Deströyer 666 made me re-find the thrill for Black Metal...

Out of all the Australian bands I've heard, I'd say I like Psycroptic and Black Majesty the most, they show more originality than other Australian bands have presented, based on what I've heard so far...

And what about Blood Duster??Is it ok?

I got a bit of material by some Australian bands today, that I hadn't already gotten. I got 'Semper Tyranis' by Aeturnus Dominion. They're a Death Metal band from NSW. Sort of a deep sound with Thrash like vocals and also Death growls. Once you listen to it a couple of times it's actually quite good. If I had to pick a fault I'd say the snare sound seems a bit plain. The drumming is overall quite good though.

I also got some Catacombs Of Sodomy (Sydney), which actually sounds quite weird. It's Black Metal with about the rawest/distorted sounding vocals you've ever heard. The guitars are a general Black Metal sound, but they have a warped/wavy sound behind them all the way through. Quite weird. Ok for an occasional listen possibly.

I also got some Etherial Shadows, Mhorgl, Fouldearth and Exsanguinator. All of those are Black Metal.

Some other quite interesting material I got was some songs by a Samoan band! I must profess myself to be quite a n00b when the Samoan Metal scene is concerned, but these guys seem interesting enough. It's sort of like Black Metal, in a way, but with the blasting inyourfaceness of Grindcore, lol.

I was overall happy with the day's acquisitions

Alchemist are simply amazing. So different from anything else I've ever listened to. It's been 4 years since their last album, so am hoping something will come out this year.

Superhiest were also a great Aussie metal band - they broke up a few years back.

And Storytime - a 3 piece from Western Australia that played kind of prog thrash instrumentals in the early '90s; 2 EPs and 1 LP was all they released. Trying to find their stuff is very very hard. But well worth the effort. Great music!

Alchemist get my vote. Possbily Australia's best contirbution to the world wide metal arena.

Seeing Eyefear support Blind Guardian was fantastic - definitely one of my favourite Australian bands (alongside LORD and Ruins).

Before that gig, I hadn't gotten into a lot of Eyefear's stuff, but now I think I will. Danny has about the longest hair I've seen in my life!

havent heard much aussie stuff any bands i should listen to ??????

Written by Sonic MrSumo on 22.03.2007 at 03:17

Alchemist are simply amazing. So different from anything else I've ever listened to. It's been 4 years since their last album, so am hoping something will come out this year.

Superhiest were also a great Aussie metal band - they broke up a few years back.

And Storytime - a 3 piece from Western Australia that played kind of prog thrash instrumentals in the early '90s; 2 EPs and 1 LP was all they released. Trying to find their stuff is very very hard. But well worth the effort. Great music!

I read somewhere that Alchemist will release a new studio effort this year. Yeah, finally. And they'll come over to Holland for the Prog Power fetsival in October, so I will be sure to try and check them out then.

Ah, it's been a while since I've checked this thread. In my last post, I simply agreed with Dark Cornatus on his approved bands, but this time I've got some of my own to add.

Astriaal - local Brisbane Black Metal band, great atmosphere and a remarkable brutality about them.
Psycroptic - Tasmanian Death Metal, well-liked by many and pretty fucking technical.
Alchemist - From Canberra, really good Prog/Avantgarde-ish stuff.
Elegeion - Doom from Melbourne, quite well-known.
Eyefear - The vocalist pwns ye all with his hair! Not to mention the sit-down keyboard player...
Stargazer - Adelaide-based Avantgarde band, Black/Death sound but really cool, hard to explain.
Ruins - Tasmanian Black Metal, features members from Psycroptic.
Streetwalker - @Hyvaarin, you're more qualified than me on this I believe. The only band that can play however they want and still have every 15-yr-old in Toowoomba after them.

The rest of my list is pretty standard, with LORD, Dungeon, Vanishing Point, Black Majesty, Pegazus, Ilium, Striborg etc. Bands that all the others like too, and that I haven't recently discovered, in other words.

Written by Judas on 23.03.2007 at 14:00

Astriaal - local Brisbane Black Metal band, great atmosphere and a remarkable brutality about them.
Streetwalker - @Hyvaarin, you're more qualified than me on this I believe. The only band that can play however they want and still have every 15-yr-old in Toowoomba after them.

Oh Christ, I forgot Astriaal. They're right up there, too.

re: Streetwalker - haha, fuck yeah. If only our appeal extended to older girls...

I don't know why, but when I listen the phrase "Australian metal" my mind gets on The Berzerker and their lousy shitty sound... I think the AC/DC eras are gone forever...

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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 22.03.2007 at 14:40

[...]And they'll come over to Holland for the Prog Power fetsival in October, [...]

Didn't you say that the name of the country is "The Netherlands" and not just "Holland"?

Ok here are 
I thought I post here but seems it was in old forum and I wont talk about all bands what I ever had hear because I dont remember all, and I wont talk about black metal because its to underground here in Europe and about bands from MS but also I wont talk about heavy metal and thrash because genre are poor there(I talk about bands from 80ties) but I will talk about DOOM because its so amazing scene there

Ac/Dc - I shood coment them

Ad Infinitum - Its Australian Black Metal band, werry interesting and nice, non satanic and us ekeybords into muisc, ist edeep, atmsofeeric fielings into music

Arcene Necrosis - Also BM whit sympfonic and melodic influencies somehow remainds me lil Arcturus mix whit Emperer

Elegeion - i can not define this genre but its IMO piano based gothic music whit doomy influencies and minimalistic elements and also heavy doom metal alements it depends of song

Elysium (AKA Stone Winds) - One of bigest and best death/doom metal bands whit old school and moelodic touch of music . Thay had a loto f albums and thay are popular in earth not only in Australia, so IMO you shood know them.
I prefere albums of Elysium days because in 2002 thay change name to Stone Wings, thay use clean and half growl male vocals and calm female vocals (Judy from Avrigus does some studio vocals)

Alcemist - Well known band

Virgin Black - Well Know

Disembowelment - I shood coment?

Avrigus - Deepm atmosferic doom metal whit beautifull female an dmale vocals, its well know in underground



Clagg - Its sluge dome from Australia IMO one of best bands in genre and also rearest for higer public

DawnTred - Some kind of doom metal, band has 4 albums, but info are poor and hard find them I know fiew songs and I like them, but dunno how popular thay are in Australia

Decasy Devinity - death/doom from Australia, old school sound, good band but had only demo
Mournful Congregation - One of bigest and well know and same tiem underground funeral doom bands, IMO those who are into genre knows something about them and in doom-metal.com are song

Paramaecium - Same story and IMO best and well know death/doom band after Cryptall Darkness, poetical lyrics, so deep, sometime shard to read em,
IMO ist death/doom rush and doom meyal says this '' All out Doom-metal at its purest and most melancholic. They play super-heavy funeralish doom with growled vocals. There is use of instumentation like flutes, cellos and violins on some albums. Paramaecium is one of the few White-metal (Christian-metal) Doom bands out there. Their album 'Exhumed of the Earth' is an album any Doom-metal fan can enjoy. Truly an under-appreciated band within our genre''
Yes I specaly search that info to post here

Nocturnal - Black/doom but I put it in my wanted list no mp3 no hp only MA

Elysian Blaze - Lil bit remaind me Forgottnen Tomb in covers and depredsion, seems band member are depreded its some kind a funeral doom

Iniquitous - funeral doom and rear and I put it in wanted list

InSomnis Dei - Wanted list but thay had album out this year and I wanna hear it

Long Voyafe Black - Melanholism not music, seems its French band not Australain

Lycantia - Gothic/Atmsoferic doom rear and forgotten band

This Tangled Web - Well know death/doom band from Austarlia its realy great banda n din old home page was demo for free now  blame myspace

Synnove - I hear em in myspace and seems thay coppy Eurpeian gothic and vampire style

Enter Twilight - Its gothic metal, based in piano

Eyefear - wtf thay do in my PC its prog metal just kidding its lil like iromn Maiden and Blaze Baley good one


Funeral Morning - Good funeral doom band from Australia. Its one man band and quate good and sad atmosfere there somehow remainds me lil diferent wesre of The Funeral Orchestra

Mhorgl - One of rear BM bands(ofAusie) what I had

Raven Black Night - Its epic/traditional doom metal lil remainds Candlemass whit Mesiah Marcolin realy vocalist ha ssimmilar voice but band play lil heavyer

Rote Mare - Some kind mix between trad/funeral doom but asome amazing band, realy great

Criptall Darkness(AKA The Eternal) band are in MS s ogo and look to them but it was death/doom band when thay wa splaying whit name Criptall Darkness, then change to gothic/doom and calls The Eternal

Space Raven - Doom metal whiut deep 60tie stouch an lil heavyer sound


Striborg - Ambient/BM band and since thay are in MS probobly you know them, but banda re good, thay had a loto f realises and sometime si think its to much

One of my fav Aussie metal bands is Chalice. i think they are such an amazing band and they play great music
A few other bands from Australia i listen to are:

Black Majesty
Dungeon
Astriaal
Destroyer 666
Elegeion
Ilium
Pegazus
Vanishing Point
Virgin Black
Voyager

Australia is a good place for grindcore. Roskopp, Captain Cleanoff, Ebolie, Fuck... I'm Dead, and Super Fun Happy Slide are all great grind bands.

does AC/DC count?

australia has a few good hardcore/etalcore bands like Parkway Drive and Carparthian - that arent too bad

we have a wide variety of bands i think, two of my favs are psycroptic and black majesty, but i enjoy most others too

Wholesome Adelaide Bands.

Most of these bands are young ones starting out, but they're doing pretty good.


Tzun Tzu - Death Metal with an Oriental twist
http://www.myspace.com/tzuntzu

Subterraneum - Death/Doom
www.myspace.com/subterraneum

Kathexus - Thrash/Prog
http://www.myspace.com/kathexus

Fragmenta - Thrash/Prog
http://www.myspace.com/fragmentaband

Saeturnum - Death/Black/Prog/Doom
http://www.myspace.com/saeturnum

Skeleton Merchant - Experimental/Technical
http://www.myspace.com/skeletonmerchant

Asphyxia - Death/Prog
http://www.myspace.com/asphyxiametal

Sonic Euphoria - Prog/Screamo/Metal
http://www.myspace.com/soniceuphoria06

Burial - Metal
http://www.myspace.com/burialsa

Devonera - Metal
http://www.myspace.com/devonera

Deafening Silence - Metal/Prog
http://www.myspace.com/destructioniscreation

Grievance - Thrash/Death
http://www.myspace.com/grievanceness

Hybrid Illusion - Thrash/Prog
http://www.myspace.com/hybridillusion

Arcadia - Metal
http://www.myspace.com/arcadiarocks

Skintilla - Metal
http://www.myspace.com/skintilla

Intended Victim - Death/Thrash
http://www.myspace.com/intendedvictim2

Blood Mason - Death/Thrash
http://www.myspace.com/bloodmason

Mythyca - Death/Black
http://www.myspace.com/mythyca

Octanic - Industrial/Rock/Metal
http://www.myspace.com/octanic

Beyond Mortal Dreams - Death Metal
http://www.myspace.com/beyondmortaldreamsdeathmetal

Darklord - Black Metal
http://www.myspace.com/darklordlegion



And from Perth...

Mirrors of the Dead - Doom/Gothic
http://www.myspace.com/mirrorsofthedead


If you have a myspace, please check out my gig photography:

www.myspace.com/mcdphotographics

Aren't Portal Australian? I think nobody mentioned them.

Just because they weren't mentioned, doesn't mean we don't know about them

And there's like.. crazy loads of Australian bands..

Dont know that many bands from Australia, one of the better bands (except for the great AC/DC) is Ilium, really good progressive metal.

Insomnius Dei, also from Australia

Go Mr Kelson

And The Eternal too!

Pegazus, Black Majesty ... very good bands ..

where can i hear there music

The Berzerker! Psycroptic! Hell Yeah!!

Damn, how could we forget The Berzerker

The Australian metal scene is stepping up, that's for sure. Some of the bands I listen to include:

Antonamasia
Daysend
Dyscord
The Furor
Pathogen
Psycroptic
Ruins
LORD
Alchemist
Alarum
Atriaal
Virgin Black
Mythyca
Dungeon