PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Portland, Oregon’s LORD DYING have completed recording their much anticipated sophomore album and are currently on a West Coast tour with stoner/sludge trio Castle.  The new record, entitled Poisoned Altars, was recorded with Toxic Holocaust’s Joel Grind (Black Tusk) at Audiosiege Studios in Portland and will be released January 27, 2015 (1/26 …

Fusion guitar guru ANDY WOOD is recognized for joining an unusual mixture of piercing electric guitars with barn-burning bluegrass – accomplishing a genre of his own creation. Wood’s growing recognition, in addition to his credit as the multi-talented lead guitarist for Scott Stapp (founding frontman of multi-platinum rockers Creed), has …

Thomas Giles, the solo project from Between the Buried and Me front man, Tommy Rogers, has released the first studio video from the recording sessions for “Modern Noise.” The video highlights drummer Will Goodyear and his approach to the album, working with Tommy Rogers and Jamie King, and more. Watch …

This is first-class Heavy Metal coming from Canada out to you! STRIKERbsound can be compared to modern metal music, but they still keep that old school feel. The new album City Of Gold was released this year via Napalm Records. The brand new video for the track ‘Start Again‘ will …

JUPERIAN proudly present their new clip ‘Procession Towards the Monolith‘. It’s the new music video for their debut album ‘Archaic‘, released in July 2014. Jupiterian are a Sludge, Death/Doom Metal band from Brazil. They was born in november 2013. After some line-up changes, in april of this year they started …

Wovenwar will be embarking on their next North American tour in January of 2015. The band will be supporting Periphery, along with Nothing More, and Thank You Scientist. The tour is scheduled to begin on Jan. 10, kicking off a five-week North American tour at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C. …

German progressive metalcorers NEBERU are delighted to announce their new video and single ‘The Art of Being Lost‘, featuring Eskimo Callboy’s vocalist Sushi. Watch the video here, streaming via Metal Hammer. ‘The Art of Being Lost’ is a perfect introduction to this exciting young band – claustrophobic, hammering technicality combined …

Only two more days until the European release of DOWNFALL OF GAIA’s new album “Aeon Unveils The Thrones Of Decay”! Please surf over to the landing page at metalblade.com/downfallofgaia to stream the album in its entirety and to pre-order your copy, either on Digi-CD or Gatefold-LP! DOWNFALL OF GAIA: “Excited …

London Alternative Rock four piece Fur Cough released their self-titled debut EP, Fur Cough, via Baby Baboon Records on 29th October 2014. Formed in April 2013 by brothers Aaron and Hayd Brown and joined by Karen Jones on drums and Debbie Ahakpo on bass. The brothers share lead vocals and …

Ready, set, go! The Icelandic Viking Metal band SKÀLMÖLD will release their new album Með vættum on November 24th US/CAN and December 1st in the UK on Napalm Records. Together with ARKONA and ELUVEITIE, SKÀLMÖLD are hitting the road for an extensive tour through Europe till mid December! Get ready …

When Atreyu emerged from their hiatus in 2014, the band was met with fevered excitement from fans and the metal community. The band played a sold-out-in-minutes warm-up show in its native Orange County, were a featured main stage attraction at both AFTERSHOCK and KNOTFEST, released a new song “So Others …

Autumn and winter are definitely seasons of great music events. Take the Solstafir tour, for example.  These Icelandic guys did not miss the chance to visit Scotland as well, so a Glasgow gig was a must. It was announced, that they would come here together with Spanish conquistadors Obsidian Kingdom …

Satan’s Host deliver their masterwork with ‘Pre-dating god Parts 1 & 2‘! Both albums will be released simultaneously by Moribund Records on the 19th January 2015 in Europe/UK and January 20th, 2015 in North America. Striking while the iron’s hot after 2013’s critically acclaimed Virgin Sails, the two-disc Pre-dating god …

As one of the cornerstones of British Rock, Rainbow, led by the never-predictable but  ever-astonishing guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting Rock songs of the seventies and eighties. From the mystic and quasi-religious ‘Stargazer’ and ‘Man On A Silver Mountain’ to …

“Sun Eater” is the fourth full-length album from Job for a Cowboy, and is scheduled for release via Metal Blade Records worldwide next week! Thus far, the album has blown away fans and critics, with heavyblogsisheavy.com proclaiming “The album’s two opening tracks sound nothing like the band of the past” …

DIRTY SHIRT are one of the most active and original rock bands in Romania and winner of 2nd prize at WACKEN METAL BATTLE 2014. Its unique style derives from the combination of rock/metal with various other musical elements: Romanian folk music, funk, electro, world music, etc. The FREAK SHOW TOUR …

Hard Rock Hell 9 officially goes on sale today with 82% of its packages already sold out on pre sale. HRH 9 which takes place next November 2015, brings to life its latest production, “HRH House of Horrors” which promises to be a deep and dark experience laced with over …

I spoke to Kobra Paige a few hours before the band played their gig in Milton Keynes to talk about the new album, their tour and other plans              

I spoke with Ronnie Björnström from Aeon between sound check and their gig at the Forum in London supporting Cannibal Corpse the night before Damnation Festival. Hear what he had to say about the tour and plans for their next album.    

I spoke to Revocation shortly before they played the Forum in London the night before Damnation.  Hear what they had to say about the new album and their tour…