DIAMOND HEAD – LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS 2020: HEAVY METAL RE-BORN AND RE-ENERGISED AS DIAMOND HEAD RELEASE 40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF DEBUT ALBUM Re-imagined, re-recorded and re-born, Diamond Head’s forthcoming 40-year celebration of their genre-defining debut album Lightning To The Nations is a scintillating shot of fresh metal energy. Taking …
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HEAVY PETTIN releases their ‘Best Of‘ album on 27th November out via Burnt Out Wreckords/Cherry Red. Featuring 14 tracks, this is a collection of songs chosen from their three albums re-released in November 2019. The songs reflect Heavy Pettin at their best … including the singles that charted: ‘Love Times Love’, …
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The emerging UK rockers HUNTED BY ELEPHANTS are set to rise with the release of their breath-taking new album, Carry On, which arrives on Friday 15th January 2021. The rising riff merchants have also unleashed a new single and video for the track, Let Me Be, https://youtu.be/B3MaULSA3fs . HUNTED …
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I have seen L.A. Guns with most of their various line-ups throughout the years, a handful of times in Hollywood and a dozen or so times in the UK so I was really excited to hear Renegades, the debut album from the Steve Riley / Kelly Nickels / Scotty Griffin …
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Cats in Space are back with their fourth studio album, Atlantis. Their fans are clearly excited about it - when the presale started, the vinyl copies and limited edition bundles sold out in 48 hours.
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Them are a band with German and American members with a strong King Diamond influence. Their new album, “Return to Hemmersmoor” is the third part of a supernatural trilogy which started with “Sweet hollow” and “Manor of the se7en gables”. To that end, the first track is an intro which …
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Back in the late 80s when California and New York were spawning the thrash bands that went on to dominate the genre – Metallica, Exodus, Anthrax etc, one California band, Evildead was formed. Their first gig was alongside Dark Angel, Cryptic slaughter and Possessed in 1987 and they released an …
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Now I’m of a certain age with over forty years of listening to and watching bands so it takes a lot to really impress me but here is my album of 2020 from one of the most exciting debuts I’ve heard for a long time. Channelling the audacity of early …
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I don't know what else I can say but please give this band 16 mins of your life and you won't regret it. The album is now 3 months old and it is criminally underrated. And being unsigned the band don't have the funds to promote themselves the full. Do you like Metal and Headbanging? Well so do they and trust me when I say they made an EP worth Headbanging to.
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Staffordshire based The Midwich Affair in just under four minutes power out a song that straddles the line between indie and hard rock with latest single ‘Hard’. It lives up to its title with a no holds barred delivery that burst through my headphones as lead vocalist Vicky Travis channels …
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Our Sty had a great chat with three quarters of King Creature on the release of their new album ‘Set the World On Fire ‘. Cornwall’s wit and broadband speed didn’t deter Sty. He may have come out battered, bruised, dazed and confused but he’ll brush himself off and go …
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You know that feeling when you play an album for the first time and one song jumps out at you so you keep going back to it? After the first spin of Maverick, the new studio album from Glasgow based King King, I got chills after at least three of …
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Despicable is a bellicose march of death, the drums pound harder than a cement drill to the skull, with brutal lyrics and venomous explosions of blistering riffs and melding solos!
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Glitterhouse Records Stream Rare Live Track by Punk Rock Legends THE BATES! ‘Unfucked – Live’ Album Coming this December! For over a decade, The Bates were Germany’s most successful Punkband besides Die Toten Hosen. They toured all over Europe and Japan with acts such as The Toydolls, sold …
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As we head into a month of Covid-19 restrictions you may need a little light relief. Our November Spotify playlist may be just the thing to help you zone out for a while!
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Walking Papers brand new video ‘The Value of Zero’ from forthcoming new album ‘The Light Below’ out 5 Feb 2021
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LITTLE TRIGGERS have just released their strikingly provocative video, Feed Me – https://youtu.be/SPpipaxDCUc . Targeted to depict cooperate consumerism, environmental neglect, and our government’s inaction to provide meals for the vulnerable, the video is a powerful and extremely relevant statement. The track lands on all streaming sites and platforms on …
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Mick Rossi musician, actor, writer & producer probably most famously known (in the Punk world) as being one of the founding members of Slaughter and the Dogs has just released his debut solo album All the Saints & All the Souls. I put a few questions to Mick about the album and what’s in store for fans.
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Silverjet – new video single – Everybody Used To Love You released today The Sheffield rockers teased us the with a trailer for their pending new video singe Everybody Used To Love You. And today you can watch and stream/buy the song for £1. Or you can go the …
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Igniting the flame with a hefty dose of gasoline South of Salem bring you a rambunctious taste of new wave rock-metal with a twist!!
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PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal