Southern Rock

Anthrax, Fozzy, This Is Hell, The Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne - 28/02/13

Melbourne worshipped music beneath the pulpit of Anthrax ahead of the Soundwave Festival, Fozzy providing their own brand of explosive devotion.
Event Reviewed: 
Anthrax w/ Fozzy & This Is Hell, The Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne - 28/2/13

Melbourne's Hi-Fi Bar takes decorating advice from none other than Mick Jagger. It's painted black. All over. Even the green room is painted black.

Tombstone Highway - Ruralizer (Agonia Records)

Scorching Southern rock and metal... from the North of Italy!

Southern groove/doom from Italy? Hold your horses – it’s not as ludicrous as it sounds.

Beastwars - Beastwars (Grave Dancer Records/ Witch Hunter Records)

Wellington, New Zealand's Beastwars re-releases debut album, Beastwars via Grave Dancer Records and Witch Hunter Records. Now is the perfect time to be inducted into the cult of the Beastwars. Please pass the Kool-Aid.
Release Date: 
11 Sep 2012 (All day)

Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand Beastwars is a gobsmackingly bitchen’ doom sludge heavy metal band that is set to take over the world.

Eyehategod's Jimmy Bower: "The Beatles - they're heavy as shit to me!"

'John Lee Hooker on Xanax through a Marshall Stack'

Eyehategod is one of the most well known bands in the American Southern sludge metal scene.

RWAKE - Creating Moods and Atmospheres with Loud Music

Jeff from Rwake says making music is more of a spiritual thing, if you will, than a mechanical thing. One listen to the new disk Rest, and you can understand why this is.

Rwake's long awaited album Rest has finally been released onto the ravenous public on September 27, 2011.

Chris Jericho - Undisputedly Fozzy

WWE superstar Chris Jericho is one of the busiest men on the planet - but as he comes out to Australia this December, we just had enough time to speak to him about one of his greatest passions: making heavy metal with his band Fozzy.

Talking to Fozzy front man Chris Jericho at 5 in the morning doesn’t faze really him.

Nashville Pussy – From Hell To Texas (SPV/Riot)

Amphetamine-fuelled rock and roll that’ll have you screaming “YeeHa” and guzzling straight shots of whiskey.

It’s been a while between drinks for Nashville Pussy – their last album came out in 2005; but they haven’t been wasting time, hell no, they’ve been touring

Hatchet Dawn – Faith In Chaos (AmpHead/The Orchard Australasia)

Aussie heavy metal that taps into the old and the new and delivers. Hatchet Dawn are definitely a band to keep your eye on.

A five track EP, Faith In Chaos doesn’t over-stay its welcome, but it definitely leaves you