PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

If you’ve been travelling through a barren, wasteland of Metal lately, seeking asylum from the wave of crap music, rest your weary little heads because you’ll find a home with Twisted Autocracy. So Thrashers, stop roaming the streets of Dublin with your tattered patch jackets , pick up your trailing …

Xandria’s new album, Sacrificium, due out on 5th May. Planetmosh spoke to the band’s new singer, Dianne Van Giersbergen.

Although Futurama is classed as an EP it is in fact made up of 4 brand new songs, 6 live numbers and an extended mix of one of the new songs and is a fine example of prime  AOR. Futurama is currently available via Membran in the UK and the …

New to the live rock circuit, Plainview have taken a slightly different route having got their debut album recorded before playing any live shows. They are now taking that release out on the road in support of Martyr De Mona. PlanetMosh caught up with them before their London show Upstairs …

The UK’s biggest mosh-fest GHOSTFEST is back and ready for over 2000 metal / hardcore fans to indulge in a weekend of brutality and kicks things off announcing 16 killer bands. Presented by IMPERICON at Leeds University on 28/29 June 2014, the weekend will feature two stages with 40 bands, including some very special …

This wasn’t my first foray to a Status Quo concert. It was however my first time to see the ‘Frantic Four” line up that released the ‘real’ Quo albums (Hello, Dog of Two Head and Piledriver to name a few), that heralded heavy blues rock. No “whatever you want” or …

@PlanetMosh @LouellaDeville_ interview with @MidnightMob101 To supplement our review of their album These days, Midnight Mob have taken the time to answer some questions for us. I sent off my questions by email but as I’m over in the UK and they’re across a big ocean in the USA I can’t …

@louelladeville_ @planetmosh review of These days by @MidnightMob101 a special limited edition CD released via @stprecords New York based Rock ‘n Roll band Midnight Mob formed in February 2009. Fronted by Blackey Deahtproof they have two album releases under their belt. A self titled EP and Black Moon Rising. These …

One of the few successful extreme metal bands to be fronted by a woman, Holy Moses – even more than 30 years into their career – inevitably draw comparisons with the likes of the more high profile Arch Enemy.  And, certainly, there are similarities between the two bands, especially in …

This 11th opus metallicus from Gamma Ray could well be described as the album that nearly never happened… just as the band were putting the finishing touches to it, and had jetted off to South America for a short tour, the almost unthinkable happened:  a fire swept through their Hammer …

.@PlanetMosh reviews DevilDriver, @BleedFromWithin and @Sylosis in Belfast On the only previous occasion on which DevilDriver played Belfast – a month short of eight years ago – the local Free Presbyterian intelligentsia (the Norn Iron equivalent of the US’ moral minority/religious right) picketed the outdoor festival which they were headlining: …

@Planetmosh  @FormanDave @ZZTop @NeilDanielsBks   As author Neil Daniels say’s in the book “Beer drinkers and Hell raisers , is not a biography per-se, rather as the subtitle suggests, a fans’ handbook; a guide to their history and music“. I found it to be very historically ( musically ) informative, telling of the early …

Slough Feg have been around since the early 90’s and have released 8 critically acclaimed studio records as well as numerous splits and played worldwide to a loyal fanbase. Whilst they may not be familiar to most, once heard they will never be forgotten. Mike Scalzi of Slough Feg took some time …

Goodbye Enough Z’Nuff is the new album from former Enuff Z’Nuff singer/songwriter Donnie Vie.  The band was formed in Blue Island, Illinois in 1984 and Vie was a key member until he went part time in 2002, stopping touring with the band but continuing to write and record with them. …

“The Quantum Enigma” marks Epica’s sixth studio album release and follows on from last years live “Retrospect” offering. Where as that was by the very nature of the title, a look back at the bands past material, this career defining latest album, is entirely forward thinking, both in its construction …

Vardis originate from the North of England and became fully professional in 1978 forming a prominent part of the British Heavy Metal scene. They consist of front man Steve Zodiac on guitar and lead vocals, Terry Horbury on bass guitar and Gary Pearson on drums. Vardis quickly gained notoriety for …

@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘Renatus’ by @dynaztyband released via @SpinefarmINT Scandinavians are undoubtedly a great influence in the rock and metal scene and when it comes to Sweden there are plenty of names that spring to your mind. Well, I would like to add another one, Dynazty. They are a heavy metal/hard rock team …

.@Planetmosh interviews Mike Spreitzer of DevilDriver As DevilDriver‘s latest promo tour, in support of last year’s ‘Winter Kills’ album, winds its way through the UK and into Europe, PlanetMosh hooked up with “the man with the golden guitar” (as he was introduced), Mike Spreitzer, backstage at Belfast’s Limelight venue, to talk …

The final line up for the ROCKHARZ 2014 is now complete. The last confirmed bands are: XANDRIA: The female fronted Symphonic Metallers XANDRIA who will arrive in Ballensted with their new singer Dianne van Giersbergen and material from their upcoming album “Sacrificium”, which will be released in May 2014. EISREGEN: …

With just three months to go until the return of the mighty SONISPHERE festival to KNEBWORTH, a further twleve acts have been added to the star-packed line up. After their late night trip down memory lane in 2010, million selling power trio Therapy? return to BOHEMIA, this time to perform …