Chris Anning is the guitarist for Bone Marrow and the one man extremity project of Cryptivore. A staunch supporter of the extreme metal scene not only in Australia but worldwide, an obsession that led to label distribution and a devotion to all things heavy that began quite early; “Probably like a lot of people I was exposed to music when I was very young in the 1980's and one of the first bands, I really obsessed over was AC/DC. The power, the catchiness really struck me ear

There are good bands, great bands and bands that defy all expectations. Ulcerate are without question one of the greatest and heaviest acts who release excellent album after excellent album. Their sense of direction and integrity is without question. They have just released their brilliant new album Stare Into Death And Be Still. The anticipation for the Auckland trio’s dense heavy music was so great that it was leaked early, something that drummer Jamie Saint Merat finds dis

Departe revealed their debut album to the world “Failure, Subside” in 2016 to universal praise. A record of such depth and sorrow combined with live shows all around the world that cemented their reputation of being post metal, Black metal pioneers. And then nothing …. Whilst there has been no new music Guitarist/vocalist Sam Dishington explains the Tasmanian Quartet has been far from idle: We have been quiet, but behind the scenes we've been working hard on new music. We

Well. When Rod started the band with his friends, they went looking for a violent sounding band name that had not been taken yet. The initial idea of the guy that would go on to be the singer was to call it - hold on - ‘Infernal Slaughter Messiah Of Hell’. They quickly saw that this was a bit too long to stick so they shortened it to the much punchier Slaughter Messiah. " Arisen to hail the metal goods since 2008. Slaughter to the Pyre is their latest release of pure hellfire