With kick-off to the NRL season just a few days away, nine sides are hoping to continue a trend where at least one side leaps from also-ran status into the finals on the back of a five-win improvement or more. Over the past nine seasons,… Read More »Leaping to finals conclusions: Predicting which team among the nine also-rans can make giant step forward in 2024
Noise rock, extreme metal and post-punk have often gone hand-in-hand, with the genres overlapping sonically and often sharing fans. If you, dear reader, are one of those fans, then we have a treat for you today: a complete stream of Wax Donut Records‘ new compilation, New… Read More »Full Album Stream: “New Wave Donut: A Raucous Tribute to the Birth of Post-Punk”
Welcome to our latest semi-regular Decibel feature. Here, talented musicians from across the metalsphere provide us with their Last Tape Before Doomsday. Sebastian Thomson’s range of reference when it comes to his drumming is infinite in its eclecticism. As a studious player, Thomson brings the… Read More »Last Tape Before Doomsday: Sebastian Thomson (Baroness)
Round 18 was an intriguing weekend of football with four draws, 14 goals in six matches, for the second week in a row and three teams that managed to keep a clean sheet. In the two games where a team claimed three points, the winning… Read More »Goal-scoring fullbacks, Tilio magic: The A-League players who were the difference in Round 18
I’ve been asked several times to cover PLAVE songs on the blog. I try not to write about “virtual” groups since it feels like opening a can of worms I’m not yet ready for, but PLAVE have become surprising popular. I can’t say I totally… Read More »Song Review: PLAVE – Way 4 Luv