PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

What must it be like growing up in a city, dreaming of filling your local venue like all your heroes have done before you? Then ask yourself, what must be like to fulfil that dream? Ask King King, whose sold-out hometown concert at O2 ABC in Glasgow on 14th May …

More bands revealed and a brand new stage announced! As promised, next year’s BREAKING BANDS FESTIVAL will be the biggest to date. Held at the Stoke Prior Sports & Country Club in Bromsgrove, on the late May Bank Holiday, 2017’s event will house the best new and up-and-coming Metal, Punk …

Monte Pittman streams new track, “Be Very Afraid”, online There are great guitarists, great vocalists and great songwriters, but Monte Pittman is one of the elite few who can truly lay claim to all three titles. With his fourth full-length, Inverted Grasp Of Balance, he has once again raised the stakes, delivering a …

Good Tiger premieres new video for “Aspirations” via AltPress.com – alongside exclusive interview with Derya “Dez” Nagle; kicks off North American tour with Dance Gavin Dance, The Contortionist, Hail The Sun, and The White Noise next week After completing a North American tour with Between the Buried and Me and August Burns Red earlier …

ALLEGAEON launches mini studio documentary for new album, ‘Proponent for Sentience’, online! On September 23rd, melodic death metal outfit ALLEGAEON will be releasing their fourth full-length, ‘Proponent for Sentience‘, via Metal Blade Records. Today, the band has launched a mini documentary for ‘Proponent for Sentience‘ online, which gives fans a behind-the-scenes look …

PlanetMosh had the pleasure of talking to Hamish from Vallenfyre at Bloodstock 2016. Check the video below:

FyreSky’s debut EP ‘The Circle’ has left me very pleasantly surprised.  It may only contain 5 tracks, and be recorded in a ‘Live Lounge’ style, but this doesn’t diminish the fact that the songs are all fundamentally quite strong. It opens with ‘Magik Woman (Ritual Beginning)’, all dark incantations and …

PlanetMosh were lucky enough to catch two minutes with Anthrax‘s Jon Donais at Bloodstock 2016.   Watch the video below:

This new band hail from America and are paying homage to the gods of old whilst keeping their own identity. Demon Bitch formed in 2011 and play in a style which fuses power metal and high octane speed metal with dexterity and passion. The playing is superb, however the production …

Airbourne are a band you can rely on to put a smile on your face whilst you headbang like a loon and with Breakin’ Outta Hell, their strongest album to date, get those neck muscles ready when its released via Spinefarm Records on September 23rd 2016. Their fourth studio release …

In just over two weeks, Orange County, Californian hard rock trio Idlewar will officially unveil their ‘Impulse’ full-length debut. Produced by drummer Pete Pagonis and mastered by Brian Lucey (Ghost ‘Meliora’, Black Keys ‘El Camino’, Arctic Monkeys ‘AM’, plus albums by David, ‘Twin Peaks’ ‘Dune’, Lynch) the new album is released 30th September 2016 via …

GOLDRAY return with a brand new single ‘SOULCHILD‘ on October 28th. Having sprung into fruition in 2014 as the exciting new psych rock project from ofex-Reef guitarist Kenwyn House with Leah Rasmussen(vocals) and Geoff Laurens (bass),GOLDRAY have been busily writing and recording their highly anticipated full-length debut album at various studios including …

JOANovARC debut album Ride Of Your Life released  November 11th On November 11th JOANovARC release their raw, raunchy and powerful debut album ‘Ride Of Your Life’, through Red Vixen Records. Ride Of Your Life  finds JOANovARC at their full creative tilt delivering hard-hitting, retooled classic rock with a modern twist. Describing themselves as “Puss …

Heavy Metal band Hamerex announce their upcoming third album, Traitor, which is set for release on 7th October 2016 under their own label IX Music. The band began writing and recording the album since March 2015, and saw them write together as a band for the first time, with the …

earMUSIC is happy to welcome Helmet, a band that has influenced and launched a thousand other bands, with the release of their brand new studio album Dead To The World. The long anticipated new album – the first in six years – comes with heavy guitar riffs, blasting drums and …

Joe Bonamassa really needs no introduction now; I think he has single handedly given the blues its well-deserved kick up the butt and re-ignited the scene. There are so many blues artists coming to the fore: King King, Aaron Keylock, Dan Patlansky, Aynsley Lister, Sari Schorr and many more that …

Following on from last month’s interpretation of ALICE COOPER’s ‘Poison’,THE LOUNGE KITTENS bounce back (yes we went there) with a brand new video for SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s 2001 classic ‘Bounce’. This latest single arrives on the eve of the release of their debut album, ‘Sequins & C-Bombs’, funded by …

PlanetMosh’s Miley Stevens had the pleasure of a quick chat with Outright Resistance straight after  their Bloodstock 2016 performance. We spoke of the importance of looking out for each other, as well as our thoughts on The Sophie Lancaster Foundation. Watch the interview below:  

Jamie Reader-Johnson from Planetmosh caught up with July Talk after their set at Sound Control in Manchester, in support of their latest studio album, Touch, to discuss the new record, touring, and all things in between. What was the first track that came together to build Touch? P: Strange Habit …

PlanetMosh had a quick chat with Len Sonnier of Stuck Mojo at Bloodstock 2016. We unfortunately had to find space in an already overcrowded press area, so apologies for the camera angle..and the people walking onscreen. However, there are cookies if you can spot Dee Snider’s sneaky appearance. Stuck Mojo …