Earlier this week Polaris announced they would be touring their native Australia in February with Wage War, Crystal Lake and Alphawolf on trek entitled “The Death Of Me“. We jokingly suggested it could be the title of the bands highly anticipated sophomore album. Turns out we were right. 21st February will see SharpTone Records shipping serious units. The tracklist
Filmed by Andrew Bromley here’s “Love” from Australian Metalcore act ATLVS at The Workers Club in Melbourne. Their EP “Memoir” is out now, check out our review of that little ripper. Australians don’t give a Castlemaine XXXX for anything else. Except Polaris. Maybe.
A second new song from Melbourne Australians Polaris has been given its debut via Triple J Radio. Following live performances of a song entitled “Hypermania”, a full music video has surfaced for “Masochist” alongside an interesting read about it here. So does this mean a follow up to “The Mortal Coil” in early 2020? We
2020 should be the year that takes Australian Tech Infused Metalcore heroes Polaris to the next level. They’ve toured the hind legs off of the phenomenal “The Mortal Coil” so the next album is getting past due. Including “The Remedy”, “Consume” and “Lucid”, here’s a full set from them at The Phantasy Nite Club in
The Metal scene is vibrant in Australia at the moment with numerous exports appearing on American and European tours left right and centre. Northlane, Polaris, Void Of Vision to name but three of the acts currently making big names for themselves internationally. There is a band however who blazed a trail between 1993 and 2004
Filmed static cameras at The Facebar in Reading on 20th October, Transients were hometown heroes at their co-headlining show with Arcaeon! The set includes “Wildfire” and “The Infinite Escape” and is one we reviewed last weekend with Gecko describing them at the UK’s answer to Polaris. That’s Tech Infused Metalcore!
Tonight is a special night at Reading Facebar. Not only was it Arcaeon Guitarist Sam Machin’s birthday yesterday but it’s also Vocalist Stuart Sarre’s birthday tomorrow. So it’s a party and the atmosphere is a relaxed one in their home town. It’s Sunday night and the feeling is right, even without Foreign Pact who have
Columbus Ohio Metalcore band Like Moths To Flames have returned with a new single entitled “Smoke And Mirrors” via UNFD. The track will no doubt take pride of place the bands set as they join Polaris and Dayseeker in supporting the first wave of shows from Wage War around “Pressure”.
There is back story to the career of North Carolina Metalcore quintet VALLEYS that is tale of tragedy and the strength to overcome. For those not familiar with the story, a week before the band released their debut “Experiment One: Asylum” in 2016, their vocalist Mikey Clement suddenly passed away in a horrific car crash.
Silent Planet sticksman Alex Camarena was filmed at the Tabernacle in Atlanta Georgia plaything “The New Eternity” with Chris Ghazel handing the audio mix. They’ll be the odd ones out as the only act not from Australia on The Alien Tour which will see Northlane, Polaris, Void Of Vision upon our shores in November!
