PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Tonight’s gig was my first time since the work to upgrade the NIA had been completed.  Now named the Barclaycard arena – which is bound to cause confusion with the Genting Arena (the NEC), it’s looking a lot better and the facilities are certainly improved.  That’s lucky really as tonight …

Blind Guardian is a special band; a band that has laughed in the face of convention since day one and have created some of the seminal classics of the power metal genre. With a legacy as powerful how will new release Beyond The Red Mirror fare in the land of …

SPECIAL LONDON PERFORMANCE February 17th – HMV In Store – Bond Street, London at 6pm. **SOLD OUT**   JUST ANNOUNCED FOR DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2015 June 12th – 14th – Donington Park, Castle Donington Sharing the lineup with Slipknot, Muse, Kiss, Faith No More, Motley Crüe, Black Stone Cherry, Judas Priest, Slash and more…   …

Fields Of The Nephilim playing at Eurorock 2015 Eurorock are pleased to announce that Fields of the Nephilim, the gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England in 1984, will be playing the festival in May. Since the band has been in the studio in 2014 to record new material, …

CREMATORY will take a break from all their live-activities in 2015, to focus a 100% on the new album and it´s recording. All planed shows for 2015 had to be postponed to 2016, as in addition two of the band-members are realigning in business-matters.   But CREMATORY won’t laze around, …

Metal Blade Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish epic doom metal legends, SORCERER! SORCERER will release their Metal Blade debut In The Shadow Of The Inverted CrossMarch 24th on CD, vinyl, and digitally. Pre-orders for the album are available now, along with the brand new video for …

PUTRID OFFAL just announced that first gig in 20 years will be a live session for French radio show “Killing Machine” (airplay on Radio Campus Lille, PodCasts available on MixCloud). The show is one of the, if not the, old(est) Metal show on the French radio and is most probably …

DEHUMAN just unleashed the Metal of Death upon France’s VS-Webzine to ravage the “Crypts of Blood” from the “Graveyard of Eden“. The song, taken from the band’s second full-length is a raging piece of uncompromisingly fast, epic and vicious take-no-prisoner Death Metal mixing the best of both the old-school feel …

New MASTERS OF DISGUISE Album “The Savage And The Grace” Out On February 20 With their 2013 debut “Back With A Vengeance”, MASTERS OF DISGUISE filled the musical gap left behind by the demise of SAVAGE GRACE, almost 30 years earlier. Not that they consciously copied the legendary Americans – …

“DEAR SILENCE THIEVES” Voted #1 Blues/Rock Album – 2014 by “Blues Rock Review” (USA) THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM RELEASED APRIL 27th 2015, SPECIAL ALBUM LAUNCH SHOWCASE CONCERT AT THE BORDERLINE, LONDON MONDAY 27th APRIL 2015. South African singer-songwriter and guitarist, Dan Patlansky, is set to release his new album “Dear …

@planetmosh reviews As The Crow Flies by .@LaceWeeper on .@momusicfr As The Crow Flies is the debut album from Irish four piece Lace Weeper, due to be released on March 2nd.   The band was formed in 2011 by guitarist Matt Hayward and vocalist Sebastian Florek. Os Andres (bass) and Kevin Liffey …

Colombian Speed Metallers REVENGE To Release New Album “Harder Than Steel” In Europe REVENGE is a Colombian Speed Metal band, formed in 2002 in Medellin. Without a doubt, they are one of the most hard working bands of the Colombian Metal scene: after doing debut demo in 2003, and after …

We’re proud to reveal the new video from Epic Heavy Metallers Sovengar. After a long tour through Spain conquering several cities from the country, the band decided to record an extra song, not included in “Vindicta et Gloria” album as a present to their followers. The video has been directed and produced by Alberto …

TYGERS OF PAN TANG “Gangland” Promo Clip Posted Online The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pioneers TYGERS OF PAN TANG, will release a special limited edition album titled “Tygers Sessions: The First Wave” via Skol Records. The CD will be limited to only 1000 copies, and will include 11 …

Sometimes an album, or even a band, is of its time.  This re-issued debut from New Jersey (at the time) upstarts Exxplorer definitely falls into that categorization – but, in a good way. Quite rightly, when first released three decades ago, ‘Symphonies Of Steel’ was regarded as a groundbreaking album, …

Controversial cult-phenoms TWIZTID have finally unleashed their highly-anticipated new album and independent label debut, The Darkness. Out today via Majik Ninja Entertainment, the album can be ordered worldwide via www.Twiztid-Shop.com.   In celebration, High Times is hosting an exclusive first listen of The Darkness, featuring samples of each track as …

With a cast of infamous characters that reads like a short who’s who of the California desert rock scene, Mojave Lords are a lake of fire indeed. Featuring core members David Catching, Kevin Richey, Brian O’Connor, and Joey Castillo, the band has released an aggressive ten song debut, neologically dubbed …

The first Download announcement of 2015 is upon us – and what a stellar bill it’s turning out to be! Andrew WK, In Flames, Testament, We Are Harlot and L7 lead the latest addition to the bill which also includes Black Star Riders, Thunder,  former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley and the recently reformed The Ghost …

Akron, Ohio post-rock outfit IF THESE TREES COULD TALK was properly formed in 2005 and has grown tremendously since their humble origins in Zack Kelly’s basement as an instrumental project in college. They released their first EP in 2006 and their first full-length, “Above the Earth, Below the Sky,” in …

Wormholedeath is proud to announce the signing of a worldwide distribution and marketing deal with Norwegian Death / Thrash Metal Band Dienamic. Their album “Afterlife” will be distributed worldwide by Aural Music / The Orchard / Wormholedeath Japan. Release dates will be annouced soon.   The band is ready to …