Nile and Decapitated - Aussie tour!

Having crushed Australian audiences in November 2005, one of the most innovative and extreme death metal bands on the face of the earth in NILE, return to our shores to tear us apart with their blasting extremities and epic arrangements in the lead up to the release of their new upcoming full length album.

Having just signed to Nuclear Blast, Nile combine their interest in Egyptian history, culture and lore with the ferocity of modern death metal.

Joining NILE, will be Polish technical death metal sensations DECAPITATED, on what will be their first appearances in Australia. DECAPITATED blasted onto the death metal scene in 1997 with ‘Winds Of Creation’ at the average age of 17 & were heralded as the future of death metal. On the back of their latest release ‘Organic Hallucantions’, DECAPITATED are set to thrill us with their brand of Polish technical death metal.

Touring Australia & New Zealand in May 2007. 

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Heritage FM goes global

Heritage FM, the West Australian based radio station has joined forces with 90.5FM for streaming live over the internet during the week So what does this mean to us metal heads?. This means anyone in the world with an internet connection can tune into the the metal radio shows they have on Heritage - Anger Management and The Unfathomed Depths. Anger Management is on Tuesday nights (10pm West Australian Standard Time) so tonight is an ideal time to give it a try. Go to http://www.905.com.au/listen_live.html to load the live stream.

New reviews and Prime Cuts news

Just added a couple of new reviews to the site thanks to Rob aka Devolved Emperor. Check out his reviews of the Gallows For Grace Demo and Halo Of Knives MCD .

For those that are unaware Prime Cuts Music is a foremost Australian metal music label based in WA. They can now take payments for items on their catalog via the PayPal payment system, which means Australian and international customers can purchase with a credit card online. Check out the Prime Cuts site at http://www.primecuts.com.au for all the latest news on their supported artists and peruse the bargains you can pick up from their stocklist.

Slayfest 2007

With Australia in a total international metal frenzy – and just when you thought – too much metal is never enough – Slayfest 2007 gets ready to kick off a huge weekend in Australian metal for the inaugural editions which sees the event take in Bunbury, Perth and Melbourne.

Slayfest 2007 busts into 3 of  Australia's best live venues to churn out  3  nights of pure slayhem, kicking off on Thursday March 8 at Bunbury’s Odessey Nightclub then, moving onto Capitol on Friday March 9 which will see 10 of Australia’s best metal and hardcore live acts gather to inflict all out sonic carnage on Perth’s metal thirsty minions.  - before finishing at Melbourne's legendary Corner  Hotel on Sunday March 11.

Heading up the event and performing on all 3 shows (Bunbury, Perth & Melbourne) will be Tasmanian lords of doom –PSYCROPTIC – who were last seen in Perth carving it up with Cannibal Corpse. Currently on tour with Deicide in Europe, Slayfest 2007 will be Psycroptics home coming shows where their ever growing legions of fans alie in wait for their trademark blastbeats and merciless guttural growls.

For more details check out the gig guide or http://www.myspace.com/slayfest

Slayer Perth Show Venue Change

As to be expected, the demand for tickets for the Slayer / Mastodon shows has been huge - the Perth concert selling out in just over a day. Therefore, the venue for the Perth show has been changed to accomodate more people, to the Robinson Pavilion in Claremont. This will also make it an all age show and tickets will go on sale at 9am on Tuesday the 30th of January. All tickets purchased for the cancelled Metro City show will be valid for Robinson Pavilion.

So there you go - if you missed out the first round here is your chance again. The Perth show is on Thursday the 12th of April with doors open - 6.30-10.30pm (Slayer on stage 9pm). Tickets from 78's, Planet, Beat and bocs 08 9484 1133 www.bocsticketing.com.au

UPDATE: Apparently BOCS will have tickets from tomorrow (Thursday 25th January).