PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Two Tales Of Woe have just dropped ‘Burning Lands’, their first song in 3 years ahead of the Metal 2 The Masses Ireland Final this Saturday. Check out the video below. The lads are keeping the press train rolling with this interview that Carl and Kelvin did with us at …

zhOra are here and mean business. The Tipperary natives will be flying their blue and yellow flag in Dublin on Saturday at the Metal 2 The Masses Ireland final. PlanetMosh talks to drummer Tom Woodlock in the run up to the showcase Congrats on getting to the final guys. Can …

Bonfire have been knocking around the hard rock scene for 30 years now and to celebrate their three decades of rock, they have released a double CD entitled ‘Pearls.’ You may think that this is just a collection of their greatest hits, with some rarities, alternate versions and other stuff on …

Following on from their ball busting semi final at this year’s  Metal 2 The Masses Ireland, PlanetMosh caught up with the lads from Minus Ten Thousand Hours and here’s what they had to say ahead of the final this weekend. Congrats on getting to the final guys. Can you explain …

When event organisers Prometheus Promotions told me a few months ago that they were planning an evening of NWOBHM not far from me in Northwich, to say I was over the moon is an understatement as this genre of heavy metal has been in my blood since its formation. When …

Fresh after pulverising their two Metal 2 The Masses Ireland rounds, PlanetMosh caught up with the lads  from Call To Arms and here’s what they had to say ahead of the final this weekend. Congrats on getting to the final guys. Can you explain the feeling when you heard your …

In the mid-Eighties, a band of five extremely different musicians of mixed musical and ethnic backgrounds sauntered out of the American midwest and into the international conscience.  Taking their name from the charismatic, and often enigmatic, lead singer, the Dan Reed Network engineered a combination of hard rock, funk and …

Dennis Jarman from Planetmosh talks to Salem about their new album Dark Days, influences and Spinal Tap moments.                    

This is the fourth album from France’s BlackRain and it has been produced by Jack Douglas, a name that I’m sure will be familiar to PlanetMosh readers thanks to his work with such rock icons as Aerosmith and Cheap Trick. Due to his input the sound may be a little …

Planetmosh spoke to Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia to talk about the new Lacuna Coil album, Delirium.  

Planetmosh spoke to Udo Dirkschneider during his current tour where he’s playing the Accept songs for the final time.  After this tour he’ll focus on playing only the U.D.O material.  Hear what he had to say…  

Prayers for the Damned is the new album from SIXX A.M., released on April 29th via Eleven Seven Music.  It is the fourth studio album from the band made up of bassist Nikki Sixx, guitarist DJ Ashba and James Michael, who takes on lead vocal, production and mixing duties.  The band are about …

The program for Tuska 2016 is now ready. The last additions bring a whole new level of intensity and broaden the spectrum of the festival line up. GERMAN PRECISION, BRAZILIAN THRASH AND JAPANESE BIG-TIMERS German progressive death metal outfit Obscura have been added to the already killer Saturday program. Expect …

Anniversaries are important occasions, no matter their context.  This June marks an important one for Northern Ireland hard rockers The Answer, as it will be ten years since the release of their debut album, ‘Rise’. It proved to be an album which lived up to its name, catapulting the four …

BLOODSTOCK HQ is readying to send Team M2TM out on the road for the finals, but in the meantime, there’s a few more band additions to the August bill! Joining Friday’s main stage bill are newly re-grouped British death metal overlords, AKERCOCKE.  The band are working on new music and …

British 90s Rockers, Last Great Dreamers, reunited a couple of years ago, and are releasing a new single, Glitterball Apocalypse, ahead of the release of their new album.  The band currently have a Pledgemusic campaign running to raise funds for the new album – http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/lastgreatdreamers. This is an incredibly catchy …

With the release of the new King King album, Reaching for the light, rapidly approaching (release date is 4th may), King King have released a single – Rush Hour. It’s not often you get a Blues rock band releasing a radio edit of a song – in fact it’s not …

Aluk Todolo are peddlers of occult rock, if you are not familiar with the term occult rock, just imagine a Hammer House of Horror movie with a heavy metal soundtrack and that’s pretty much the jist. I have to admit I wasn’t familiar with the term, but the first track …

With the release of this their first full length album, Italy’s Deadsmoke are looking to make a huge noise in the doom/sludge world. But with any first release there are bound to be some pitfalls.  Deadsmoke opens with the slow power house monster of Branches of Evil. A song that …

The gig kicked off with a slight hiccup as the Butcher Babies and Sumo Cyco were heading to Southampton from Birmingham leading them to travel through London whilst the marathon was in full swing.  Thankfully the guys and girl of Guilty as Charged were there to save the day and …