After wrapping up a successful run of shows earlier this year in support of their latest single Walk The Line, Aussie rock trio COG have been holed up at Key Sound Studios in Bryon Bay working on new material throughout 2026.

HARDLINE MEDIA proudly presents DEATH ANGEL performing ACT III in its entirety. San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal veterans DEATH ANGEL will return to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade, and what a treat they have installed for us, performing their masterpiece album, ACT III, in full, plus a blistering set of some of their classic THRASH catalogue!!

Southern California’s MOOD LIFTERS bring the music of RUSH to Australia in 2027 with two full sets, featuring Permanent Waves performed in its entirety and the iconic ‘2112 Suite’. Fans can also expect favourites including ‘Tom Sawyer’, ‘Limelight’ and ‘Closer to the Heart’.

To celebrate 30 years of Segression, the band are bringing it all home with the inaugural SEG FEST, an all day heavy music festival at Waves, in their home town of Wollongong on 
Saturday, May 15, 2027.

Pack your bags Australia, Camp Screamo is headed our way in 2027! Hot off selling out their Camp Screamo co-headline run across North America, Missouri stalwarts STORY OF THE YEAR and Canadian legends SILVERSTEIN will bring this huge tour down under next February, joined by special guests POINT NORTH (USA).

Lucidity brings heavy metal and hardcore punk to Melbourne Pavilion on Saturday 13 March 2027, led by CONVERGE performing Jane Doe in full and OATHBREAKER making their Australian debut. EXTORTION, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT, THE BRODERICK, WIEGEDOOD and more round out the lineup.

Los Angeles post-hardcore legends Touché Amoré are heading back to Australia next month for one exclusive show at The Forum in Melbourne, commemorating 10 years of their seminal album, Stage Four. Today they announce local supports, Sydney punks Antenna and Melbourne hardcore group Timepeace will join very special guests and main supports, Scranton, PA emo-rock icons, Tigers Jaw.

Shoegaze pioneers CHAPTERHOUSE will tour Australia for the first time ever in February 2027, celebrating the 35th anniversary of their landmark debut Whirlpool. The band will perform the album in full, alongside a selection of classics and fan favourites.

DEICIDE ARE COMING TO AUSTRALIA — AND THEY’RE BRINGING HELL WITH THEM. After more than 20 years away from Australian stages, one of the most notorious, influential and downright punishing bands in the history of death metal will finally return to Australia in January and February 2027.

New Jersey rapper GDP is heading to Australia this November for a headline tour with special guest Slim Krusty, following the release of his first new album in 14 years, Cross Off Matthew. The tour kicks off on 12 November in Hobart and wraps up on 29 November in Mt Gambier.

Sydney progressive metalcore outfit Reliqa have today announced their new album High Risk Thoughts, which lands 12th February via Immortal Music Group/Nuclear Blast and is available to pre-order here. To commemorate the moment, the quartet have unveil a new single from the record, the titanic "Serum". 

Equal Vision Records/Velocity Records and All Hours are excited to announce the Friday 6th November release of Everything In Between, the debut album from the emerging Brisbane, Australia-based pop-punk band.

Power Trip return from what feels like an eternity – today they debut their triumphant and scorching new double single “Precinct 3” / “Scavenger” - the first of many to come. Fans have waited nearly a decade for these new tracks – songs that they thought might never come

Filthy, abrasive and deeply bluesy. Sundowner aren’t simply throwing distortion at the listener on Cesspool. The constant changes in tempo, unexpected off-beats and spaces between the noise are as important as the noise itself. One listen later, they’ve become an immediate new obsession.

Layered vocals echo with distortion and actually convey the sound of the Moon crying as Eivør creates the most gorgeous imagined Nordic soundscape on Tungl. With atmospheric synths, organic percussion and soaring vocals layered through the mix, Tungl is shadowy, ethereal and stunning in the light.

Legendary guitarist, Tony Iommi releases his brand-new solo album, From The Dark on Friday, October 23. And fans will be able to exclusively hear his first solo album in twenty-one years at a series of listening events held at the finest rock and metal bars in major cities globally the night before release on Thursday October 22.

Born out of a very real bed of experiences, Adelaide’s DOWN AND OUT present their new single ‘BURIED ALIVE’ - an energetic expression of pop-punk that adds more fuel to the Adelaide band’s charged brand of momentum. The latest track from the band arrives as Down And Out prepare to hit the road for shows this October and November.

Fit For A King announce the deluxe edition of Lonely God, out October 30 via Solid State Records, featuring additional tracks ‘Steady Doom’, ‘Blood Pact’ and ‘Dirt’. The band will tour Latin America in October before heading to Australia with Beartooth in January.

Fremantle five-piece GRUB have today released their self-titled debut album via Wing Sing Records, alongside focus single "Goal Post", capping off a huge few months for one of the country’s most exciting new bands.