I've always said Schkeuditzer Kreuz was the first post covid Australian punk. Ignoring everything that came before and forging a new path, in style and in action. It was exciting watching tours through regional Australia unfold in real time. Shows getting cancelled but new ones getting booked as rolling lockdowns happened. Fast forward to now, […]
Continue reading....Seven songs of dark crust played in the key of despair. Encierro formed in the wake of Australia's savage Black Summer bushfires, an intense and catastrophic fire season that consumed large parts of the country in late 2019 and early 2020. The cover artwork for this LP is inspired by this horrific event, which wiped […]
Continue reading....After the great plague, Oratory reformed with a clear vision to forge Sepultura's Chaos AD with Celtic Frost, Discharge, Neurosis and Abscess into some hardened weapon-grade steel in the form of three songs. Hence the Inner Pyre EP spews forth from the gates of Brisbane City, resulting in some of the best extreme songs to […]
Continue reading....How does one describe Gudgeon? They have existed as a band for nearly a decade. They have been jamming and writing songs that whole time. In isolation, they evolved. Like some sort of Galapagos Island music project. Their closest relatives would be the already weird and outsider brands of punk. Think Nomeansno, Man Is The […]
Continue reading....Bad Habit Records started with a totally unplanned release. In the second version of the Bad Habit retail shop in Ipswich City, every Saturday a local guy would come in and proceed to tell us how shit all the records we had were. If you've ever worked in a record shop you'll understand how you grow […]
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