Being an important and respected figure in the music scene means you get to go to sick events just to bless the atmosphere with your sickness. Here are some photos I took of sick bands at @goodthingsfestival on the weekend! Who do you think played t
Goth Rock. It's a question that has confounded humankind since time immemorial. No, I'm not talking about 'what is the meaning of life?', I'm talking about 'what is goth?'. Is it a lifestyle? Is it The Cure? Is it wearing 5 layers of black in the mid
Metalcore. Cursed by their own talent, the band's popularity eventually led to their demise. In the end, the crunching breakdowns and shredding solos were all a front. The band were actually informants, and within their lyrics lay clues for the FBI t
This is sick! If you login to instafest.app using your @spotify account it generates you a personalised festival lineup!! What day you guys going to this!? #sickbandnamesintheheraldsun #bands #music #metal #metalcore #hardcore #posthardcore #emo #po
Pop Punk. An experiment in endurance, it's yet to be seen just how long one band can release three chord 2 minute songs about delivering newspapers. But no matter how familiar, how derivative, how annoying, you still find yourself regularly strolling
Gangster Anti-Gangster Rap. These judges got bars, and I ain't just talkin about on the mic. Objection n' Overrule drop the hardest shit you ever heard about locking up the hardest dudes you ever seen, with infamous tracks like 'Don't Fight The Power
Doom Metal. Officially the tallest band in the world. Not a single member is under 7 feet tall, making touring an absolute fucking nightmare. You try fitting 6 leviathans and a mountain of custom gear that looks like it was fabricated for Zeus onto e
Post-Housing Affordability Core. If you think you hate real estate agents, wait till you hear these guys. Every unwarranted rental increase, every refusal to fix a broken toilet, every smug chud in an ill-fitting navy blue suit named Digby who is bas
Mathcore. Of the belief that every situation is better with an axe. It sounds demented at first, but bare with me. Putting out the hard rubbish. With an axe. Wind surfing. With an axe. Doing your tax return. With an axe. Parking at Chadstone Shopping
@goodthingsfestival set times are out and it is CLASH CITY! Heroin Mule and Woodchipper Murder at the same time!? Who the FUCK put Woe Deepens and Brazen Youth on at 530!? I'm gonna need to figure out how to clone myself before December. Have you guy
Oz Hip Hop. DJ King Hit spins the wheels of steel behind MC's Coward Punch and Dog Shot, forming undisputedly the hardest crew in all of Southbank. Mostly because no one else ever goes to Southbank. They claim it's out of fear, but really Southbank j
Deathglam. High perms. Low growls. Bright makeup. Dark lyrics. Platform shoes. Camo cargo shorts. Seamlessly fusing the naturally fraught with friction worlds of glam rock and death metal, they're a gatekeepers worst nightmare. 'It's not real metal!'
Post-rock. One of those bands that sounds and looks heavy as hell but is more a slow burning ambient score. That makes you wonder how anyone could conjure, let alone write, perform and memorise 24 minute songs that just sound like a dude tuning his p
Hardcore. Have a visceral disgust of anyone in uniform. And we mean anyone. Postal workers. Pilots. Starbucks Baristas. Even paramedics have to go plain clothed at gigs. Had to go on a two-year hiatus after 'the incident' when they played a hallowee
Blues. Will only perform in a swamp, bayou or floodwaters. Considered too niche in their early ears, but now thriving in the post-climate era, especially in Australia. In fact, after a near decade of a conservative government, the band has decided to
Japanese Metalcore. Like being shot in the face by a riot control water cannon filled with Tan Tan Ramen. These dudes go hard as a mf. Massive breakdowns. Huge synths. Incredible hair. Sick leather jackets. Even the somewhat broken english makes ever
Industrial Metal. The first time you heard them you were like, damn that is some mechanically precise drumming, that must be a drum machine, then you saw a photo of the band and there's a dude there and he's listed as 'drums' and you figure oh he mus
Doom Metal. Astoundingly dark. The most pessimistic band on the planet. The cursed monkey paw from a sandswept bazaar of bands, if you will. With tracks like 'THE SUN FEELS NICE BUT WILL ONE DAY CONSUME US ALL', 'WIN THE LOTTO AND LOSE ALL YOUR FRIEN
Death Metal. What do you get when you put two fundamentalist Christians and two devout Satanists in the same band? Conflict of Faith, baby! These dudes absolutely HATE each other. And you can hear it. Is that just a cymbal crash, or the drummer smash
Post-Hardcore. Named after a certain politician's drunken trangressions, the band's entire catalogue is a chronicle of similar events. While most politically charged artists focus on issues like war and corruption, the group instead highlights the we