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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Features / Music
Why Zakk Wylde Considers His Fanbase "One Gigantic Black Label Family"
"Black Label's gonna be doing what Black Label's doing anyway."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: At The Gates, The Seer, Diminish The Gods
"Definitely among 2015's best extreme metal outings."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Devil You Know - They Bleed Red
"There's no sophomore slump."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Arbitrary Method - Augmentation
"They're still chasing a distinctive personality, but Augmentation proves a solid first outing."
Features / Music
On Why Mistakes And Ugliness Is Great
"Good mistakes or accidents or whatever, that can lead you onto a different trajectory of like what the band's gonna do at that moment."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Parkway Drive, Thy Art Is Murder, Memphis May Fire, The Word Alive
"They also introduced pyro to proceedings."
Features / Music
On What The Band Could Have Been, Before Tragedy Struck
"We were like, 'No way, we're not getting a new singer, we're not fucking AC/DC. We can't do it.'"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: KISS, The Dead Daisies
"There's an ageless quality inherent within Kiss's big, dumb but infectious arena-rock and near-peerless showmanship."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Queensryche - Condition Human
"A crisper production, as well as deft minor-key touches and time changes boost predominantly mid-paced, occasionally pedestrian affairs."
Reviews / Live
Photo by Jared Leibowitz
Live Review: Sebastian Bach, The Art, In Hydes Shadow
"Bach can be a walking headline, but a well-versed showman, whipping his microphone around like a lasso."
Features / Music
Pic by Kane Hibberd
How Parkway Drive's Winston McCall Learned How To Sing
"It was nice to be able to go into the studio and know what pitch I'm supposed to be hitting on the scream or whatever."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Parkway Drive - Ire
"Shred-fests and bursts of speed will appease long-timers."
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