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11.05.12 RETURN OF THE STEEL PANTHER!
Drawing a massive midday crowd out to Soundwave this year (and apparently blowing Alter Bridge off the stage at Sidewaves interstate), LA’s nutty hair metal lads Steel Panther are getting their Balls Out during a new tour announced for October.
04.05.12 DEVILDRIVER CANCEL AUSTRALIAN TOUR
Due to their lead singer experiencing a nasty bout of pneumonia, Californian metal band DevilDriver have had to cancel all dates on their impending Australian tour.
27.04.12 ISAW ‘THE IDENTITY’ AUSTRALIAN TOUR
After months of immense effort, Adelaide metal heavyweights Isaw are finally set to storm the country this May and June with their debut album The Identity.
24.04.12 CANNIBAL CORPSE COMING TO TORTURE AUSTRALIA
It’s been three years since we were last graced with the sacophagic presence of death metal outfit Cannibal Corpse.
12.04.12 HYPNO5E TOURING NEW ALBUM IN AUSTRALIA
French metal act Hypno5e will be bringing their frenetic tunes to Australia this May in celebration of their brand new album Acid Mist Tomorrow, seeing them landing in Adelaide for a performance at Enigma Bar.
05.04.12 LEST WE FORGET NE OBLIVISCARIS
After a 15-month battle with the Australian Immigration Department to grant their lead guitarist a long term visa, progressive metal band Ne Obliviscaris, which translates in Latin to ‘lest we forget,’ are finally embarking on an Australian tour this May and June with their first new album in five years, Portal Of I.
31.01.12 AUGUST BURNS RED AND BLESSTHEFALL TOUR
When Pennsylvania metalcore band August Burns Red unleashed their breakout album Constellations in 2009 they suddenly boomed to a global scale.
18.01.12 DRAGONFORCE OUT OF SOUNDWAVE, TWO NEW BANDS IN
Due to a bout of laryngitis and recording delays, speed metal legends Dragonforce have pulled out of this year’s Soundwave Festival line-up.
18.01.12 COERCE ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR
2011 was a good year for Adelaide bands, so good in fact that two of our local musical acts received ARIA nominations.
13.01.12 INTERVIEW: LAMB OF GOD
Sometimes it’s better to get all your problems out in song-form, otherwise you just end up wanting to kill everyone.
03.01.12 NEW METAL SUPERGROUP IN THE MAKING?
After teasing their fans for a few days with hints of an “important announcement” online, Iron Maiden have finally announced on their website that guitarist Adrian Smith and former Sikth frontman Mikee Goodmann have teamed up to form a brand new studio project, Primal Rock Rebellion, and have even released their first single I See Lights.
20.10.11 SOUNDWAVE’S SECOND LINE-UP ANNOUNCED!
The second line-up for Soundwave has injected more punk and metal grunt to the March festival with veteran punks Bad Religion and Strung Out joining other new announcements including Staind and Wednesday 13.
11.10.11 LIVE: NEW YORK DOLLS
Our writer Rob Lyon heads to Fowler's Live to see 1970's NY band and glam metal legends, New York Dolls.
19.09.11 MUSIC VIDEOS THIS WEEK
New music videos from Justice, Cut Copy, Battles, Beirut, Metals and Neon Indian.
09.09.11 MOSHFEST 2011
Coming up later this month on Sat Sep 24 is the massive hardcore, metal and punk mini-festival otherwise known as Moshfest 2011.
02.08.11 INTERVIEW: STEEL PANTHER
If you took their biographical material as gospel, it would appear US outfit Steel Panther have been around for more than 20 years, just missing the heyday of eighties rock and staying 'underground' until now.
15.04.11 Segression announce new album and tour
Legendary Australian metal heads Segression have announced their return with their fifth album Never Dead and a national tour that kicks off early next month.
15.04.11 PSYCROPTIC TO HEADLINE BASTARDFEST
After last year's stellar debut in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne, Bastardfest is back in 2011 with many more dates on its calendar.
14.04.11 SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION UPDATE #473
Five more bands have joined the Soundwave Revolution gravy train since we last looked as things really start to heat up.
15.11.10 Metallica at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Metallica at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre
21.12.09 Deez Nuts
Deez Nuts, featuring JJ Peters formerly of Adelaide band I Killed The Prom Queen along with someone who looks suspiciously like a tattooed barperson at the Grace Emily, are heading back to town to play yet another of their crazy, metal-infused rap gigs. This time it will be with Gold Cost act Mourning Tide and NSW band Mark My Words as a licensed all-ages affair at Fowler’s Live on Mon Dec 21.
05.12.09 - 24.01.10 GENERATE ’09
This exhibition presents graduate work from JamFactory’s four outstanding design studios in ceramics, furniture, glass and metal, along with highlighting the achievements of the JamFactory associates.
