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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Features / Music
On "Two-Fingered Piano Playing" And Recovering From Cancer
"I wasn't sure whether or not I was even going to be on the fucking planet, let alone on the stage."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gay Paris
"The Dillinger Escape Plan are still one of the most vital live acts currently treading the boards."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
"Metal's luminaries are evidently running free again."
Features / Music
Manipulating Social Media With White Lies And A Smokescreen
"It's not the strangest thing to see the guys from Disturbed hanging out in Vegas."
Features / Music
On Juggling Designing Pedals With Band Commitments
"I get to just do whatever I want, make crazy stuff and people want to buy it."
Features / Music
Bullet For My Valentine
Matt Tuck Always Played The Bass On Bullet For My Valentine Records, So Chill
"We never made it aware that he wasn't like a creative input in the band; there was no need."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Buckcherry - Rock 'N' Roll
"Trends have changed but their cocksure outlook remains."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Soulfly - Archangel
"Cavalera has ears to the ground regarding current extreme music."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Buried In Verona - Vultures Above, Lions Below
"The album carries sizeable sonic weight."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kataklysm - Of Ghosts And Gods
"Executed with the precision and experience of a skilled surgeon."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang
"Visceral, grooving metal and propulsive polyrhythms that have elevated them to star status..."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: LORD - What Tomorrow Brings
"They stretch boundaries with the deeply-layered, bombastic title track, its 25–minute, orchestral–flavoured narrative"
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