DEBUT ALBUM • SUPERSTAR • OUT NOW EVERYWHERE
Bringing the spirit of '80s guitar solos and 2000s punk into modern hyper-pop. Written, engineered, and executed entirely in home studio. Redefining Australian alternative rock.
High-resolution stage photography and visual media captured on the Gold Coast for the Superstar release. Click any image for full-screen view.
Music videos filmed across Queensland currently in final colour grading. Early access drops first to VIP Family members.
In-depth studio tape capturing the tracking of the pink Les Paul, drum arrangements, and Pro Tools mixing sessions.
From pots and pans to Metallica obsession, broken wrists, top academic scores, and turning pain into Heavy Pop.
Phoenix Kior was born in 2005 on the Gold Coast, Australia, into a family where music was simply part of everyday life. His parents had met in a band years earlier, his dad playing bass and his mum running a singing school. Metallica, Michael Jackson, and Red Hot Chili Peppers were always playing. Hearing Fuel by Metallica at age five sparked a lifelong fire. Long before music became a career, he turned his family into a makeshift band with toilet rolls for trumpets and pots and pans for drums.
He started piano at five, regularly taking first place at Somerset's Festival of Young Performers. But guitar was his true dream. When he finally got a second-hand Ibanez GIO, he heard Metallica’s Death Magnetic and spent endless hours figuring out The Unforgiven III solo by ear. At twelve, he was already writing songs like Detoxification. Every pay cheque from City Beach went straight into Gibson Flying Vs, Gibson Explorers, and Kirk Hammett signature guitars. Creating always felt more rewarding than consuming.
In high school he formed the band Amped, sporting dyed gold mullets and winning Battle of the Bands every year. Late-night adventures and mates running through drywall inspired tracks like Drunken Party, while meeting an exchange student inspired Amelie. But when a heavy snowboarding crash at The Remarkables snapped his wrist, the threat of losing music made him realize it was no longer just a passion — it was his entire identity.
Despite graduating with one of Queensland’s top academic scores, he turned down the safe corporate road. In a guitar shop holding a deposit for a blue guitar, a friend remarked: "Get another pink one. Make that your thing." From that moment, pink became his signature trademark. When commercial studios in Redcliffe watered down his sound, he walked away, bought Pro Tools, and built a home studio from scratch to engineer every track solo.
"Being a superstar stopped being about fame or attention. To me, being a superstar means becoming the best version of yourself possible. Someone who chooses purpose over comfort. Someone who fights for what they believe in when everyone else tells them to play it safe."— PHOENIX KIOR
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