PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

The Fiction are anomalous, challenging the conventions of  hard rock we immerse ourselves with today. They are a reflection of theatricality and maturity.  The Fiction are a three piece band, in the past they have experienced difficulties in having a lead vocalist, now they are three aspiring vocalists sharing the melody light. This …

June 11th 2012 marks the re-release of 6 classic Thin Lizzy studio albums in box set form. All were  originally put out by Vertigo between 1974 – 1979 but the box set  will be out on Mercury Records  via Universal Music. Thin Lizzy were formed in Dublin 1969. Two of …

Former Dragonforce frontman ZP Theart is back with his new band, I am I.  They played their first ever gig a week ago at the Academy 2 in Birmingham.  Between soundcheck and them playing I sat down with ZP to ask him some questions about his music, his new band, …

  Sometimes in your mind you are wondering what could have happened … The band history (or rather lack thereof) of Black Burn is such a case. It’s not the common tale of missed opportunities, lost chances or sheer bad luck but a rather good example of wrong place, wrong …

  The band can trace it’s roots way back to 2000 but it wasn’t until 2010 that a debut surfaced in the shape of “She And Her Darkness”. Hailing from Italy, the Female Fronted Gothic Metal band have now followed that up with an excellent second album, which sees it’s …

4th dimension were formed in Italy in 2005 and started to write their own material in 2008, releasing their first song in 2009 on a compilation album.  They finished writing the songs for their debut album around the end of 2010 and recorded it in 2011, and it got an …

    This is Lee Walker from Planet Mosh interviewing Lita Ford. LW – Hi Lita, thanks for taking the time out to discuss things Lita Ford related for the Planetmosh readers. LW – What made you want to become a musician? Lita – I saw Black Sabbath live at …

“Psalms for the Dead” is the Swedish doom metal legend’s swansong, their 11th album is said to be their final one. They are not meant to be splitting up just concentrating on playing live.  “Psalms for the Dead” is released on the 8th June in Europe via Napalm Records The …

Hailing from Greece Sacred Blood’s second album Alexandros was released on the 29th of May 2012 by Pitch Black Records. I first became interested in this album when my suspicions were confirmed about the concept of the album which is based on Alexander the Great. Any other history fan will …

Effloresce are a five piece band from the Nurnberg area of Germany.  With a sound influenced by Prog rock, classic metal and psychadelic prog they have a fairly unique sound.  The band released their debut EP, “Shades of fate” in 2009 and have just released “Coma Ghosts” –  their first …

Black Cherry are a band from Ottawa, Canada – there’s a totally different band with the same name based in London to cause confusion, as well as the similarly named but far better known Black Stone Cherry, so trying to find information about the band isnt as easy as it …

“The power of one” is the album from US Power metal trio Ninth Circle.  The album includes eleven original tracks and a cover of the Iron Maiden classic “The Trooper”. The band are clearly heavily influenced by European power metal bands such as Hammerfall or Stratovarius, and there’s an obvious …

Chris Kilmecky is an American musician.  He has a classical music background – one of his parents being a professional symphonic violinist, but he has a love of a wide spectrum of rock music, with inspirations including Rush, Foo fighters, Staind, Green day, Van Halen, Steve Vai, and many more. …

  When you hear the name Sleepy Hollow everyUSMetal-maniac will go nuts. The band only released one demo (“A Legend Retold“) in 1989 and the self-titled album in 1991. But unfortunately, after that they got buried and forgotten. Now, 20 years later, they return with their second full length-album “Skull …

A few weeks ago Matt Seddon from Planetmosh spoke to Breed 77. Before their show at Alter Ego in Manchester, the guys spoke to Planet Mosh about their new up and coming album, their acoustic EP, why they decided to blend flamenco music and metal together and why they have …

  I unashamedly confess to have been a fan of female vocal Rock and Metal for more years than I’m prepared to divulge, and so it gives me a real sense of joy when I discover a band which completely knocks me off my feet. Formed in Russia in 2005 …

Guns n Roses - Liverpool Echo Arena - 20/05/2012

English metallers HeKz released their debut album ‘Tabula Rasa’ on 6 April 2012, offering us up 10 tracks in the process.  This is indeed an interesting album and another example of a band allowing its old school metal influences to flow nice and clearly through their music.  Several tracks on …

Earlier this month Hanging Doll played a gig at the Asylum 2 in Birmingham – their album launch party.  The album release has been delayed but the gig still went ahead.  Just before they went on stage I spoke to Alex and Aryan about the album and their tour plans.

                          I recently spoke by phone with JB, singer/guitarist with Grand Magus to talk about their new album, “The Hunt”.