What do you think about the Australian metal scene?

Personally i really like the bands that this country are putting out, well i am Australian so that might have something to do with it lol. But seriously i do think that we have some really good metal bands, heres a list of my favourites:
Psycroptic (hometown heros and my favourite band), The Berzerker, The Furor, Astriaal, Born Headless, Corpse Carving, Cranial Devourment, Intense Hammer Rage, M.S.I, Fuck... I'm Dead, Gospel of the Horns, Pathogen, Black Majesty, Virgin Black. Theres just some from the top of my head, but theres heaps more out there.

The Aussie Metal scene is evolving.
My favourite bands are:
Dungeon aka LORD (Power/Thrash Metal)
Black Majesty (Melodic Power Metal) (saw them live last night supporting Dragonforce)
Vanishing Point (Progressive/Power Metal)
Voyager (Progressive/Power Metal)
Transcending Mortality (Progressive/Power Metal)
Pegazus (Heavy Metal)
Virgin Black (Gothic Metal)
Destroyer 666 (Thrash/Black Metal)
Pathogen (Extreme Power Metal)

Thaey are basically my favs, prob others i missed.

Dungeon, Black Majesty and Vanishing Point are my favourites from that country.
Especially Dungeon and VP are killer!

There are 3 that spring to mind for me... (I think I might have mentioned them on the old forum, I cant remember)

Lycanthia - from Sydney
The Eternal - from Melbourne
Elegeion - also from Melbourne

They're all play Gothy Doomyish kind of Metal. I think all three are really great bands well worth checking out.

I can't really say that I know all that much about the metal scene in Austraila...the bands that I love and know from there are Alarum (progressive thrash), Destroyer 666 (black metal), Taramis (progressive metal) and Vauxdvihl (progressive metal)...

Hm...the only Aussie metal bands that I enjoy and can think of are:

Fuck..I'm Dead
Psycroptic
Black Majesty.

Fuck...I'm Dead eh? Hah...interesting name for a band...

Yup, pretty awesome band. They play grindcore.

I'm very pleased with Vanishing Point. I have their albums "Tangled in Dream" and "Embrace the Silence" and I must say that I enjoy their music a lot, especially their keyboards and guitars. Not one of the best Power/Progressive Metal in history, yet a neat one.

I really like Psycroptic and Alarum. I've never heard Alarum on a cd, just live. They put on a good show and were very entertaining to watch, but I heard they aren't that great on cd.

diSEMBOWELEMENT maybe? One of the pioneers of funeral doom. Come from Melbourne.
The Amenta are another band (dont like them however). Kind of an industrial-ish black metal band.

hmm, 2 months ago i would have agreed with the first post but in the last few weeks iv been bombared with Aussie metal. Psychrist are quite good from Adelaide brutal black, Five Star Prison Cell are highly recomended to any Thrash/Death fan they are from Melbourne the drummer is fantastic. Destroyer 666 are very good as well, so are Alchemist progressive melo/death. And also legends of Hard Rock AC/DC.

Don't know much aussie metal but I like three of the four bands I know (Virgin Black, Voyager, Vanishing Point). Opposed to most of my friends I can't stand AC/DC. Don't know why I just can't.

@ GT: I dont really like them either, it comes down to taste though, they are alright, just not what i listen to.

There are many great Australian bands. Just to name a few more:

Grimlock [Death/Heavy]
Befallen [Death/Black}
Chaos Theory [Power]
Dark Earth [Melodic Metal]
Cromlech [Old-School Black]
Ne Obliviscaris [Black, Progressive, Thrash, Death, Melodic Metal]
The Amenta [Industrial Death]
Guild Of Destruction [Technical Black/Death]
Festation [Progressive/Black/Thrash]

These are just a few that haven't been mentioned so far that are pretty good bands. Not all necesarilly my favourites, but definitely some of the good bands in Australia's Metal scene.

Written by Dark Cornatus on 17.05.2006 at 20:24

The Aussie Metal scene is evolving.
My favourite bands are:
Dungeon aka LORD (Power/Thrash Metal)
Black Majesty (Melodic Power Metal) (saw them live last night supporting Dragonforce)
Vanishing Point (Progressive/Power Metal)
Voyager (Progressive/Power Metal)
Transcending Mortality (Progressive/Power Metal)
Pegazus (Heavy Metal)
Virgin Black (Gothic Metal)
Destroyer 666 (Thrash/Black Metal)
Pathogen (Extreme Power Metal)

Thaey are basically my favs, prob others i missed.

Good, this time you remembered to include the mighty Pegazus!

My favorite are Illium, but seems nobody here heard of them except 3 or 4 persons, too bad for this is not only the best band I've heard from Australia but a very good power/heavy band.

When most people think of Australian Metal, they think of AC/DC because they're so popular. Thankfully we have a lot more better bands than that! My favourites include: Destroyer 666 (how come this one isn't coming over as a link for anyone?), Psycroptic, Black Majesty (an awesome first album!), Fuck...I'm Dead, Gospel Of The Horns (wow, you like them too Xtreme Jax?! I saw them live recently, they were awesome. Have you heard Destruktor in that case?), Destruktor, Dungeon, and the list goes on.

@Necromancer_S
Thanks for Destruktor, i just checked out a couple of there track samples then... and im liking it. I'll try and find a place i can order it. You sound suprised that someone else likes Gospel Of The Horns? There a good band, there audio links are pretty good on the site if anyone else wants to here them: http://www.elementalist.net/gospel/gospel.html

Ive left out so many bands from my favourite list: Destroyer 666, The Eternal, Elegeion. How could i forget these bands? *Gasp*

Written by [user id=2267] on 19.05.2006 at 02:00

My favorite are Illium, but seems nobody here heard of them except 3 or 4 persons, too bad for this is not only the best band I've heard from Australia but a very good power/heavy band.

Illium are ok, i think the are not original though, i dont like them as much as the others i listed. You should check their counterpart Dungeon, LORD Tim produces Illiums work, but he is the lead guitarist and vocalist of Dungeon too.

Written by Xtreme Jax on 19.05.2006 at 04:32

@Necromancer_S
Thanks for Destruktor, i just checked out a couple of there track samples then... and im liking it. I'll try and find a place i can order it. You sound suprised that someone else likes Gospel Of The Horns? There a good band, there audio links are pretty good on the site if anyone else wants to here them: http://www.elementalist.net/gospel/gospel.html

Ive left out so many bands from my favourite list: Destroyer 666, The Eternal, Elegeion. How could i forget these bands? *Gasp*

Yeah, I didn't think many other people knew about Gospel Of The Horns. They're from Brisbane I believe, but I don't think many people know them. Both them and Destruktor are in the whole Destroyer 666 family. You are actually the first Metal Stormer apart from myself that I've seen to mention them.

Any one heard of Vaticide?? Got their demo "Cursed" through the vocalists family here in NZ.
Any comments in Aus???

GOTH were from Brisbane, but have been based in Melbourne for the past 4 or 5 years. New album coming out later this year (hopefully...)

There are, and have been, fuckloads of good bands from Oz, off the top of my head....

AC/DC
Rose Tattoo
The Angels
Slaughter Lord
Armoured Angel
Sadistik Exekution
Hobbs Angel Of Death
Destroyer 666
Grenade
diSEMBOWELMENT
Stargazer
Lord of The Command
Portal
Misery
Trench Hell
Destruktor
Nocturnal Graves
Abominator
Raven Black Night
Ghastly
Shackles
Carbon
Martire
The Loving Tongue
Stone Wings
Bludgeoner
Anatomy
Bestial Warlust
Oni
Misery's Omen
Vomitor
Urgrund
Cauldron Black Ram
Encabulous/Crucifire
Astriaal
Myrddraal
Pod People
Corpse Molestation
Denouncement Pyre
Mournful Congregation
Spear Of Longinus

... to name just a few.

Angry Anderson fucking rocks, man. However, I wouldn't consider Rose Tattoo metal, or even hard rock. To me, they're just good, solid rock.

I agree with Wynter, I see Rose Tattoo as more a solid rock if not hard rock genre, as with AC/DC. Or sometimes i call it Pub Rock, because its the music you'd hear on the old juke-boxes lol.

Written by Dark Cornatus on 19.05.2006 at 04:46

Illium are ok, i think the are not original though, i dont like them as much as the others i listed. You should check their counterpart Dungeon, LORD Tim produces Illiums work, but he is the lead guitarist and vocalist of Dungeon too.

I know Dungeon and I just don't like them, even saw them live last year when they toured with Megadeth, I just find them how to say it: just another one of those bands that play good but don't have anything else.

Ok fair enough.

@Xtreme Jax: Haha they play in Wacken this year too!

Pub Rock?? Rose Tattoo and AC/DC are all still playing live and are always playing in bigger venues than pubs.

They're also a lot more metal than half the bands listed in this thread.

Read his post properly. "Or sometimes i call it Pub Rock, because its the music you'd hear on the old juke-boxes lol." He didn't say the bands play in pubs.

Thank you for explaining Wynter. Lol i laughed at the perivious post before yours.