For us, it was a personal and political year of folding back into our hometown scenes, staying close to our families, and working with activists groups ...
We're hoping to find a good chunk of time at home after the tour ... We've been writing loads of new songs, and are very excited about where it's going.
Porcupine Tree and Opeth have built careers out of visionary experimentation and boundary pushing. But after the 12 years it took before Porcupine Tree's Steve Wilson and Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt write their first album together as Storm Corrosion was there any new ground to be broken by the two progressive visionaries?
"It's tough when people take shots at ya, for some times no reason other than because they want to use you as a punching bag ... But, you know, the reality of it is that I'm not here to please anybody but myself."
On the eve of what Dez Fafara promises to be DevilDriver's last Australian tour for a while, the band patriach sits down with Hysteria to explain how he's planning to lead his gang of headbangers through 'the most critical moment of the band's career'.
The rest of Darkest Hour are in the studio recording, laying down some demo cuts in preparation for a new album. meanwhile, guitarist and founding member Mike Schliebaum is doing what he sees as something far more important ...
Soundwave Festival 2012: A Rocket To The Moon with Nick Santino interview by Hazel Savage // Feb, 2012
It's not hard to see why A Rocket To The Moon are such big hits on Facebook and Twitter; their legions of devoted followers can message the band directly, creating the new form of communication we often see with young bands ...
Soundwave Festival 2012: Kvelertak with Erlend Hjelvik interview by Cameron Edney // Feb, 2012
"... I didn't start singing in bands until I was 16; I never expected anything to come out of it; it was just something that I was doing for the hell of it."
Soundwave Festival 2012: Watain with Erik Danielsson
interview by Cameron Edney // Feb, 2012
"We started out as a pretty clean looking typical Scandinavian black metal band and we grew into some kind of trans-mutated abomination that wreaked of corpses and the stench of death, and that's been quite a journey."
"... we are quite a live act, the concerts themselves I see as magical ceremonies rather than simple rock shows ..."
Michigan's LA DISPUTE have arrived back in Australia in support of their new album, Wild Life (No Sleep/Shock) and vocalist, Jordan Dreyer spoke to Hysteria about recording this epic masterpiece and it's release on glorious vinyl ...
Coal Chamber: Words From Meegs interview by Jade Kennedy // Jan, 2012
"Instead of being influenced by the sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll like I was then, these days I'm influenced by the music, because I understand now that's what it all comes down to at the end of the day." more>
The Damned: 35 Years On with Captain Sensible interview by Damo Musclecar // Jan, 2012
"... I remember having to take the amplifiers and the drums on the top deck of a London route master bus to rehearsals because we couldn't afford a van and nobody had a drivers license and we didnt have a manager. It was really hard work actually ..."
Asking Alexandria: Not Your Garden Variety Metalcore
interview by Ernesto Zelaya Miñano // Photo by Richard Sharman
"These remixes are more of a one-off thing, to keep the fire burning between albums ... The last album was all about drugs; this one is predominantly about hatred."
Leaving a Trail of Destruction Across Australia: with Marcel Scirmer interview by Cameron Edney // Nov, 2011
"I think this album is the most satisfying album of the last eight or nine years. It’s the album that I am so happy with, the album that has a lot of songs that I like to play live and it’s had very good reactions from the crowds we’ve been playing to."
"... the last year and a half so much has happened to us as people and as a band that, you know, we've been able to put that into the songs and I think that's a good representation of who we are as people right now."
Touring this December: Off! with Keith Morris interview by Mykaela Saunders // Oct, 2011
"... there has always been some kind of aggresive anger towards certain things that are happening, that is also part of the fuel for what we are doing."
HysteriaTV Make Do & Mend: First Australian Show October, 2011
HysteriaTV Skindred: UK Rockers October, 2011
HysteriaTV Calling All Cars: Live at the Cooly Hotel August, 2011
"This tour's been the best tour we've had so far ..." Adam Montgomery
Soundwave Counter Revolution: Story Of The Year written by Danielle Ralph // Sept, 2011
How's the story coming along? Danielle Ralph hooked up with front man Dan Marsala to find out what's on the cards for Story Of The Year leading up their trip Down Under for Counter Revolution ...
Soundwave Counter Revolution: The Swellers interview by Ben Coby // Sept, 2011
photography by Tessie Navarro
"It's funny, for a few months there we had nothing booked, then all of a sudden we have all of these tours happening which is insane. Touring here ... Hong Kong with Paramore and Counter Revolution ... it's crazy but we love it."
Soundwave Counter Revolution: We Are The Ocean written by Glenn Johnston // Sept, 2011 photography by Ashley Maile
If you haven't been keeping up with your UK releases then you may have missed the lastest album by an impressive outfit called We Are The Ocean. We caught up with Dan Brown before their upcoming tour for Counter Revolution ...
Calling All Cars: Adam Montgomery interview by Damo Musclecar // August, 2011
After touring successfully with rock gods AC/DC, sharing the stage with Australian heavyweights Grinspoon and the Butterfly Effect, Melbourne's Calling All Cars are set to raise the standards of alternative rock ...
"Whatever the next chapter is that comes along, whether it's just being friends or releasing a video of stuff that we shot on tour, I don't know. It'll be cool."
interview by Damo Musclecar photos by Lance Mercer // June, 2011
While the city of Melbourne is succumbing to the freezing cold, our next interview subject is kicking back in sunny Las Vegas, celebrating his wife's birthday. Duff McKagan is no stranger to rock 'n' roll ...
An Officer And A Djentleman: Periphery's Misha Mansoor interview by Toby McCasker // June 24, 2011
Astonishingly, techy super-modern originals, Periphery, are due to land in Australia this July for their second tour downunder in just two years—this time as headliners. Band mastermind swung by AHM HQ to djent it up ...
There's No I In Team: Heroes For Hire's Brad Smith written by David Young // June 2011
Love them or hate them, it would be downright unfair to dismiss Sydney pop-punk dudes Heroes For Hire as slackers. From headlining shows to international supports, with more than a few festival slots in-between ...
England Keep My Bones interview by Nate Fisk // June 2011
"They say talking about music is like dancing about architecture. I'm pleased with it, because if I wasn't we would still be in the studio working on it. For me it goes a lot deeper; it goes further ..."
Upcoming Album Release: There For Tomorrow, The Verge interview by Alicia Bolton // June 2011
Your new record, The Verge, will be released on July 1. Tell us a bit about the journey... We went in with no expectations because that's kind of what the hardest part is, to do your first album, you start to think too hard ...
Not Dead Yet: Trial Kennedy's Tim Morrison interview by Caitlin Ritter // June 2011
Through record label splits, line-up changes, management issues and head injuries, Trial Kennedy is somehow still alive and kicking. Front man Time Morrison talks about the upcoming album Living Undesigned ...
Segression: Latest Album, Never Dead interview by Jesse Bateman // June 2011
One of Australia's top live metal acts, AHM caught up with Chris and Red from Segression on their recent Brisbane tour for an insightful chat on the latest album, past glories, guitar lessons, karaoke and plaster casting with Slipknot ...
