Will Oakeshott goes to the dark side to gather up all things metal in South Australia…

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Life Pilot – ‘Feeding an Illness’
Life Pilot are living proof of the mantra ‘you have your whole life to write your first album’. Their debut LP is near completion, dropping its first taste with ‘Feeding An Illness’. Comparisons to chaos-makers The Chariot are deserved and delightful, but Life Pilot have progressed a step further. Shades of nu-metalcore that would impress Northlane creep their way in, but the five-piece are still in another frenzied universe, thankfully. Norma Jean, your Australian tour’s support act has been selected.
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Full of Hell & Thou
Grindcore greats Full Of Hell will be back Down Under after a decade-long absence. Joining them is blackened doom trailblazers Thou, who will make their Australian debut. Both outfits will celebrate their new albums, Coagulated Bliss and Umbilical, respectively. Undoubtedly, this will incite double the tormented trouble.
August 18 | Crown & Anchor |Tickets via Moshtix
SPEED
This heroic hardcore outfit have impacted the world since 2019. They have gone globally viral, even garnering an endorsement from Shaq, and have toured relentlessly worldwide. But now, the Sydney- -siders are home and will waste no time in bruising Adelaide with their debut LP, ONLY ONE MODE.
August 31 | UniBar Adelaide | Tickets via Moshtix
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Alpha Wolf
Tasmania-via-Victoria nu- nu-metalcore titans Alpha Wolf finally return to Australia to showcase their latest record, Half Living Things.
August 4 | Hindley St Music Hall
SPY
SPY manages to channel the frenetic hardcore punk of Black Flag with the vocal style of Converge’s Jacob Bannon. Something to witness live.
August 4 | Crown & Anchor
Blackened Power Thrash Chaos!
NZ’s Bulletbelt joins Adelaide’s Lumen Ad Mortem, Hell Machine and Executus for a freaky Friday at the Cranker.
August 30 | Crown & Anchor | The Metro | Tickets via Moshtix
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through are bringing two decades worth of their manic metalcore to our City of Churches for a night celebrating their musical ferocity.
September 8 | Lion Arts Factory | Tickets via Moshtix
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