PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Love a bit of pyro?!  BLOODSTOCK HQ are continuing their popular website ‘treasure hunts’ and handing you a pyrotastic chance to win tickets for the 2015 event.  To make your bonfire week go with a bang, simply find the 12 hidden fireworks around the BLOODSTOCK website.  If you can locate …

I sat with three other interviewers in the Press Area of Damnation and had a relaxed chat with the founder of Leed’s Damnation Festival, Gavin McInally to find out how the whole thing began 10 years ago. How does a small one day show go from it’s humble beginnings to being one …

This is the third album release from the “Cavalera Conspiracy” boys, with new bassist ‘Nate Newton’ from “Converge”. Bearing in mind the vast catalogue and releases from Max and Iggor since 1985; they certainly have not mellowed with age! “Max Cavalera” usually has an easy distinguishable vocal, but this time …

Growing up a “Thrash Kid”, I had two goals to see the Big Four live and to see Avenged Sevenfold be exposed as posers and the terrible songwriters that they are. Luckily in 2012, I achieved both when I saw Anthrax dominate the Academy in Dublin (and I caught Frank …

The guys of Vega descended on Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms last night (1/11/14) to a nearly packed venue for the first gig of their mini tour since releasing the new album ‘Stereo Messiah‘. Before the gig I had a brief moment to speak with brothers James and Tom Martin about various …

Tonight’s show was advertised as having an early start – with the doors opening at 7pm, Asia were due on at 7.30.  Things went as planned and Asia came on at 7.30 and kicked the night off with two songs from their very first album before playing a track from …

On 26th June 2008, my first real taste of live music photography was shooting Def Leppard and Whitesnake at Wembley Arena with their support band which to that point I did not know called Black Stone Cherry. Jump ahead six and a half years of hard work and not only has …

Sometimes I feel like I live in Belfast’s most famous music venue rather than five minutes ’round the corner, given the amount of time I spend there… this was my something like my 26th or 27th gig here this year so far (a that’s not counting the amount of evenings spent …

@planetmosh reviews .@ThunderousJones on .@SoundHub Records. Hailing from the Midlands, Thunderous Jones formed in 2009 and went through various line-up changes before finally settling on their current roster early last year.  They are: Liam Coffey – Vocals, Tay Lakin – Bass, Mike Wroe – Guitars, Mark Eyden – Guitars and …

PlanetMosh has once again teamed up with XMusic for another fantastic prize. Dave Lombardo has announced a Drum Clinic on November 20th at XMusic in Dublin and we have FIVE Pairs of front row tickets up for grabs. ******Competition NOW CLOSED**** Tickets for this one off event are on sale …

The term overdone or unnecessary is thrown around a lot lately. But wow, is this trash an example of it! I love the original and 2008 version of this “Ecliptica” ; Sonata Arctica are one of my favourite bands but this has ruined my opinion of them for a while. …

Halloween.  One of the most important nights of the year… the one when the veil between the worlds comes down… or when spidey dickheads get to cross-dress without fear of ridicule from their equally spidey dickhead mates and make even bigger drunken pricks of themselves than usual… or, in the …

Hailing from Germany, this is the debut release and reeks of bestial butchery. There are many adjectives to describe how insanely inhumane this tape sounds; the guitars are full of buzz and are razor sharp in their delivery. Vocally the band have used a dose of reverb to achieve an …

Just before Nick and the guys of Vega went on stage to perform the first gig of their ‘mini’ Autumn tour, I caught up with him in his dressing room at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms.   Main cover picture was taken by Paul Stuart Hollingsworth   https://www.facebook.com/OFFICIALVEGA?fref=ts    

Tonight’s show marked the first night in the UK of this monolithic tour. With After the Burial headlining the show, supported by Circles and Monuments; you know it’s going to be a night of pure, unrelenting energy and sauna rooms. It’s fair to say that, ‘The Joiners’, is one of Southampton’s …

Bassist Morgan Rider from Crimson Shadows takes the time out to fill in our email interview about the bands style, their new release, their future plans and more! Hello there! How’re you? For our readers who don’t know, can you tell me about Crimson Shadows? Morgan – Doing great, thank …

The second day of Firefest’s Final Fling promised to be the strongest, in terms of the quality of the names on the line-up, and this was reflected in the fact that breakfast had barely settled in the stomachs of most of the some 1,800 who queued outside the venue to …

Dames of Darkness festival have just announced their lineup for next year.  Additionally they’ve taken the step of moving from a one day event to a 2 day event, meaning more bands and more partying.  As with recent years, the lineup features a mix of British and European bands, and …

      ‘Vervain’, heralds Liv Kristine’s fifth solo album release, and is, without doubt, the strongest yet. I’ve been of the opinion for a considerable length of time now, that Liv, in a vocal sense, is riding on the crest of a creative wave at this moment. Her work …

In December last yaear, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson performed a concert singing a mix of holiday classics, their own hits and personal favourites written by Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilsson, Bob Dylan and Sammy Hagar.  They were joined by special guests Shawn Colvin, Sammy Hagar, Richard Marx and Pat Monahan …