HEAVY Music Interviews

Interview by Kris Peters Brisbane masters of noise New Clear Vision returned for our listening pleasure last year with a fresh line-up and renewed vigor. A mainstay on the music scene for a number of years, New Clear Vision took a break that many hoped would be fleeting, with frontman and all round nice guy Brad Bromfield promising there was more to come. And hasn't he delivered on his promise! Wh...

Interview by Kris Peters Bad Manners are ska/punk royalty. Period. No arguments, no debates, just pure, simple fact. With a track listing including Lip Up Fatty, Special Brew, Walking In The Sunshine, Lorraine, Just A Feeling, My Girl Lollipop, Inner London Violence and of course the ultimate knees up Can Can, Bad Manners peaked back in the late 1970s but their enduring legacy has seen them surviv...

Interview by Kris Peters When it comes to drummers they don't come more top shelf than Carmine Appice. After leaving Ozzy Osbourne in the early 1980s, Appice decided he was done with working for other musicians and decided instead to forge his own path, with his own band. That band became King Kobra who burst onto the music scene in 1985 with their debut album Ready To Strike. With a sound that ne...

Interview by Kris Peters Good Things 2023 is only months away, and with a line-up including Fall Out Boy, Limp Bizkit, Corey Taylor, Sepultura and Behemoth it is easy to get lost in the big names and the hype. But there are a plethora of bands that will potentially make up the next generation of music. Bands that might not be on your radar now but if you allow yourself to venture outside of your c...

Interview by Kris Peters South Australian groove metal/hardcore act Suffer The Evenue return with their pulsating new single Sick Crnt this Friday, September 1. The track is lifted from the band's upcoming EP Vol 1 Superdead, which is set to drop on September 15. HEAVY caught up with vocalist Nick and guitarist Dom to find out more, plus we are also privy to an exclusive sneak peek of the song jus...

Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs Magic Dirt released Young and Full of the Devil 25 years ago and has celebrated with a double LP re-release. This era of Magic Dirt is a special time for the band with Raul stepping in as their new guitarist, that would turn into a lifetime of friendship and shows together. HEAVY caught up with frontwoman Adalita to reflect on the past and delve into the future. As we...

Interview by Kris Peters Confidence goes a long way in music. Not just in yourselves and your music, but also in terms of your ideas. In a musical climate becoming increasingly saturated new bands often need something special to get people's attention. Put simply just having good music sometimes isn't enough. Emerging Sydney outfit Shu-Nagua have displayed an ability to think outside the box and f...

Interview by Kris Peters In a world obsessed with technology and the quick fix band aid mentality it is refreshing to see bands that still adhere primarily to the old school formulas. When an album cycle meant getting out on the road and taking your music far and wide, engaging with old fans and connecting with new. The simplistic approach made possible in the modern age can often lessen the appea...

The Campaign For Musical Destruction tour title could not be more fitting for Napalm Death considering their perfect adaption of visuals and sonic chaos to everything that they create and stanbd for! For forty years Shane, Barney, Danny and John have done little else than ensure that we are willingly and graciously sonically accousted by being in the presence of Napalm Death; whether that be via o...

Interview by Kris Peters Asking Alexandria have always traversed the sonic tightrope between rock and metal, refusing to be stereotyped or labelled in the process. Over the course of seven previous albums the band has had moments of pure aggression offset by lashings of beauty, creating their own musical boundaries with a contempt for convention rarely sustained by bands with a global fanbase. Fro...

Interview by Kris Peters Aussie rock and metal is currently in good hands. With a healthy swathe of older, established bands still doing the circuit and pumping out albums and an ever growing assortment of new and up and coming bands feeding off their wisdom it is fair to say the future of Australian music has never looked or sounded as good. So much so that few bands stand out and demand attentio...

Interview by Kris Peters Night At The Barracks returns to Manly's picturesque North Head this September for a series of outdoor concert events starting on September 15 and finishing on October 8. The showcase event kicks off with legendary Australian act Hoodoo Gurus, with celebrated artists such as Missy Higgins, Kate Cebrano, James Morrison Motown Experience and Tina Arena among the featured art...

Interview by Kris Peters Certain bands in history are untouchable, with every genre having a stoic pecking order. When it comes to death metal bands such as Morbid Angel, Obituary, Death, Cannibal Corpse and Atheist sit atop the proverbial tree, unflinching in their resolve and unyielding in their unrelenting pursuit of metal supremacy. Certain names stand out above others as well. Names such as J...

Interview by Kris Peters Post punk/goth outfit She Wants Revenge hit pay dirt with their first ever single Tear You Apart back in 2005, a song that somehow made it to the ears of Lady Gaga, who in turn insisted producers of a TV show she was working on called American Horror Story: Hotel included the track in its soundtrack. This early leg up introduced She Wants Revenge to an instant global marke...

Interview by Kris Peters Ever since leaving Nine Inch Nails to form Filter back in 1993, the name Richard Patrick has been synonymous with industrial tinged rock. With their debut album Short Bus spawning the hugely successful single Hey Man Nice Shot, Filter's trajectory started on the up and has only soared higher over the ensuing years. Despite having to overcome potentially crippling personal...

Interview by Kris Peters You certainly can't accuse Melbourne rock/metal hybrid Ne Obliviscaris from doing things in shades. After four long years - their last Australian tour was in 2019 - Ne Obliviscaris has announced a run of four dates this September, bringing with them an international assortment of fellow metallers in The Ocean Collective and Rivers Of Nihil. The last time Rivers Of Nihil we...

Interview by Kris Peters Thirty years in any industry is a massive achievement, but when your chosen field of operations is music then those thirty years can often seem like plenty more. It's a commonly held belief for those outside of the industry - but an overwhelming fact for those in it - that only the randomly selected few can ever hope to realise their personal dreams or lofty ambitions that...

Interview by Kris Peters Remember when rock music was pure and real? Before the advent of technology and seemingly magical remedies to remove natural deficiencies in the studio using an invisible golden paintbrush to mask the truth, there was a time where what you recorded stayed recorded, warts and all. While there is no questioning it has helped musicians the world over create and achieve their...

Interview by Kris Peters One enduring quality possessed by the vast majority of Australians is an untenable bond that ties us together and stays through thick, thin or indifferent. Be it the sporting arena or the social or even the blue collar working mentality there is no denying that if one person can have a good time doing something, then five could have infinitely more. It's sort of a pack men...

Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs The Superjesus are Aussie icons. Not only are they great musicians, but they are down to earth and the kind of people you could sit with for hours and have amazing conversations with. HEAVY took the chance to have a yarn with long time bass player Stuart Rudd, ‘Ruddy’, about their upcoming monster Australian tour for new single ‘Lights Out’. It’s nice to have a chat w...

Interview by Kris Peters Swedish rock outfit Avatar would have to be one of the longest overnight success stories of modern music. Their rise as a musical force may have seemed to come from nowhere given the rapid upward trajectory their profile received in 2013 when they by happenstance scored the coveted touring opportunity to support Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch more or less la...

Photo credit Marcos Hermes Interview by Kris Peters Living Colour and Extreme are two of the greatest rock bands to emerge from last century that are still standing. Individually they both hold aloft the rock flame but together they are an unstoppable force of musical nature that deliver their brand of music with an irresistable charm and swagger rarely seen over two bands on one stage. So it is w...

Interview by Kris Peters While many bands of the rock to metal nature often collaborate with rap artists on individual songs or across whole albums, it is generally a one way street in that direction. Seldom does the music world come across a rap artist who integrates rock and metal through their music as par for the course but try telling Houstin innovator Hyro The Hero that and chances are he wi...

Interview by Kyra-Jade Coombs Newcastle band Vilify have recently released their newest single From the Inside and HEAVY took the chance to have a chat with frontwoman Amy McIntosh to see what’s been happening and what’s on the cards for the band. If you haven’t had a listen already, From the Inside addresses dealing with sexuality and how it’s dealt with on the inside-out. When I asked how the tr...

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