Alien Weaponry return to Australia this March supporting thrash metal icons Anthrax. The New Zealand band have been touring Europe following the release of their latest album ‘Te Rā’ and are ready to bring their powerful Māori influenced metal to Australian crowds.

Australia and New Zealand, get ready! Two indisputable rock icons will join forces in 2026, with American chart-toppers SHINEDOWN and British alternative legends BUSH teaming up for a massive co-headline tour this September, with the tour also marking SHINEDOWN's first performances down under in over 15 years.

This August, Tasmania's finest export, extreme metal pioneers, Psycroptic join like-minded-and-saxophone-wielding US progressive death wizards Rivers of Nihil for a co-headline tour that brings together two elite bands operating at the highest tier of modern death metal. 

Australia, prepare for spectacular sonic annihilation this June, with Michigan juggernauts I PREVAIL set to make their return down under. In what will be their biggest ever Australian tour, I PREVAIL announce today a national headline arena run joined by special guests IMMINENCE and INVENT ANIMATE.

With tolling bells and dystopian warnings, Rob Zombie launches into a groove heavy, riff driven assault that fuses industrial grit with old skool 70s heavy rock. From the defiant ‘F.T.W’ to highlights like ‘Black Rat Coffin’ and ‘Unclean Animals’, the album rejects surveillance culture and electronic numbness, urging listeners to reclaim their lives through loud, melodic rock ‘n’ roll.

Walls of death, circle pits, stage diving and moshing filled the sold-out Princess Theatre as The Lambrini Girls exploded onto stage. The fuse had been lit. The crowd was wired and went off.

Texas modern melodic rockers Catch Your Breath have announced their long-awaited debut Australian headline tour this May, bringing with them a catalogue that has already amassed over 360 million global streams and counting.

Necrosonic Festival returns to Mansfield Tavern on Saturday 22 August 2026 - bigger, darker and more unhinged than ever before.
What began as a bold new gathering of the heavy has become an annual ritual for those who like their music brutal, immersive and intensely forbidden..

When British extreme metal legends CRADLE OF FILTH and American metal titans DEVILDRIVER joined forces for a North American tour in 2023, the results were predictably amazing, with undeniable synergy between two of heavy music’s most ferocious live acts. This July, Australia will finally experience the much lauded team-up, with full headline sets packed with classics.

With a reputation for high-energy live performances and a message that cuts straight through the noise, the band has forged an undeniable connection with audiences worldwide — from packed headline shows to some of the world’s biggest festivals including Rock Am Ring, Hellfest, Graspop, Aftershock and Warped Tour.

‘The New Flesh’ is heavy-as-hell through the bassline and drums, stacked with melodic heavy hooks and razor sharp lyrics. From destructive riffing to beautiful melody and guitar work, it carries a message about fighting dark feelings and living in “new flesh”.

Florida based New Found Glory's 11th studio album is ‘Listen Up!’ and it’s a return to late 1990s pop-punk energy. It’s full of fun, love and a ‘f@#k cancer philosophy’. The album has been created in the shadow of guitarist Chad Gilbert's cancer battle and the reality a diagnosis like that brings to the person and his loved ones.

Brisbane welcomed LORD OF THE LOST on their Australian tour, as the German goth metal outfit brought their live show to a packed Crowbar for their first Australian run.

British glam rockers The Darkness brought their Dreams On Toast Tour to the Tivoli. The city’s rock fans sold out the show and gave the band a very warm, sweat-soaked, welcome back to Australia. It was a night of high rock drama: stage and balcony diving, singing lessons, fan engagement, rockstar theatrics and absolutely fantastic razor-sharp rock ‘n’ roll.

When Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski promised to bring to Australia an “uncompromising vision” of his band’s music I was hopeful at seeing and hearing the dark anti-version of the catholic faith as practiced in Poland. And that is exactly what Behemoth fans got to hear and see at the Tivoli as the band combined their signature religious referencing, black death metal with intense, theatrical, and apocalyptic stage production.

On Friday 8th May, British alternative rock mainstays Basement will return with WIRED marking their first new album in eight years as well as a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records. Across the LP’s 12 tracks fans will hear a return to the unbridled passion and creative intuition that's always animated their best material.

24 years after their start, TERROR still reign as one of the most influential bands in hardcore. Now TERROR announce their tenth full length record, STILL SUFFER, releasing April 24th through Flatspot Records. Working with producer (and former guitarist) Todd Jones, the band created ten fast, aggressive, in-your-face tracks that embrace the themes that made TERROR so influential in the first place. 

Metalcore titans August Burns Red return with ‘Behemoth’, a crushing new single marking their reunion with Fearless Records. True to its name, the track delivers towering breakdowns, thunderous percussion, and rallying choruses, while moments of restraint highlight the band’s dynamic power and relentless evolution after more than two decades.

Wage War have announced their upcoming EP It Calls Me By Name, arriving April 17 via Fearless Records, alongside the savage new single ‘Song of the Swamp’. The track is one of the band’s most brutal releases yet, delivering a swampy, predator like assault from start to finish.

With tolling bells and dystopian warnings, Rob Zombie launches into a groove heavy, riff driven assault that fuses industrial grit with old skool 70s heavy rock. From the defiant ‘F.T.W’ to highlights like ‘Black Rat Coffin’ and ‘Unclean Animals’, the album rejects surveillance culture and electronic numbness, urging listeners to reclaim their lives through loud, melodic rock ‘n’ roll.

Royal Discordance is a bold and brave album: a lyrical metalcore journey through life, pain, beauty and death. Pounding bass, intense percussion breakdowns, heavy vocal fry and clean vocals drive a cinematic vision of sonic wrath and metal carnage, balanced with symphonic metallic sound and huge guitar riffs.

Brisbane metal outfit DIESECT announce HIDE FROM THE LIGHT Deluxe EP, out Friday 20 February via Greyscale Records, alongside their new single "FOUR WALLS". The band will tour their new music across Europe for the first time this February and March with Crystal Lake (JPN) & Miss May I (US) and will support Spite (US) & Varials (US) across Australia in March.

‘The New Flesh’ is heavy-as-hell through the bassline and drums, stacked with melodic heavy hooks and razor sharp lyrics. From destructive riffing to beautiful melody and guitar work, it carries a message about fighting dark feelings and living in “new flesh”.

Florida based New Found Glory's 11th studio album is ‘Listen Up!’ and it’s a return to late 1990s pop-punk energy. It’s full of fun, love and a ‘f@#k cancer philosophy’. The album has been created in the shadow of guitarist Chad Gilbert's cancer battle and the reality a diagnosis like that brings to the person and his loved ones.

Story Of The Year have crafted a record of metaphorical songs about rage, resilience and control in a world that is chaos. From the call to arms of ‘Gasoline (All Rage Still Only Numb)’ to the massive hits and huge singalong chorus, it’s melodic hard rock with surprises in the mix. 

Angel Du$t deliver a hard rock ‘n’ roll album in 11 tracks and in 26 minutes that is ultra-lean but high on the interesting quotient. The band has produced an album that has a hardcore punk philosophy with short songs and minimal instrumentation. It appears the punchy drums, bold guitar riffs and the lead singer’s Justice Tripp's charismatic vocals lead the way: it’s a rock album that is slightly unhinged.

It’s been five long years since we have heard those tones and that voice. Devil Electric have roared back with Tahlia, their third studio album and most emotionally charged release to date. At its core, Tahlia is about fracture and survival, pain, frustration and relationships breaking under pressure.

EVERGREY, Gothenburg’s masterminds of melancholia, offer up another outburst of beautiful darkness and turn their inner fire into something unstoppable: their intense fifteenth album, Architects Of A New Weave, will be released on June 5, 2026 via Napalm Records.

At last year’s Good Things Festival, our contributor Stewart worked with bands across the lineup to capture a series of artist portraits throughout the day, including Wargasm, Inertia, Yours Truly, Bad Nerves, Make Them Suffer, Windwaker, South Arcade, CIVIC, Cobra Starship, GWAR, Scene Queen, and Dayseeker.

Metal heroines NERVOSA announce their new album: Slave Machine will be unleashed on April 3, 2026 via Napalm Records! Their sixth album shows the Brazil-based modern thrash metal band releasing their inner beasts at staggering speed and with formidable emphasis. Having performed at the biggest metal festivals worldwide, from Wacken to Hellfest, and making a lasting impression on fans and critics alike, NERVOSA aims to consolidate their standing as genre frontrunners.

Currently blazing their way across Europe opening for ALTER BRIDGE, GRAMMY® Award–nominated metal icons SEVENDUST have announced their 15th studio album, ONE. The highly anticipated release from the quintet arrives May 1 via Napalm Records.

EXODUS have announced their 12th studio album the follow up to their highest charting record ever and Napalm Records debut, Goliath, out March 20, 2026! The band have revealed the massive opening track "3111" – the sinister single strikes dissonant chords before careening into breakneck thrash intensity. This album standout showcases EXODUS' ever-increasingly dynamic approach, even decades into their historic reign.