Brady Irwin 2/3/25 Brady Irwin 2/3/25

[ARCHIVE - Undoing Ruin] Moshing Happily Under Radioactive Ash: An ADHD-Focused Look At 2024 From Me.

One of my more acerbic and honest/critical self-reflective pieces (as well as just plain lengthy), this is an honest neurodivergent-peer review of 2024, originally posted to our prior now-dead website (RIP) late last year. I pull no punches here (and content warning - discussions of mental health, anxiety, depression etc) about the impact living with ADHD had on me last year, my whole life, and some frustrations with stereotypes. It’s not all bad, though - I discuss many positives about being ND, too!

Brady Irwin 20/2/25 Brady Irwin 20/2/25

[ARCHIVE/Review] Opeth - 'The Last Will and Testament', 03.12.24.

Originally posted to our sadly, as of NYE 2024, unexpectedly now dead/defunct old website (RIP), I’ve exhumed a fantastic review of The Last Will and Testament Swedish progressive death metal titans Opeth, crafted by fellow ISC staffer Hamza early Dec 2024. Check the link for full review, links to tracks/artist commentary, plus a few little nice extras around the upcoming tour. Also, listen to Sliknita. My man Hamza can write and drum.

Brady Irwin 9/2/25 Brady Irwin 9/2/25

[Archive Review] Nest - ‘Metempsychosis’ LP.

This post has been through the wringer! Originally posted to Overdrive Music Magazine in 2019 (many thanks to Sebastian for permission to repost) in my time as Senior Contributor, it then made it onto our old blog in December ‘24 - right as our previous website met its’ demise. This is one well worth revisiting, however, as Nest’s bludgeoning LP Metempsychosis is an abrasive, expansive sludge/death metal bruiser that clearly stood the test of time.

Brady Irwin 7/2/25 Brady Irwin 7/2/25

ISC Podcast, Ep. 34: [INTERVIEW] with OBSCURA frontman/Guitarist STEFFEN KUMMERER.

Originally posted on our now-defunct old website, dead as a doornail as of NYE 2024 (RIP) - check the link for both video and audio-only podcast formats re: Brady’s interview with Steffen Kummerer, frontman/guitarist of German progressive/technical death metal juggernaughts Obscura! Recorded on 22nd Dec ‘24, it’s an interesting exploration into the writing and process behind latest LP A Sonication, with additional artist/album bio, order links and much more within!

Brady Irwin 28/1/25 Brady Irwin 28/1/25

[Archive] Interview with AARON TUCK of Black Metallers LUMEN AD MORTEM.

Pic Credit: Jai from @crannkmedia. Originally posted on our sadly now-defunct old website (RIP) in November 2024, ahead of their imposing presence/our review of same @ Froth And Fury Festival - here’s a Q&A interview with indominable frontman Aaron Tuck of South Australian black metal all-stars Lumen Ad Mortem! It’s a great chat and worth revisiting. Go check out their stuff, fantastic live too - can confirm.

Brady Irwin 25/1/25 Brady Irwin 25/1/25

[Riffs] Interview with Adelaide’s SUNDOWNER, Pre-Froth and Fury 2024.

Originally posted on our unfortunately now-defunct old website in November 2024, prior to our coverage (and their fantastic set) of Froth and Fury Festival in Adelaide, SA. Since then, we’ve added in additional artist links, footage of their set from the festival and more! Doom on, enjoy some of SA’s most groovy and hostile blues.

Brady Irwin 23/1/25 Brady Irwin 23/1/25

[Riffs] Quake Good.

Featured Image Credit: Blizzard-Activision Studios. Another archival repost unearthed from the bones of our as-of-NYE-unexpectedly-now-dead old website (RIP). Join Hamza on a journey through the valleys of all things Quake, one of the OG first-person shooters. In this Riff [article], Hamza also delves into community modding using the KEX Engine and discusses his thoughts around the still-active Quake scene! Gear up, buddy.

Brady Irwin 22/1/25 Brady Irwin 22/1/25

[Archive] Interview With OPETH’s MARTIN MENDEZ + Australian/NZ 2025 Tour Details.

Originally posted to our prior website, which died an unexpected and sudden death on 31.12.24 (RIP), we have revived a seminal interview from late ‘24 with Martin Mendez, long-term bassist for Sweden’s progressive-metal titans Opeth. Check the post for video interview, as well as full details (ticket links, bio, artist links, The Last Will and Testament order links etc) of their upcoming November 2025 Australian/NZ tour!

Brady Irwin 22/1/25 Brady Irwin 22/1/25

[Archive] Interview with OLOF WIKSTRAND of Sweden’s ENFORCER + Australian Tour Details.

AUSTRALIA! Are you ready to rock out in your finest leathers and gauntlets? You should be, ‘cause Swedish heavy/true-metallers Enforcer are on our shores and are about to show Newcastle the Steel! Check the link for my video interview with Olof Wikstrand, frontman/guitarist, which was originally posted on our website that unfortunately went down on 31.12.24. It’s too late, however - peep the link and get the scoop on tickets, artist links, new singles and more!

Brady Irwin 21/1/25 Brady Irwin 21/1/25

[Archive] ISC Podcast, Ep. 30: AUDIO LOG - Clinical Examination Of Specimen XX-121, AKA ‘Xenomorph’(Part 2).

Exhumed from the chest-bursted corpse of our old website (RIP old site 31.12.24, sniff), here’s Part 2 of our Dissecting The Perfect Organism series. Check link for both audiodrama podcast links and written narrative, diagrams, lore and information relating to sci-fi’s perfect villain, told from a scientist-doctor perspective. The current episode details, among other things, the ‘Black Goo’, engineers, The Deacon, proto-xenomorphs and potential origins of our favourite eyeless-space killer!

Brady Irwin 21/1/25 Brady Irwin 21/1/25

[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 28: FROTH AND FURY FESTIVAL REVIEW PT 2 (Frothie-A-Deux).

[Originally posted via our old website which suffered an unexpected and untimely death on NYE 2024, RIP]. Check in for Part 2 of Brady and Mal’s extensive coverage of the HUGE event that was Froth and Fury in Adelaide, SA, November 2024. Within this post is the full two-part narrated podcast version, as well as an analysis of vendors, events and setlists from: Thornhill, Brand of Sacrifice, Organectomy, These New South Whales, Psycroptic, Day of Contempt, Fear Factory, Northlane, Bodyjar, Thy Art Is Murder and Pestilence!

Brady Irwin 21/1/25 Brady Irwin 21/1/25

[Archive] ISC Pod EP. 28 (Part 1): Review of FROTH AND FURY FEST, Sat 9th Nov 2024 - A Day of Metal & Mayhem.

See here for Part 1 of Brady and Mal’s MASSIVE coverage of 2024’s Froth and Fury Festival in Adelaide, South Australia last November. We cover a swathe of detail raging from site and venue to the first half of our gig reviews from the day - Bifurcation, Sundowner, Signals, Lumen ad Mortem, Pizza Death, FANGZ, Future Static, Great American Ghost, Hands Like Houses and Dharma. Plus some of the wrestling and medieval fighting events (you heard right), cool vendors and more!

Brady Irwin 21/1/25 Brady Irwin 21/1/25

[Archive] Inner-Strength Check Youtube Covers List + Requests.

Originally posted to our old site October 2024, before it’s untimely demise in December (RIP). See link for document containing full list of songs to be covered on our Music and Covers Youtube playlist (link contained), as well as our process for creating said covers! Rock on.