Australia

Video Premiere: YLVA – ‘Hunting Room’

December 12, 2017

A beautifully directed video that uses ideas of light, motion and dance, “Hunting Room” shines in its ability to match the epic scope of YLVA’s music.

Thrashing, Blasting and Grinding: An Interview with King Parrot

September 22, 2017

Australian stalwarts King Parrot celebrate the release of their third album, Ugly Produce today. Listen to the record and read a new interview now!

Death in the Machine: Miserist full album stream

February 8, 2017

Australian experimental death/industrial amalgamation Miserist is primed to unleash calculated and cold destruction with their self-titled debut.

For Those About To Rot, Here’s a Sewercide Full-Album Stream!

June 13, 2016

Old-school death metal from down under with AC/DC puns: What is not to love about Sewercide

Botanist’s Otrebor Interviews Pestilential Shadows

December 11, 2014

I consider Botanist to be one of modern black metal’s great “projects.” Germinated by a solitary San Franciscan named Otrebor, it’s a band whose music is both utterly bizarre (floraphilic paeans from a misanthropic hermit, rendered only in drums, voice and hammered dulcimer) and emotionally devastating. This is all to say that when Otrebor tells…

King Parrot Fly the North American Skies!

October 17, 2014

Two years ago, Aussie weirdos King Parrot’s debut full-length, Bite Your Head Off, unloaded itself on that continent.  Candlelight Records then released the album Stateside late last year, and the band of screwy-grindy-thrash-loving dudes have been flapping back and forth between land masses to support their renewed new-act status. We had a chance to ask King…