PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

The venue for this evening’s long-awaited return to Belfast by Pat McManus – it has been almost exactly a year since ‘The Professor’ last graced a stage here – is the basement of a pub situated in Belfast’s oldest known building, McHugh’s Bar.  Built back in the 17th century it, like …

PlanetMosh caught up guitarist Brian Tatler from Diamond Head during the band’s visit to Belfast this weekend.  We chatted to him about the band’s NWOBHM heritage, their relationship with Metallica, the recruitment of new singer Rasmus Bom Anderson, their imminent return to the studio to record the first album in …

Violent Restitution Razor where one of the first true underground bands that came to my attention on the classic Under One Flag release Speed Kills 2. Imagine a world where to your knowledge the heaviest metal there is was Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer, admittedly it was not a bad world …

Mother Engine – Exclusive Vinyl Edition of ‘Absturz’ Mother Engine plays instrumental rock music influenced by the current stoner and post rock scenes, the psychedelic rock of the 60s/70s and the native krautrock scene.  Founded in 2011 and following gigs at ‘Desertfest’, ‘Stoned from the Underground Festival’, or ‘Keep it low …

Tonight’s gig kicked off with a set from the Dave Hanson band.  They’re a four piece band from Leeds, fronted by Dave Hanson on vocals and lead guitar, and play music that is fairly laid back – a mix of blues and funk.  It’s very good but did feel a …

Russkaja – Present Full Album Trailer of ‘Peace, Love & Russian Roll’ Russkaja is in the house – and that means no stone will be left unturned! Vienna’s sons and kings of turbo polk metal love catchy rhythms, badass riffing, punk spirit, Russian disco even country and ska have a place …

Powerwolf Celebrate Exclusive Music Video Premiere for ‘Army Of The Night’ Heavy Metal masters Powerwolf celebrate a worldwide music video première or let’s say a Powerwolf ceremony in the form of “Army Of The Night“ Come & celebrate the special music video première for “Army Of The Night” This is definitely another …

Jackson Firebird – Unleash Details of Upcoming Album ‘Shake The Breakdown’ Brendan Harvey and Dale Hudak aka Jackson Firebird have proved for the second time that it only takes two guys to raise pure rock fury hell. On their upcoming album Shake The Breakdown the Australian duo invites us on …

Ensiferum Announces European Tour in October Finnish Metal heroes Ensiferum have announced another European tour for October. This time the band will be conquering Switzerland, France, Spain and Portugal and perform a total of 13 shows! Ensiferum 13/10/15 CH – Zürich – Komplex 14/10/15 FR – Marseille – Le Moulin 15/10/15 ES …

Year Of The Goat – Release First Lyric Video for Track ‘The Emma’ Year of the Goat invite us deeper into their second full length album The Unspeakable. With that being said the band has just unveiled a brand new lyric video for the track ‘The Emma’ Painfully beautiful guitar work …

Sorcerer Announced for Hammerfest 8 Sorcerer have been added to the bill of Hammerfest 8. The epic Swedish doom legends will join Exodus, Turisas, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Evile and a whole load more already announced plus tons more to be added to the bill. Check out the video for “The Dark …

Back in 2004, I had the pleasure of visiting Finland on vacation. On the night I arrived in the Helsinki hostel, I noticed a larger than normal number of heavy metal fans arriving back after a show. I asked one what gig they were at. The answer.. DIO at TUSKA. …

Ah well, here we are… it’s a Wednesday night here in Belfast and it’s officially the start of the week;  well, as far as Team PM is concerned anyway, with the prospect of six gigs over the course of the next five nights, starting with tonight’s long overdue return to …

Die No More a young four piece NWOBHM band from Cumbria formed in  2011, since then they have impressed people with their energetic live shows. They released self-financed, four track, début EP ‘Blueprint’ in 2013 which led to them being signed by Rocksector Records with whom they released their debut …

Ireland’s Shardborne has released a seven song instrumental opus, titled Living Bridges. Formed in 2010, Shardborne released Aeonian Sequence, its four song debut EP, in 2011. Living Bridges is an odd, instrumental hybrid of progressive rock fusion, djent, atmospheric extreme metal, and regular thrash metal. Like listening to a great …

It’s an earlier kick-off today at the Tuska Open Air Festival and even though the heavens opened and spilled their disapproval over Helsinki a few hours before the gates opened, it has cleared up and another pleasant day in the concrete cauldron is assured. First up, death metal “open-door supergroup” …

Summer is here and, as usual, Northern Ireland’s weather just doesn’t know what to do with itself, one minute it’s like being in the Bahamas, the next the Heaven’s open up.  This weekend in particular was a special one, with both Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice happening where thousands …

“Mr. Falwell, you are not my god.” bluntly states Paolo Rossi, at the end of Wasted Youth‘s 1986 release, a six song EP titled Get Out Of My Yard!. Channeling classic punk rock in every sense of the phrase, this disc scratches an itch to hear genuine, vintage high-energy music, …

ColdSpell – New Video For the Song ‘Legacy’ Swedish hard rockers ColdSpell posted a brand new video for the song ‘Legacy‘, out of their album ‘Frozen Paradise‘. The video can be viewed below. ColdSpell are going in the studio this fall, to record their fouth full-length album. The Swedish melodic …

Silent Jack To Release Début Album ‘Play The Game’ Birmingham based hard rockers looking forward to first full-length release. Silent Jack are ready to unleash a hail of hard rock and invite fans to ‘Play The Game’!  The follow up to 2012’s ‘Snakebite‘ EP is thirteen tracks of pure, unfiltered rock straight …