For any Adelaide heavy music fans the UNIFY 2017 lineup is well worth the travel. 

For those who don’t know, UNIFY is a heavy music gathering and is slowly becoming the new Soundwave Festival. UNIFY has been running annually since 2015 in Tarwin Lower, Victoria with the festival selling out every year.

The lineup includes headliners Alexisonfire who are coming together for their first Australian appearance since their anticipated sold-out 10th Anniversary Australian dates in 2012. One of the biggest bands to come out of Canada’s underground music scene, Alexisonfire released four hugely successful albums, amassing a legion of fans the world over.

Violent Soho arguably the biggest Australian band of the year will be making their UNIFY debut. After the breakthrough success of their Gold accredited third record, Hungry Ghost, 2016 has been the biggest year of Violent Soho’s career. In March, their latest album, WACO, debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart and was triple j Feature Album. They toured with best mates DZ Deathrays and Dune Rats selling out every single ticket in huge theatres across Australia.

Another massive Australian band who have earned a headlining spot at UNIFY 2017 are Northlane who will make their triumphant return to Tarwin Lower. Since we last saw the band on the inaugural UNIFY Gathering in early 2015, Northlane released their ARIA #1 album, Node, scored triple j Feature Album, won the ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album, dropped a surprise collaboration EP called Equinox with their best mates In Hearts Wake and slayed massive stages around around Australia, UK and Europe.

On top of this the lineup includes 20 Australian artists including performances by recent breakthrough successes like Thy Art Is Murder and Luca Brasi, as well as legacy sets from House Vs Hurricane, The Getaway Plan and I Killed The Prom Queen.

International additions include heavyweights Every Time I Die (US), letlive. (US), Moose Blood (UK), Counterparts (CA) and The Dirty Nil (CA).

triple j, Hysteria and UNFD Present
UNIFY 2016 A HEAVY MUSIC GATHERING
FEATURING:
ALEXISONFIRE
VIOLENT SOHO
NORTHLANE
EVERY TIME I DIE
THE GETAWAY PLAN [playing Other Voices Other Rooms]
LETLIVE.
THY ART IS MURDER
LUCA BRASI
HOUSE VS HURRICANE
I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN [playing Music For The Recently Deceased]
MOOSE BLOOD
STORM THE SKY
COUNTERPARTS
DEEZ NUTS
TROPHY EYES
KING PARROT
OCEAN GROVE
SAVIOUR
COLUMBUS
THE DIRTY NIL
POLARIS
THE BRAVE
BARE BONES
JUSTICE FOR THE DAMNED
DROWN THIS CITY
OCEAN SLEEPER