Swedish metal titans AMON AMARTH have returned with their 13th album "The Allfather Awakens", so sit down, grab an oar and start rowing as we talk some SENSE with bass monster Ted Lundström!

Aussie thrash veterans MORTAL SIN are on tour celebrating forty trips around the sun, and will be accompanying FLOTSAM & JETSAM as they embark on their first EVER tour of Australia. Mat Maurer talked some Sense about opening for METALLICA in 1989, surprising metal scenes around the country, and we find out if we're going to hear new music from MORTAL SIN.

It's been 40 years and 15 studio albums, so why has it taken this long for US thrash legends FLOTSAM & JETSAM to come to Australia? About to tear a path around the country with homegrown thrashers MORTAL SIN, SENSE sat down with guitarist Michael Gilbert to find out what took them so long!

Sydney brutes SLAUGHTERCULT have unleashed their latest album "Devoured By Perversion" and will be holding an album launch at Crowbar in Sydney on October 4th, which will also be your last chance to catch them onstage in Australia this year. We sat down with bassist and vocalist Sean to find out more!

Genre-twisting heavyweights BANKS ARCADE have returned with a new album that blends the crunch of metalcore with the sleekness of rap and R'n'B to create something absolutely state-of-the-art. I sat down with the lungs of BANKS ARCADE, Josh O’Donnell to learn how they built a "Second-Place Superstar" ahead of their dates with FROM ASHES TO NEW, and their listening party and live performance at Shotkickers in Melbourne on September 24th!

One of the coolest things about this job is being sent something so overwhelmingly awesome I can barely express it coherently when I get the band on a Zoom call. The opening track of new album "Super Rebound", "The Gums" is a CRUSHING pastiche of influences of everything from noise rock to black metal, sounding like UNSANE on their way to burn a church, and you need to listen to it immediately (link below). Folks, say hello to Belgium's 30,000 MONKIES...

When Aussie punk legends 28 DAYS announced a run of 30th anniversary shows in major cities, we were stoked to see how quickly they sold out. Now, they're back doing what they know best, loading up the van to set off on a regional run around the country to meet old fans and make a few new ones. We sat down with Jay to talk band history, Star Wars fandom, and much more.

Brisbane technical deathcore powerhouse RORONOAH have teamed up with Edward of Aussie heavyweights IRONSTONE to "Unleash the Kraken", so it seemed like the perfect time to track them down for a chat after their blazing set at SHREDFEST.

Former CIRCLES frontman Perry Kakridas is pretty bloody excited "Welcome Stranger", the debut single from new band FADING HOUR, and he should be, because it's amazing. Taking the massive melodies and cinematic flair of a band like KARNIVOOL and combining it with the crunch of modern metalcore, FADING HOUR are a band you need to hear, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to say "Welcome Stranger" to Perry...

Despite a recent high-profile FOO FIGHTERS gig, Tasmania rarely gets international visitors - hell, most national tours don't even include it - which makes Portland alt-rockers THE DANDY WARHOLS very special. Not only are they no strangers to The Apple Isle, first coming down to ring in the new year at the 2005 Falls Festival, but keyboardist Zia has developed an art installation for MONA, the Museum of Old & New Art, an occasionally controversial and always awesome museum in Hobart that looks like it was created by a Bond villain. Oh, and they're teaming up with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra! Zia was my first EVER interview as a music journalist, so it's always a treat to sit her down and talk some SENSE...

Heading to Australia and New Zealand next month with a re-recorded version of their seminal 1992 album "Let's Knife", Osaka's SHONEN KNIFE have been around the block a few times, winning over several generations of fans, including the late Kurt Cobain, who took the band on tour before "Nevermind" blew a hole in the music world. Heading to Australia and New Zealand for a tour including Brisbane's Zed51 and the Croxton Block Party in Melbourne, Sense sat down with Naoko to wind back the clock on their stellar career and explore Japan's musical underground.

Legendary Brisbane trio I HEART HIROSHIMA will be treading the boards in the beautiful Roma Street Parklands on Saturday October 24th as part of ZED51, so it seemed like a brilliant idea to track down Matt and Sullivan to explore their history with 4ZZZ and find out what brought them back into the fold!

Heading to Australia for the first time in 15 years, we can't tell you what songs you'll be hearing when CAKE take to the stage. Hell, neither can they! Scott Gelston went The Distance with frontman John McCrea to find out more!

Dave is a busy man. CUSTARD are one of the headliners of Zed51 alongside MUDHONEY and THE MARK OF CAIN, and his other project, Dave McCormack's TRS-80, has booted up with a new single. Oh, and he plays Australia's greatest dad, Bandit Heeler, on Bluey. With Father's Day this weekend, I sat down with Dave to find out how Aussie dads can find their inner Bandit!

Gold Coast alt-rockers KALATONE have unveiled the cinematic video clip for "Nostalgia", the final track of their stunning EP "Pathways". We think they sound pretty good already, so when they got together for rehearsals, we convinced them to talk to us instead, and explored the process of realising your vision, and finding your Pathway.

Hardcore legend Jerry A. of POISON IDEA has stepped up to the mic for his old friends in THE HARD-ONS, and they've just released a full album! I got Jerry talking about the album, being covered by PANTERA, the infamous cover of "Feel The Darkness", and much more!

Eighteen seconds. That's how long it took between pressing play on NYCTALOR's first offering and me agreeing to interview them. If they can do that to me in 18 seconds, imagine how you're going to feel when you finish I: The Collapse, the first offering from the anonymous Australian music collective, who take the crushing weight and claustrophobic horror of PORTAL and push it even further into the abyss. We spoke to vocalist B and guitarist D about the genesis of the project, and what horrors are still to come.