PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Who can forget Goatwhore? From Sammy Duet‘s quip on the Relapse Records message board so long ago “I’m going to start a band and call it Goatwhore” to today’s mayhemic brutal machine, Louisiana’s purveyors of musical insanity have bluntly carved a well-deserved niche for themselves within extreme metal’s upper echelon. …

“Bloody Hammers are a heavy rock band from Transylvania County, North Carolina.” Their latest ten-song disc, Under Satan’s Sun, was released in 2014 on Napalm Records. “Although commonly viewed as gothic rock, the band have incorporated elements of doom metal, stoner metal, and psychedelic rock.” By their name and the …

My final interview of Download 2014 was with Epic and Seth from Crazy Town. I was incredibly tired from the weekend but, thanks to the guys being wicked, I was still able to have a great chat with them about reforming, their performance and what’s next for them.

I was lucky enough to speak to Thobbe and Chris from Sabaton after their set at Download about their last album, playing with fire and little furry creatures.  

I caught up with the boys from UK upstarts Monuments to discuss playing Download, the next 6-12 months and get the name of their new album horrifically wrong.  

I was lucky enough to catch up with Corey from Trivium at Download Festival to talk about THAT 2005 Donington set, working with David Draiman and Paolo’s internet-famous cat…  

I spoke to Heart in Hand at Download to chat about their mysterious new album, their upcoming tour and other random pieces of information. Please note that standing in height order was completely coincidental.

I caught up with UK metallers Malevolence at Download to discuss their new album, their upcoming tour and stump them with a fan question.

I chatted to Fozzy’s Rich Ward at Download Festival about the new album, their initial parody act and Chris Jericho’s former career.

After their delayed arrival at the site and signing, session I caught up with Phil from the Temperance Movement during Friday evening for a quick chat about everything relating to the band including their astonishing rise to fame.

I caught up with Kehn, Brad and Kyle from They Say Fall at Download this year to talk the Red Bull Studio competition and how it feels to have taken to the stage at the biggest rock festival in the UK.    

Second Rate Angels are a four piece from Hemel Hempstead, England (a place not known for metal… lol!).   They have been a  hard working band since late 2011 with a load of gigs under their belts, and they have just released their debut EP, ‘The Lost Days’. This EP is …

The sun may be beating down outside, and Belfast threatening to enjoy some some of (quite possibly foreshortened) summer, but that doesn’t stop the hardiest of the city’s black clad metallians gathering (not quite in their masses) and heading indoors to the sanctity of the equally darkened Slimer for another …

@planetmosh reviews VxV .@wolvesatthegate out on .@solidstate Hailing from Cedarville Ohio, Wolves At The Gate’s first full-length album ‘Captors’ received a fair amount of success in the U.S. charting at number 17 in the Hard Rock Albums Chart back in 2012. Two years on, with some new personnel , the …

A very apt title for an album befitting the turbulent career of UK veteran NWOBHM stalwarts Weapon UK. In an ideal world I would be able to call them by their original name Weapon, which is what they were known as when I first saw them support Motorhead in 1980 …

Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep all had become top bands in the early 1970s – and each was one of  the so called “Big 4” at the time. Myself as a child born of the 1960’s, I’ve had the pleasure to grow up with these groups and watch …

Swedish Rock band Vanity BLVD released second album Wicked Temptation via Noiseheadrecords earlier this year. Fronted by Anna Savage, with a powerful voice similar to Sally Cato from Smashed Gladys. A fantastic second album, worth a listen for fans of Eighties Glam Rock. The opening track Dirty Rat reminded me …

After the success of Martin’s 60th Birthday Badass Bash, at The Maze, Nottingham earlier this year, which raised nearly £500 to split between the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and Chart Uk, Martin Short is organising another Badass Bash in February next year. The next bash will take place at The Snooty …

While circuses may fascinate many – either in terms of the tongue-in-cheek grotesquery of the ‘carny’ or the slapstick farce of clowns chucking water over each other – personally I’ve never quite seen the attraction.  They’re often facile and meaningless – and those which inflict needless cruelty on animals just …

For those of a superstitious mien, Friday the 13th is not exactly a lucky talisman – and so it proves, at least partially, for the organizers of this charity fundraiser gig (in aid of the hugely-underfunded Belfast Rape Crisis Centre) as, despite huge advance marketing and PR campaigns, other mitigating …