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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

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Album Review: Carnifex – World War X
"[H]eavier than a bag of spanners on Jupiter."
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Album Review: Thy Art Is Murder – Human Target
"[P]acks a brutally satisfying sonic gut-punch."
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Album Review: Sabaton – The Great War
"[T]he spirit of true heavy metal is in capably battle-hardened hands."
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Guitarist Andy Marsh Shares Why Thy Art Is Murder's Message Needed To Change
As death-metal bruisers Thy Art Is Murder unleash their new LP, guitarist Andy Marsh talks to Brendan Crabb about using music to display contrition for their youthful follies.
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Album Review: Duff McKagan - Tenderness
"There’s an earnestness to the performances that proves engaging."
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Album Review: Rammstein - Rammstein
"These are cuts machine-tooled for open-air festivals and arenas."
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Album Review: Amon Amarth - Berserker
"Battle-ready anthems bustling with riffs weightier than a busload of sumo wrestlers."
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Album Review: Superheist – Sidewinder
"It ought to be accompanied by its own wallet chain."
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Have New Years Day Made 2019's Most Metallic Pop Album?
Could New Years Day have made the poppiest metal record of 2019? Or perhaps the most metallic pop album? Frontwoman Ash Costello celebrates the occasion with Brendan Crabb.
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Everything Fell Into Place For Sevendust When They Stopped Trying To Write A #1 Song
Metal mainstays Sevendust are satisfied to have played the long game, rather than merely tasting fleeting success, as guitarist John Connolly explains to Brendan Crabb.
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Album Review: Danko Jones - A Rock Supreme
"Tales of road life are delivered with no frills, plenty of swagger and zero pretensions, but also more than a little tongue-in-cheek humour."
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Album Review: Grand Magus - Wolf God
"Packed with riffs best enjoyed at neighbour-bothering volume."
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