April 2024
Orange Goblin
Cut from the same beer-stained cloth as the greats, UK stoner rock metal act ORANGE GOBLIN are still riding high and leading the pack in balls to the wall heavy metal thunder. Emerging amid the exhilarating melee of the mid-‘90s stoner rock and doom explosion, ORANGE GOBLIN immediately endeared themselves to a generation of metal fans by simply going for it at full, beer-swilling pelt and some twenty five plus years later, nothing has changed! Moving towards 2024 it’s all…
Find out more »DARTZ – Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One Album Release
The Band From Wellington is back: DARTZ are releasing their second album Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One this March - and to celebrate they'll be heading to Christchurch for a one-off gig at Lyttelton's Wunderbar on Friday 19 April. Quickly returning to the studio following their 2022 NZ chart-topping debut, DARTZ enlisted producer James Goldsmith (DARTZ) and bunkered down at The Surgery in their home city of Wellington. The result is Dangerous Day To Be A Cold One,…
Find out more »Kruelty (JPN) – Aotearoa Tour
Wrought Material and Valhalla Touring are proud to present the return of Tokyo disgusting music four piece KRUELTY to Aotearoa this coming April, with All Ages shows in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington as well as their first ever show in Ōtautahi Christchurch. KRUELTY present an immaculate amalgamation of heavy beatdown hardcore and death/doom metal, with an intense live performance honed over years of relentless touring since their formation in 2017. In the year since they last toured…
Find out more »There’s a Tuesday x Kitschen Boy Tour AUS/NZ
There’s a Tuesday (NZ) and Kitschen Boy (AU) announce their joint New Zealand and Australia tour coming this April and May. With both bands on the brink of upcoming releases, they will be hitting New Zealand in April (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch) and Australia in May (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane) and will be combining forces for the first time to bring you an electrifying show not to be missed. There’s a Tuesday consist of high-school besties – front-women Minnie Robberds and Nat…
Find out more »Suffocation
New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album, Hymns from the Apocrypha, via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to ...of the Dark Light (2017) pushes founder Terrance Hobbs (guitars), Derek Boyer (bass), Charles Errigo (guitars), Eric Morotti (drums), and newcomer Ricky Myers (vocals) to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the groups strongest-sounding, most sonically punishing album yet. SUFFOCATION have achieved death metal perfection. SUFFOCATION were founded in Long Island, New York, in 1988. Since then,…
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