Author: Josh Nixon
Josh is about as metal as Canberrans get. He's also mates with everyone in the Aussie scene, and he writes our Metalise column. Send him gigs, loud noises and devilish hand gestures at doomtildeath@hotmail.com.

Good ol’ Belco Boy PRIVATE BENJAMIN reeeally bares his soul in his “cuck-rock” GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY LP where “confused, beta-male arena anthems abound”
Review by Josh Nixon Ben Green is a good ol' Belco boy who now resides in Bayonne. This vastly glosses ...

Metalise – Is 2020 Over yet?
Blergh. How much fatigue can one planet take over the course of this redefinition of "annus horriblis" which, for our ...

Ghoatte Hordour Premiere Video
Lockdown is not stifling artists in Melbourne from creating new avenues for expression. Maybe its a reflection of the current ...

Metalise – The Nightmare Continues
These are strange times indeed friends. Intimate seated metal shows? Live Streams? Patreon? It's all feeling like a cultural defibrillator, ...

Metalise Slow Recovery Edition – Venues reopening? Plus top metal to watch and hear
Is anyone else sick of the internet yet? I mean, I feel like I've seen the whole thing now. I've ...

Metallise – Purgatory Edition – Lucifungus, Witchskull, Elder soundtrack the apocalypse
Does music even exist when you can't share it in the form of your 10, 20, 30 greatest/most life changingest ...

Metalise Mar/Apr – Top 7 Albums To Listen To Right Now + all the gig goodness
March kicks off brutal with the USA extremity of Sulfuric Cautery and Girth being joined by killer Melbourne band Contaminated ...

Metalise Feb/Mar – Pod People return, Mental Cavity surge, Metal meets The Simpsons + A massive month of remarkable metal at The Basement
Happy new year! Can't blab on, there's too much to share. Danish thrashers Artillery bring the dark hygge to Canberra ...

Metalise January – Punknats, Okilly Dokilly, The Neptune Power Federation, Download + more
The festivus period has been and gone and apart from giving me headaches in looking and contemplating Top 5s and ...

Metallise Wrap Up Not Just of 2019, But THE DECADE
Part of being a columnist at BMA for, I think, 22 or 23 years now is that I can go ...