PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

@planetmosh interviews .@cambionuk on their recent trip to Glasgow Cambion have been taking part in the Weekend Warriors tour alongside behemoths Beholder and enjoying their unique “hospitality” on the road.  We sat down with the guys to discuss their first visit to Scotland, how they about and what lies ahead …

Slough-based thrashers Divine Chaos are set to release their debut album, ‘A New Dawn In The Age Of War’, on May 29 via the Irish Evil EyE Records label. ‘A New Dawn In The Age Of War’ was produced by Scott Atkins and features James Stewart of Vader on drums. The album also features guest performances from …

BLOODY HAMMERS will release their new album Under Satan’s Sun June 10th in North America(May 30th G/A/S, FIN & Benelux, June 2nd UK & Rest of Europe, June 4th ESP/SWE/NOR).  The album will be released via Napalm Records/Spinning Goblin. The album will be available a regular CD, limited edition vinyl …

If you’ve been travelling through a barren, wasteland of Metal lately, seeking asylum from the wave of crap music, rest your weary little heads because you’ll find a home with Twisted Autocracy. So Thrashers, stop roaming the streets of Dublin with your tattered patch jackets , pick up your trailing …

May 5th sees a cornucopia of delights released from  Killing Joke – Killing Joke : ‘In Dub’ triple CD and ‘Down By The River‘ double live album,  along with Jaz Colemans’ first book ‘Letters From Cytheria’  and Symphony No.2 ‘The Island’.    KILLING JOKE : IN DUB Youth has created …

Xandria’s new album, Sacrificium, due out on 5th May. Planetmosh spoke to the band’s new singer, Dianne Van Giersbergen.

MOTORIFRE comes as one of newest coming acts in the traditional metal underground. With an honest combination of 80’s Hard Rock attitude and traditional old school Heavy Metal tunes, MOTORIFRE more than successfully reincarnate the wave of 80’s legendary bands such as Helloween, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard among others. …

Although Futurama is classed as an EP it is in fact made up of 4 brand new songs, 6 live numbers and an extended mix of one of the new songs and is a fine example of prime  AOR. Futurama is currently available via Membran in the UK and the …

THE SKULL – the heavy doom-rock band featuring original TROUBLE members vocalist Eric Wagner and drummer Jeff “Oly” Olson, alongside longtime former TROUBLE bassist Ron Holzner and SACRED DAWN guitarist Lothar Keller – have added former PENTAGRAM guitarist Matt Goldsborough (pictured below) to the group’s ranks. He will be taking over …

New to the live rock circuit, Plainview have taken a slightly different route having got their debut album recorded before playing any live shows. They are now taking that release out on the road in support of Martyr De Mona. PlanetMosh caught up with them before their London show Upstairs …

The UK’s biggest mosh-fest GHOSTFEST is back and ready for over 2000 metal / hardcore fans to indulge in a weekend of brutality and kicks things off announcing 16 killer bands. Presented by IMPERICON at Leeds University on 28/29 June 2014, the weekend will feature two stages with 40 bands, including some very special …

This wasn’t my first foray to a Status Quo concert. It was however my first time to see the ‘Frantic Four” line up that released the ‘real’ Quo albums (Hello, Dog of Two Head and Piledriver to name a few), that heralded heavy blues rock. No “whatever you want” or …

Norwegian black metallers 1349, are to release their as-yet-untitled new album this coming Autumn. Coming four years after the release of ‘Demonoir’, the album will be released on Indie Recordings, except for North America where it will issued via Season of Mist. The band will preview the album with the …

On March 11, 2014, Black N’ Blue Productions revealed the line-up for the 2014 Black N’ Blue Bowl, formally known as The Superbowl Of Hardcore, which will be held on May 17th & 18th at The Well in Brooklyn, NY.   After returning to NYC from Brooklyn with the 2010 edition, …

@PlanetMosh @LouellaDeville_ interview with @MidnightMob101 To supplement our review of their album These days, Midnight Mob have taken the time to answer some questions for us. I sent off my questions by email but as I’m over in the UK and they’re across a big ocean in the USA I can’t …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh review of These days by @MidnightMob101 a special limited edition CD released via @stprecords New York based Rock ‘n Roll band Midnight Mob formed in February 2009. Fronted by Blackey Deahtproof they have two album releases under their belt. A self titled EP and Black Moon Rising. These …

One of the few successful extreme metal bands to be fronted by a woman, Holy Moses – even more than 30 years into their career – inevitably draw comparisons with the likes of the more high profile Arch Enemy.  And, certainly, there are similarities between the two bands, especially in …

This 11th opus metallicus from Gamma Ray could well be described as the album that nearly never happened… just as the band were putting the finishing touches to it, and had jetted off to South America for a short tour, the almost unthinkable happened:  a fire swept through their Hammer …

New York Hardcore veterans Madball have confirmed that the title of their forthcoming ninth studio album will be ‘Hardcore Lives’. The album – tracked and engineered by Unearth guitarist Ken Susi and mixed and mastered by long-time collaborator Zeuss (Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, Soulfly, Terror, Whitechapel) – is set to be released …

.@PlanetMosh reviews DevilDriver, @BleedFromWithin and @Sylosis in Belfast On the only previous occasion on which DevilDriver played Belfast – a month short of eight years ago – the local Free Presbyterian intelligentsia (the Norn Iron equivalent of the US’ moral minority/religious right) picketed the outdoor festival which they were headlining: …