AXON BREEZE

A Thriving Sky LP Launch
The Old Bar
November 14
Tickets - $20 Pre / $25 Door

Doom-club antagonists AXON BREEZE (Lutruwita/Tasmania) force their way off the island to launch debut LP A Thriving Sky at The Old Bar, Naarm/Melbourne on November 14. 

"The most intriguing and wild project on the Australian underground" 

- Evil Metal MX

Emerging from a shared love of extreme metal and distorted club electronics, JR Brennan and Sam Dowson bring their unhinged hybrid metal to The Old Bar for a one-off performance to launch their debut album. Recorded across Australia, Guatemala and Mexico with co-producer Aaron Cupples (The Drones, Spiritualized), the album arrives after a year of radio play, festival acclaim and underground buzz. A Thriving Sky explores the hidden ecology of beauty, where desire, violence and dependence are constantly at war. Live, Axon Breeze pushes at the edges of heavy music - intense bursts of post-punk and hyperpop bridged with unholy drawn-out passages of doom. Their world is organised around an inverted gothic: softness where you expect armour, sensuality where you expect force. If you've ever wanted to collapse the mosh pit and the dancefloor, this is your night.

With NPCEDE + KRISTOL PISSTOL + ERIS & THE DISCIPLES

GDP 

Cross Off Matthew is New Jersey born emcee/producer GDP’s first solo album in over A decade. Entirely self-produced, it plays like a reintroduction as well as an expansion of what distinguished the cult rappers unique sound.

GDP came up in the respective punk/hardcore, hip-hop and skateboard communities of New Jersey and New York. He cultivated a decidedly punk ethos for his brand of neo boom bap, opting to release on labels such as Run For Cover and Ride the Fury Records instead of more traditional hip-hop outlets. Early releases like 2009’s Realistic Expectations and 2011’s Useless Eaters celebrated his youthful indiscretions while also alluding to the old soul lying just beneath the surface. Coupled with an ambitious DIY touring schedule, G carved out a dedicated fanbase throughout the early 2010’s. 

As his following grew, so did the pressures of making ends meet as an independent artist. Feeling trapped by his own ambitions and in need of a new outlet, he turned to his film and photography work to scratch the creative itch. He published zines and books, shot and directed various video projects under the pseudonym George Douglas Peterson and even found his way into global health work, documenting medical missions to some of the most vulnerable regions in the world. But whether sporadic collaborations with peers, playing drums in the hardcore punk band Ankle Monitor or his electronic grind-core solo project Orange Crystal, he always kept music close. In late 2022, GDP and NJ-bred wordsmith Fatboi Sharif began working on music together sporadically, culminating in 2025’s ENDOCRINE. 7 songs in 19 minutes of pure creative freedom, produced by GDP and released on steel tipped dove’s Fused Arrow Records. Before long, G was quietly clawing his way towards a full length album. 

Parasite Farm is a Naarm/Melbourne-based solo project blending dark, heavy production with punk elements and alternative hip-hop. Emerging from the city’s underground scene, Parasite Farm brings a raw, chaotic live presence and a sound that sits somewhere between hip-hop, punk and the darker edges of electronic music.


Sprog Dog (aka The Wendouree Train Track Kid) is a 3350 producer and lyricist from Ballarat.
His music is defined by raw delivery, offbeat humour, and unapologetically crass lyricism, earning him a cult reputation in Australia’s underground hip hop scene.
In early 2026 Sprog Dog dropped Ballarat’s Most Wanted, continuing his run as one of regional Australia’s loudest, loosest, and least apologetic voices. His next album Sprog Dog In Space was an instant underground classic and expanded his production style to deliver an intergalactic journey for the mad hogs.

 CropRot’s indigestible like crop rot.


Realname, the rap equivalent of that rat from Ice Age ushers you into the realm of absurdity with a grim blend of dense flows & cryptic story telling, toeing the line between unbearable sincerity and off-putting sarcasm. Most likely queer & 100% neurodivergent, Naarm's alpha twink offers something for everyone, so long as everyone is a little bit cooked.

SMALLWAYS. BROKE BRAIN DEBUT ALBUM TOUR
The Old Bar on Saturday, 21st of November 2026
- joined by Hail Mary Jane + DOLLS + Clit Split

smallways. are a high energy, confronting and comedic punk two-piece, from Gadigal / Sydney, Australia. smallways. have released their split, two-part debut album titled BROKE BRAIN on October 2nd. It’s strange, heavy, funny, restless, unpredictable and hard to pin down, just like smallways. You can expect a blend of quirky punk and hip-hop beats on drums, with catchy and rigid 5 string bass riffs, and a blend of melodic and distorted vocals for their live performance.
In the studio, the pair experiment on the spot to create their finished songs.

Haily Mary Jane are unorthodox Aussie Pub-Rock. The raw and relentless Hail Mary Jane from Melbourne/Naarm, Australia come packin’ the noise, the attitude and the bloody-who-knows-what with their rowdy take of Aussie pub-rock.

DOLLS are an independent, hard-hitting punk and rock trio based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Known for their tight, anxiety-fuelled riffs and biting, humorous lyricism, they have steadily earned a dedicated following in the local underground punk scene.

Clit Split are an eccentric, chaotic experimental dance-punk trio based in Naarm/Melbourne. They have carved out a highly specific niche in the underground scene, affectionately self-describing their sound as "Post-Industrial-Synth-Punk-Donk-Rock" and "clitrock EDM".
IT'S ALL ENERGY AT THE OLD BAR ON NOVEMBER 21!

Ticket price: $15 + BF //  $20 doors
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