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Relapse Records are to re-issue God Macabre‘s long deleted Swedish death metal classic ‘The Winterlong’ this June. Originally released in 1993,’The Winterlong’ was recorded at Stockholm’s legendary Sunlight Studios in 1991 and engineered by Tomas Skogsberg (Amorphis, At The Gates, Entombed).  Now fully remastered and available for the first time in more …

Scott Stapp, lead singer of Creed, began his short European tour with his only UK date at the Electric Ballroom in London on Wednesday in support of his latest solo album ‘Proof of Life’. Supporting Scott were the amazing Voodoo Six.   Here are the photos from the show.   [flickrapi …

After recently launching “Scabs”, VALLENFYRE is now ready to unleash yet another track from their upcoming album, Splinters, due out May 12th in Europe and May 13th in North America via Century Media Records. Check out the second single “Odious Bliss” here Greg Mackintosh (vocals/lead guitars) comments: “‘Odious Bliss’ is …

Metal Blade is proud to announce to have inked a license deal with CNR Records for the brand new CHANNEL ZERO album “Kill All Kings”. The album will be released by Metal Blade worldwide (except for the Benelux territories) the 23rd of June as a digipack cd and digital download. Head over to www.metalblade.com/channelzero to …

I spoke to Within Temptation singer, Sharon Den Adel shortly before the band played their excellent gig at Birmingham Academy. Your latest album, Hydra was released in February and has proved very successful.  One song that has divided opinion though is “And we run” due to it’s inclusion of rapper …

Vampire is a dark, heavy metal band from Sweden. Formed in 2011, the band released their sole demo in 2012. On the strength of that demo, and about 12 live shows, the band signed to Century Media Records. Currently waiting for just the right tour deal to come along, Vampire …

XANDRIA premiere “Nightfall” video The German symphonic metal band XANDRIA will be releasing their new album “Sacrificium” on May 5th 2014 in the UK on Napalm Records! They are premiering their brand new video “Nightfall” with Team Rock Watch it here Catch XANDRIA Live in the UK 09.05.14 UK – …

Progressive Death Metallers, Nexilva, have today been confirmed for a Friday Main Stage slot at this summers Les-Fest 3. Joining an already strong line up of Death, Tech and Black Metal this is another strong signing for the rapidly growing event. Monolithic Music Manager Simon Garrod stated “We are proud …

We’ve been talking to those nice people at Alt-Fest and they’ve agreed to give Planetmosh readers 10% off the price of tickets if you order before 2nd May. All you need to do is go to the Alt-fest website and select the tickets you want.  Then hit continue and it …

Last night at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Slayer surprised the capacity crowd with an unannounced performance, kicking off the show with a three-song set that included the global premiere of ‘Implode‘, the band’s first new studio recording in five years. Recorded …

I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Glenn Hughes, a man whose career spans several decades and includes Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes-Thrall, Black Country Communion.  We spoke about his new band, California Breed whose debut album comes out on May 19th.   Your latest project is called California Breed.  …

Dutch Metallers EPICA will embark on the first leg of their European Enigma tour this coming November and December. EPICA will be supporting their forthcoming studio album ‘The Quantum Enigma’, set for release on 5th May via Nuclear Blast Records. To pre-order the album click here. Vocalist, Simone Simons states; “After …

Pittsburgh, PA tech death metal machine, Kamikabe, have released a playthrough video for the song ‘Nefarious,’ which comes from their debut full length “Aberration of Man,” released in August 2012 via Unique Leader Records. Check out the playthrough video at this location. The band offered this brief update to go along with the …

Massacre came into existence as far back as 1984 and disbanded and reformed a multitude of times before Rick Rozz, Bill Andrews and Terry Butler all joined Death for the ‘Leprosy’ album. Soon after that line-up dissolved, the three went back to Massacre, with Kam Lee at the helm and …

Over 50 incredible new names revealed for Reading & Leeds Festivals 2014! In a year where Reading & Leeds Festivals have announced not three, but four of the world’s biggest acts as headliners for 2014, the line-up continues to grow with over 50 additions across the stages. This year looks …

If ever there was a word to sum up Whitechapel, ‘subtle’ really wouldn’t be it. Far more comfortable playing music that crashes into our ears like a runaway freight train on engine steroids, the Knoxville, Tennessee sextet have been active since 2006 and Our Endless War is to become their fifth studio …

It was a brave move by Vardis to start their recorded career in 1980 with the live album ‘100 MPH’ as any following studio albums would have to be measured against it but the brace of ‘The World’s Insane’ and ‘Quo Vardis’ released in 1981 and 1982 respectively rose to …

For people who don’t necessarily like heavy metal …but if you do, you’ll really like it, we promise. A hilariously kick-arse tour through heavy metal by the UK’s foremost metalhead stand-up comedian. Want to learn how to headbang? Always wondered what happens in a mosh pit? Keen to learn the …

Press Release April 21, 2014 at 2:15pm Hailing from the underground Manchester metal scene, Collibus is a five-piece female-fronted progressive metal band of tour-de-force proportions. Having won the 2013 Parliamentary Rock the House Discretionary Metal Award, Collibus made history by becoming the first heavy metal band ever to play a …

I don’t often review singles as there are so many great albums to review that singles rarely get a look in.  However sometimes a song is just so good that you can’t ignore it, and that’s the case with this release from No Sinner – “Love is a madness” The …