PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Going from Evile to Enslaved was a bit of a genre clash for me last weekend. However, the gig itself was a strange one. This wasn’t just an Enslaved gig but was a joint headline show with Grand Magus. This felt like two totally different shows off the bat and …

Legendary British hard rockers to release their 13th studio album on November 13th. No superstitution here!  They’re loud, they’re hard, they’re tough, they’re uncompromising. Girlschool, the London-based-band, are proud to announce their 13th studio album, Guilty As Sin, to be released on November 13th in red colored vinyl gatefold, album …

To say that the guys from the “Christian Metal” group Styrper have been busy since the release of ‘No More Hell To Pay‘ nearly two years ago is an understatement.  With most of the members participating in a variety of side projects.rom – Oz Fox working on Bloodgood’s ‘Dangerously Close‘ …

The Hollywood Vampires were born in 1972, in the upstairs bar of the Rainbow Bar & Grill on Los Angeles’ notorious Sunset Strip.  The bar infamously was a gathering place for the rock stars living in or passing through (or even passing out in) LA during the heady days of the Seventies …

Planet Rock Presents BLACK STAR RIDERS UK Christmas Shows December 2015 Black Star Riders are set to cap a hugely successful 2015 with two headline shows in the UK in December 2015. These shows are in addition their guest slot on the fast selling Def Leppard/Whitesnake double bill in the same month. …

PINKISH BLACK: Premiere second single from the Great Tyrents Final Recording; Announce additional US dates “With each scuzzy opus pumped from the billows of their industrial warehouse headspace, the Fort Worth, TX-based duo Pinkish Black continue to erase the boundaries between the metal, post-punk, and doom traditions.” – Tiny Mix …

The Red Sect marks a crossroads for the band; the straightforward aggression of their debut blends with a seething, menacing atmosphere-further enhanced by the mixing and mastering skills of TOXIC HOLOCAUST main man Joel Grind, creating an album that is dark, vicious, and compelling. The record’s ten tracks weave a frightful …

New Zealand’s Villainy, after dominating their home country for the past month and a half with sold-out tours and now with a New Zealand #4 album, now has Australian audiences in their sight. Their album ‘Dead Sight’, which features single ‘Syria’, will be released Friday November 6th through MGM Distribution …

In a world where punk rock does not have as much bite as it did when Millencolin andRefused first hit the scene in the 1990s, a group of five friends from Southampton are trying to change that. Five Miles North Of Nowhere have been making music that makes you want to …

Award-winning Finnish blues guitarist and vocalist Erja Lyytinen will embark on a 12-date UK tour starting in Darlington Blues Club on Friday October 2.  Tickets are available from the venues and the official Erja Lyytinen website. Erja was recently voted the Number 1 Solo Artist and Number 1 Live Album …

Progressive collective Earthside, (New England- USA) has launched a cinematic trailer for A Dream in Static, its debut album due out October 23rd, on  The band commented: “One of our many ambitions as a cinematic rock band is to score films and video games. With this project, we had the unique challenge …

The Finnish pagan metal band VORNA will release their second full length album ”Ei valo minua seuraa” (transl. ”No Light Follows Me”) on 4th December 2015. The album will be released through Inverse Records. The album has been mixed by Tuomas Kokko from Electric Fox Studios (e.g. Swallow the Sun, …

Italy’s finest purveyors of Black/Doom Metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB, are about to receive a re-release of their classic thrid album, “Love’s Burial Ground”, in CD, digital formats, and for the first time LP, on Agonia Records. The remastered and remixed version, including re-vamped layout (and original cover, censored back in 2004), …

One of the true founding fathers of occult metal, HELL are very pleased to announce that they will be performing as special guests alongside German metal legends ACCEPT at their highly anticipated upcoming London show. HELL guitarist Andy Sneap declared the following: “Hell are delighted to announce that we have …

Swedish duo DEAD SOUL will release their upcoming album, ‘The Sheltering Sky’, on October 23rd via Century Media Records (World excl. North America & Nordic) and Razzia Notes (Nordic)! Every once in a while it becomes very obvious what’s needed to create something new and exciting is a collision of …

Tonight’s show had an early start – usually on a weekday that means the first band plays to an almost empty room, but tonight there was a large queue outside well before the doors opened. First up were Xandria, the German symphonic metal band now fronted by Dutch singer Dianne …

If you like your thrash metal fast, then look no further – Harlott have that covered, with their brand-spanking new release called Proliferation. The Aussies hailing from Melbourne have all the brutal assault of Slayer or Exodus with melodies not dissimilar to Annihilator. These young lads could be the answer to every old …

The night kicked off with The Treatment.  Having last seen the band at their secret show in Milton Keynes which featured their new lineup although the new members hadn’t been announced at that stage.  I’d been impressed then so was looking forward to seeing how singer Mitchell Emms and Tao …

School night gigs in Belfast can be awkward buggers to predict, especially in terms of their attendance levels.  However, Paradise Lost, paying their first visit to the city in six years, manage to pull a reasonably healthy number of punters – if not quite enough to ease the promoter’s financial …

Theory of a Deadman Announce UK Tour in Early 2016 Canadian rockers, THEORY OF A DEADMAN have announced their return to UK shores in early 2016. The boys enthuse; “Hiya United Kingdom!  We’re pumped to announce that we’re coming back across the pond for a crackin’ good time this coming …