PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Mastodon Confirmed as your Saturday Bloodstock 2016 Headliners BLOODSTOCK is thrilled to unveil their first 2016 headliner; Atlanta’s mighty beasts, MASTODON!  They will headline the Saturday night at the Catton Park festival. Loved and respected by critics, music fans, and their peers, this will be MASTODON’s first performance at BLOODSTOCK!  The band’s …

‘Wolf metal’ takes a turn for the fantastical at the hands of VARG’s ‘Rotkäppchen’. Contemplate fledgling concept ‘wolf metal’ and the mental image of canine dominance and menace suitably demonstrates a visual representation of VARG’s ‘Rotkäppchen’, otherwise known as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Hinged on a fairytale of innocence and concealed …

CATTLE DECAPITATION: Tour With Cannibal Corpse Tour Trailer + “Pacific Grim” Play-Through Video Posted Road warring San Diego deathgrind unit, CATTLE DECAPITATION, kicked off their tour supporting Cannibal Corpse on October 8th in Jacksonville, the journey will run through nearly a month’s worth of cities, coming to a close on November …

It’s a chilly Friday night, so where would you rather be than in a darkened basement?  And, that’s exactly where Team PM finds themselves, together with the rest of the assembled Belfast press corps:  making our long overdue first foray into the refurbished Bar Sub, the smallest of the three …

Mother Feather Launch Digital Single and Video – Full Length Album Coming 2016 Mother Feather has released the title track from their full length debut, Mother Feather! The song is available now on iTunes, and the video is streaming at metalblade.com/motherfeather. The video was directed, designed, and animated by Isaiah King …

Twitching Tongues announce UK dates with Terror and Wisdom In Chains Twitching Tongues have announced four UK dates in UK with Terror and Wisdom In Chains after their continent only appearance on the EMP Persistence Tour. Colin Young is up for it: “Believe it or not, these will be our …

 GOATWHORE Announces Fall Live Demolitions GOATWHORE Announces Fall Live Demolitions Including A Stint At This Year’s Knot Fest “FBS” Fan-Filmed Video Compilation Unveiled New Orleans’ favorite road demons, GOATWHORE, will take to the streets again later this Fall on a run of live demolitions to close out the year. The latest …

I saw Shock ! Hazard supporting Biters at Rock City, Nottingham last month (review here). Impressed by their energetic performance I had a quick chat with them ahead of their gig, on the same tour, at Ruby Lounge, Manchester. Find out a bit more about the band, their political stance, …

Despite having only emerged from Norn Iron’s dankest extreme metal sewers within the past 12 months, The Crawling are by no means newcomers to the scene over here, with the triumvirate collectively counting nigh on four decades of experience between them.  Guitarist Andy Clarke, for example, was the cornerstone of …

Kentucky rockers, BLACK STONE CHERRY are proud to announce their signing to new label home, the Mascot Label Group. Yesterday (Oct 7th 2015), the band went into Barrick Recording in Glasgow, KY to record their fifth studio album.  This process will be a ‘back to their roots’ approach, recording it …

Throughout their decade long career, German doomsters Ahab have consistently displayed a fascination with both all things nautical and literary:  previous albums have been based on works such as Herman Melville’s epic ‘Moby Dick (with the band, of course, taking their name from the novel’s psychotic lead human character) and Edgar …

It’s not often that a night out turns into a chance to review the bands you are going out to see, but with a plethora of gigs happening in nearby Belfast, PlanetMosh just didn’t have enough hands at the pump to cover an evening of rock and rollery in my …

Bauda first came to life in 2006, ostensibly as a solo project by Chilean guitarist and vocalist César Márquez.  It wasn’t until 2012 that it became a fully formed band.  The following year, Márquez and his fellow musicians – drummer Nikolas Recabarren, bassist Juan Díaz and keyboard player Edgardo González …

Voodoo Vegas Have Released a Brand New Music Video ‘Tied Up’ For fans of hard rock, this is a foot to the floor track that oozes groove, swagger and plenty of melody, ‘Tied Up’ is some of the band’s best work yet and by all accounts “you ain’t see nothing yet” according …

Persecution Complex is the new EP from Leicestershire band Resin.  It’s been an unsettled year for the band, with the departure of drummer Danny Finch in October last year followed by what seemed to be the end of the band in December.  That would have been a shame after a great 2014 in …

Swedish metallians Enforcer are invading the UK and Ireland once again, on a six date co-headline tour with countrymen Wolf.  They also are releasing their first ever live DVD/CD package, ‘Live By Fire’, next month. PlanetMosh tracked down frontman Olof Wikstrand to chat about both the tour and the DVD. …

It’s just gone seven o’clock on a cold and damp October eve- the second night in a run of six gigs in five nights for your PM Belfast team, and we have been joined by a healthy turnout of our fellow metallians for the debut appearance here of Wisconsin psyche-doom goddess …

A somewhat unusual name which conjures up images of men in corpse paint, axes, hammers and the usual paraphernalia suited to such a name. This is far from the truth. The band hail from Sweden and formed in 2006. To date have released a series of eps and now this …

  Saxon Reveals New Track “Queen of Hearts” and Lyric Video On October 30, 2015, legendary British heavy metal quintet SAXON will release their 21st studio album, Battering Ram, in North America via UDR Music. The new album boasts a clinically ‘heavy’ echo of SAXON’s glorious NWOBHM sound! Ultimate Classic …

          Sweden’s purveyors of Doom return with a stunning follow up to 2011’s “A Rose For The Apocalypse”. Much has happened in the Draconian camp in the intervening four years, the major upheaval of losing long time vocalist Lisa Johansson, the subsequent search for and unveiling …