Contrary to my usual get-in-late-and-miss-the-first-band effort, I’d got the start-up time for this show wrong and rocked up an hour early: only to note that it was incredibly quiet in town and Enigma was largely empty. Many ascribed the quietude…
EVENT REVIEW: Portal, Mournful Congregation, Tzun Tzu & Altars @ Fowler’s Live (24/01/09)
This show is one of the few local shows that many metalheads of Adelaide’s scene-of-old had been looking forward to for a long time, for two reasons: Portal were playing, and so were Mournful Congregation. The first because Portal…
Summer Slaughter Australia – Battle of the Bands Finalists Announced
From Soundworks Touring this afternoon…. FEATURING – Necrophagist (Germany), Dying Fetus (USA), Aborted (Belgium), The Faceless (USA) and The Red Shore (Aust). The Summer Slaughter team of directors in the USA have chosen their top four bands from each…
Morbid Angel Australian Tour – June 2009
AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND TOUR MAY / JUNE 2009 To see past the secure foundations of convention and into an entirely new state of being demands the strength, conviction and true sense of purpose possessed only by…
Review: Whitechapel, Psycroptic, Dyscord, Asphyxia @ Fowler’s (15/01/09)
Tennessee deathcore band Whitechapel are, perhaps surprisingly to some, a very young band: they’ve been around for just over two years. In that time they’ve come an enormously long way: from complete obscurity, to signing with a major label (*Metal Blade*), and…