EHT Promotions in association with PlanetMosh is proud to present THE UNLEASHED FESTIVAL 2016. The 4th installment of The Unleashed Festival will feature an array of talent from across Ireland and is sure to be a night to remember at the end of this Summer. First up, the venue will be obliterated by skull …
Read More »Boxes – Containment [prank]
Many of us are familiar with the endangered “physical media” known as CDs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records. Something all physical media bought at retail has in common is that it is contained. This containment is called packaging, and is ubiquitous. Standalone, loose physical media were not reviewed because they’re …
Read More »The Jelly Jam will release their epic new album Profit on 27th May 2016
The Jelly Jam will release their epic new album Profit on 27th May 2016 via Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group (Flying Colors, Gov’t Mule, Teramaze, Crippled Black Phoenix, Black Stone Cherry, Joe Bonamassa). The Jelly Jam feature DREAM THEATER’s John Myung, WINGER’s Rod Morgenstein, and KING’S X Ty Tabor, will …
Read More »The Room headline The Robin 2
On Sunday April 3rd The Room will headline at The Robin 2 with support from Heidi Widdop and The Howard Sinclair Band. The Room have recently been out on the road with Doris Brendel and played The Borderline in London and The Railway in Bolton and have delivered a fantastic …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK add more bands, announce club nights
The clock’s ticking! There are just 133 days ‘til BLOODSTOCK, the best heavy metal party weekender of the year and BLOODSTOCK HQ has a bumper batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands to announce to cheer you into April. Plus, if you didn’t win festival tickets in the very popular BLOODSTOCK …
Read More »KILLING JOKE unveil New Cold War video & announce ‘THE GREAT GATHERING’ a Special Brixton Academy show November 4th
Killing Joke unveil a new video for New Cold War taken from their latest album Pylon on Spinefarm Records, and announce that they will headline a special headline show at London O2 Academy Brixton for Friday November 4th. This special one-off event will take place under ‘The Great Gathering’ banner, with a carefully selected supporting cast set …
Read More »Iodine Sky Debut album ‘Tides’ UK Release 27th of May
Manchester melodic hard rockers Iodine Sky have released the first details of their eagerly anticipated debut album. ‘Tides‘ was recorded with Creed and Dark New Day‘s very own Brett Hestla, and will be released on the 27th of May 2016. Iodine Sky have one goal; to create anthemic songs with the catchiest hooks …
Read More »Forever In Depths release ‘Darkness’ EP in the UK on 29th April
Portsmouth is a hotbed of metalcore fury and rising from the carnage are Forever In Depths. With a brand new EP titled ‘Darkness’ being released on 29th April, the band are leading with the title track on 8th April. Forever In Depths are pleased to announce details of the ‘Darkness’ EP including …
Read More »Cardinal Bay release new video ‘Answers’ plus new EP UK Release 13th of May
Bridgwater post hardcore 5 piece Cardinal Bay have released a cracking new video for single ‘Answers‘ as well as further details of their second EP of the same name. Recorded at Bandit Studios with Jonny Renshaw (Devil Sold His Soul), ‘Answers’ will be unleashed on the 13th of May 2016. …
Read More »VUKOVI announce new single ‘Animal’ to be released May 13 via Lab Records
Rising Scottish rock outfit Vukovi announce the release of brand new single ‘Animal’, released May 13th through Lab Records. Perfectly titled, it sees the band unleashing their feral side, pounding through three and a half minutes of perfect power-pop-rock that stomps along like the fortified gates have just crashed down …
Read More »BLOODSTOCK add a batch of Sophie Stage bands, announce club nights
The clock’s ticking! There are just 133 days ’til BLOODSTOCK, the best heavy metal party weekender of the year and BLOODSTOCK HQ has a bumper batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands to announce to cheer you into April. Plus, if you didn’t win festival tickets in the very popular BLOODSTOCK …
Read More »Persona – Elusive Reflections
Up for review today are Persona. An alternative metal band raising hell from the land of Tunisia by using their fusion of modern metal with riffs of kings, synths and orchestration. Person are a six piece band who can raise riffs and tones that would please the gods! The album …
Read More »Blessed Hellride – ‘Bastards & Outlaws’
Blessed Hellride may hail from the Moselle region of southwestern Germany, but they sound like they were spawned on the dusty highways of suvern California, the bastard outlaw (sic) sons of Zakk Wylde hosting a gang bang with a female biker club while the throttle is still full open and …
Read More »MÖTORHEAD – “Clean Your Clock” dvd out in May
MÖTORHEAD “Clean Your Clock” DVD/CD/Vinyl UDR/Motörhead Music, Release: 27th May 2016. They were the Kings of the Road. They lived on it. They loved it and the fans loved them! Never was the spirit of Motörhead more alive than when they were on tour, shake, rattle and rolling audiences to within an …
Read More »James Michael of Sixx:AM to feature in a new ‘making of’ called ‘Fly On The Wall with James Michael’
March 1st, 2016 — Rock luminaries, Dj Ashba (Guitar), James Michael (Lead Vocals) and Nikki Sixx (Bass), collectively known as SIXX:A.M, today have unleashed the first single, “Rise,” from the first volume of their upcoming double album, Prayers For The Damned, which drops April 29 via Eleven Seven Music. Fans …
Read More »Lynne Hampson – Partner in Rocksector Records and SOS Festival Promoter – Interview
Lynne, this will be the 9th SOS festival, can you give us the reason why you started it; was it purely to showcase Rocksector signed bands. The festival was started to showcase local , Rocksector and up and coming bands. Manchester at that time didn’t have its own summer festival and …
Read More »Tax The Heat – ‘Fed To The Lions’
PlanetMosh first crossed paths with Bristol rhythm and rollers Tax The Heat a little under two years ago, when they appeared at the Steelhouse festival at the tail end of July 2014, shortly after they had released their Chris (Masters Of Reality/Kyuss/QOTSA) Goss-produced debut EP. Turn the clock forward 20 …
Read More »Yearn to Burn: Shred Guitar Insanity – PlanetMosh Playlist Series
Yearn to Burn: Shred Guitar Insanity What is shred, anyway? It’s a stringed instrument (primarily guitar) playing style that evolved naturally, morphing into it’s own niche. Fast, ostentatious, virtuoso playing, using a variety of techniques, was not invented in the 1980s nor by Eddie Van Halen. That decade and that particular …
Read More »Dakesis – The New Dawn
Since forming in Birmingham in 2008, Dakesis released an EP and their debut studio album Trial By Fire by 2011and it shows the confidence that they have in themselves to follow these up with a 78 minute long concept album titled The New Dawn. Concept albums can strike fear to …
Read More »Black Stone Cherry – Kentucky
Kentucky is in their blood, many fans hankered after the sound of Black Stone Cherry’s self-titled debut and with their move to Mascot Records BSC were able to return home to where it all started. Whilst their last two albums sought to bring forward more American radio friendly songs, it …
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