PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

We had the pleasure in interviewing Victor V Santura guitarist from Triptykon before the show at the 02 ABC in Glasgow. Victor tells us the bands history, influences, starting work on the new album, last years gigs/festival highlights and what they have planned for this year. www.triptykon.net www.facebook.com/triptykonofficial     …

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  Lauren Harris and her new band Six Hour Sundown http://www.facebook.com/SixHourSundown have been confirmed to play alongside Heavy Metal hard-hitters from London: http://www.facebook.com/StormbornUK and 80s inspired Glam/Sleaze Rock from Hants: http://www.facebook.com/HollywoodTrashUK

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Hailing from Athens, 4Bitten have been around since 2002 but this release must surely be the highlight of their career so far. 11 blues based Hard Rock tracks of serious quality, played with an obvious passion and panache which would put many other bands to shame. From opening track ’Burning …

Ever since bursting on to the Metal scene in late 2002, Epica have always strived to create thought provoking and technically intricate compositions culminating in their previous release ’Design Your Universe’, which many thought would be the pinnacle of their career. To their immense credit the band haven’t rested on …

Dubai based progressive rockers ABSOLACE, have released their debut video for I Am, So I Will.  The track comes from the band’s forthcoming second album, Fractals, which is released worldwide on March 26. Featuring ten hauntingly beautiful tracks, the album is an emotionally-rich opus, mixing soaring melodies, crunching riffs, thought provoking lyrical themes …

The word genius surely applies to Marc Bolan ( Mark Feld ),best known as founder/lead singer/lead guitarist for T.Rex but also a successful solo artist. He also had his own television show,a feat that many so called glam rock artists of today cannot aspire to! He had the diversity to …

Ant May from Planetmosh spoke to Ryan Waste, guitarist from Municipal Waste, in London recently to discuss their upcoming album. Planetmosh: Your new album, The Fatal Feast is due out in April.  Can you tell us a bit about the album? Ryan: It takes place in space, which is a …

Another one of my special mention reviews as I had headed along to the Unicorn in Camden to catch fantastic Welsh metallers Triaxis and the equally brilliant Elimination on their End of Days tour however as we (Planetmosh) have already reviewed the first show of the tour (which you can …

The Popes return with their new album in March 2012 the follow up to the 2009 critically acclaimed ‘Outlaw Heaven’. ‘New Church’ is the bands strongest album to date. Shane MacGowan formed The Popes to record his album ‘The Snake’ in 1994 after leaving The Pogues. The band released two …

‘Forever Wild, Beautiful And Damned’, the new greatest hits cd from Gypsy Pistoleros is a 14 track bundle of Latin flavoured Flamenco Glam, Sleaze, and Rock n Roll. The Gypsy Pistoleros are one of those few bands that can claim to be truly unique, a statement firmly proven on this …

Blessed as I am to get to listen to many great albums whilst reviewing for Planetmosh there occasionally comes along an offering of such monumental and brutally bludgeoning power that I’m lifted and thrown across the room, this my friends is that offering. Formed in late 2003 and quickly followed …

After Chthonic’s astounding 2011 release, Takasago Army, it seems only right that these Taiwanese melodic death metal heroes should hold a huge metal concert in one of Taiwan’s most historic buildings and release it on DVD and CD. This is The Final Battle at the Sing Ling Temple, Chthonic’s 3rd …

Bristol based extreme death metal band, Amputated, have made a name for themselves in the metal world in two very different ways. Firstly from their rather obscene, repulsive and downright sick minded song titles and themes and secondly by their appearance on the cheesy BBC Three, fly on the wall …

If you want a female fronted rock band who aren’t your typical Paramore wanabee band. A band whose lyrics have so much aggression, anarchy and passion jammed into them. Then Lincolnshire based Skarlett Riot are a band you need to have in your life and their new EP entitled Villain …

A Silent Escape are now prepared to make their mark on the UK scene. Meshing the hard-hitting delivery of ‘Comeback Kid’ and ‘In Flames’ with the song-writing sensibilities of punk-rockers ‘Millencolin’, A Silent Escape are set to push open the envelope in the shape of their stunning self-titled debut album, …

“Fire Make Thunder” marks the fourth undertaking for the collaborative duo known as OSI. Formed in 2002 by Jim Matheos (Fates Warning, Arch/Matheos) and Kevin Moore (Chroma Key, former Dream Theater keyboardist), OSI is a long distance partnership, both musicians typically writing and recording alone and sending song ideas back …

The French heavy metal scene isn’t known for its international impact – personally, and without the aid of Google or Wikipedia, I can count less than a handful bands who have made any sort of significant impact outside their homeland: Trust, of course, who in turn give us the living …

Born from a vision by guitarist and songwriter Rex Zeco, Belgium’s Nightqueen have been in existence since 2004 but by their own admission the early years were tough, with personnel changes a plenty hampering any proper development musically. Once stability had been found the band forged ahead with writing material …