![[Heavy News] Introducing: Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736945266015-ZY5CR0M2KV34E7T3SKPZ/image-6.png)
[Heavy News] Introducing: Music Mondays and Tech Tuesdays!
Featured Image: Lachlan R. Dale, solo artist and label owner of Worlds Within Worlds and Art as Catharsis. (interview with Lachlan incoming as i extract it from the carcass of our now-defunct old website, RIP). This article was originally posted to our old website, long may it rest, and introduces Music Mondays for the first time - a regular column including all the latest in heavy and alternative music news, features, reviews, ISC content updates and our own musician updates as well!
![[Archive] Interview with MARK PALFREYMAN of Australian Prog-Metal Institution ALARUM.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1736152351338-UIL5DK5Q6Y8D3EZI84AM/alarum2-1.jpg)
[Archive] Interview with MARK PALFREYMAN of Australian Prog-Metal Institution ALARUM.
Archival post, picked from the carcass of our dearly-departed old website (RIP). This warrants sharing again; a fantastic Q & A with Mark Palfreyman, bassist/vocalist of Australian progressive metal legends Alarum in April 2023. They’ve since released a new full-length in Recontinue. Check the article for links to that and more!
Gig Review, Pt. 2: – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.
Originally posted on our sadly as-of-NYE-2024-dead-AF previous website. RIP. This is Part 2 of the also-sadly-defunct New Dead Festival in Adelaide, Australia on the 15th of April in 2023. Check our site for Pt. 1. Bands reviewed here: Disentomb, Butcher ABC, Misery, Denouncement Pyre, Hexis, Altars, Alarum, KILAT, Remission and Flaming Wreckage.
![[Gig Review, Pt 1] – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735990880505-OQVGET9LUG7MXGUSFIYF/butcherabc2.jpg)
[Gig Review, Pt 1] – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.
Part 1 of our two-part festival coverage of the New Dead Festival in Adelaide, 2023. (RIP New Dead, and RIP our old website - thanks WP). Features reviews of: R U N, Black Lava, Lumen ad Mortem, Battlegrave, Vexation, Remission, Writhing, Ashen, Hell Machine, Bifurcated, Apocalyptic Annihilation and I Choose Violence. Just one half of a full day of relentless metal mayhem!
![ISC Archive Post [11.04.23]: Interview with Modern Thrashers REMISSION.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735896775755-1YYH5X69JVJDZO9C916P/remission.jpg)
ISC Archive Post [11.04.23]: Interview with Modern Thrashers REMISSION.
And the archive-repost choo-choo train continues! This time, it’s our pre New Dead Festival Q and A interview with members of the West Australian thrash metal band, Remission.
ISC Blog (Archive): Interview With Michael Boakes of I CHOOSE VIOLENCE, 07.04.23.
Originally posted on our now-dead prior website, this is an archival repost from the bones of our prior platform. An interview with Michael Boakes, vocalist of Australian heavyweights I Choose Violence, ahead of the also now-dead New Dead. RIP New Dead Fest, we miss you. <3
![[Archive Review] - Kurushimi, Return 3:Death EP (12.11.2022).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735797734694-3W2KPBFP59P3C0E6D4QT/a2738616382_10.jpg)
[Archive Review] - Kurushimi, Return 3:Death EP (12.11.2022).
Archival Review - originally posted on the now-defunct InsertReviewHere.com music journalism blog, then later reposted on the (sadly also now-defunct!) previous InnerStrengthCheck website. Review of Australian avant-garde metallers Kurushimi’s 2022 chaotic EP release in Return 3: Death.
![[Archive Review] - Hidden Intent: Dead End Destiny. (03/11/2022).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67738900deaf1a5f243892aa/1735794615555-VKVDO87O6R8IKFVR3O4W/a2793573206_16.jpg)
[Archive Review] - Hidden Intent: Dead End Destiny. (03/11/2022).
Archival Review - originally posted on the now-defunct InsertReviewHere.com music journalism blog, then later reposted on the (sadly also now-defunct!) previous InnerStrengthCheck website. Review of Australian thrashers Hidden Intent’s opus Dead End Destiny.