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

James Versluis, Journalist

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With the hair of 1980s James Hetfield, and physique of 2019 Kerry King; James has been listening to all things fast, bleak and heavy since he scratched the Black Flag logo into the neck of his bass guitar at age 14.

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