PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

SICK OF IT ALL will embark on 9 UK show headline tour throughout UK and Ireland right after headlining the 2015 edition of the EMP Persistence Tour in mainland Europe: SICK OF IT ALL * w/ Broken Teeth 29.01.2015 (UK) Nottingham – Rescue Rooms * 30.01.2015 (UK) Newcastle – Think …

Reading & Leeds Festivals announce a UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE performance from Main Stage headliners METALLICA! also JAMIE T, PIERCE THE VEIL, WILKINSON LIVE, REFUSED, RUN THE JEWELS and MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA are the first of hundreds of exciting acts set to appear across the weekend! Reading & Leeds 2015 tickets now …

While everyone’s talking about Christmas approaching, BLOODSTOCK’s sights are firmly fixed on next August!  And what better way to roll into the festive season than to announce three more crackin’ bands for 2015’s premier heavy metal event. Thrash legends OVERKILL are set to grace the Ronnie James Dio stage.  With …

‘Ripping apart the extreme metal rule book, AGHAST! incorporate the blasting fury of death metal, sickening speed of thrash metal and the slamming bounce of grindcore. With an ear for melody that will leave you humming along to the ringing in your ears.’ Pretty much the above bio is self-explanatory …

SYSTEM OF A DOWN, will be heading to London in April 2015 to play an exceptionally special and important show on 10th April 2015 at The SSE Arena, Wembley as part of their ‘Wake Up The Souls’ World Tour. This show will be their first indoor show in the UK …

Northern Ireland’s hardest working hard rockers, The Answer (pictured right), have confirmed that they are to release their new album, Raise A Little Hell’, via Napalm Records on March 9 in UK and Europe. Writing on their Facebook page at the weekend, the band said: “If you folks thought we …

Finally I have the time to review the debut album from Penrith based metal band Die No More. (You really do not want to know the amount of cd’s I have on my desk for review ) It has been quite a journey for these guys, having changed the band’s …

REVOLUTION SAINTS is the new hard rock / melodic rock eponymous debut album from Doug Aldrich (ex-Whitesnake), Jack Blades (Night Ranger) and Deen Castronovo (Journey). The new album will be released on CD, Deluxe Edition, Digital Download and 180 gram vinyl by Frontiers Records in Europe on February 20, in …

Swedish rock band H.E.A.T are set to release their first-ever live album “Live In London” – released by earMusic in Europe on February 20, 2015 (UK release is February 23). H.E.A.T is one of those bands which you need to see live. Armed with a reputation of a brilliant live …

It became quite fashionable for industrial/EBM bands to go more and more aggressive – more metal. Hanzel Und Gretyl is no exception. They started their metal approach some time earlier and when 2014 knocked on the door they were already working on the new album. This new Dark and heavy …

I spoke to Jeremy Cunningham from The Levellers shortly before they played the Academy in Birmingham as part of their greatest hits tour.  The band are so hands on that Jeremy took a break from painting UV paint onto their backdrop to talk to me.  We talked about their Greatest …

It’s sunny in Wales this morning.  Yeah, you read that right, sunny.  Not that it particularly matches the disposition of your PM team, as they battle against non-existent mobile signals in vain attempts to track down the extremely long list of artists we’re supposed to interview… But, whilst there are …

I spoke to Guy Griffin, guitarist for The Quireboys, at Sheffield Corporation earlier this year, after he kindly agreed to an impromptu interview (here). I caught up with him before their gig at Manchester Academy, last weekend. Find out what The Quireboys have been up to this year, why he changes …

Malevolence are currently on tour with Dying Fetus, Goatwhore and Fallujah. I managed to squeeze in an aul chin wag with Malevolence’s lovely front man, Alex Taylor, after their Dublin Show.Here’s what we talked about:       There are couple more UK dates and plenty more European ones so …

Tonight’s support act was former Whitesnake guitarist, Bernie Marsden.  He plays a mainly acoustic set alongside one other musician, Jim Kirkpatrick (also on guitar).  He kicks off with “Linin’ track” and”Wedding day”, both from his new album, Shine, but it’s not long before he’s onto some Whitesnake material, which understandably …

Tonight’s gig saw two great bands on one bill, even if it was an odd pairing.  Supporting Volbeat on this tour are Hatebreed – a great band, but far heavier than Volbeat. Hatebreed got things off to a very heavy start, and it quickly became apparent that while they charged …

It was later than the advertised door time as I pulled up alongside Rock City on this November Monday night. I know The Pretty Reckless have a good size following but I was still surprised just how long the line waiting for doors stretched back, snaking round the corner and …

Pub quiz time – what happens when you take band members from Sikth, Gallows and Cry for Silence, throw in a Radio 1 DJ who was also a member of A and shut them all in a room before giving them the name of an illegal drug with flesh-eating side …

@planetmosh reviews Something Supernatural by .@Crobotband on .@nuclearblasteu I have no idea what Crobot are smoking, but it’s certainly giving them one hell of a trip.  This album should have been named Everything Supernatural, as every track takes us through a nightmare collection of devils, wizards, necromancers and the legendary chupacabra.  …

Solo projects are something of a lottery – whilst allowing an artist the freedom to express their own musical direction in a way they can’t with their main band, the natural comparison to the works of their main project will be inevitable. Spare a thought, therefore, for Richard Z. Kruspe. …