PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Imagine “Game of Thrones”; Season 4; “The Mountain and the Viper” episode; or for the poor souls deprived of fantasy, chaos and mayhem I shall try to describe it succinctly. The “Mountain” and Prince Oberyn are fighting to the death and you witness Oberyn’s crazy kick spins. By kicking all …

The Hamburg Metal Dayz are running and we just presented five new names for the 26th W:O:A. We think it was worth the wait! Judas Priest – Judas Priest have just released their 17th studio album in July, which proofs that the band isn’t outdated at all. We´re looking forward …

Witch County England’s finest, DEVILMENT featuring the master of horrors, Dani Filth (CRADLE OF FILTH, TEMPLE OF THE BLACK MOON), recently shot a video for the upcoming second single, ‘Even Your Blood Group Rejects Me’, which will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut album, The Great And Secret Show. The album is scheduled to be released on Halloween 2014 …

Flying Colors is the band founded by former Dream Theatre drummer Mike Portnoy and Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse. Alongside them are Neal Morse (Spocks beard, Transatlantic), Dave LaRue (dixie Dregs), and Casey McPherson (Alpha Rev). So you’ve got a mix of musicians with backgrounds in classic hard rock, prog …

Yorkshire Maulers MALEVOLENCE are gearing up for a one off hometown show next Friday 26th Sept, inviting their fans to appear in a new music video at the same time. Taking place in their hometown of Sheffield at the legendary Corporation venue, the five piece have put together a monster …

AUDREY HORNE have released a brand new music video for the track ‘Out Of The City’ is out now with Johan Hegg (AMON AMARTH) in this video! Get out of the city and purely into fun with the brand new music video here: The new album Pure Heavy is set …

DECAPITATED have released the title track of their highly anticipated forthcoming release ‘Blood Mantra‘. Mastermind Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka commented: “Take a break from what you are doing and check our new lyric video for the  song “Blood Mantra”. After “Psalm” its a second full song we want to share with …

The pioneers of industrial-tinged extreme metal, FEAR FACTORY, have signed a deal for North America & Europe with Nuclear Blast Entertainment.  Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989, FEAR FACTORY changed the world of metal and have become a huge influence on the genre ever since their inception. The band’s …

Fresh off a slew of US dates with none other than Alice in Chains, Canadian groove rockers MONSTER TRUCK are delighted to confirm they’ve shoe-horned in three English headline shows from November 6-8, before they head into Europe supporting Slash. The dates with Slash then kick off November 10 at …

What can be said of Cannibal Corpse, Metal Blade Records and Brian Slagel‘s “biggest-selling death metal band of all time”? (pp. 149) This five-piece American extreme metal band has accumulated career highs usually only available to rock bands: full-production music videos, boxed set sales, even a cameo in a blockbuster …

Los Angeles based extreme metal masters, ABYSMAL DAWN, return with a massive display of refined brutality on their fourth full-length Obsolescence.  Obsolescence will be released October 28th in North America (UK/World October 27th and Germany/Benelux/Finland on October 24th) via Relapse Records.   Obsolescence is available for pre-order from Relapse Records …

The new all-star album project from PITCH BLACK FORECAST will be released October 21st on Ferocious Records in CD, Vinyl and digital download formats. As The World Burns is an all-star project that features J-Mann of Mushroomhead, M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold, Randy Blythe of Lamb Of God, Devin Townsend, …

At the end of this month, PlanetMosh will be partnering with Ascendancy Promotions, Ramp Rage, T13 and XporT13 to bring Belfast ‘Assault On T13’ – the city’s biggest ever all-ages heavy metal gig, being stage at the gigantic T13 indoor extreme sports and skate park (and part of the set …

During last spring’s European Tour with Prong, Italian alt-metal band KLOGR had goPRO cameras on stage, in addition to having the band’s official photographer, Nico Cagarelli, film their shows backstage and on-the-road. The resulting footage will end up on a live/documentary DVD, to be released next year! Watch a teaser …

The wait is over and The Tyranny of Will, IRON REAGAN’s Relapse debut is available now! This 24 song-wrecking ball of hardcore- punk/thrash fury.  The album was recorded with guitarist Phil Hall at Blaze of Torment Studios in Richmond, VA and self-produced plus it was mixed by Converge’s Kurt Ballou.  The …

Rising from the Leeds underground scene Black Moth have already made quite an impression in the doom/sludge metal genre they currently occupy. Condemned To Hope is their second album following the well received 2012 debut album The Killing Jar. Not being someone who would normally pick up an album from …

Portuguese death/groove metal act MONOLYTH will release its debut album «Origin» on October 10th. To celebrate the moment, the band will get on stage on the same day at Bar do Estudante (21h30 WET), in Aveiro, with their countrymen REVOLUTION WITHIN, KRITTER, TERROR EMPIRE and SOTZ. Tickets available at the venue for …

To celebrate today’s release of their Prosthetic debut (and third overall full-length) “Exilium,” Iberian extreme black/death metallists NOCTEM have released a striking new music video for the epic track “The Adamantine Doors.” “This will be the most ceremonial video of the band, as it’s classic in the history of NOCTEM to be riddled with …

Following on from debut album ‘The Brink’, Duncan Patterson and Alternative 4 return with not merely a follow up album but an engaging and thought provoking work of musical art. Forever associated with Anathema/Antimatter, Duncan Patterson truly nails it with ‘The Obscurants‘, a fine collection of emotional and yet quite …

Roadburn – We’re elated to announce that Enslaved and Wardruna will perform Skuggsjá, the sound of Norway’s Norse History at Houses of the Holistic, Ivar Bjørnson’s and Einar “Kvitrafn” Selvik’s curated Roadburn event on Friday, April 10 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Written by Bjørnson and Selvik …