PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Sweden’s Freak Kitchen, featuring guitar virtuoso Mattias “IA” Eklundh, have returned with a ripping slab of musical whimsy, titled Cooking With Pagans. This 12-track, progressive rock album simultaneously “roasts” contemporary culture and explores new, quirky ways of musical self-expression. Neither pure “djent” nor pure progressive metal, this heavy music is …

Former Guns’n’Roses guitarist Slash releases his latest album next month.  For the new album, “World on fire”, he’s once again teamed up with Miles Kennedy and the conspirators, with whom he recorded his last album, Apocalyptic love.  It’s a great pairing – Slash’s great guitar work with Miles Kennedy’s superb …

Sweden’s technically intoxicating extreme metal masters, MESHUGGAH, are bringing their immense live show to Europe this December to celebrate their 25th year of musical deviance.  MESHUGGAH will play a very special 25th Anniversary set, performing selections from their 1989 – 2012 discography including some rare songs that haven’t been played …

RANGER, Finnish masters of speed metal, have signed to Spinefarm Records. The band will be recording their label debut album this fall and a release is expected early 2015. These young metal merchants sound as if they came straight out of the eighties and adapted their own style for a new generation …

HANG THE BASTARD have announced their direct support to KING 810’s UK dates, timed with the release of their brand new album “Sex In The Seventh Circle”. This will be the first chance to see a selection brand new material played live in its most punishing, acid dipped form, in …

Roadburn Festival – ‘We are honored to announce that British gothic rock innovators Fields Of The Nephilim will be gracing the stage twice at the 20th edition of the Roadburn Festival at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. In addition to serving as the Saturday headliner on April 11, …

The release date of the BLOOD & IRON album “Voices Of Eternity” on CD is the 26th September 2014. The preorder phase will start on September 12th 2014 click here. India is on the metalic world map more or less an empty space. So it seems there are not too …

Earlier this month Sussex quintet Subservience revealed details surrounding their forthcoming record ‘Upheaval’ set for release on 17th October 2014. The band has released a 3 part video series documenting their time at Brighton Electric and the ‘Upheaval’ recording progress. Drawing influence from the classic death metal bands of yesteryear …

.@PlanetMosh features .@silentjackband who will be the opening @Degenfest Lincoln on 29th-30th August. They will also be out on the Road to Ruin Tour in September 2014 which ends with the Roxx to Ruin all day hard rock event in Birmingham on 28th September. Silent Jack Biography Silent Jack are …

      Sometimes, an album falls into your lap, that restores your faith in all that is Heavy Metal. Whilst it is always beneficial, and indeed, essential , for the music we love and worship to evolve and explore different avenues, sometimes, it is just great to get back …

Reading & Leeds 2014 – One Of The Best Yet! A limited number of Weekend and Early Entry Tickets for 2015 available now With the dust still settling over the sites of Reading & Leeds, the buzz of three amazing days will live on for months to come. The good …

@planetmosh reviews Whatever It Is by .@Estrella_Rocks. When I spoke to Estrella a few months ago they were just back from a European tour and were planning to get into the studio to start work on their much anticipated second album, a follow up to the hugely successful Come Out To …

After the success of the Eve’s Apples performances at recent MFVFs, this year sees a new collaboration for the Friday night.  Metal Female Voices United will gather 7 singers on stage who will perform their favourite cover songs. The artists performing are Ailyn Giminex (Sirenia), Maxi Nil (Jaded Star and …

I spoke to Klara and Mia from Swedish band Crucified Barbara recently to discuss their fothcoming album, “In the red” which is available to pre-order now from http://www.crucifiedbarbara-shop.com/ Listen to what they had to say using the player below…      

I recently spoke to Herman and Sam from Dragonforce to discuss their new album, Maximum overload.  Hear what they had to say using the player below….        

Twenty years is a very long time to be doing anything without due recognition. Hailing from Sweden WOLF are experiencing that very same situation. I saw them a few years ago supporting ACCEPT and they were nothing less than superb. Initially I though they were a new band but to …

Canadian band The Agonist announced a new singer, Vicky Psarakis, following the departure of Alyssa White-Gluz to join Arch Enemy.  The band have just completed a UK tour and with their new album due out later in the year, I took the opportunity to speak to the band in the …

You cannot really fault the ambition of young German ‘post-hardcore’ proponents Annisokay.  Having already attracted considerable attention in both their homeland and elsewhere with their unique reworking of Miley Cyrus’ otherwise dire and unmentionable ‘Wrecking Ball’ (which to date has earned this Halle-based quintet almost half a million hits on …

When any band is regarded as truly innovative at a certain moment in musical time, the main question which must surely come back to haunt them, nigh on a generation later, is whether or not they are still as relevant and their innovation as impactful as it was ‘back in …

On Saturday night I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing The Graveltones just before their gig at Stereo in Glasgow.  It wasn’t your typical interview, barely a question was asked, but they went away knowing some new Scottish words, and I went away with a pain in my side from …