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Live Review: Behemoth + Hour of Penance + Exekute @ Manning Bar, Sydney – October 26, 2013
Words and Pics: Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au for Life Music Media
Having witnessed Poland’s blackened death metal legends Behemoth slay everyone in attendance on their Sydney date of their last Australian tour in 2010, you can bet we were more than a little excited when we learned of their upcoming 2013 tour dates. Fast forward to Saturday October 26 and we arrive at Sydney Uni’s Manning Bar to find that several hundred other excited Behemoth fans were already lining out the door and around the corner.
First up on tonight’s three-band line-up is Sydney’s own Exekute; a young death metal group that clearly has a bright future if tonight’s tight performance is anything to go by. While lacking a little in terms of stage presence, the band more than makes up for the short fall with a barrage of rapid fire, brutal riffs and plenty in the audience seem already very familiar with their tunes.
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Photo Gallery: Behemoth + Hour of Penance + Exekute @ Manning Bar, Sydney – October 26, 2013
Photographer: Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au for Life Music Media
Photographer: Ben Hosking – www.hoskingindustries.com.au
Bands: Behemoth + Hour of Penance + Exekute
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Venue: Manning Bar, Sydney
Date: October 26, 2013
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Photo Gallery: Stonefield @ The Red Room, University Of Queensland – October 24, 2013
Photo Gallery: Blonde On Blonde + Junior Arcade @ The Red Room, University Of Queensland – October 24, 2013
Album Review: Stonefield – Stonefield (Debut Album)
Review by Natalie Salvo
Ever since they won Triple J’s Unearthed High in 2010 the four gorgeous Findlay sisters known as Stonefield (and previously Iotah) have had to face their fair share of criticism over their image and being discounted as a “teenage gimmick”. The quartet was surrounded by lots of hype as the band is made up of four sisters who range in age from being teenagers to in their early twenties. They also got to play Glastonbury festival quite early but they do have the talent to back it all up. On their eponymous, debut record they continue to thumb their noses at their detractors as they offer one solid and promising effort.
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Photo Gallery: Baby Animals @ The Zoo, Brisbane – October 19, 2013
Photographer: Greg Morgan
Photographer: Greg Morgan
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Album Review: Alex Lloyd – Urban Wilderness
Review by Natalie Salvo
It has been five years since Alex Lloyd released a solo album but in that time he had a break like John Lennon. He was busy caring for his brood of children (he now has four) and was busy writing music for other acts (like Passenger) plus producing and working on soundtracks (including collaborating with the Pigram Brothers for the Mad Bastards OST). This period – like much of his career – has been a rich and varied one and this is also the most striking element on his sixth studio record.
Urban Wilderness was written in a piecemeal fashion with one of the tracks dating back as far as 2008. It covers his time spent living abroad in Queens Park in the UK and his return home to the Central Coast in 2012. The title hints at being lost in a sea of uncertainty and this is reflective of Lloyd’s initial mindset with regards to returning to solo music. This changed though, when he shared his demos with artist and producer, Shane Nicholson (who is famous for his collaborations with his then-wife, Kasey Chambers). Nicholson pushed Lloyd and insisted that he had an album and the rest is all history.
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Photo Gallery: The Butterfly Effect @ The Zoo, Brisbane – October 10, 2013
Photo Gallery: Listen Out @ Cultural Forecourt, South Bank, Brisbane – October 6, 2013
BABY ANIMALS – ‘Feed the Birds’ Tour – October/November 2013
Hot off the success of their first studio album release in 20 years, This Is Not The End, and its Top 20 ARIA Album Chart debut, iconic Aussie rockers Baby Animals are thrilled to announce a new national Australian tour in 2013.
Fronted by Suzie DeMarchi, Baby Animals strike a familiar pose with guitarist Dave Leslie returning for action, Dario Bortolin on bass and Mick Skelton on drums. The “Feed The Birds” tour named after the infamous Baby Animals tradition of pouring red wine into the mouth of fans in the front row – from Suzie’s own!
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Live Review: Soilwork @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – October 2, 2013
Review by Wanda Hill
Photo by Amanda Brenchley
Soilwork launched their Australian tour in Brisbane last night at the HiFi bar in Westend. As you would expect, a sea of people clad in black were waiting to welcome this fine melodic death metal band from Sweden.
Soilwork are in Australia promoting their recent double album The Living Infinite. This high energy album has sold very well around the country and is a personal favourite of mine.
As the band entered the stage a roar went up in the crowd letting them know of the anticipation we all felt. The band looked very happy to back on our shores after a three year absence.
The show got underway revealing that these guys love performing and have awesome stage presence and connection with the audience. Everything looked great, the lighting, the artwork, the band members, but the sound was very disappointing. I was so excited about hearing songs from their new album live but was just devastated that the guitars were so soft in the mix and that everything but the drums seemed to get lost in the wall of noise. What was especially frustrating was that I could see the guitar solos being played with enthusiasm and style by Sylvain Coudret and David Andersson, but I just could not hear them.
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Photo Gallery: Soilwork + Bound For Ruin @ The Hi-Fi, Brisbane – October 2, 2013
Photographer: Amanda Brenchley – www.facebook.com/abrenchleyphotography
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