PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Swedish black metal icons Marduk jump back to the front with their new concept album, ‘Frontschwein’ – and it is something else!  ‘Frontschwein’ is a German colloquial term among soldiers since World War I that sarcastically described the soldiers on the front as mere cannon fodder.  It means “Front Pig” …

44 MILLION ALBUM SELLING FORMER STONE TEMPLE PILOTS AND VELVET REVOLVER FRONTMAN TO RELEASE FIRST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL SINCE 2008- “BLASTER” OUT ON MARCH 30th, 2015 ON earMUSIC Scott Weiland, “one of rock’s most dynamic front men” (Spin Mag), and his band the Wildabouts, will release their first album …

“Nordic Giants sweep you off of your feet with monolithic walls of noise. It’s wholly dramatic, operatic rock, with the group opting for torrents of strings, chiming keys, percussion, waves of distortion and a plethora of embellished sounds. Nordic Giants summon a whole new world to transport you to, and …

Lead singer Steven Dobb and drummer Lorna Blundell spent the whole of 2014 finely tuning their sound and are proudly birthing the tracks to the world on the 21st March 2015. “Both tracks were written very close together during a very prolific writing period for us. At the time we …

Four piece, London based, metal band Savage Messiah were the opening act on Amon Amarth’s current UK tour. I headed down to the Manchester Academy 2 on a cold Sunday, and luckily found some free parking within a five minute walk. Just made it as I picked up my ticket …

This album plays out like the soundtrack of a movie. Sadly the movie was never made… However, luckily for us, the music was… Perfectly structured, each track flows effortlessly into the next… Taking the listener on a sonic voyage… The listener in this case is me and it is with …

Tonight’s gig was my first time since the work to upgrade the NIA had been completed.  Now named the Barclaycard arena – which is bound to cause confusion with the Genting Arena (the NEC), it’s looking a lot better and the facilities are certainly improved.  That’s lucky really as tonight …

Blind Guardian is a special band; a band that has laughed in the face of convention since day one and have created some of the seminal classics of the power metal genre. With a legacy as powerful how will new release Beyond The Red Mirror fare in the land of …

SPECIAL LONDON PERFORMANCE February 17th – HMV In Store – Bond Street, London at 6pm. **SOLD OUT**   JUST ANNOUNCED FOR DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2015 June 12th – 14th – Donington Park, Castle Donington Sharing the lineup with Slipknot, Muse, Kiss, Faith No More, Motley Crüe, Black Stone Cherry, Judas Priest, Slash and more…   …

Fields Of The Nephilim playing at Eurorock 2015 Eurorock are pleased to announce that Fields of the Nephilim, the gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England in 1984, will be playing the festival in May. Since the band has been in the studio in 2014 to record new material, …

CREMATORY will take a break from all their live-activities in 2015, to focus a 100% on the new album and it´s recording. All planed shows for 2015 had to be postponed to 2016, as in addition two of the band-members are realigning in business-matters.   But CREMATORY won’t laze around, …

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish epic doom metal legends, SORCERER! SORCERER will release their Metal Blade debut In The Shadow Of The Inverted CrossMarch 24th on CD, vinyl, and digitally. Pre-orders for the album are available now, along with the brand new video for …

PUTRID OFFAL just announced that first gig in 20 years will be a live session for French radio show “Killing Machine” (airplay on Radio Campus Lille, PodCasts available on MixCloud). The show is one of the, if not the, old(est) Metal show on the French radio and is most probably …

DEHUMAN just unleashed the Metal of Death upon France’s VS-Webzine to ravage the “Crypts of Blood” from the “Graveyard of Eden“. The song, taken from the band’s second full-length is a raging piece of uncompromisingly fast, epic and vicious take-no-prisoner Death Metal mixing the best of both the old-school feel …

New MASTERS OF DISGUISE Album “The Savage And The Grace” Out On February 20 With their 2013 debut “Back With A Vengeance”, MASTERS OF DISGUISE filled the musical gap left behind by the demise of SAVAGE GRACE, almost 30 years earlier. Not that they consciously copied the legendary Americans – …

“DEAR SILENCE THIEVES” Voted #1 Blues/Rock Album – 2014 by “Blues Rock Review” (USA) THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM RELEASED APRIL 27th 2015, SPECIAL ALBUM LAUNCH SHOWCASE CONCERT AT THE BORDERLINE, LONDON MONDAY 27th APRIL 2015. South African singer-songwriter and guitarist, Dan Patlansky, is set to release his new album “Dear …

@planetmosh reviews As The Crow Flies by .@LaceWeeper on .@momusicfr As The Crow Flies is the debut album from Irish four piece Lace Weeper, due to be released on March 2nd.   The band was formed in 2011 by guitarist Matt Hayward and vocalist Sebastian Florek. Os Andres (bass) and Kevin Liffey …

Colombian Speed Metallers REVENGE To Release New Album “Harder Than Steel” In Europe REVENGE is a Colombian Speed Metal band, formed in 2002 in Medellin. Without a doubt, they are one of the most hard working bands of the Colombian Metal scene: after doing debut demo in 2003, and after …

We’re proud to reveal the new video from Epic Heavy Metallers Sovengar. After a long tour through Spain conquering several cities from the country, the band decided to record an extra song, not included in “Vindicta et Gloria” album as a present to their followers. The video has been directed and produced by Alberto …

TYGERS OF PAN TANG “Gangland” Promo Clip Posted Online The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pioneers TYGERS OF PAN TANG, will release a special limited edition album titled “Tygers Sessions: The First Wave” via Skol Records. The CD will be limited to only 1000 copies, and will include 11 …