PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

Anglo-Swedish modern metal powerhouse SONIC SYNDICATE have posted the second in-studio video trailer for the band’s upcoming fifth studio album:     Part #1 can be viewed here:       The album will be self-titled and is set to be released July 8, 2014 via Nuclear Blast. Pre-order the album here! …

Exit State made the following announcement on their official Facebook page today: – *****EXIT STATE CALL IT A DAY***** It is with the deepest amount of sadness and regret that we announce that we have unfortunately come to the end of our journey as Exit State. The band feels that …

@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘The Winter War Symphony’ by Frostbitten Kingdom. It is really hard to find your own way and sound in music these days. But it is always worth keep trying. That’s what I think when I listen to Finnish metallers Frostbitten Kingdom. Since the very beginning this band has been trying …

Veteran thrashers Indestructible Noise Command (I.N.C.) have signed to Ferocious Records, who will release the Connecticut band’s new album, ‘Black Hearse Serenade’, in the autumn. Despite having formed back in 1985, this is only the band’s fourth full-length album, the last having been ‘Heaven Sent…Hellbound’, released via Rising Records in Europe, and Candlelight …

ELECTRIC RIVER just released a new music video for ‘Calling Out’ – after collaborating with director/animator – Robin Fuller (The Defiled, Feed The Rhino) on a bold and thought provoking project. You can see the video here: The Kent rockers have just been confirmed as support to platinum selling US …

Laguna Sunrise are a 6 piece Post Metalcore band from Derby, UK taking inspiration from a wide range of modern music. From crushing technical breakdowns layered with dual singing and screaming to full orchestral symphonic sections with guitars to hardcore two step riffage to anthemic sing-a-longs. Video for the single …

The newest members of the Roadrunner Records roster, KING 810 are set to release their ‘proem‘ EP in the UK on 9th June, just prior to their appearance at Download Festival.  ‘proem’ is currently streaming in its entirety on RoadrunnerRecords.com and you can download the track ‘Fat Around The Heart’ …

‘Underground‘, the brand new song from HOLLYWOOD MONSTERS, featuring Vinnie Appice (Dio, Black Sabbath), Don Airey (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Michael Schenker),Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus), can be streamed below. The new album, ‘Big Trouble‘, to be released on 23th May via Mausoleum Records. Your favourite Classic Hard Rock artists together! …

Formed from the ashes of Irish extreme metal outfit Vistor Q; Vile Regression hit the scene in 2010 and released debut record ‘The Pattern Evolves’ in 2011 via Casket Music. Much to critics praise Vile Regression went on from the release to share stages with prolific heavyweights such as Dyscarnate, …

Minnesota’s Astral Blood are excited to announce that they will unleash their highly anticipated self-titled debut EP with Tridroid Records. Projected to be released in the summer of 2014 “Astral Blood” will feature 3 tracks of haunting atmospheric black metal.   Initially formed in early 2013 by Andrew Rasmussen (Also …

.@louelladeville @planetmosh interview with Animal from .@antinowhere @club100London Punk Rock Legend, Animal (Nick Culmer) from the Anti-Nowhere League chats to PlanetMosh after their show at 100 Club, London on 24th April 2014 about amongst other things their non-appearance on Top of the Pops, their lyrics, Sonisphere and Jimmy Saville. I …

Doro’s current tour is billed as “30 years strong and proud”, but the real celebration of Doro’s 30th anniverary took place at the start of May in her home town of Dusseldorf.  For her 20th and 25th anniversary shows she did special gigs in Dusseldorf with special guests joining her, …

Is there life for Sabaton after, well, Sabaton? Judging by their recent tour and the mania that ensued during their show at Woodstock in Poland (captured on their live release Swedish Empire Live), you’d have to say things were pretty healthy. Pun intended given their lyrical content, the band have bravely soldiered …

The first Alien album (self-titled, 1988) is considered an AOR classic and I was fortunate to buy it on Import from Powercuts Records in Manchester. However the band’s career took a bit of a nosedive after that album, several line-up changes and albums of poor quality songs and production consigned …

After seeing Epica perform their album launch gig in front of a couple of thousand fans in Tilburg, today saw a much more low-key performance for them – an acoustic set in a record store in front of no more than around 50 people. The band were all present with …

Tonight was to be a special show from Epica – the launch party for their new album, The Quantum Enigma.  As with their other album launch gigs and special shows, this saw fans travelling from all over the world. Support came from Finnish band, Insomnium, a band who have toured …

.@louelladeville_ @PlanetMosh interview with .@B_P_R_Band after their gig at .@snootyfoxlive on 19th April 2014. Bulletproof Rose, a hard rock band from West Cumbria, talk to PlanetMosh after their gig at The Snooty Fox, Wakefield to give us an introduction to the band, tell us who’s who, influences etc. and what’s …

STP Records today announced: – It is not with a heavy heart, but with a sense of achievement, friendship, respect that we are announcing that STP Records will from 2015 be changing from a Label to a Distro only. All the bands we release for or have plans to release …

The whole retro, vintage take on the classic era of Doom has been touted around now for some time, and let us be honest, in varying degrees of quality. It is one thing to pay homage to the riffs of the 60’s and 70’s but entirely another to produce something …

Haerken are a new European band, and their ten-song debut album, …Of Warriors and Kings, released in 2014, is a fresh face on the monolith that is extreme music. (At least for Latin, the ‘ae’ is pronounced “i”.) Modern, technical, crunchy, and fairly dry, the band’s sound could be described …