Tag Australia
A couple of years ago I reviewed a very decent album called “Entheogen” by an Australian progressive metal band called Mish. The leader of Mish went off and formed Hence Confetti, and this is their debut EP. The “emotional heavy… Continue Reading →
Cover albums are not only a good way for a band to express their interests but also can allow them the freedom of expression. I’m stating the obvious here but it all stems down to the choices the band make… Continue Reading →
Can we talk for a second about how pretty Stansted is? I began listening to Bolt Gun’s third full-length The Tower on a rail replacement bus journey passing through it. You see, I thought it would be the perfect soundtrack… Continue Reading →
Pagan black metal is one of the more mysterious and ambiguous black metal sub-genres and has berthed many a fine work of metal that delves into the darkest and most obscure of pre-Abrahamic beliefs and ideals over the last 30-plus… Continue Reading →
Progressive metal bands don’t tend to do things by half measures, and this one is no exception. Reading that this album “draws influences from neo-soul, world music, ambient and psytrance” sucked me in. I read also that it has a… Continue Reading →
Oscillating Forest is the third of altogether four full-length albums by Australians Tangled Thoughts of Leaving that I have reviewed. Having also seen them live once, one could say that I’m well familiar with the band and their output. Their… Continue Reading →
Hmm is this some kind of conspiracy between Ave Noctum’s editor in chief and Prosthetic Records. This is the second album the label are putting out in August by acts that I have previously raved about. Is this being done to put some pep… Continue Reading →
So what do I know about Australian one-man black metal project Artanor? Not a lot to be honest. Menelyagor is the entity behind it, the multi-instrumentalist. They started way back in 2007 but their only previous release was a split… Continue Reading →
Aussie prog 5 piece Voyager hail from Perth in the western reaches of Australia and have been kicking about since 1999. They’ve got 7 full length releases under their belt and ‘Fearless In Love’ is their 8th which includes the… Continue Reading →
A jubilant explosion rolls across time and space. It’s the new Mesarthim. Now, Mesarthim has never been ‘trve kvlt’, and it’s been a long time since the Australian enigma has restrained itself to strictly mysterious and/or sorrowful melodies. In this… Continue Reading →
It can be strange the way you get introduced to a band; when I was younger and not grey of hair, it was a combination of word of mouth, a seriptitiously glued poster, a flyer thrust at you in the… Continue Reading →
The brief snippets I heard of this Australian band were enough for me to want to review this latest release for the site, before which I did a proper swing through their discography to get a feel for how the… Continue Reading →