Brian Giffin
Brian is a writer and broadcaster from Katoomba, New South Wales and established Loud as a print zine in Sydney in 1996. His rock writing has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, On the Street, In Your Face, Rebel Razor, Loudmouth, Hysteria and more and he presented a weekly metal/hard rock radio show on community radio from 1995 until 2019. His reference tome 'The Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal' and novel 'Aftermath' were both published during 2015.
Brian is a writer and broadcaster from Katoomba, New South Wales and established Loud as a print zine in Sydney in 1996. His rock writing has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, On the Street, In Your Face, Rebel Razor, Loudmouth, Hysteria and more and he presented a weekly metal/hard rock radio show on community radio from 1995 until 2019. His reference tome 'The Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal' and novel 'Aftermath' were both published during 2015.
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Features Cherri Bomb: Queens of Noise "People seem really surprised because we take it seriously" -
Features Lamb of God: A Steady Ascendence "It's awesome that there's kids who are musically inspired by us" -
Features The Sword: This Time it’s Personal "We're just a hard rock, rock n roll band" -
Features Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society: The Song Remains the Same “Every album we do, we go in with the intention of doing the best record we can" -
Features Cavalera Conspiracy: Bonded by Blood "I’m not prejudice(d) against other type(s) of music (but) I wanted Cavalera to stay separate" -
Album Reviews Nightwish: Imaginaerum The most diverse album they have ever released -
Features Heaven the Axe: V8 Rock n Roll "I managed to sample the sound of his supercharger from inside the car on the track at Summernats" -
Features Thy Art is Murder: Immortal Soldiers of Death "We love playing in a band and we love playing to people, but we love writing music that we like -
Features All Shall Perish: Bringing on the End "There are certain parts of the music business that are just completely corrupt and terrible" -
Features The Living End: Back to the Beginning "We still just try to write sets that hopefully please everyone." -
Album Reviews Assaulter: Boundless! "Savage, unrelenting, violent and furious -
Album Reviews Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu The art-rock album the world could have done without
