
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 Soilwork: Getting Vicious Again "It's hard when you do albums non-stop all the time and you don't really think about them"
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Album Reviews Gamma Ray: To the Metal! Triple-vocal melody power metal played at ridiculous speed
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Album Reviews Black Label Society: Order of the Black Another solid and effective heavy rock album
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Album Reviews Dark Order: Cold War of the Condor Deliciously uncompromising old-school thrash
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Album Reviews Korn: III – Remember Who You Are Neither scales any true heights or sinks to any appreciable lows
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Album Reviews Metallica: Six Feet Down Under EP There isn't really any reason for this to exist
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Album Reviews Opeth: In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall (DVD) A supreme example of how great Opeth is and how they got to be that way
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Album Reviews Recoil: The Will to Sin Solid fist-pumping, headbanging material
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Album Reviews Sonic Syndicate: We Rule the Night Like what would happen if Linkin Park had really bad sex with My Chemical Romance
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Album Reviews The Red Shore: The Avarice of Man A masterful slab of extreme technical brutality
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Album Reviews City of Fire: City of Fire A strong and surprisingly consistent album
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Album Reviews Astriaal: Anatomy of the Infinite A further definition of Astriaal's mastery of their chosen art