ABOUT

Hammers Bio

From the deadly corners of the mythical triangle that is Australia’s Gold Coast, Tweed Coast and Northern Rivers, hails the ferocious five-headed beast - the mighty HAMMERS.

A collision of vision between HAMMERS conceptualist and Lismore born banshee Leigh Dowling, minced through the sausage maker that is the prolific songwriting engine of Lucas Stone - proudly born and raised in the steel city of Wollongong. From the ashes of a handful of Gold Coast renowned bands (HELM, Tension, A Delayed Reaction, Chilblain) along with Dowling & Stone, we see the lineup rounded out by a coupla tickets so golden they’d make Willy Wonka cry, in drummer Ryan Lucas, Guitarist / Vocalist Dario Lagana and Bassist Rick Trewavas.

HAMMERS have managed to transcend the limits of sub-genre pigeon-holing throughout the journey of constructing and releasing their first two ep’s, Homeblokes and Kicking Goals, to finally land at their 2026 full length offering, Death Wobbles. In the best way possible, this band exudes what being Australian is all about, all while serving up hot slabs of everything you love about Alternative Heavy Rock, Post-Hardcore, Nu-Metal, Metal, Punk and straight up Rock.

Their shows come at you like a rhino on the piss and have a reputation for converting everyone in the building to a HAMMERS disciple for life. If you like riffs, hooks, bratty screams and neck wrecking grooves all gift wrapped in a message filled with enough substance to incite community change, HAMMERS are your band.

Immediate, familiar notes of modern contemporaries such as Every Time I Die, Stray From the Path, Poison the Well, Better Lovers, He Is Legend and Alexisonfire will come to mind at first listen. Hearing them tangled in the roots of a quicksand like mud, emanating nods to greats such as Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Helmet, RATM, Meshuggah, Deftones and Limp Bizkit results in a sound as refreshing as it is genuine and comforting.

Authentically Australian and so comfortably solitary in their space, HAMMERS might make you work your way through the door, but once you’re inside you will never leave.

---------- 🔨🔨 ----------

PRAISE FOR DEBUT ALBUM ‘DEATH WOBBLES’

"Gold Coast riff bruisers HAMMERS are on the brink of a huge moment...it feels like a genuine coming-of-age record for one of the country’s most exciting heavy acts."
- Music Feeds

“...Death Wobbles is the sound of HAMMERS fully realised…these are world-class songs, delivered with world-class conviction, from a group of world-class legends that have earned their place. A debut album that feels anything but tentative, Death Wobbles is bold, heavy, thoughtful and deeply satisfying, proof that HAMMERS were justified in waiting until the moment felt right."
- Everblack Media

"The album is a raucous, mammoth sized slab of sun burnt, sand stuck to your failing sunscreen, droplets running down your cold beer, getting out on your first ball metal...Funnier than Hogan, more powerful than a croc’s jaw and tougher than the outback"
- HiFi Way