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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Chrome Division - One Last Ride
"There are no new ideas here, but they're clearly having a blast."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Steven Wilson
"Wilson may not boast 'hits' in his catalogue, but he should still be ruling arenas rather than preaching to the converted in packed theatres."
Features / Music
Rock Gods On Reality TV: Why Steven Wilson's Not A Fan Of Oversharing
Progressive rock maestro Steven Wilson tells Brendan Crabb social media is taking the magic out of the creative industries.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns
"Remarkably consistent in its proverbial battering, while also being their most diverse offering yet."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, Thy Art Is Murder
"Parkway Drive boasted the pyrotechnic-spouting, eye-boggling arena-metal production values to match their studio ambitions, heightening the impact of these already visceral songs."
Features / Music
Killswitch Engage: On Health Scares & Second Chances
After a health scare, Jesse Leach, frontman of metalcore "Massholes" Killswitch Engage, tells Brendan Crabb how he's making the most of his “second chance”.
Reviews / Arts
Bruce Dickinson - What Does This Button Do?
"While certain tales were familiar to those who had already read his autobiography, other amusing stories that didn't make the cut were welcomingly included."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Disturbed - Evolution
"A sizeable dose of balladry to the extent that it may be jarring for some fans."
Features / Music
The Bronx Are On A Mission From, Well, Not God
Punk rockers The Bronx are eyeing off yet another Australian trek. Vocalist Matt Caughthran informs Brendan Crabb of their mission to bring Halloween to fans Down Under, and the possibility of a new album in 2019.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Soulfly - Ritual
"Collaborations are a Soulfly fixture and 'Ritual' offers some of their better ones of late."
Features / Music
Behemoth Still Play Radical, Extreme Metal. "Take It Or Leave It. Fuck you."
Adam "Nergal" Darski, frontman of Polish blackened death metal mainstays Behemoth talks to Brendan Crabb about their new record, extreme music needing to be edgy and Slayer's legacy.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Black Dahlia Murder, Aborted, Anno Domini
"Trevor Strnad's bowel-loosening growls and animalistic shrieks were the ideal foil for the macabre atmospherics and brutal, yet memorable riffage."
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