PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Wormholedeath is proud to announce the signing of avantgarde metal band Ideogram.   First single “Falling Snow” wich is taken from their upcoming debut album “Life Mimics Theatre” can be seen here:     About the band: The Ideogram Project  – Avantgarde Metal And Theatre The Ideogram Project was created …

Vancouver, BC six-piece powerhouse THE BODY POLITIC has teamed up with PureGrainAudio.com for the premiere and FREE download of their new single ‘Armature’ off their forthcoming EP ‘Egressor’ due out on September 16, 2014.   Free download at the following link: http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/the-body-politic-armature-free-song-download-exclusive-world-premiere   Drummer Spencer Bowman comments: “Armature’s lyrics are …

As part of our continuing build up to this weekend’s fourth annual Steelhouse Festival, PlanetMosh chatted with the beautiful Skarlett from Skarlett Riot about the event and her band: Skarlett Riot play Steelhouse on Saturday (June 19), alongside Black Star Riders, Sebastian Bach, Electric Boys, The Graveltones, Tax The Heat, …

As part of our continuing build up to this weekend’s Steelhouse Festival, PlanetMosh grabs a chat with Jack Taylor, drummer with Bristol’s Tax The Heat, who’ll be popping over the Severn on Saturday to appear alongside the likes of the Black Star Riders, Sebastian Bach and Buffalo Summer. We started …

Another slab of pure depravity delivered from the Hells Headbangers label . Cemetery Lust crawling from Portland, Oregon have unleashed this their second full length. The band describe themselves as “Rape Thrash” so from the starting blocks you just know this is going to be nasty and not very politically …

The penultimate band for Les Fest this year was Falling Red.  Not long after they arrived I caught up with them for another entertaining interview (be warned). For those of you that enjoyed their set or didn’t get up to Les Fest this year you can catch them live at …

As Gojira walked onto the stage there was still a roadie drilling screws into the stage in a frantic hurry. Gojira have been touring on the back of L’Enfant Sauvage for almost two solid years and they were tighter than a ducks arse. Crushing riffs, brutal vocals and pummelling backbeats, …

Even the most long standing Ted Nugent fan(myself included) realise he will probably never write another ‘Stranglehold’ or ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ again and his political beliefs and hunting have taken more of his time than his recorded output over the last decade or so. ‘Shut Up & Jam’ follows a …

Day two of the festival kicked off a little earlier than the previous day at 11am with Tesseract on the main stage. Alestorm, however, were the real treat of the morning opening the Saturn stage with ‘The Quest’ and continued their infectious jitterbug set with the likes of ‘The Drunken …

The land with the most heavy metal bands per capita, Sweden, is at it again – unleashing new band The Dagger, comprised of former Grave and Dismember death metal inmates, on an eager listening public. The Dagger’s ten-track eponymous debut has a warm, inviting tone and a pleasing, “retro” or …

“Disciple” is the debut EP from South Wales metal band Beneath the divine. It’s a five track EP, with the first track, “Disciple” being more of an intro than a normal song, but at 2 minutes long it’s longer than an average album intro.  A philosophical spoken voice track with …

  Sonisphere 2014 marked the 40th year of festivals held at Knebworth and what better way to celebrate than to bring 60,000 music fans together for a hot, sunny and lightly showered weekend of metal dominance! A late starting Friday meant that fans were able to arrive in good time …

Current Vista Chino vocalist, former Kyuss member and desert rocker John Garcia has finally released his eponymous debut solo disc. This 11-track romp has plenty to offer the fan of good ol’ American rock and roll, particularly flavored with a “stoner” edge. He’s enlisted fellow partner in crime (and Queens …

There will be no one reading this page who does not know about the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and all the good work it does to help stamp our prejudice and hatred.  There will be few of you also that have not already bought a t-shirt or wrist band in support …

Chicago metal trio DIAMOND PLATE have announced two very special shows with thrash metal legends MEGADETH.   DIAMOND PLATE will be supporting MEGADETH at Artpark in Lewiston, New York on July 15th, and at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana on July 18th.  DIAMOND PLATE have also revealed that they …

Individualist black/ambient/industrial cult EMPIRE AURIGA premiere the new track “Jubilee Warlord” at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The song hails from EMPIRE AURIGA’s comeback album, Ascending the Solar Throne, set for release on August 19th via MORIBUND RECORDS. EMPIRE AURIGA’s debut album, Auriga Dying, was critically acclaimed for its ahead-of-the-time fusion of black …

PAIN OF SALVATION is ready to return to North America for a full continental tour beginning September 10th in Atlanta, GA. The band will cover a good portion of the United States and also play a couple of shows in Canada and Mexico. Oklahoma-based VANGOUGH has been chosen as direct …

Post rock metal band DISPARAGER whom unleashed their new lyric video ‘RIP Bill Hicks’ off their recently released debut EP ‘Timeless, Ageless’ produced by Jay Maas (Defeater, Bane, H2O, American Nightmare, Polar Bear Club) are proud to announce they will be performing another local date in Brooklyn, NY on July 27th …

Before their set at Les Fest on the main stage I caught up with Spill Sixteen for a bit of a chat about their debut album Let It All Hang Out, their influences and how they all met (be warned). If you missed their set at Les Fest you can see …

Sweden’s DARK TRANQUILLITY are thrilled to announce the “Uniformity” tour, set to take place in Europe in November 2014.   The band comments: “The trek, which also features Amoral, Acyl and Lehmann, will take us to some places that we didn’t reach during the previous European tour as well as …