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Rod Whitfield, Journalist

Rod Whitfield

Rod Whitfield is a retired musician and long-time music writer. He joined his first band on drums way back in 1987, playing in myriad original rock acts before hanging up the sticks and retiring in 2015. In 1995, he joined Forte Magazine, Geelong’s premier street press magazine, as a journalist and has not stopped writing about music since. He has written for The Music, UK Prog Magazine, Beat, was The Buzz Magazine’s chief rock and metal writer for eight years, and has worked for countless online publications and zines. 

Since retiring from the original band scene, he has become a novelist, and at the time of writing he is completing work on his fourth book, the third work in a trilogy based on an upcoming fantasy/combat/adventure video game, as well as designing the narrative of the game itself. Keep an eye out for the release of Brides of Vampira in the coming years. 

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Born Lion - Celebrate The Lie
"This album will provide you with much gnarly enjoyment."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Plot In You - Dispose
"Completely eschewing their traditional, grinding metalcore sound, The Plot In You have crafted a fabulously left of centre but super-catchy rock album.'
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Ne Obliviscaris, Circles, The Omnific
"Their career-spanning set is 90 minutes of virtuosic, mind-bending metal insanity; a volcanic display of complexity and extremity in equal measures."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lycanthrope - Chapters
"'Chapters' is a very solid debut effort from this Aussie act..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Full Scale, Terracotta Pigeons, Bad Moon Born
"Ox spends significantly more time on the floor than on the stage, the crowd parting to form an imaginary catwalk for him to strut his stuff on."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: COG, Introvert, Oolluu
"Flynn Gower from COG announces that they asked venue management to turn the aircon off in The Croxton because "aircon and rock bands don't mix" and it all suddenly makes sense."
Features / Music
Wishing To Exist On An International Scale
"Even for myself, sometimes I have to sit back and listen to our music over and over for it to make sense."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Progfest
"It all culminates in a fabulous single encore of the epic 'Slave', during which members of Voyager jump on stage and join in the dark festivities."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Twelve Foot Ninja, Caligula’s Horse, I Built The Sky
"What a way to open the new calendar year of live music."
Features / Music
How Living Up To Their Name Helped Stick To Your Guns Stay Relevant
"For me it's like, 'How are people still listening to us?' We have such a strong support base, it's incredible and I'm grateful for it, but it's like, 'What are you guys doing? Find another band!'"
Features / Music
Progressive Politics
"It shouldn't be a case of 'we just stuck this band on the bill because they have a woman in the band'. To me, that's just tokenism."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Tonight Alive - Underworld
"A shot of feel-good vibes for the soul."