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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

News / Music
'Demanufacture' Kickstarted New Era Of Music Says Fear Factory
Burton C Bell and Dino Cazares delve into the landmark record
Features / Music
The Ultimate Hybrid
"We always wanted to write the soundtrack to an apocalyptic sci-fi movie that hadn’t yet been written. So that was what Demanufacture was going to be; like the soundtrack to a futuristic sci-fi, apocalyptic world."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack
They have rightfully positioned themselves as this generation’s Cannibal Corpse – gruesome, melodic extremity is in capably blood-stained hands.
Features / Music
Hard To Be Hardcore
"You’ve just got to sort of decide what is definitely going to make you happy, and then back yourself 100 per cent. Otherwise you’re going to regret what you’ve done."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Thy Art Is Murder, Cattle Decapitation, Aversions Crown, King Parrot, Hunt The Haunted
While the audience dichotomy was apparent at times, more shows like this, combining the different pockets of the extreme music spectrum, are a necessity if the local scene is to gain the traction it desperately deserves.
Features / Music
Rage Of The Machine
"Then unfortunately we had hired a producer named Colin Richardson, who we used on the first album, to do the second album. But we had surpassed what he thought we should sound like. So we got rid of him."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Megadeth - Super Collider
A respectable but safe enough exercise, this may result in the long-overdue ceasing of “best album since Rust In Peace” cries that have accompanied almost every new Megadeth album over the past two decades.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Superjesus, Jackson Firebird, She Rex
As McLeod prepares a new solo rock record, what exactly the future represents for The Superjesus seems uncertain. Irrespective, this was one resurrection truly greeted with a religious-like fervour.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Fans aren’t settling with this album, though. That’s no work of fiction.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Deftones, Letlive
Individuals grieve in different ways, but performing ought to be cathartic for Deftones right now, particularly when in front of such an exuberant, receptive audience.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cradle Of Filth, The Amenta, Psynonemous
The majority likely left satisfied, but the slightly truncated 75-minute set and at-times sluggish passages left this reviewer’s soul feeling a little, well… cold.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Airbourne - Black Dog Barking
They’ve released better records too, but Black Dog Barking is a boisterous aural assault that should justifiably have tears of joy welling up in the eyes of many a rock tragic.
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