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For Australian Hardcore music, the past year has been incredible. Six weeks ago, the Amity Affliction's brilliant Young Bloods debuted at number two on the AIR charts and sixth on the ARIA Charts. It was the highest debut by a band of that genre in Australia's history.

That record lasted a week.

Parkway Drive's new album, Deep Blue debuted seven days later at Number two on the ARIA charts. Outselling mainstream favourites the Cat Empire and Miley Syrus who debuted on the same week. No mean feat.

In the past year we've also seen albums by 50 Lions, Extortion and House Vs Hurricane take out the Jagermeister IndependentMusic Charts mover of the week title after massive debut weeks.

The scene has been causing such a stir that Billboard USA ran a feature on Australian Hardcore, The Amity Affliction have just signed a prestigeous co-management deal with one of the genre's biggest companies in the USA and Parkway Drive's Deep Blue is reportedly Epitaph's (the worlds largest punk record label) chief release priority for all of 2010. Serious shit.

In ackowledging the success of the genre, AIR has taken the step of booking The Amity Affliction as the opening act of this years Jagermeister Independent Music Awards. It's a hell of a statement and we're incredibly excited to host them.

Meanwhile, watch the above Parkway Drive video at your own risk. Sleepwalkers is the lead track off the hotly anticipated follow-up to 2007’s AIR Award nominated Horizons, Deep Blue. It's brutal.