PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

For the first time in my life I actually got off the train at Wolverhampton rather than just passing through on the way back from Birmingham! The violent hailstorm and grey miserable skies did little to dampen my spirits as I was there to see two Finnish rock bands Reckless …

      Sometimes, just now and again, an album comes by that makes you want to do bad stuff. With ‘Wrank’, Mastiff have achieved that status   It has been said that Edvard Munch played this album on his iPod shuffle as he created and painted ‘The Scream’ in …

Tonight’s gig was the first full Avantasia gig in the UK.  It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long – the band have been going for 15 years and recently released their seventh album, but apart from a set at Bloodstock festival a couple of years ago they haven’t played …

London’s indestructible masters of metal, Orange Goblin, are proud to be a part of the Spinefarm Records family following Spinefarm’s recent acquisition of Candlelight Records. Not just the UK’s reigning champions of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal, but one of the very best live rock bands of recent times, the mighty Goblin have been a permanent and universally …

Announce London Headline Show The Islington 14th April 2016. Album: “Fed To The Lions” Drops 8th April 2016   These guys are easily the best new band I have heard in years!” – Scott Gorham, Black Star Riders/Thin Lizzy So the music business has taken a bit of a tumble but there …

The Survival Code are a London based Trio with a passion for energy, booming guitars and rhythms. Catalyst is the fifth single from taken the debut album MMXV which was released in July 2015 through the label IRL. The track is filled with chinky strings, beautiful melodies and big dynamic …

Swedish Alternative Metal upstarts We Are The Catalyst will release their second studio album, “Elevation”, on September 2nd via Ferocity Records. “Elevation is darker, heavier and more emotional than anything we´ve ever done before” says co founder Kenny Boufadene. “It´s been an awesome and intense year for us, touring China …

  Melbourne, Australia’s Teramaze release new video ‘For The Innocent’ Taken from the album ‘Her Halo’ Out Now via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group “One of the finest prog metal releases of recent years. Exceptional” Prog Magazine “Soaring solo-tastic Australian progressive metal” Metal Hammer Taken from their “exceptional” recent album …

Canadian label Test Your Metal Records is proud to announce it will be releasing internationally known Brazilian singer and composer EDU FALASCHI’s (ALMAH, ex-ANGRA) solo debut album ‘Moonlight’ on May 20th for North America. The first solo album by the ex-ANGRA front man currently of ALMAH is a celebration of his 25 year career with sixteen records released worldwide, a …

NJ/NY Crossover Thrashers ZAMBONI will release their rowdy self-titled debut album on April 15. Featuring the bombastic bass and booming vocals of Chris Butera, and the RAMONES-esque buzzsaw riffing guitars of Robert Orr, the album can be pre-ordered and a new song (“The Greater Evil”) streamed at the link below: https://zamboni.bandcamp.com/album/zamboni The album …

Kent-based progressive doom unit OHHMS is fully embracing the festival season, as the band has been confirmed to play several festivals in the UK this spring, as well as Sound Bay Fest in Lisbon, Portugal. The five-piece released their latest and well-acclaimed EP “Cold” on Holy Roar Records last June, including their …

Israeli Metallers FERIUM have released an official music video for the song “Revelation” from upcoming sophomore album Behind the Black Eyes. Behind the Black Eyes, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2014 debut Reflections, will be released April 21 and pre-orders are being taken now at: http://ferium.bigcartel.com/ Behind The Black Eyes was produced and mixed by …

SAVAGE MESSIAH are heading into the studio in America next week to record their forth as yet untitled album at J Street Recorders in Sacramento, CA with Executive Producer BRIAN WHEAT, founder of multi-platinum US rock band TESLA. The band will then head into the ledgendary Rockfield Studios with long-time producer SCOTT ATKINS (Sylosis, Cradle …

I first came across Anti-Nowhere League (ANL) five years ago when I was in Glasgow for a few days. I had a look to see if there were any gigs on, saw that they were playing, watched the video to So What and thought well so what, they’ll be a …

Monomyth Album: “Exo” Release date: 22nd April 2016 Band confirmed for Desertfest London 2016 Saturday 30th April 2016 Mainstage Electric Ballroom, London, UK Monomyth: the hero’s journey. An epic journey with unknown conclusion. Monomyth stands for thrilling instrumental soundscapes, a rollercoaster ride in which the listener can lose him- or …

There is an old sanatorium up in the hills of Northern Italy. An old, abandoned, and decayed fortress whose corridors are filled with the ghosts of a thousand tortured minds and souls. A place where every wall still bares the scars of countless damaged lives – welcome to the LACUNA …

US heavy metal goliaths TRIVIUM have unveiled a brand new video today for their song ‘Dead And Gone’, from their latest album ‘Silence In The Snow’. TRIVIUM kick off their UK headline tour in Norwich on March 20. The band are playing 11 shows across England and Scotland, deliberately going …

Big Boy Bloater & The LiMiTs announce UK ‘Luxury Hobo’ tour. New album: Luxury Hobo, Out Now on Provogue/Mascot Label Group         “Raucous, Rollicking good-time blues” Classic Rock “Raw and refreshing… brilliant” The Blues     Luxury Hobo UK Tour   SUNDAY 8TH MAY – THE GLEE CLUB, …

Six years after the release of their latest album, the Swedish masters of black metal, DARK FUNERAL, return with a new album – ‘Where Shadows Forever Reign’ is penned for a June 3rd 2016 release via Century Media Records! Lord Ahriman comments: “Wow, did 6 years pass already? Time surely flies fast! But …

In 2006 the Dutch Iron Maiden fan club asked Joey Bruers (bass) to do a special show; something other than the regular tribute or covers band. Incorporating musicians from several bands they performed a set of rearranged acoustic Maiden songs. The reactions from the crowd were overwhelming. This idea was …