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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 / Live
Live Review: sleepmakeswaves, Caligula's Horse, Pagan
"They appear to be having the absolute time of their lives... with big cheesy grins lighting up their faces from go to whoa."
Features / Music
On Drawing Inspiration From Antarctic Explorers
"I got particularly interested in Mawson, he set out from Hobart on an incredibly ill-fated expedition to Antarctica."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: A Ghost Orchestra - Blood
"About as gnarly, nasty and vicious as punk music gets without straying into hardcore territory."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only
"The perfect instrumental rock album. Yep, it's just that damn good."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hollow World - Exanimate
"Jagged guitars slicing through everything in sight and howling vocals that sound like a banshee from hell."
Features / Music
Jeff Lang On Setting Up Rules & Finding New Ways To Express Himself
"You have some shitty experience somewhere and you go, 'Christ, I've been doing this too long to be putting up with this.'"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Dead Letter Circus, Strangers
"They call none other than Karnivool and Birds Of Tokyo legend Ian Kenny out onto the stage for a truly triumphant rendition of Farnesy's 'You're The Voice'."
Features / Music
Why After Over 15 Years, Taking Back Sunday All Still Have Their Hearts In It
"Even if one of us didn't have their heart in it, we'd know that it was time to call it quits."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Fallujah, Hollow World, Dyssidia
"Their live set is expertly controlled chaos, fury and insanity."
Features / Music
Why It's Easy Being Self-Indulgent In LA: 'That City Facilitates Anything'
"Half the strings we did were at the Paramount broadcasting room at Paramount Studios where they did 'Psycho' - same microphones."
Features / Music
Forget The Formula, Who's Bringing Presence To The Party?
"I don't want to complain about music, about the state of the music business, but you just can't help yourself sometimes."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Animals As Leaders, Plini, Nick Johnston
"This band take music to extreme new levels, to places it's almost impossible to even imagine it going."