PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Polish Death Metal juggernauts, Decapitated, are back on the scene and this time they’ve upp-ed their game. Blood Mantra is the band’s sixth full-length studio album, the first to feature the bands new blast-beating machine, Michal Lysejko and they’ve never sounded better! The album highlights Decapitated’s ever-evolving sound and it’s …

The final main stage line-up for the Friday night ‘Houses Of The Holistic’ stage at Roadburn 2015 – which takes pace in Tilburg in The Netherlands from April 9 – 12 – has now been confirmed. UK gothic innovators Fields Of The Nephilim will make an exclusive special guest appearance …

The second annual Blastfest – being held in Bergen, Norway from February 19 – 21 – has confirmed six more acts. Dark Tranquility join At The Gates, Paradise Lost, Satan, Dead To This World, The Sickening and Byfrost as the latest tranche of acts to be added to a bill …

LouellaDeville_ @PlanetMosh @ACDCFans AC/DC announced on their website today: – ‘Rock or Bust,’ the highly anticipated new studio album from AC/DC, will be released December 2, 2014. Featuring 11 new tracks and recorded in Spring 2014 at Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC, ‘Rock or Bust’ finds AC/DC once again working …

New York Hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL have just launched a new lyric video for the song ‘DNC’ taken from their upcoming album ‘Last Act Of Defiance’. To get the lyrics to the song that comes with the addition ‘DNC (Do Not Comply)’ to the title, see below. The …

In June EQUILIBRIUM scored the charts with their newest album “Erdentempel” in Germany #16, #40 in Austria and #43 in Switzerland. It was the highest ranking in the history of EQUILIBRIUM so far. Time for celebration found the quintet with headman René only at numerous festivals as the Summer Breeze, Hellfest and Rock Harz, …

A beautiful hot and sunny Sunday afternoon walk down to Fibber Magees it was, until PlanetMosh descended into the humid murky bowels of the club for the final day of this year’s Unleashed Festival. This last day was an all-ages affair and the gathered minions were definitely excited for the …

So because of the previous night’s drinking, I was hanging like Michael Jackson’s child over a hotel balcony as I made my way in for night two of The Unleashed Festival. Again, Dublin Bus knew I had to be somewhere and decided against it for me – missed the first …

The Unleashed Festival was brought to us by EHT promotions in association with PlanetMosh, Overdrive and Down The Barrel Photography. EHT are directly responsible for  my extensive liver damage and my issues with regularly losing chunks of time in a given night. Some might say it’s the alcohol and I …

Greek Symphonic metal band Enemy of reality have released their debut album – Rejected Gods.  The band features former Meden Agan singer Iliana Tsakiraki.  The album features guest appearances from Mike LePond (Symphony X), Androniki Skoula (Chaostar), Maxi Nil (Jaded Star, ex-Visions of Atlantis) and Ailyn Gimenez (Sirenia). Brief comments …

PlanetMosh has partnered with Ascendancy Promotions, Ramp Rage, T13 and XporT13 to bring Belfast ‘Assault On T13’ – the city’s biggest ever all-ages heavy metal gig, being stage at the gigantic T13 indoor extreme sports and skate park (and part of the set of the hit HBO television series ‘Game …

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of WHITESNAKE’s multi-platinum ‘Slide It In’ album, Frontiers Music Srl, the Italian-based label, will release “Live In ‘84 – Back To The Bone”, a complete celebration of the group’s awe inspiring line-up during what many feel was the incredible beginning of what David Coverdale called …

@planetmosh reviews Haze by .@american_scene on .@purenoiserecs The American Scene are a four piece from Berkeley, California. Formed in 2009, Haze is their second album, released on Pure Noise Records on September 9th. Sometimes at Planetmosh we get to review bands and artists we really like, which is great but other …

The UK’s Vallenfyre are an ‘extreme metal’ offshoot of Paradise Lost‘s Gregor Mackintosh. “What started in late 2010 as a project by Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh became a real band. The 2011 debut album A Fragile King was hailed as one of the best death metal albums of the …

@louelladeville_ @ planetmosh review of @CaptainBedderz Confessions of a Working Class Tosser. On his Facebook Page Captain’ Bedderz is described as a ‘never been’ punk rock guitarist, bassist, singer & songwriter with 20 years of experience in the music industry. His first solo album ‘Confessions of a Working Class Tosser’ …

RUSH, R40, 17th November 2014 40th Anniversary Collectors Box Set Available In DVD & Blu-ray Set features live footage spanning all four decades of their career over two hours of unreleased material, including a rare performance of entire seven-part version of ‘2112’, Three unreleased tracks from the 1974 vault Plus …

Irish blackened death metal trio Zom are to release their debut album, ‘Flesh Assimilation’, through Dublin-based Invictus Promotions on November 24. Featuring cover artwork by renowned artist Zbyszek Bielak, the album is the follow up to a previously released demo and a subsequent 7″.  In a statement, the band said of …

Belfast thrash mob Scimitar – who play the PlanetMosh-backed ‘Assault On T13’ all ages metalfest this coming Friday (September 26) – have just released a teaser video for their forthcoming second EP, ‘Plague In The Vatican’. TThe EP was recorded by the band’s guitarist, John Thompson. https://www.facebook.com/Scimitar666

Mr. Lordi, captain of ‘Scare Force One’, and his crew are once again ready for take-off. The plane has been fuelled, the seat belts are malfunctioning and you can look forward to a solid hour of pure turbulence when the new album sees the light of day on November 3rd. …

Already receiving massive media acclaim, HANG THE BASTARD’s much anticipated sophomore album “Sex In The Seventh Circle” is out now via Century Media Records in Europe. Produced by Steve Sears at Titan Studios in London (Gallows, Spycatcher) and with jaw dropping conceptual art from Daniel P Carter, “Sex In The …