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

Brendan Crabb, Journalist

Features / Music
How The Living End Threw Off The Shackles Of Society
As Aussie rock mainstays The Living End return for an eighth full-length, frontman Chris Cheney tells Brendan Crabb about his relationship with their breakthrough anthem.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Revocation - The Outer Ones
"In a world of homogenised metalcore and identikit tech-death, Revocation prove a revelation."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Black Queen - Infinite Games
"There's a bleak, cold vibe lurking throughout much of the album that keeps the listener just slightly off their game."
Features / Music
Dead Letter Circus: Proud Exponents Of "Sissy Metal"
As Brisbane's Dead Letter Circus unleash their latest effort, frontman Kim Benzie tells Brendan Crabb about being proud exponents of “sissy metal”.
Features / Music
Slash Ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators On Being Rockstars And Workaholics
As Slash Ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators crank their rock'n'roll machine into gear again, Brendan Crabb talks to singer Myles Kennedy about being a workaholic.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Slash Feat Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Living The Dream
"Resulting in a dozen rockers that should hit all the bullet points that fans of the top-hatted one desire."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy
"It’s difficult to escape the feeling, even as Deicide continue to spit bile over all and sundry, that it’s largely been done before."
Features / Music
Khartoum to Melbourne, Jon Toogood On The Adults' New Album
"It's fresh, it's heavy, like if you turn it up loud it sounds fantastic. It's not heavy as in metal heavy, it's just powerful."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Amity Affliction - Misery
"There's a clear effort made to not solely recycle past glories on their sixth album."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Thy Art Is Murder, Alpha Wolf, Antagonist AD, Xile
"Largely business as usual for the death metal bruisers; precisely what their following craved."
Features / Music
Alice In Chains Reflect On A Life Spent Making Music With Friends
"I'm still in a band with my fucking friends, and we're still making music. It matters to us like it mattered when we were kids. We're just trying to make the best fucking music that we think is good."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Psycroptic, Archspire, Hadal Maw, Heathenspawn
"They nonetheless executed with their usual efficiency, tautness and front-man Jason Peppiatt's sizeable presence."
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