Heavy & Hammered first ascended onto the scene back in 2015 when the PBS announcers from the Hard and Heavy category felt the call to support the bands that support the station.
This year’s line up features over 20 of Melbourne’s hardest and heaviest bands including extreme metal band Hybrid Nightmares, old school death metal heads Black Jesus, traditional heavy metal trio Ion Drive and Maniaxe. Noise punks Ambur, junk rockers Ute Root and grungy sludge duo La Bronco will also be joining the all-day, all-night absolute riff fest.
The full line up in all its alphabetically ordered glory is:
Ambur
Arcane Saints
Bitch Diesel
Black Jesus
Born Heavy
Demonhead
Devil Electric
Diamond Fox
F*ck the Fitzroy Doom Scene
Grindhouse
Hybrid Nightmares
Ion Drive
La Bronco
Maniaxe
Muscle Car
Plaster of Paris
Pseudo Mind Hive
Seedy Jeezus
Shannon Bourne
Subterranean Disposition
The Interceptors
TTTDC
Ute Root
Vertigo
