[Riff] 05.12.26: Fire Up The Barbie, Mate! - An Aussie 2025 Heavy Music Feature.

[Riff] 05.12.26: Fire Up The Barbie, Mate! - An Aussie 2025 Heavy Music Feature.

[Riff]: As part of our Behind Screen and Speaker 2025 retrospective/2026 prospectus series, I dive into a bunch of fantastic cuts of prime Aussie heavy-music beef. See within for the full list, album links, music videos and more, plus some additions from the Musolegion community!

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[Heavy News] Australian doom outfit Ghostsmoker drop sludge-ridden new single ‘Elogium’.
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[Heavy News] Australian doom outfit Ghostsmoker drop sludge-ridden new single ‘Elogium’.

The hypnotic hypnotic dirge and dense atmosphere of ‘ Elogium’ shows why they are one of the finest sludge and doom bands in Australia today. The Melbourne-based doom-peddlers have crawled up from abyssal depths to spew forth a fine pile of well-crafted gristle. Yes, that’s possible. Don’t believe me? Click the link to listen to the stream direct, stream/download new single, check Melb/Syd tour dates and pre-order Inertia Cult, which drops March 21st, via Art as Catharsis records.

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[Archive] Interview with MARK PALFREYMAN of Australian Prog-Metal Institution ALARUM.
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[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!

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