PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

If you’ve not yet heard of Gama Bomb – where on earth have you been? These feisty Irish lads make geek cool with a sickeningly good injection of thrash. Untouchable Glory is Gama Bomb’s 5th album, and due to be released at the end of the month, on Friday, 30th …

Blues guitarist Walter Trout is back with a new album, Battle Scars.  It’s his 42nd album if you include his time with Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and his 18th with label Provogue, and is an album some feared may never happen – at the beginning of last year …

@planetmosh reviews Condition Hüman by .@Queensryche on .@centurymedia Over the course of their career Queensrÿche, like the rest of us, have had their ups and downs.  Some of the well publicised downs have been long, drawn out and no doubt painful for those involved.  However, with their issues resolved they …

Joyful, energized guitar-and-vocal performances frame the dozen original songs that narrate his hard-won, life-or-death struggle waiting for, and ultimately receiving, a life-saving liver transplant. With bristling energy, unflagging virtuosity and lyrics that cut to the core of human hope and willpower, Walter Trout’s new album, ‘Battle Scars’, chronicles his horrific …

 ‘Never A Good Day To Die’ is the third studio album from British Heavy Metal band, Absolva. Encompassing a clear-cut combination of Thrash meets Power Metal, the new album shows a progression from their previous releases, most likely as a result of the experience each band member has drawn from …

It may be too late for many of the city’s landmark venues, but London Mayor Boris Johnson has finally thrown his weight behind the capital’s music industry – and especially the much needed Agent Of Change principle. Many venues – up to a third of those which existed a decade …

In these straitened economic times – marked from the music business’ perspective by increasing numbers of venues closing down and promoters going bankrupt – success stories are few and far between and thus should be acclaimed, celebrated and heralded at every opportunity.  Which is exactly what today’s proceedings were all …

Tonight’s show was completely sold out, and if you’ve seen Joanne Shaw Taylor perform then you’ll know why.  Unlike most shows I attend in London where it gets a lot busier in time for the headline act, audiences at the Stables are very good at turning up early to watch …

Juno Award-winning hard hitting rockers Monster Truck return with a colossal brand new track Don’t Tell Me How To Live which will appear on the bands highly anticipated forthcoming sophomore album due out in early 2016 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (Black Stone Cherry, Black Label Society, Joe Bonamassa). Monster …

Cedron Release New Single “Time Heal My Wounds” Through Redfield Records On Friday October 16th, Redfield Records’ latest signing Cedron released the official music video for its brand new single “Time Heal My Wounds”. “Blistering passion, addictive riffs and crushing vocals filled with emotion and political, yet personal messages.” The …

Wilson Unveil ‘Right To Rise’ Video   Detroit rockers, WILSON have unveiled their new video for ‘Right To Rise’ over at VEVO – http://www.vevo.com/watch/USRZR1566113.  The anthemic track is taken from the band’s current album of the same name, out now via Razor & Tie. The clip serves as an ode to …

Together with autumn chills and colours the concert season knocks on your door.  October, November and December seem to be the busiest months gig wise.  So if you are in Glasgow, then after seeing the dark and mysterious Sisters of Mercy (or the charming Devin Townsend) on Monday, you are …

SKINDRED Release New Music Video for ‘Volume’ As Skindred gear up to drop their new album of the same name on October 30, the band have made another new tune from the release available to hear. ‘Volume’ is the second single to be released from the hotly anticipated new album! The bands 6th studio …

GRAVE’s new studio album “Out Of Respect For The Dead” has been released today! Get it at CM Distro and other shops and online stores of your choice: http://smarturl.it/graveCMDISTRO http://emp.me/zVk http://smarturl.it/ORFDitunes http://smarturl.it/orftdAMAZONMP3   “Out Of Respect For The Dead” is available in the following versions: 1.     Standard CD Jewelcase 2.     Digital Download …

Post-metal progressive powerhouse INTRONAUT have premiered ‘Digital Gerrymandering’ taken from their upcoming fifth studio album, The Direction of Last Things, out on 13th November via Century Media Records. INTRONAUT guitarist/vocalist Sacha Dunable comments: “I love every song on the new record equally, so this is my favorite song on the new …

Brit-rockers ‘MONSTER JAW’ announce the release off their official video for their free download single ‘Your Day Will Come‘. Stepping into a darker zone of alternative rock, the West Yorkshire (UK) 3 piece consisting of Mik Davis (Vox/Guitar), Neil Short (Bass/Vox) and John Bradford (Drums/Vox) bring emotive string arrangements, atmospheric vocals and …

This year has seen Backyard Babies “returning after a five year hiatus … doing what they do best – kick ass, straight-up rock ’n’ roll songs, flecked with punk attitude and sleaze rock swagger” (Vive Le Rock). The critically acclaimed new album “Four By Four” has been released in August …

LONDON, O2 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE SATURDAY 19th DECEMBER WITH SUPPORT FROM PURSON Box office 0844 477 2000 or ticketweb.co.uk Gothic-rock legends Fields Of The Nephilim have announced romantic-folk-prog adventurers Purson as support to their highly anticipated return to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London on December 19th. The Nephilim celebrated their 30th …

One year on from their performance on a floating Iceberg in the Greenland Sea, UK metallers THE DEFILED have been rewarded by having their risky stunt immortalised in the 2016 edition of the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS. “Breaking Records certainly makes an interesting change from making them”says Keyboard player …

Rock multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter is getting ready to release a new album and conquer the UK. Would you be able to post a preview up on your site about the news please? Edgar is the younger brother of the late Johnny Winter, and wrote and performed with Johnny on many …