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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ace Frehley
Features / Music
Being Dubbed "Hardcore Hippies" Is No Insult
"Earthwalker was all about the feminine world and... Mother Earth. It’s a very important thing that we as human beings have lost our touch with."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: 4ARM - Survivalist
"'Poisoned Mind' and 'Poverty Of Flesh'’s dizzying leads are the picks of the bunch."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Ocean, Caligula’s Horse, Lo!
"Straddling metallic thrust, Converge-inspired hardcore, classy melodicism and doomy bleakness."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
"Singer Floor Jansen makes a confident debut, and Troy Donockley curiously affords an enhanced Celtic edge."
Features / Music
"We’ve All Got Fucking Real Lives Now"
Singer Josh Franceschi talks narrow time frames.
Features / Music
Tony Foresta: "All Of A Sudden I’ve Doubled My Fucking Workload"
"Right now you’ve gotta tour twice as much."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
"For those with a penchant for the haunting and dense."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: All That Remains - The Order Of Things
"Labonte proclaims metal isn’t edgy anymore, but musically he certainly isn’t helping."
Features / Music
Openly Enjoying Taylor Swift
“We’ve never strived to be some avant-garde, experimental, noisy band."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Soundwave Festival, Day One
You've exhausted us Soundwave, but we're coming back for more on Day Two, don't you worry about that.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Danko Jones - Fire Music
"The hard-hitting rock trio are blunt in execution."
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