FROM THE EARLIER PAGES
Australian roots. International noise. Follow the bands, records and shows that shaped the earlier PyroMusic pages.
These are newly written, sourced background notes on historical coverage. Original interviews, review text and photographs are not reproduced.
Australian rooms, touring bands and the Bloodlust festivals.
Bloodlust IV brought Psycroptic, Deeds of Flesh and Australian extreme-metal acts to Blacktown RSL on 3 July 2004. A contemporary report records PyroMusic’s 64-photo gallery.
Read the background →Bloodlust V took place at Blacktown RSL on 9 July 2005. Contemporary reports document a changing bill, 17 performers and more than 200 PyroMusic photographs.
Read the background →The original PyroMusic page places Cannibal Corpse with Plague and Psycroptic at the Gaelic Theatre, Sydney, on 8 October 2006.
Read the background →PyroMusic’s original page dates the Cryptopsy show to 4 May 2006 in Sydney, with Fuck… I’m Dead and Enforce also on the bill. It advertised photographs and twenty minutes of footage.
Read the background →The archived PyroMusic page names Infernal Method and Alarum alongside Dark Tranquillity in Sydney, with footage of a then-new song. Conflicting original date fields remain unresolved.
Read the background →The original page confirms Deicide at the Gaelic Club in Sydney on 14 December 2006, supported by Dawn of Azazel and Terrorust.
Read the background →The archived PyroMusic page confirms DragonForce at Sydney’s Gaelic Club on 17 May 2006, supported by Black Majesty. It credits Sarz for some photographs and the second video.
Read the background →The archived PyroMusic page dates Satyricon’s Sydney concert with Ruins to 5 December 2006, adding the date missing from the surviving news notice.
Read the background →PyroMusic’s archived report places Under Raven Skies at Manning Bar, Sydney, on 29 October 2005, with Switchblade among a broad Australian metal bill raising funds for the MS Society of NSW.
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