Mal Keecher 5/1/25 Mal Keecher 5/1/25

[Album Review] –Devin Townsend –'PowerNerd' LP

A repost from our sadly-dead-as-of-NYE-2024 old website. RIP. In this article, Mal discusses his thoughts on Devin Townsend’s rockin’ 2024 opus PowerNerd. As a new listener, Mal offers a fresh-eared perspective to the latest from the mad scientist of prog metal.

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 1] – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.

Part 1 of our two-part festival coverage of the New Dead Festival in Adelaide, 2023. (RIP New Dead, and RIP our old website - thanks WP). Features reviews of: R U N, Black Lava, Lumen ad Mortem, Battlegrave, Vexation, Remission, Writhing, Ashen, Hell Machine, Bifurcated, Apocalyptic Annihilation and I Choose Violence. Just one half of a full day of relentless metal mayhem!

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

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.