Windwaker
Windwaker, The Pretty Wild, RinRin and heaven//alone live at Magnet House, Perth | 30 October 2026
Magnet house was packed with metalcore afficionados of different shapes, ages, genders and sizes. For a wholesome night of visceral mayhem under the wide banner I would aptly call ‘heavy music’. There was something for everyone, with a generous four sets featuring the likes of Heavon//Alone, RinRin, The Pretty Wild and Windwaker - as a part of their ‘Smile You’re On Camera’ 2026 Australia Tour.
Heaven//Alone brought the evening to a punchy start. There were great vocals from Jayden King who offered the Punters lyrics that was viscerally mesmerizing (thing stubbing your toe, but rather than internalizing the pain, you scream in emotionally edgy poetry). In an effort to warm up the crowd, King asked punters to get on their feet, and jump around.
The crowd also cheekily asked one of the guitarists to do a shoey, only to be met with a cautious warning that they were wearing crocs. Despite this, their set finished with a shoey being done in a Croc shoe, with beer flowing out into the holes of the iconic footwear.
Local gal RinRin provided a set that was a chaotically fun mixture of alt-metal and glitched out pop samples. Her vocals were loud, which blasted frenetically from the speakers into crowd below. She asked the crowd at one point if anyone knew how to say ‘your mom’s a hoe’ in Tagalog. And proceeded to rap an intense hip-hop track in her language. She finished her set by dropping on the knee onto her fellow band mates, giving out one last scream for the punters below, who all lapped it up.
Las Vegas based alt-metal band The Pretty Wild announced it was their first time playing in Perth. Made up of sisters Jyl and Jules Wylde. Both gave their gratitude towards the punters in attendance for letting them play in Australia for the first time. Leaning closer towards the metal side of the spectrum, there was a dark and brooding ambience that emanated from both of the Wyldes’ who thrashed about on stage, and got the crowd moving. There was a visible tenacity which matched the music they were playing, dedicating a song or two to the ‘button-eyed’ girls in the crowd. Making the way for a fun set.
There was something sentimental about Windwaker, announcing to the crowd it was the largest venue they had played in. Lead singer Liam Guinane gave the crowd everything. From deep guttural screams, to the higher pitched teenage angsty lyrics. Following on a similar theme to other sets, the crowd beckoned Guinane to do a shoey, where he replied incredulously that he ‘wasn’t a foreigner’ and knew what a shoey was (and likely the notable bacterial risks).
There was a sentimental moment, where Guinane played some of the bands earlier tracks whilst sitting solo behind his keyboard. It was a quiet moment where you saw the love being felt from crowd, many of whom who had probably being behind the band since day 1. There was another moment where RinRin joined the band on stage to add her own unique flavour to their set, which punters were stoked to see. Finished off the night with double encore (aptly sold as ‘two for the price of one’), Windwaker topped off the night with punters going wild for their favourite metalcore band.
Review by Joe Wilson
Photography by Ava Thomson
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