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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Live
Live Review: Morbid Angel, Bastardizer
Morbid Angel proved able to deliver the nostalgia kick caper most efficiently. Time will tell if they can recapture similar magic next time they enter the studio.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Devil You Know - The Beauty Of Destruction
Having battled personal demons, Jones appears motivated again, vein-popping screams and dulcet crooning accentuating this clinical, groove-driven melodic death/metalcore hybrid. Bridging blast-a-thons, mid-tempo fury and unexpectedly gloomy turns, there’s no Kylie Minogue cover
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo
"This places such glories as seeming like another lifetime ago for Italy’s chart–bothering hard rockers."
Features / Music
Never Beaten
"It rolled on from basically just a thought between five dudes who wanted to do something.”
Features / Music
Proud Legacy
It’s difficult to play, it takes a lot of energy and some people would probably argue that it’s difficult to listen to."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Killswitch Engage, Kill Devil Hill
Welcomingly forgoing the clichéd encore, the masses had waited eons for this return visit. Ultimately, it was a triumphant one.
Features / Music
Screaming Out
"I consider myself more of a poet than I do a metal/hardcore singer."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Dark Tranquility, Be'Lakor, Orpheus Omega
“Let’s do this again very fucking soon,” the frontman uttered with a grin you’d have needed a sandblaster to remove. It’s a deal.
Features / Music
Request Denied
"It’s such a pleasure to work with the same people for a change, for a longer period of time."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Steel Panther - All You Can Eat
Mock-ballad, You’re Beautiful When You Don’t Talk proves a biting parody.
Features / Music
Trollbaggers
"It just reinforced that there is this weird social phenomenon where people do things on the internet that they wouldn’t do in real life."
Features / Music
Metal For Peace
"If you would have told anyone 20 years ago that Arabs will follow an Israeli band, that would have been one of the biggest jokes around."
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