[Heavy News]: DEADLIFTS & DEATH METAL - Melbourne Metal Gym 1st Birthday Bash TOMORROW, Sun 8th Nov!
[Heavy News]: DEADLIFTS & DEATH METAL - Melbourne Metal Gym 1st Birthday Bash TOMORROW, Sun 8th Nov! Featuring: GRIMLOCK, BLACK JESUS, VIRULENT INVOCATION, tattoo artistry by local inkster GOATMOTH and more. Check the link for a Very Serious Promo Video, ticket links, artist music streams and more!
[Podcast ] Ep. 89: [Interview] w/ MARTIN LOPEZ of SOEN (SWE) + ISC Radio.
[Podcast] Ep. 89: [Interview] with MARTIN MENDEZ, Drummer of Swedish prog-metal titans SOEN is now live in both video-form and audio-only podcast format.
Check it out via the link, plus a huge slew of Heavy News articles from us to you directly in our Show Notes, AND a Featured Artist showcase for this episodes’ tracks from: SURGENT (EST), OMNIKOLOSS (GER), TORII (USA) & DELIQUESCE (AUS)!
[Heavy News]: Triple-Threat! LUCIDITY FESTIVAL Lineup + CONVERGE (USA) & OATHBREAKER (BEL) 2027 Australian Tours.
[Heavy News]: Triple-Threat! LUCIDITY FESTIVAL Lineup + CONVERGE (USA) & OATHBREAKER (BEL) 2027 Australian Tours.
Organised By: destroyalllines
Heavy News care of: destroyalllines/Maric Media
[Gig Review] WINDWAKER (AUS) ‘Smile You're on-Camera’ Tour w/ THE PRETTY WILD (USA), RINRIN(AUS) and DREGG (AUS) @ Northcote Theatre, 2.11.2026.
Melbourne based genre defying metalcore heroes Windwaker(AUS) launch their new album Smile Your on Camera with The Pretty Wild(USA) on their Australian debut. With support from RinRin(AUS) and Dregg(AUS) - read our thoughts on this mammoth show!
Writer: Sammy O’Flynn
Organised by: destroyalllines
[Podcast] Featured, Ep. 89: SURGENT (EST), OMNIKOLOSS (GER), TORII (USA) & DELIQUESCE (AUS).
[Podcast] Featured, Ep. 89: SURGENT (EST), OMNIKOLOSS (GER), TORII (USA) & DELIQUESCE (AUS).
Ahead of the release of Episode 89 of the Inner-Strength Check Podcast, we’re releasing our Featured Artists early! Get in, have a listen, check out what’s on offer from four picks-of-the-bunch who’ll be featured on our next iteration of ISC Radio, alongside the next podcast guest.
[Heavy News]: BLOODBATH (SWE) Announce Australian Tour with NERVOCHAOS (BRA) – February & March 2027.
[Heavy News]: BLOODBATH (SWE) Announce Australian Tour with NERVOCHAOS (BRA) – February & March 2027.
Organised By: Your Mate Bookings
[Heavy News]: ENSLAVED (NOR) Celebrate MIð Album Release With Focus Track Visualizer For 'I AM ICE (FT. JOHAN SARA JR.)’.
[Heavy News]: ENSLAVED (NOR) Celebrate MIð Album Release With Focus Track Visualizer For 'I AM ICE (FT. JOHAN SARA JR.)’.
See within for album details, tracklist, ‘I Am Ice’ music video, order link and more! The Norse gods come through with the goods once again.
Music News courtesy of: Nuclear Blast Records.
[Heavy News]: NORTHLANE (AUS) Release New Single ‘Deathwish’ + Announce Album & Tour Date Change.
[Heavy News]: NORTHLANE (AUS) Release New Single ‘Deathwish’ + Announce Album & Tour Date Change.
Music News provided with thanks to: Deathproof PR.
[Single Review] : A STUDY IN RED - ‘Crown of Thorns’.
[Single Review] Melbourne post-hardcore locals A STUDY IN RED (AUS) cop the Spiderman-points-at-Spiderman treatment, with our own photographer Sarah Barnett fronting the local outfit, and Mal Keecher collegially providing our first ever Single Review!
[Gig Review] EVERGREY (SWE) w/ DAMNATION’S DAY & IMMORIUM (AUS) @ Max Watts, Melbourne 23.10.2026.
It’s been 19 years since Swedish progressive maestros Evergrey have been to sunny Melbourne Inner-strength Check has been lucky enough to cover this phenomenal return!
[Heavy News] KARNIVOOL (AUS) Announce ‘In Verses’ Regional Australian Tour
[Heavy News]: KARNIVOOL (AUS) Announce In Verses Regional Australian Tour.
See within for a bunch of regional-exclusive Australian tour dates for the omniscient prog-overlords Karnivool, in celebration of ARIA-smashing release
Organised By: Billions & Fidelity Corp
Heavy News Care of: Deathproof Media
(Featured Image : Kane Hibberd)
[Heavy News] SOEN (SWE) Announce Rescheduled AUS Shows: Promise Made, Promise Kept!
[Heavy News]: SOEN (SWE) Announce Rescheduled Australian Shows: “Promise Made, Promise Kept!”.
Proof you can’t keep a good prog-loving Swedish act down, SOEN have avowed to keep all October dates intact and rescheduled for new tour dates in January 2027. See within for the new dates, SOEN media/links, ticket links and more. Organised by ThePhoenix.AU.
[Gig Review] PARADISE LOST (UK) & VICTORIA K (AUS) @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 20.10.2026.
[Gig Review] PARADISE LOST (UK) & VICTORIA K (AUS) @ Max Watt’s, Melbourne 20.10.2026.
[Podcast] Ep. 88: ‘Tabletop Radio’ - Pilot Episode.
[Podcast] Ep. 88 is the very first instalment of ‘Tabletop Radio!’ In today’s episode, we explore everything from the cognitive science of maths anxiety, why and how dark art and extreme metal relate to TTRPGs (and can be GOOD for you), the benefits of tactile play and more. Episode/show notes also include tracks featured from Haxmastaren (SWE) & Could Seed (FRA) as well as [Heavy News] on the upcoming Heilung Australian Tour!
[Gig Review] Mudhoney live at Volta Ballarat With Laura and the Hell Cutz | 20 October 2026
Mudhoney return to Australia and play Ballarat for the first time ever. I was there to write about the 40 year legacy Mudhoney have garnered for themselves!
[Heavy News] Trio: GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL Lineup, SOILWORK (SWE) 30th Anniversary Single & 21-Artist KREATOR Tribute.
[Heavy News] Trio, 23.10.26: See within for full details of the massive Good Things Australian festival lineup, Soilwork’s 30th-anniversary commemorative single ‘Night Whispers & Shining Lights’ & a thrash-stacked 21-artist tribute to thrash legends Kreator (GER)!
News care of: Dallas Does PR, Nuclear Blast Records & Antichrist Magazine.
[Gig Review] CANDLEMASS (SWE) w/ MAMMON’S THRONE (AUS) @ Corner Hotel, 29.09.26.
[Gig Review] CANDLEMASS (SWE) w/ MAMMON’S THRONE (AUS) @ Corner Hotel, 29.09.26.
Words: Brady Irwin
Photography: Richie Black
Organised by: Your Mate Bookings
[Heavy News]: Melbourne Dethfest 2027 Full Lineup Announced: BLOODBATH (SWE) To Headline!
[Heavy News]: Melbourne Dethfest 2027 Full Lineup Announced: BLOODBATH (SWE) To Headline!
Tour Courtesy of: Your Mate Bookings.
[Gig Review]PORTUGAL. THE MAN W/ DIZZY DAYS @ The Corner Hotel, Melbourne (AUS), 17.10.2026.
[Gig Review]: PORTUGAL. THE MAN (USA) w/ DIZZY DAYS (AUS) ‘Denali Australian Tour’ @ Corner Hotel, Melbourne (AUS), 17th October 2026.
Words/Footage: Sammy O’Flynn
Tour Organised By: LiveNATION Australia.