April 2025: Heavy Round Up
Will Oakeshott goes to the dark side to gather up all things metal in South Australia…
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MACËY – ‘Sleepwalker’
Imagine this: Electric Callboy collaborating with Saosin, Nothing But Thieves and Sullivan King. Astonishingly, this isn’t a new artistic endeavour from Bring Me the Horizon – this is Adelaide’s confessed “hyper-punks” MACËY. It’s time to wake up because the three-piece’s new single ‘Sleepwalker’ is a magnificent musical mash-up. Commencing as a marvellously mellow EDM nu-metal alt-pop fusion, the track then combusts into impulses of electronica and synthcore that Enter Shikari would adore. Do not sleep on this!
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Earthbong
Subgenres are confusing and entertaining, and arguably “Bong Metal” could be the musical classification of the highest absurdity. Nevertheless, Germany’s sludge doom stoners EarthBong are making their Australian debut to celebrate their 2023 two-track album, Church Of Bong. The trio live and breathe to perform as it's their “happy place”, and along with Canberra’s Lucifungus, this showcase will certainly go up in smoke.
April 12 | Crown & Anchor | Tickets
Death From Above 1979
This Canadian two-piece does not qualify as a metal outfit per se. However, their delightfully devastating noise-rock strikes with immeasurable vigour and is undeniably heavy. The duo will be performing their critically and commercially acclaimed first LP, the remarkable You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine, in full, ultimately stirring life from below.
April 23 | The Gov | Tickets
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Behind Crimson Eyes
After 20 years of crafting emotional post-hardcore, Naarm’s Behind Crimson Eyes bid farewell to fans with a national tour and one final EP, An Exodus Of Eden.
April 18 | Jive | Tickets
GhostSeeker
GhostSeeker brings their heavy and harmonious sci-fi metal to Adelaide in promotion of their first LP, Divergence.
April 19 | Crown & Anchor | Tickets
Metal United Down Under 2025
I Choose Violence, Sons Of Erebus, Storm The Crown, Spectral Dominion, Veneficium and Dark Orion unite to brutalise the Cranker.
April 26 | Crown & Anchor | Tickets
Ghostsmoker
Ghostsmoker return to Adelaide, this time with their ravaging debut LP, Inertia Cult. This quartet’s brand of blackened sludge is brilliantly bone-chilling.
May 3 | UniBar Adelaide | Tickets
