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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Shihad, High Tension, Cairo Knife Fight
The risk and rewards of Shihad's Sydney album launch.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
.5: indicates this new era sans Gray and Joey Jordison could yield substantial dividends.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Tea Party, The Superjesus
The Tea Party possessed a unique chemistry; it’s reassuring having them as part of the rock landscape again.
Features / Music
Documented Debauchery
“There’s a second book, trust me, that’s a XXX-rated book. Not like this Disney version that I just put out.”
Features / Music
Burning Up
“This is actually a hobby for us that became a day job. We want to keep it fun; we don’t want to make it boring just because it is our day job”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Segression - Painted In Blood
"Segression’s approach remains distinctively crushing"
Features / Music
Don't Fence Me In
“In no way did we make this record to turn our back on anyone."
Features / Music
Making Friends
"I think there’s way too much time wasted with people worrying about what guys’ haircuts look like who are in bands."
Features / Music
Sonic Preachers
Judas Priest on their four decades-plus of defending the faith.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Tastefully inserting eerie, pseudo-black metal ambience, as well as curious tempo change-ups
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
"It’s executed with such relish you’ll forgive them"
Features / Music
Starting Fresh
"I’m not blaming anybody; I’m not pointing fingers at the label."