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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Black Stone Cherry - Kentucky
"Although there's filler and over-wrought balladry, they craft muscular riffage and accessible choruses."
Features / Music
Why Jiu-Jitsu Helps Trivium's Matt Heafy Look To The Future
"To be a great jiu-jitsu practitioner, there's absolutely no shortcuts. The only way you get good at it is putting in tonnes of work and time."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Buckcherry, Palace Of The King, Electrik Dynamite
"Buckcherry have long proudly flown the flag for rock fans whose idea of a balanced meal on a night out is a beer in each hand."
Features / Music
The Strange Progression Of Time And Tech
"Technology, the way it's evolving and way it plays a role in our life, there's so much more to talk about."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Spiritual Beggars - Sunrise To Sundown
"No new ideas, but this spirited stoner homage, recorded live off the floor, offers rare authenticity."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Clutch, Cosmic Psychos
"There's a uniquely vibrant quality about Clutch, one which elicits a primal response."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
"For all of the frontman's tireless efforts, 'Incarnate' is just a tad too familiar overall."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: High On Fire, I Exist, Lo!
"The only thing heftier than perennially shirtless, now sober main-man Matt Pike's past girth is the titanic Iommian riffs he effortlessly peeled off."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Anthrax - For All Kings
"To paraphrase Keith Richards, Anthrax still 'mean it'."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Soilwork, Aversions Crown, James Norbert Ivanyi
"Few metal singers execute the bipolar vocal caper with such panache and conviction as Strid. "
Features / Music
Digging Up The Heart Of A Song
"This album is kind of a study in finding that spot, and really writing some meaningful arrangements around what's the core of that song."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Fleshgod Apocalypse - King
"...Managing to fuse the worlds of Morbid Angel and Carcass with Hans Zimmer and Mozart like they belonged together."