PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Following the release of Norma Jean’s 6th album Wrongdoers, the band is now embarking upon a 5-date UK tour.  The new album showed expanded categories for their life and music and received a mass of gleaming reviews. Wrongdoers came together amidst many setbacks, frustrations and creative tensions but the resulting …

Swedish progressive titans OPETH unleash their hugely anticipated eleventh studio album, ‘Pale Communion‘ via Roadrunner Records on 16th June. ‘Pale Communion’, which follows the band’s 2011 critically lauded prog masterpiece ‘Heritage’, was produced by OPETH’s own Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by longtime friend and collaborator, Porcupine Tree visionary Steven Wilson.  …

.@Planetmosh interviews Mike Spreitzer of DevilDriver As DevilDriver‘s latest promo tour, in support of last year’s ‘Winter Kills’ album, winds its way through the UK and into Europe, PlanetMosh hooked up with “the man with the golden guitar” (as he was introduced), Mike Spreitzer, backstage at Belfast’s Limelight venue, to talk …

Swedish Death Metal masters Diabolical premiere their new video ‘Oracle’ exclusively with Terrorizer. Watch ‘Oracle’ Here. Guitarist Carl Stjärnlöv comments, “The concept of the ‘Oracle’ song and the Oracle chapter of the Book of Neogenesis is very special. It has a deep meaning to the concept of Neogenesis and it …

20 years ago today, The Offspring released their breakout album ‘Smash’ on Epitaph Records and made history. To celebrate the band will begin playing the album in its entirety on tour in Europe this May, June and early July before finishing out the Summer with soon to be announced US …

Bay Area metal titans, MACHINE HEAD return to the UK this summer with an unexpected move set to delight their rabid ‘Head Case’ fanbase. The band are set to play a short run of five super-special underplays, in much smaller clubs than they usually play. Frontman Robb Flynn explains the …

London metallers SAVAGE MESSIAH have been nominated for an award at this year’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods. The band have been nominated in the “Best New Band” category, following the release of their new album, THE FATEFUL DARK, which has proven to be a hit amongst critics and fans alike. …

The final line up for the ROCKHARZ 2014 is now complete. The last confirmed bands are: XANDRIA: The female fronted Symphonic Metallers XANDRIA who will arrive in Ballensted with their new singer Dianne van Giersbergen and material from their upcoming album “Sacrificium”, which will be released in May 2014. EISREGEN: …

With just three months to go until the return of the mighty SONISPHERE festival to KNEBWORTH, a further twleve acts have been added to the star-packed line up. After their late night trip down memory lane in 2010, million selling power trio Therapy? return to BOHEMIA, this time to perform …

  .@Planetmosh interview with Scott and Craig of @BleedFromWithin   PlanetMosh sat down with Bleed From Within vocalist Scott Kennedy and guitarist Craig Gowans during their recent stopover in Belfast, where they were opening for DevilDriver, to discuss the band’s career to date, their love of playing live and their new crowd-funded …

Keep It Sexy is the offering of St. Albans rockers Alexis Kings, released on March 11th through digital download. After hearing the single “1972”, I was quite impressed with the energy and general style of the track. It’s very Kings of Leon with the swagger of Arctic Monkeys which may …

Today, SVART RECORDS sets May 30th as the release date for OPIUM WARLORDS’ Taste My Sword Of Understanding. Set to be release on CD and double-LP formats, Taste My Sword Of Understanding is the third offering of OPIUM WARLORDS, the final project of Sami Albert Hynninen (REVEREND BIZARRE, THE PURITAN, …

One of the best things about being in 2014 is that when something happens which is truly unique, no matter where in the world it happens, everyone knows  about it. The latest musical phenomenon to go viral is Japan’s BABYMETAL, and Team Sonisphere snapped them up to join this year’s …

Montreal, QC’s MIRE performed on Global TV Montreal’s Morning Show on April 7th. Watch the video below of their interview and acoustic song performance of ‘Limitless Pt. 2’. Metal Monday – http://globalnews.ca/video/1254567/metal-monday   MIRE officially released their new album ‘Inward/Outward’ on March 18th to follow up their 2010 self titled …

2014 has seen UK death/thrash outfit Flayed Disciple back in the studio recording a new EP and follow up to the 2012 debut album ‘Death Hammer’. Chuck Creese, who produced the ‘Ejaculate While Killing’ EP in 2010, was back at the helm recording the new record. Guitarist Jon Whitfield comments, …

British madcap thrashers LAWNMOWER DETH have launched a Kickstarter campaign to re-press their 1990 debut album, “OOH CRIKEY IT’S… LAWNMOWER DETH”, after recently being confirmed to play at this year’s Download Festival on Saturday, June 14th.   Having been unavailable for nearly twenty years, repeated demands from hardcore fans has …

Two bands well-known for their relentless and energetic live-performances are coming back for a tour that will let every single one of you walk home drenched in sweat: Los Angeles hardcore legends TERROR are teaming up with Melbourne/New York party kings DEEZ NUTS for a series of shows including stops …

‘Dawn Of The New Centurion’, the 2nd album by U.S thrashers Hatriot could possibly have got its title from lead singer and founder member Steve “Zetro” Souza who has just celebrated his 50th birthday, a half century. It could also apply to his welcome return to the thrash metal scene …

Following the release of the brand new studio from ANATHEMA ‘distant satellites’ the band have confirmed they’ll be playing an extensive European tour – dates below  distant satellites is the highly anticipated follow up to 2012’s Weather Systems, recorded at Cederberg Studios in Oslo, with producer Christer-André Cederberg – the release dates are confirmed as   Germany & …

And so the metallians gathered once more on the evening of the sabbath to worship at the church of RocKD and hear the gospel according to the lords of the riff… and, verily, I say unto you it was a mighty evening of monstrous metal mayhem, as we shall now …