Rod Whitfield is a retired musician and long-time music writer. He joined his first band on drums way back in 1987, playing in myriad original rock acts before hanging up the sticks and retiring in 2015. In 1995, he joined Forte Magazine, Geelong’s premier street press magazine, as a journalist and has not stopped writing about music since. He has written for The Music, UK Prog Magazine, Beat, was The Buzz Magazine’s chief rock and metal writer for eight years, and has worked for countless online publications and zines.
Since retiring from the original band scene, he has become a novelist, and at the time of writing he is completing work on his fourth book, the third work in a trilogy based on an upcoming fantasy/combat/adventure video game, as well as designing the narrative of the game itself. Keep an eye out for the release of Brides of Vampira in the coming years.
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Spiritbox’s set tonight is a one-hour and fifteen-minute celebration of new-school heavy music.
The next 90+ minutes are difficult to put into mere words. But this is a review, and we must try...
"15 years of build-up has been released in a tsunami-like catharsis."
"A Butters show isn’t as much a rock show as it is a catharsis, a celebration, and the elated punters react with a decade of pent-up adulation."
"Mammal are still the very essence of rock‘n'roll in a live setting."
"It’s rare to see so many cheesy grins at a heavy music show, but that’s the effect Voyager have."
"A passion that is real and raw and hits you right in the feels."
“I’m like, ‘Right, I can hear it, I don’t know what it is. What the fuck am I supposed to sing to that?!’”
'"Another enjoyable and memorable evening of heavy music in Melbourne.
"Their set tonight is a delight, a multi-pronged celebration of their latest album, their illustrious career and their return to the road to do what they do and love best."
Cold Night For Alligators' Nikolaj Lauszus (drums) and Johan Pederson (vocals) join us for a chat about the band, its name, its history and the fabulous new album The Hindsight Notes.
"They have pulled out all stops and left nothing in the tank to create something very special."