PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

With one of Belfast’s favourite night’s out, Helloween Havoc, returning after a year’s sabbatical this coming Friday (November 1st), PlanetMosh will be publishing exclusive interviews with the five participating bands over the next five days. First to step into the interrogation chamber is Mark Payne, bassist with Christian extreme metallers ForChristSake.  …

With the band about to release of a ‘Best Of…’ compilation, followed by a return to these shores on a co-headlining jaunt with Hardcore Superstar, PlanetMosh caught up with guitarist Keith Nelson (pictured right) in Massachusetts, on the last night of the band’s most recent US tour. What happened next …

Having seen The Quireboys many times over the past twenty years, or so, I was looking forward to a night of good old Rock ‘n’ Roll when I headed down the stairs to Club Academy, Manchester. A venue which reminds me of a school dining hall, although there wasn’t a …

I spoke to Charlotte a few hours before Delain took to the stage at this years Metal Female Voices Festival in Wieze, Belgium.We talk about the set, the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, touring and writing and much more besides.   Audio Interview With Charlotte Wessels http://planetmosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DS500089.mp3 http://www.delain.nl/ https://www.facebook.com/delainmusic http://www.metalfemalevoicesfest.be/ Photo courtesy …

Planetmosh have three Classicrock fanpacks to give away in a very easy to win competition. Just answer this Question:   Thank you to everybody who entered, the winners have now been notified, please check your emails and spam folders. The closing date is the 5th of November, and I will …

Ahead of their show in London at the Brixton Academy, I spoke to the lead vocalist of Iced Earth Stu Block about their tour with Volbeat, their upcoming album Plagues of Babylon (out early 2014) and his influences as well as his most embarrassing moment on stage.     You …

Volture is the brainchild of bassist Ryan Waste (known for his work with Municipal Waste) and guitarist Nick Poulus (an ex-member of Cannabis Corpse). The band was formed in Richmond VA in November 2008. The band sound like a mixture of classic US metal with more of a leaning towards …

Buffalo Summer have just embarked on a UK tour with Kadavar and I caught up with singer Andrew Hunt and bassist Darren King at the start of the tour to chat about the songs they like playing live, musical influences, the Welsh music scene, Download festival and much more.   …

            Despite fronting an internationally renowned Rock band, Cristina still has her feet firmly on the floor. We talked about the set at this years Metal Female Voices Festival, the forthcoming Lacuna album, the touring schedule and much much more. She even offered me some …

An amazing day and night of Female Fronted Metal One thing that definitely can not be said about MFVF is that the fans do not get value for money. As the second day beckoned, we had twelve bands and fourteen hours of music to absorb. If you’ve not been to …

Why Motörhead aren’t in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame is beyond my imagination. Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee are the epitome of the genre. Aftershock, their first record since 2010’s astounding The World Is Yours, is Motörhead at their predictably unapologetic best. No bullshit, just a heady …

Just before the final night of their UK tour in support of latest album ‘Spirit’ I caught up with Reckless Love’s Olli Herman to talk about his dad, the bands love of women, eating pussy and their next video.

Revived British Occult Metal Legends HELL bring single/EP release The Age of Nefarious to grace our ears prior to the release of their forthcoming album, Curse and Chapter

There aren’t many bands who hang around for 30 years before releasing their first album, but German progressive power metallers Javelin most certainly fall into that category:  despite having previously released two EPs (with a 12 year gap between them, it must be said), the quintet have certainly taken their …

Emperor Chung‘s eponymous debut, released in 2013, establishes the young British band as a promising, multi-talented act to follow. Musically, the 11-track album spans a variety of influences, from classic rock and elements of jazz fusion, to pop-punk and nu-metal. For a debut, it’s heavy on flash, but none of …

Music journalists are not supposed to get personal about things – but, then, a review is a personal opinion on the subject thereof, so we can’t really help but do what we’re not supposed to do, can we?  So, to speak personally at the outset, I find compilation albums both …

A little month to go before their official return to the UK, Aussie hellraisers Airbourne picked the best possible place outside their homeland to do what they do best, and that is raise the aforesaid hell… with plenty of merriment thrown in, as they stopped off for almost a full …

Photographs of Airbourne’s performance in the The Limelight 1, Belfast.  Support from Black Spiders. Photographs by Marc Leach Photography.