Brady Irwin 12/1/25 Brady Irwin 12/1/25

[Heavy News] DYNAZTY Release New Single 'Call Of The Night' + New Album GAME OF FACES Out On February 14th

First New ISC Heavy News item for 2025! Creators of power metal super-track 'Heartless Madness', DYNAZTY today release their third single 'Call of the Night'. The new album Game of Faces will be released on February 14th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. See the link for full album details, tracklist, preorder link and streaming/video links for the latest single.

Brady Irwin 6/1/25 Brady Irwin 6/1/25

[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!

Brady Irwin 5/1/25 Brady Irwin 5/1/25

[Riffs] Forgive me Mikael, for I have sinned

Originally posted on our prior website which experienced an untimely death on NYE 2024 (RIP). Our main-man Hamza shared some pre-release repentance and excitement ahead Opeth’s latest full-length release The Last Will and Testament. Which, coincidentally he also reviewed and posted in 2024 on said old site. That will be uploaded soon, but for now, here’s some nostalgic album pre-release stoke for Sweden’s finest.

Brady Irwin 5/1/25 Brady Irwin 5/1/25

[Review:] Nadir - Extinction Rituals LP (03.05.23)

And another in the line-up of our archival posts, extracted from the data retrieved from our sadly now-defunct corpse of an old site (RIP isc.com NYE 2024). This represents one of the earliest album reviews conducted by site owner Brady in Nadir’s excellent black-thrash/metallic-hardcore bruiser of an LP, Extinction Rituals. Links to artist profiles to grab the now-released album within. Check it out!

Brady Irwin 4/1/25 Brady Irwin 4/1/25

Gig Review, Pt. 2: – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.

Originally posted on our sadly as-of-NYE-2024-dead-AF previous website. RIP. This is Part 2 of the also-sadly-defunct New Dead Festival in Adelaide, Australia on the 15th of April in 2023. Check our site for Pt. 1. Bands reviewed here: Disentomb, Butcher ABC, Misery, Denouncement Pyre, Hexis, Altars, Alarum, KILAT, Remission and Flaming Wreckage.

Brady Irwin 3/1/25 Brady Irwin 3/1/25

ISC Archive Post [11.04.23]: Interview with Modern Thrashers REMISSION.

And the archive-repost choo-choo train continues! This time, it’s our pre New Dead Festival Q and A interview with members of the West Australian thrash metal band, Remission.

Brady Irwin 3/1/25 Brady Irwin 3/1/25

ISC Podcast Ep. 7: Review of IHSAHN’s ‘The Fascination Street Sessions’ LP, 06.03.2023

Originally posted on our old website, which unfortunately has met an untimely end (thanks, WordPress!). RIP. This episode is a brief one, naturally so when reviewing a short but powerful EP in Fascination Street Sessions by progressive black metal maestro Ihsahn. Original post date: March 6th, 2023.

Brady Irwin 2/1/25 Brady Irwin 2/1/25

[Archive Review] - Hidden Intent: Dead End Destiny. (03/11/2022).

Archival Review - originally posted on the now-defunct InsertReviewHere.com music journalism blog, then later reposted on the (sadly also now-defunct!) previous InnerStrengthCheck website. Review of Australian thrashers Hidden Intent’s opus Dead End Destiny.

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

[Archive Review] - Alarum - Circle's End - (03.11.2022)

Archive review of Alarum’s jazz-metal fusion epic full-length Circles’s End. This was originally posted to now-defunct music journalism online outlet Insert Review Here, then my own sadly-also-goner ISC.com. Support the Aussie Scene!

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

Archive Review: LIFE/LIMB - Emergent LP (07.12.2022).

Archive review of LIFE/LIMB’s blistering-Australian-sun full-length Teratoma. This was originally posted to now-defunct music journalism online outlet Insert Review Here, then my own sadly-also-goner ISC.com. Support the Aussie Scene, RIP LIFE/LIMB.

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

[Interview]: Aaron Osborne of AGLO (Melbourne Death-Doom) - 23.04.23.

Archival interview with Melbourne-based purveyor of one-man sludge/death-doom act AGLO, originally posted on the now-defunct innerstrengthcheck.com in 2023.

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Review - Cannibal Corpse: ‘Violence unimagined’ (03.11.22).

Archival review from our sadly now-defunct isc.com prior website, and in turn reproduced from my time as a writer for the also sadly-defunct Insert Review Here. This is a review of the Cannibal Corpse LP 'Violence Unimagined.