Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung Country
🌔 Saturday, 24 October.

We will be launching our album ‘Tirai Niskala’ at THE CURTIN, Carlton/Naarm [VIC] joined by urgent noise/technopunk specialists TONGUE DISSOLVER and ominous synth doom act FALSE FATE.

Submit to the sphere of aural annihilation.

Gadigal Country
🌔 Thursday, October 22, 2026.

KILAT will be launching the new album ‘Tirai Niskala’ at
Marrickville Bowls Club

91 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204
Marrickville/Bulanaming NSW.

Special guests: echo sludge/rhythmic metal ensemble TBX and contemplative dark metal quartet BURDEN MAN.

Join us for an evening of sonic amalgam.

PRESENTED BY THE SUBSTATION & MELBOURNE FRINGE

Registrations unfolds across two Saturdays and an exhibition at The Substation as both public program and publishing experiment: Issue 3 of Hidden Door Journal, produced by Ranch Pressing in real time and under pressure.

Part exhibition, part séance, part print room, the project treats performance as inscription — something registered, duplicated, transmitted, worn into matter. Sounds, gestures, voices and their residue become transcripts, proofs, annotations, copies: published as they occur, before they disappear.

Last Chance RNR Bar marks its 10th birthday with KILAT (raw black metal), AARDVARK (NWOBHM torchbearers), KRISTOL PISSTOL (hardcore crust) on Saturday February 7, 2026.
Doors 8:30pm.
A fittingly brutal celebration of a decade of underground music at Last Chance RNR Bar.

Bhenji Ra x Karina Utomo present 'WETAN'

A meeting between Bhenji Ra and Karina Utomo, WETAN summons the winds as carriers of ancestral resonance, weaving Moro (Southern Philippines) and Javanese (Indonesia) cosmologies into a transcendent exchange and fortification of spirit and memory. 

Karina Utomo’s disintegration and abstraction of voice explores multidisciplinary forms of extreme metal, experimental cross-cultural practices, and extra-normal voicing. Working across the genres of industrial, avant-garde improvisation, grindcore, and black metal, she partners with Bhenji Ra, Mother of Ballroom House/Western Sydney-based collective SLÉ. behnji is a transdisciplinary artist whose combined practice of dance, video, illustration, and community activation dissects cultural theory, identity, and colonial perspectives to produce multiplicities of spectacle that urge us to imagine alternative models of community and imprint a deep spiritual reckoning within.

The Old Bar presents:

LITURGY (USA)

With guests KILAT & CAUSTIC GRIP

Naarm’s explorative raw black metal trio 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓 return to 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 in Djilang / Geelong. Acclaimed for their combination of extreme metal with their influences from Nusantara and ancient Javanese imagery, script and traditions; bear witness to the thundering aural experience that is 𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐓 in your town once more.

Joining this lineup from Lutruwita / Tasmania is melodic black metal Atra Vetosus for their first show of two across VIC this weekend, the completion of this calamitous lineup is backed by the ominous locals of the Brutal Death Metal delirium 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 & the Death Sludge tales of horror that is 𝐁𝐨𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫.

Poster Design by 𝐃𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐨 (@𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐨)

Questmaster / Gutless / Josh Wells & Karina Utumo / AGLO / Alloxylon

The first ever Hellraiser Fest, a day and night of ink and raw energy as Hellraiser Tattoo takes over the Bendigo Hotel on Saturday August 16th.