PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Never one to rest on their laurels, The Sword have veered away yet again from their swashbuckling roots with new release Low Country. Formed in 2003 in Austin, Texas they trail blazed onto the music scene with some seismic stoner/doom metal. Their 2015 release of High Country saw them go …

PlanetMosh’s Miley Stevens had the pleasure of interviewing One Machine‘s Steve Smyth (ex Testament) at Bloodstock 2016. Watch the video below:

Over the past few years, Canadian alt-rockers July Talk have dedicated their time to extensive tours through America and Canada celebrating the release of their self-titled debut album back in 2012. This saw the band achieve a gold record in Canada, and receive the Juno Award for Alternative Album of …

Essex band Forever Never formed in 2003 and after releasing an EP and a couple of albums they announced in 2012 that they were to take a break.  In 2015, Kerrang heralded their return with a preview of the new song “Never giving up” which enjoyed considerable success.  In July …

Ian Hunter came to fame as part of British music legends, Mott the Hoople from 1969 to 1974.  Since then he’s had a successful solo career, releasing a steady stream of albums.  “Fingers crossed” is his 21st solo album. I loved his last solo album – “When I’m president”, so …

The lovely guys from Zlatanera joined me at Bloodstock this year to chat about their set and their drummer falling off the stage, future gigs and festivals, the new album, their writing process and a new music video.

I had a chat with the lovely Jouni and Kai from Whispered in the Media Tent at Bloodstock this year. The band were super excited to finally be playing this festival and England in general which has been a dream of theirs. We chatted about their stage costume, the concept …

The lovely Dublin lads from Two Tales of Woe came to chat to us at Bloodstock this year (their first time playing in the UK) about their set “one of the best sounding sets we’ve ever played”, the reaction to their new release, the balance between playing gigs and recording …

The lovely lads from Ten Ton Slug came and met us in the Media Tent at Bloodstock Open Air to chat about their set at the festival, the up and coming EP, exciting future shows, their amazing slug glass pipes and the possibility of slug condoms…”slime with the slug”.

The lovely Rabid Bitch of the North lads from Belfast came to chat to us at Bloodstock Open Air to talk about playing the festival, the up and coming new release, their recording sound and their views on cassettes.

Having caught up with Devin Townsend a few months back at Ramblin’ Man Fair to talk Transcendence I have been excited to hear his newest creation.  With such a varied back catalogue I looked forward to hearing what direction Transcendence would take; I have to say the wait was quite a challenge …

PlanetMosh’s Miley Stevens had a quick chat with Attica Rage just before they headlined the Jagermeister Stage at Bloodstock Festival. Check out the video below:

The term ‘legendary’ is often over used. However, when you have a career spanning five decades and worked with everyone from Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie and Eric Clapton through to Laurence Jones and Sari Schorr, it is safe to say that producer Mike Vernon deserves the tag as much as …

Brutal death metal was the name of the game here for a while, an the subgenre remains strong. Like apple pie and McDonald’s, here, American is taken to mean “made in the USA”. While there’s plenty of brutal death metal from across the globe, the sound was truly perfected in …

PlanetMosh caught up with Footprints In The Custard at Bloodstock Festival where they were performing on the New Blood Stage. Watch the video below:  

PlanetMosh‘s Miley Steven’s had a chat with Aaron Aedy of British doom metal pioneers Paradise Lost at this year’s Bloodstock Festival. Check out the video below:  

PlanetMosh’s Miley Stevens had a quick chat with Jax, Monty and Princess Luxury of Evil Scarecrow at this year’s Bloodstock Festival. Check the video out below:

      Following on from the rightly well received recent EP, Idlewar make their debut proper with this sumptuously groove laden album ‘Impulse’             I will readily admit to being a hook, line and sinker fan of the Rock trio concept, there has always …

With the release of Hardwired… to Self-Destruct due on November 18th this year, PlanetMosh is asking our readers to pick their favourite Metallica studio album. What do you think will top the list? Puppets? Ride? Will St. Anger or Lulu even get a vote?  Here’s your chance. (you can select …

Back in 2007 at the height of a thirty year career, Journey, one of the all-time great rock bands found themselves without a singer. What followed next, frankly you couldn’t make it up. Scouring Youtube late one night Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon found Arnel Pineda, lead singer of the …