PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

I spoke to Alexander Krull, lead singer of Atrocity and member of Leaves Eyes just after the bands had completed sound checking before their gig at the Basement in Rock City, Nottingham.  Listen to what he had to say about touring, the current album, and more….        

I spoke to Iced Earth singer Stu Block backstage at Islington Academy just before the band played the London date of their Worldwide Plagues tour and asked him about their current album, the writing process in the band, touring and the sound problems they’d suffered from at the Birmingham gig. …

Some photos of Viza supporting Skindred at Rock City, Nottingham.

Dutch Symphonic metal band Within Temptation are back with their latest studio album, Hydra.  Since the release of their last album (The Unforgiving) in 2011 the band have toured in support of the album and also celebrated their 15th anniversary with a huge show at the Sportspalais in Antwerp.  Since …

First up tonight were Elm Street.  The band were lucky to be able to play as they’d been travelling with Warbringer and had been heavily delayed so didn’t arrive at the venue till just minutes before the doors opened, and will have had to skip the luxury of a soundcheck.  …

Some photos of SOiL supporting Skindred at Rock City, Nottingham

Finland has a history of  producing a lot of top notch death and doom bands such as Hooded Menace, Reverend Bizarre, Unholy and Skepticism to name but a few. This is Altar of Betelgeuze’s  debut album with only one prior EP release in 2012. The band has mixed the styles …

Some photos of Skindred at Rock City, Nottingham - 24th January 2014.

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.@Planetmosh reviews #UpTheDosage, the new album from @bashfulpuppy, out now on Steamhammer Sex, drugs, women, drinkin’, rock ‘n’ fuckin’ roll… that’s all that really matters to Nashville Pussy (well, let’s be honest, it’s all that really matters to any of us, isn’t it) – and it just about summarizes the …

@planetmosh reviews the debut EP from Suffering Hour, out now on @tridroidrecords Hailing from darkest Minnesota, this debut EP from Suffering Hour (who were formerly known as Compassion Dies, for the trivia freaks out there), is a solid if somewhat basic old school slab of blackened thrash meets death metal. …

@planetmosh @louelladeville_ @SpillSixteen @teenagecasketco @exitstate @TheGDEs @SuicideTuesday @Steroidfreakpsy @thesentonbombs @silverjetrock @noizelevelcriti @dirtboxdisco @JDandtheFDCs @TheIdolDead @DoomsdayOutlaw @psychobabylon1 @BlacklistSaints @SuicideTuesday @Heartbreakrmdy @mothersruinband @knockoutkaine @1razwhite @stprecords @Planetmosh Noize Level Critical (NLC)/Rock Against Child Pornography and Abuse (RAPCA) Festival 2014 will be held at The Maze, 257 Mansfield Road, Nottingham on 3rd & 4th May …

Rejoice, hair metal fans, the genre still lives, although it’s migrated to Japan and… Brazil. Pleaser, from Brazil, have released their One Night In Paradise disc. Steel Panther they are not… Pleaser seem average players who take their party rock seriously. @PlanetMosh reviewer Louella DeVille states “(Pleaser is) reminiscent of …

If you’re one of the fortunate few to have snapped up this sold-out re-release of Terrorizer‘s seminal grindcore pillar World Downfall, we @PlanetMosh salute you. Record labels occasionally re-release out of print items for various reasons. Here, Earache Records re-released this on colorful vinyl (100 orange, 200 green, 300 red, …

@planetmosh reviews Born For The Gallows by .@FirebrandSuperR out on .@wastedstate records. Two years on since the release of their self-titled debut album and you can hear just how much Firebrand Super Rock have grown.  Not only have they been making waves on the live scene playing the likes of Bloodstock and …

.@planetmosh reviews the new release by .@PeripheryBand. They’re not ones for keeping things simple, Periphery. This new release, Clear, which should not be considered an EP but not considered a full album either, is released on Monday via Sumerian Records. Produced by Top Secret Audio and Taylor Larsen, the half-hour record is …

@planetmoshreviews @thyrien Here we are, barely finished ridding ourselves of the New Years festive party cobwebs, and I’m listening to my first strong contender for album of the year. I think it is fair to say that Thyrien have not had the smoothest of starts to their collective career, line …

.@Planetmosh reviews the new album from @BehemothBand, released on @nuclearblasteu on January 31. This tenth album from Polish blackened death metallers Behemoth is one which sees them coming back from the brink of extinction, signalling as it does the return of band founder and frontman Nergal from his almost life-ending …

.@Planetmosh interviews@babylonfireuk@Rocksector@themazenotts Once again Anthony May and myself caught up with Rishi Mehta from Babylon Fire down at the Maze in Nottingham ( 18/1/2014). Fortunate for us, but not for Rishi! we hijacked him as he came to see who was in the ( green room ) chatting and pinned …

Some photos of Blaze Bayley at Hard Rock Hell.