PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Gothenburg, Sweden’s Vampire have presented listeners with an eponymous, ten track tour-de-force of intense, dark metal. Combining elements of traditional heavy metal with more extreme subgenres like death and black metal, this foursome has found a time-tested, battle-ready, winning formula. Vampire seems to take some of the best elements from …

John Browne from the progressive metal band Monuments has released the following statement to promote a project he is working on. “I, The Creator of Monuments will be releasing a brand new solo song on the 17th March at 7pm GMT. This song is a solo piece of writing that …

Metal supergroup Down has unveiled their new track “We Knew Him Well” from their upcoming EP Down IV – Part Two, out May 13th via Down Records/ADA Music. Stereogum premiered “We Knew Him Well,” calling it “a titanic, bludgeoning deep-head-nod groove…it’s gloriously messy but locked-in in the way that only …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh interview with @ArchieCruzz frontman with @SantaCruzBand All the way from Finland and currently on  a tour of the U.K. with Voodoo Six. PlanetMosh caught up with frontman Archie for an interview/chat ahead of the show at Sound Control, Manchester. Whose idea was it to form the band? It was …

Montreal, Canada’s Your Last Wish is a melodic extreme metal outfit featuring founding member Dave Gagne alongside a fresh crop of talented metalhead musicians. The band released 2013’s Desolation through Maple Metal Records. Desolation features 11 tracks of fairly intricately produced “melodeath”, showcasing the vocals of Roxana Bouchard. Tunes feature …

The SOS Festival is due for it’s 7th annual appearance at the Radcliffe Civic Centre in Manchester on the 19th and 20th July.  Since it’s beginnings back in 2008, the festival has always provided a healthy and exhilarating mix of upcoming and established bands, playing both electric and acoustic sets.  Previous …

@PlanetMosh reviews .@OverkillBand ‘s first ever live show in Ireland. They say that good things come to those who wait, which must mean that Ireland’s thrash heads are among the best rewarded as well as the most patient on the planet of mosh, as they had waited more than 30 …

It has been three years since BELPHEGOR released their highly acclaimed album ‘Blood Magick Necromance’. During this period, the band had also been forced to take a break while frontman Helmuth recovered from a severe illness. Now the time has come for BELPHEGOR to return bigger and stronger than ever! …

On May 12th in Europe and on May 13th in North America, VALLENFYRE’s second full-length, Splinters, will be released via Century Media Records. The simple, yet striking cover artwork was created by Brian D’Agosta, who previously drew a logo for VALLENFYRE bassist Scoot’s other band, EXTINCTION OF MANKIND, as well as artwork for …

@AnybodyBC reviews Drift by .@JENXNOISE out February 8 on M-Tronic for @Planetmosh It’s not the first time a metal band has attempted the electro deconstruction of their music. Usually these experiments are like marmite too, receiving opinions from ‘why did they do that? They ruined everything’ to the ‘masterpiece’. Experimenting is …

Aborym, the legendary extreme electro/industrial metal band, featuring Italians Fabban and Paolo Pieri (Hour Of Penance) together with Norway’s Bard “Faust” Eithun (Emperor, Blood Tsunami, Mongo Ninja), has inked a new record deal with Agonia Records. Details on band’s seventh full-length album, the follow-up to 2013’s Dirty, are yet to …

Death metal legends MASSACRE have returned with their first studio album effort in almost 20 years! Due out March 24th in Europe and April 1st in North America via Century Media Records, this new album, ‘Back From Beyond’, is “pure Florida death metal, the way it was meant to be played from the …

ABORTED are premiering the first new song of their upcoming eighth studio album, “The Necrotic Manifesto”, today. If you’re in the mood for 2 minutes and 45 seconds of some pure, unbridled, gore-ridden necro-maniacal death metal, you may want to click here and check out the album’s title track ‘Necrotic …

DREAD SOVEREIGN are streaming their new album in full ahead of it’s impending release via Ván Records on March 21st. All Hell’s Martyrs is a ten track sepulchral trawl through the darkest recesses of heavy metal.   Listen to All Hell’s Martyrs at Metal Hammer UK HERE Listen to All …

Montreal QC’s mosh happy thrashers MUTANK have posted a new video for their track ‘ The Heavy Hand of The Doomsday Clock’, one of eight solid speed riffing tunes  from the band’s latest release ‘M.E.C.H. Metal’ released this past February and is available on bandcamp here.   Video ‘The Heavy …

Death Toll Rising are proud to announce they will be supporting the following Western Canadian tour dates with Katakylsm and Aborted during the ‘Kill The Elite Tour’, which includes a hometown show in Edmonton, AB. “We are incredibly excited to finally take ‘Infection Legacy’ on the road and into BC …

You would have thought that bringing in a young gun like Sam Coulson – a guitar whiz first spotted on YouTube and that has shared stages alongside legends such as Paul Gilbert, Guthrie Govan, and Tony MacAlpine would really give Asia a shot in the arm, and make this new …

For their upcoming new record Heroes, Swedish Heavy Metal institution SABATON now reveals the different track lists, including all the bonus tracks that will be available. Among them are three cover versions of METALLICA,BATTLE BEAST and RAUBTIER. Heroes will be released on May 27, 2014 via Nuclear Blast.   The …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh review of @santacruzband and @voodoosix @soundcontrolmcr Thursday thirteenth, not Friday, but still the thirteenth. Unlucky for some but not unlucky for the Rockers of Manchester as we got to see two quality bands playing at Sound Control, Santa Cruz and Voodoo Six. Today’s show was on the ground …

DARK TRANQUILLITY will play their only festival-show this summer in Germany on METAL4SPLASH OPEN AIR. The band from Sweden has written Melodic Death Metal history with albums like “The Gallery” or “Fiction” and their last record “Construct” has also shown their high class quality. DARK TRANQUILLITY will make your hairs …