After more than two decades of shaping Australia’s heavy rock landscape, Sydney trio Cog are back with their first new music in six years. The band – vocalist/guitarist Flynn Gower, bassist Luke Gower and drummer Lucius Borich – today release Walk The Line, a single that sits comfortably alongside their catalogue of sprawling epics while speaking directly to the struggles of being a working musician in 2025.
Premiered via the band’s YouTube channel, Walk The Line is built on oscillating guitars, restless rhythms and a vocal delivery that is both vulnerable and defiant. Lyrically, the song captures the weight of survival in a tightening industry: a meditation on cost, effort and the uncertain future for artists trying to sustain their craft.
“Life for the three of us is fucking hard at the moment,” Flynn admits. “We’re all just trying to survive, and the microcosm of the music and arts industry in Australia has gotten especially tough. We don’t know if this will be the last song – and that’s what Walk The Line is about.”
Emerging in the late 90s, Cog’s enduring legacy has traversed decades of Australian music. Their reputation built steadily across early EPs Pseudo (2000) and Just Visiting (2002), before crystallising with their 2005 debut album The New Normal. Tours through Big Day Out, Falls Festival and Homebake followed, and in 2008 the band cemented their place with the certified Gold second album Sharing Space. A five-year hiatus saw the trio step away in 2010, but they returned in 2016 with a sold-out reunion tour, new singles (The Middle, Altered States, Drawn Together) and a renewed presence on festival stages such as The Other Festival and Thrashville.
Their return to full ownership of their music in 2023 was marked by long-awaited vinyl releases of their back catalogue, sparking a major 2024 headline run that sold out venues across the country. Now, with Walk The Line, the group add another chapter to their story.
2025 will see Cog perform a select run of shows in November and December to mark the single’s release. The tour will stop in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Newcastle, Caloundra, Adelaide, Byron Bay and Coffs Harbour, as well as joining the Bird’s Robe 15th Birthday Tour in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Whether Walk The Line signals a broader return or a final statement, it captures Cog at their most candid, confronting both the challenges and the resilience that define their place in Australian rock.
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