REVIEW BY DYLAN WILLIAMSON If you’ve heard of VRSTY by now, I imagine they were introduced to you the way they were introduced to me. “They sound like The Weeknd, but heavy.” VRSTY are riding the wave of heavy bands borrowing from genres that dominated the 90s and...
Review by Shelley Te Haara . I have been following Jack Panther’s music for a while since I came across his music through one of the many emails I get sent. I last caught up with him during New Zealand’s first lockdown. So to receive his new EP, This Dream I Had, in...
Review by Dylan Williamson . Skyway is special to me. I was but an underage grommet when they were getting big. I owned Skyway shirts, including one I found at an op shop, and I somehow ended up with two copies of their second album Finders Keepers. There are a bunch...
Review by Fluffy . Brisbane-based post-hardcore/pop-punk We Set Signals are serving up their long awaited full length ORDO. The band have been rising from strength to strength since signing to US label We Are Triumphant and have bought a large-sized serving of riffs,...
Review by Steve Shyu! . Personal Favourite Tracks: The Face of Hate, God of FireBest Songwriting: Louder VoiceAwesome Breakdown: The PathOther Choice Cuts: Annihilation, Prophet, Vendetta . Fit For a King is a Texan metal quartet that’s been kicking around for just...
Southern California quartet Movements return with No Good Left To Give – a twelve-track journey through emotional hardship told via the mediums of urgent drum beats, melodic guitar arpeggios and vocalist Patrick Miranda’s heartfelt vocal...
REVIEW BY FLUFFY . Perth-based progressive metalcore outfit Make Way For Man have been slinging riffs and breakdowns since dropping their 2015 debut ‘Limitless’. They’ve returned with the six-track offering Rites, with the mission to make heavy music with positive...
Animalhead release new single Follow Blind, from their upcoming album, which is soon to be announced.The track was recorded at Auckland’s LAB studio, before having one of the hardest working producer/mixer/engineers in NZ music today, Zorran Mendonsa, put his magic...
Review by Fluffy. . Auckland pop-rock quartet Ekko Park have returned with their third full length Horizon via Dinner For Wolves. The ten track outing is filled with toe tapping, guitar driven numbers to flip hair, bang heads and jump around to....
Photo Credit: Frances Carter . TEEKS reveals his first new music since The Grapefruit Skies EP in 2017. “I never knew what it meant to truly long for someone before I wrote this song. That’s the power of heightened emotion. It can hurt so bad that the pain becomes...
