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 AHAB – Unveil Video Teaser of Upcoming Music Video     They are hitting the sea again! Nautical Doomsters AHAB cast their net across the oceans and capture their fans with their impressive soundscape! The German quartet are set to release their album The Boats Of The Glen Carrig on August …

If band positions on festivals were awarded based on soldiering on in the face of adversity, Dragonforce would have headlined Download moons ago. Loved and hated in equal measures across the UK, they’ve battled through lineup changes, the wrath of Machine Head and Trivium fans on 2007’s ‘Black Crusade’ tour and …

TOMORROW NEVER COMES is new music video from Slovenian metal band INMATE. Song is taken from upcoming second album Tree of life, releasing on 26th of August. Video filmed and directed by Marko Duplišak is representing Inmate’s new frontman David Valh (ex Silence Before).   http://www.inmate-band.com http://www.facebook.com/inmateband

Power trio celebrates album release with small club gigs across the UK Following a three week tour of the USA in July/August 2015, Reeves Gabrels, long-time artistic partner of David Bowie and The Cure’s current lead guitarist, is taking his power trio, Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, back to …

1 Hopeful Rd. – Vintage Trouble’s first album for Blue Note Records – will be released on August 14th. The album pre-order is underway now at http://vintagetrouble.lnk.to/HihG4. Fans who pre-order 1 Hopeful Rd. digitally will instantly receive the album opener “Run Like The River,” a rhythm and blues stomper. 1 …

Biters release ‘Restless Hearts’ video following brush with police Atlanta rock ‘n’ roll punks Biters have released their edgy new music video for the track “Restless Hearts”, which appears on their forthcoming debut album, ‘Electric Blood’. Filmed with director Video Rahim (Mastodon) on location in their hometown, the video for “Restless …

For the second successive year, PlanetMosh is delighted to be the main media partner, and main stage sponsor, for Monsters Of Rot, the annual celebration of the best in the extreme Irish metal scene.  Now in its fifth cycle, the festival is expanding its horizons, with the first continental European …

Dragony Reveal Cover Artwork Of The ‘Shadowplay’ Austrian Power Metallers Dragony announced title of their second album, and revealed its front cover artwork. Follow up to their debut album “Legends” from 2011, will be titled “Shadowplay”, and will be released in September of 2015 via Limb Music. The album’s cover artwork …

Methane Release New Single ‘Spit On Your Grave’ Methane formed in 2012 by brothers Tim Scott (Revenant/HatePlow) and Dylan Campbell and Tim’s long time friend and guitarist Jimi Masterbo. They quickly recruited drummer Andreas Strom and released E.P. single ‘Southern Metal‘  in 2014. Methane spent 2014 touring both Scandinavia and …

Norwegian extreme metal trio KEEP OF KALESSIN and Belgian hardcore quartet OATHBREAKER are the latest additions to Damnation Festival. The duo will join a diverse cast at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 7, which already consists of At The Gates, High on Fire, Mono, Amenra, Asphyx, Solstafir, Altar of …

Wildfire Festival have launched a poll to see what band you want to return for next year’s festival. Organiser Dave Ritchie comments: “Wow, what can we say? Excellent weekend and the feedback is overwhelming. Thanks for coming along or supporting us on the journey. We have more planned for 2016 …

A few months ago I went to see Wilson open for Halestorm in Glasgow’s legendary Barrowland Ballroom. I also got to meet and interview singer Chad Nicefield before the show and although he was feeling a bit under the weather he could not have been nicer or more giving of …

Project Pain signs to Dead Inside Records‏ Dutch thrashers Project Pain  have inked a deal with Dead Inside Records‏ and the signing couldn’t have come at a better time as the band follows-up on the success of their 2012 release “I Have Sinned” with their brand new album “Thrashed To Kill”. Project Pain  returns in 2015 faster, …

Earlier this year, PlanetMosh’s Elliot Leaver began his own independent music blog, the Food of Love. Today, with the grace of the powers that be, he is able to share his own rants and reviews via the Food of Love with PM for the first time. This is his Top …

Tonight was one of just three UK dates on the current Primus tour.  It’s a tour that see’s them without a support act – instead, Primus play two sets. The first set was a fairly normal set (well as normal as Primus get anyway), with songs taken from their various …

“I told you we’d be fucking back!”  It may be somewhat unusual to start a review at the end, but drummer Brann Dailor’s closing remarks to the audience are important for contextualizing what had happened over the previous hour-and-a-half or so.  You see, it had only been a little more than …

Popes of Chillitown a Ska/Dub/Punk band from London founded in 2006 have gone through several line-up changes before the six piece line-up we see today. To date they have self released two EPs and pledge funded début album ‘A Word To The Wise‘ in 2013. Their second album ‘To The …

It’s Sunday lunchtime and the punters have crawled out of their beds from across the city of HELLsinki to once again descended on Suvilahti for the final day of this year’s instalment of Tuska Open Air Metal Festival. The carnage of the Saturday night after-parties is evident on the faces …

Tonight’s gig was ZZ Top’s only UK show, which would normally be more than enough to make this a gig not to miss, but to make it even better, the support act was Thunder, so two great bands on one bill. Coming on stage to the sounds of the ACDC …

It could be argued that, although they hail from the Midlands of England, Diamond Head share an affinity with Belfast:  after all, it was they who helped shape the sound of the nascent Metallica – a place in history they share with a band from this neck of the woods, …