Pix by Kaotic Images With The World Is A Vampire Festival Tour wrapping up earlier tonight at the Gold Coast’s Broadwater Parklands, HEAVY thought it fitting to take you back to the first day of the run at Brisbane’s Eatons Hill, which featured Brissy rising legends PistonFist as local opening support. The festival – thanks […]
The Gold Coast comes alive to the sounds of death and metal next Sunday, May 7 when the first ever Murderfest roars into Mo’s Desert Clubhouse. Featuring bands from Victoria to Perth as well as an awesome local line-up, Murderfest is the perfect way to top off the weekend. Frankenbok, Vulgurite, Kaosphere, Diskust, Infinite Exile, […]
Japanese punk/grunge out Vaiwatt have released another banger of a track called Vacant. Made to coincide with the band’s first UK Tour, Vacant‘s lyrics are typically relevant and cynical delivered in the same upbeat and catchy manner that Vaiwatt are known and loved for. Not ones to sit idle for too long, Vaiwatt already have […]
Up-and-coming metal band Wake of Dawn are off to a flying start. The new song Sad Nostalgia is already the fourth song the band has released this year. In Sad Nostalgia, the band discusses the sadness that can come with nostalgia, also known as melancholy. The song takes you into a nostalgic haze. You reflect […]
Southern California band MOVEMENTS are back with not one but TWO new songs, produced by Will Yip. The band has spent the past several months flexing their creative muscles, pushing their sonic boundaries, and diligently working on new material. Today, they have shared some of the results of their labor with videos for Killing Time […]
Brighton-based alternative-rock four-piece MY-HI have released their new single Phaser. With Phaser the band have approached recording in a whole new way. Recorded at Brighton Electric Studios with Alex Gordon (The Cure, Blood Red Shoes, The Xcerts), the track started life as a live session. The guitars were then re-amped through various amps and pedal […]
Ukrainian melodic metal upstarts IGNEA reveal the dreamy third single Incurable Disease ahead of the release of their beautiful concept album, Dreams of Lands Unseen, out this Friday, April 28, 2023 via Napalm Records. The band’s spellbinding third full-length and Napalm Records debut resembles an epic soundtrack that leads the listener into new worlds. Third […]
Very first German rock/metal Eurovision Song Contest representatives LORD OF THE LOST have released an official music video for Destruction Manual. The new visual shows the whole band embodied by women, with vocalist Chris Harms represented by Ukrainian erotic model and influencer Louisa Khovanski. The song was originally released on the band’s successful #1 charting […]
Napalm Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish symphonic metal pioneers THERION. Following the release of limited vinyl reissues of the band’s critically acclaimed classic albums Secrets Of The Runes, Lemuria, Sirius B, and Gothic Kabbalah in autumn 2022, THERION is now joining forces with Napalm Records for the release of their new […]
Velvet Ocean‘s new single Rage is the second song from the second album. The song tells about a person who hides behind a mask. Rage is a defiant and angry modern metal piece, with which the band’s sound and essence are even stronger. This is how songwriter and singer Riitu Ronkainen describes the song: “Rage […]