PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

The city of Mumbai, India is set to witness it’s first proper open air metal festival in years with the announcement of the new BIG69 Festival hosted by Bajaao.com. The first edition of the festival will see bands such as Flesgod Apocalypse from Italy, Hacktivist from the UK as well …

In the midst of their extensive “Prisoner” tour Dutch psychedelic rockers, BIRTH OF JOY, recently completed their new music video for their single “Mad Men”.   The video can be viewed here:   The band has announced additional European tour dates including shows with Belgian hit makers TRIGGERFINGER.   BIRTH …

FIRE WARNING – smoking hot blues guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor performed a sold out concert last night at the Manchester Royal College of Music that was so hot, it caused a fire evacuation. When Joanne took to the stage last to perform songs from her new album “The Dirty Truth”, …

THE CADILLAC THREE WIN ‘BEST NEW BAND’ AT CLASSIC ROCK AWARDS 2014! Three headline UK shows scheduled for December New single ‘Get Your Buzz On’ set for release on December 1st on Spinefarm Records The Cadillac Three – described as “blending distorted lap-steel with Pantera riffs & outlaw song-writing” – …

November 4th was a big day for New Jersey noisemakers TOOTHGRINDER.   The New Jersey band, freshly signed to Spinefarm Records, premiered their brand new video for “The Hour Angle” on Metal Sucks and they released their label debut – Schizophrenic Jubilee EP.   So celebrate TOOTHGRINDER’s EP release day …

Modern horrorpunk front-runners NIM VIND released their new album Saturday Night Séance Songs on October 14th via House of Vind, and are currently wrapping up a US/ Canadian run with Gary Numan! Today, OnlineDrummer.com has the exclusive on a brand new “In The Studio” video, featuring a playthrough and some gear …

Portuguese death metal powerhouse Annihilation have now unleashed their highly anticipated EP, The Undivided. Containing six tracks of punishing death metal, The Undivided will please even the most picky death metal fans. To celebrate the  release, the band have made the EP available as a “pay what you want” download on their …

Bristolian alt-rockers Turbowolf, have revealed the incredible video for their brand new single ‘Rabbits Foot’. In typical Turbowolf fashion, the video is dark and tumultuous, set in an abandoned underground factory, featuring an array of mythical half-human beasts dancing in a ritualistic fashion to the band’s righteous, raucous rock’n’roll.   …

Foul Body Autopsy is one-man extreme metal maverick Tom Reynolds, who describes himself as being “armed with an iPod, guitar and a desire to crush skulls” and to date has producedroughly an EP per annum during his four-year career.  Now, he has followed that tradition with this brain-shredding two-track EP, …

REQUIEM’s brand new album, The Unexplainable Truth, is out now via Cleopatra Records (E1)! Today, Alternative Press Magazine is hosting the exclusive premiere of the brand new music video for the lead single from the record, ‘Sticks & Stones And Her Lovely Bones’. Make sure to watch the video, directed …

The story goes something like this… Back in 2009, in the small Lithuanian town of Seredzius, two local drunks – lets call them Gytis and Simonas (just because that’s their names!) – decided that just spending their days working and their nights drinking was not enough fulfilment:  so, they decided …

BUCKCHERRY PREMIERES NEW VIDEO FOR “SOMEBODY F#CKED WITH ME” November 4, 2014 – Los Angeles, CA – Controversial Los Angeles’ rock band Buckcherry has debuted a new video for their angsty rock anthem “Somebody F#cked With Me” at Vevo.com. The track is featured on the band’s recently released F#CK EP, …

Rising Seattle based rock band My Goodness has released a stellar new cover of Rod Stewart’s classic hit “Young Turks” today at CultureCollide.com. The release comes in advance of a string of shows the band will be performing over the next few months in support of their new record, Shiver …

There’s an old – and very much overused (as these things tend to be) – saying about how you should never judge a book by it’s cover… in terms of reviewing heavy metal albums, it is perhaps fair to adapt this ancient adage to CDs and their artwork… On first …

Portuguese post-metal/doom/sludge trio WELLS VALLEY has premiered their first videoclip Star Over A Wheel last Saturday (November 1st). The track comes off the band’s debut album, Matter As Regent, set to be released in the following months. Star Over A Wheel video was directed by WELLS VALLEY along with friends André Godinho and StopWorking&GoOutside and it ranks …

Directed by Thomas Mignone (Slipknot, AX7, Mudvayne) and starring Micheal Rodrick (24, CSI, Without a Trace) ‘No Turning Back’ is the new single / video from U.S thrash metal band I.N.C. (Indestructible Noise Command). The video tells the story of an evangelist in Southern California, luring in runaways and junkies in …

Young British quartet Skarlett Riot have been confirmed as opening act for Ozzy Osbourne/Firewind guitarist Gus G upcoming English tour. The band have been hard at work in the studio working on the follow up for their critically acclaimed debut ‘Tear Me Down’, the new CD is due for release …

Today was the first full day of the festival.  Having sorted out wristbands etc on the Friday, we were able to skip the queue at the box office and head straight into the venue on arrival. The first act of the day was Dutch band La Ventura.  I’d seen them …

Groove Metal monsters Bhayanak Maut have released their sophomore album ‘Man‘. The band posted the album artwork on their Facebook page with a single word ‘YES’ and a link to their website. The album is already available on www.bhayanakmaut.com and is available only in the digital format and comes with …

The lovely Paul, drummer extraordinaire from Cannibal Corpse took some time to chat to me backstage about recording, bibliographies and the new album at Damnation Festival in Leeds.