PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Some bands treat their debut studio albums as a tentative step in their recording career whilst others go for the throat. Thankfully, County Kildare based quartet Stereo Nasty have taken the latter option with Nasty By Nature.  Early promise was shown by a three track EP just over a year …

Chris Norman returns with New Album – Crossover 40 years after launching his successful career with his former band Smokie, Chris Norman returns with a brand-new solo album: Covering an incredibly wide range of influences, genres and styles, Crossover will be released on September 18th 2015 through Solo Sound Records …

Saxon Releases Official “Battering Ram” Music Video On October 16, 2015, legendary British heavy metal quintet SAXON will release their 21st studio album, Battering Ram, in North America via UDR Music. The new album boasts a clinically ‘heavy’ echo of SAXON’s glorious NWOBHM sound! Check out the official “Battering Ram” …

The Shackleton Experience Set to Take The World by Storm  The incredible debut album out on August 8th  The Shackleton Experience is the brain child of Minnesota native Karl Schmaltz. Karl, a 19-year old musician is the sole contributor to this project and it is a testament to his musical …

Huntress Premières New Single ‘Flesh’ And Lyric Video Exclusively With Revolver Magazine! U.S. Tour Dates Announced With Avatar, Gemini Syndrome & First Decree! HUNTRESS are on the verge of releasing their third studio album STATIC on September 25th via Napalm Records. The powerful pentad’s first single Flesh premiered today on REVOLVERMAG.COM with a …

Coma7 Unveil New Video ‘No More War’ European Dates To Be Announced Soon  Dedut EP ‘Hunger’ Due September 2015 “​ A band worth highlighting and keeping an eye on ​ ” – TLV TIMES “​ These guys are INSANE ​ ” – The Underground Blog Israeli ​5 ­piece​  ​Coma7​ announce the release of “​No More War”, the first single from their upcoming début EP …

Earlier this year, Northern Irish hard rockers Million Dollar Reload announced a one-off summer headline show at Belfast’s historic Empire Music Hall.  However, very shortly afterwards, the band also announced that this would, in fact, be their last ever live show… Needless to say, confusion reigned both here in little old …

Shihad – New Single ‘Think You’re So Free’ to be Released 7th August & 9th Studio Album ‘FVEY’ to be released on August 28th 2015 Shihad are set to release their 9th studio album ‘FVEY’ on August 28th 2015 through pledge music. Pre Ordering the album via Pledge will allow you …

Fast and furious. Straight from sunny California to your ears with deep dark apocalyptic sound and brilliant atmosphere. That’s right, it is Cattle Decapitation with their upcoming 7th studio album, called The Anthropocene Extinction. The Anthropocene Extinction is a fine set of 12 fierce and simultaneously depressive tracks with the total …

Current Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra is to release a new album in October. ‘Dying To Live’ will be released by his side project, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, via Frontiers Music on Friday October. The new album features an guest appearances from Jeff Scott Soto (vocals), Russell Allen (vocals), Tony Franklin (bass), Vinny Appice (drums), Derek Sherinian (keyboards) and more. Hoekstra, who also has worked with …

Now in it’s fifth year, the Steelhouse Festival is one of the UK’s more remote festivals.  Although only four miles from the nearest town, Ebbw Vale, Hafod-Y-Dafal Farm’s mountain top location means it is not the most accessible – especially in a weekend dominated, in both the build up to …

There has been a last minute change to the line-up of this weekend’s PlanetMosh-backed Monsters Of Rot V extreme metal fest. Dublin death metallers Guttrench and hardcore troops Hollow Truth both have unfortunately had pull out.  They have been replaced by Xerosun, who will be performing their first gig with new …

Another treat for me to review this week, this time from Tennessee based Heavy-Metallers Straight Line Stitch, Transparency is the follow up to their self-titled EP release in 2014.  Instantly I was captivated on my first listen to the truly beautiful intro track ‘Out of the Shadows’ even after a …

Bloodred to Release Début Album in Autumn 2015 BLOODRED have recently started recording their longed-for début album. For this Ron Merz has teamed up with Alexander Krull (ATROCITY, LEAVES’ EYES) in Mastersound Studio in Germany from 17 July, continuing the successful cooperation from last year. Recording master Krull produces the …

Culture Killer To Tour With Ringworm in August 2015 Culture Killer will be heading north from their home base of Florida, next month, to tour withRingworm! The tour, which also features White Widows Pact, kicks off in Pittsburgh on August 16th. This will be an extra special set of shows: Ringworm will be performing …

Redemption Complete New Album and Sign to Metal Blade Records Progressive metal act Redemption have completed recording a new album and signed with Metal Blade Records! The band is helmed by Nick van Dyk (guitars, keyboards), and includes legendary prog vocalist Ray Alder (Fates Warning, Engine), bassist Sean Andrews and drummer Chris …

The Black Dahlia Murder Partner With Revolvermag.com For Exclusive, New Track Debut THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Partner With Revolvermag.com For Exclusive, New Track DebutTHE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have partnered with Revolvermag.com to exclusively debut the scathing, new track, “Receipt,” from the band’s new full-length album Abysmal, which comes out on September 18th on Metal …

PMTV had the great privilege of meeting up with the ‘Queen Of Metal’, the one and only Doro, immediately following her rain-drenched but triumphant performance at the Steelhouse Festival this past weekend. With the petite singer having barely had time to dry out, she granted our team exclusive backstage access …

SOTO (Jeff Scott Soto) – More European Tour Dates Added More dates have been added to SOTO‘s upcoming European headlining tour ‘Live In The Vertigo‘, featuring the legendary hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen, Talisman, Journey) beginning middle of September, in support of the new album ‘Inside The Vertigo‘. SOTO …

Massive Wagons, Adam Thistlethwaite – Interview with PlanetMosh July 2015  Louise Swift for PlanetMosh interviews Adam Thistlethwaite, guitarist with Massive Wagons, after their gig (part way through the ‘Out of our Rockas’ Tour 2015) at The Yorkshire House, Lancaster on 17th July 2015. Find out a bit more about the band, what …