My role as reviewer has doomed me to a life of desperately trying to get to the gig before the first band starts, and more often than not failing miserably.
As with a lot of countries around the world, the metal scene in Australia is thriving quite well and gets bigger with many new bands from different metal walks of life arriving on the scene.
Picture the scene: Irish folksters Clannad are sitting around enjoying a nice vegan meal of carrots and soil when suddenly the doorbell rings.
There are certain hardcore bands that you can rely on to produce music that gets your arms flailing and your teeth loosened - Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All,
It's the sort of stuff which tends to get peddled as "classic old-school death metal", forgetting the very things that made the best bands of that first wave out of Tampa, Florida so great: boundar