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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues
They merely sound like they’re revelling in this caper, ‘retro rock’ trends be damned. Besides, quality music never goes out of style.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Tool
The almost religious fervour that greeted this performance – absence of new material or not – would suggest this run was a success on all fronts.
Features / Music
A Different Beat
"When I started Rise I was really young, and when I was young, I was into really aggressively offensive, horrible music."
Features / Music
Say Your Prayers
"I can honestly say this was the most unpleasant recording experience I’ve ever had; I pretty much hated almost every part of it."
Features / Music
Tooling Around
“The last time you saw us we were on the Big Day Out, so we get to do our show, which is a completely different thing. I mean, we love playing festivals; they’re a lot of fun."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Black Sabbath, Shihad
Paranoid inevitably closed a memorable two-hour display that, without being an all-time classic, still exceeded most or all expectations.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones Part 2
Part 2 doesn’t push any boundaries, but as far as radio-baiting heaviness is concerned, displays greater cohesion and punch than most.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Finntroll - Blodsvept
A new record for Finntroll is likely an excuse to hit the road again and party down with their rabid fans, rather than providing them anything particularly fresh on disc.
Features / Music
Bucking The Trend
“The seven sins are so interesting, because they’re timeless and I think everybody struggles with them in their lifetime, at some point, if not during their whole lifetime."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters
Musically impressive and still well-received overall, after performing this material for eons Plant has surely earned the right to mix things up. It just wasn’t what some in attendance needed, or wanted, on this night.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Northlane - Singularity
Extensive touring has built such a buzz that bar Parkway Drive, Northlane are Australia’s most hyped heavy band. Now, they’ve shouted for all to hear that they’re rapidly becoming one of the best, too.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Mark Of Cain, Black Level Embassy & Zeahorse
As punters departed the packed room sweaty, bruised and battered through, it was a beating they were more than pleased to take.
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