yet digestible."
Features / Music
Drowning Pool
Why Jason Moreno Never Thought He'd Get The Drowning Pool Gig
"It was just about the chase — just chasing the dream and I never really stopped to consider what I would do if I ever got my hands on it."
Features / Music
An Autograph? Black Stone Cherry Reply, "Man, I Just Live Down The Road"
"You sign with a label, and you don't realise, but you're an LLC, a business, you've got to sell those songs."
Features / Music
How Songs Happen In Millecolin's Mathias Farm's Head
"I remember the first day when I got into Sydney, I went to the beach, and stayed there the whole day without any sunblock."
Features / Arts
How He's Come A Long Way Since Creepy Kevin
"There was a time where I would be in public and someone would go, 'hey, that guy'."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Filter - Crazy Eyes
"Flanked by a fresh crop of musicians, from caustic, synth-laden Mother E onwards, Patrick appears revitalised and enraged."
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