November 2025: Heavy Round Up
Will Oakeshott goes to the dark side to gather up all things metal in South Australia.
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You should LISTEN to
Barriers – ‘Perpetual Curse’
When members of Cry Murder, Embodiment 12:14 and other elite acts come together to create a sludgy post-metal project of devastation, the metal universe is set alight in lustrous gloom. “Lustrous gloom metal” is an impeccable description for this momentous quartet. ‘Perpetual Curse’ is an adventurous musical movement. Exquisite post-rock magically transitions to a Gojira and Encircling Sea hybrid of cacophonous intensity, then back again. “Seared and burnt, branded in our souls,” Kyle Bloksgaard bellows: what a befitting portrayal of Barriers’ astounding artistry.
You Should See
Blood Incantation
Imagine a coalescence of Morbid Angel, Pink Floyd, Krautrock and John Carpenter into a soundscape driven by Old School Death Metal: welcome to Denver’s Blood Incantation. If the aforementioned description was not oddly intriguing enough, perhaps the quartet’s fascination and lyrical themes of alien conspiracies, cosmic horror, mysticism, and questioning our own universe via guttural screams might boil your blood in the best way. Prepare to fall under their Astral Spell.
November 13 | Lion Arts Factory | Tickets
TOOL
Unbelievably, it has been over 12 years since Grammy Award-winning Californian art-metal act TOOL have performed in Adelaide. This extensive time lapse is bewilderingly surpassed by the album release times between their fourth and fifth LPs, amounting to 13 years! Nevertheless, the four-piece are finally returning as part of the Good Things Festival, so brace yourselves to undertake “a spectacular journey of peaks and valleys, dark and light.” (Nick Ruskell, Kerrang!)
November 28 & 29 | AEC Arena | Tickets
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King Parrot
Melbourne’s grindcore greats King Parrot are finally striking terror in Adelaide to promote their fourth record, A Young Person’s Guide to King Parrot.
November 22 | UniBar Adelaide | Tickets
Opeth
From progressive death metal to classical music, jazz, folk, and blues, Sweden’s Opeth eclipse being simply heavy, they are an EXPERIENCE! Get along to celebrate their latest album.
November 22 | Hindley Street Music Hall | SOLD OUT
DOGMA
In 1989, Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’ was boycotted by the Pope. DOGMA, a Ukrainian women metal group, embrace this blasphemy, dressing as erotic nuns and covering the single.
November 26 | The Gov | Tickets
Kim Dracula
Taswegian Kim Dracula has exploded since the release of A Gradual Decline In Morale. Catch this theatrical musical fusion of numetal hyper pop live this month.
November 28 | The Gov | Tickets
