PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

“Try hard…or die hard” is the third album from Italian band E.Z.Riders (or to give them their full name, Experienced Zydeco Riders).  Musically they’re Blues Rock with a definite Southern feel.  That musical feel combined with the E.Z.Riders name might lead you to assume they’re from Texas, Tennessee or one …

Excellent debut from the Swedish based Gothic duo.     Just when you think you have seen and heard it all in this wonderful, jumbled up and eclectic genre we call Metal, along pops something that knocks you back and makes you realise what a glorious tapestry these musicians weave. …

Benedictum have just released their fourth album, Obey.  Bands with female singers are often characterised with classical or operatic style vocals and this does appeal to a certain type of fan, but a lot of metal fans aren’t keen on this style of singing in metal.  With Benedictum though there’s …

We are up to day 17 on the Wacken Advent calendar! The first bands revealed so far are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory, Hammerfall, Steel Panther, Bülent Ceylan, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Vogelfrey, Pampatut, The Vintage Caravan, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Saxon, August Burns Red, C.O.P. UK (Crimes …

I recently had a chat with former Little Angels frontman Toby Jepson, prior to him performing in Glasgow during his solo acoustic UK tour. Toby discusses the tour, his latest mini-album “Raising My Own Hell”, producing and all things music! http://planetmosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TobyJepsonGlasgow.mp3 Please visit Toby Jepson at: www.tobyjepson.com/site/ www.facebook.com/tobyjepsonofficial twitter.com/TobyJepson

Bournemouth rock revivalists Western Sand have just finished a lengthy UK tour opening for Black Star Riders – a bill which also featured the all-star ensemble known as The Dead Daisies. As the tour concluded in Belfast, PlanetMosh grabbed a chat with vocalist Tyler Hains and drummer Nathan J Kay …

Fast rising metal stars Bleed From Within have today been confirmed to headline Friday night at Les-Fest 3 in 2014. Having recently concluded the highly successful Defenders of the Faith Tour with Carcass, Amon Amarth and Hell and now ready to hit the road in 2014 with DevilDriver, once again …

Tickets are flying out the door faster than ever for BLOODSTOCK 2014, the biggest metal party weekend of the year, with both the Early Bird and Rock Society tickets selling out in record time.  The VIP ‘Serpents Lair’ tickets are now on sale and are expected to move similarly fast.  …

Hailing from The Netherlands, reformed modern ‘power thrash metal’ band Mytholic brings us a five-song EP boasting a hard-edged presentation. This record has a crisp, modern production with well thought-out, ‘deep’ layering in the songs. Vocals are a little forward; otherwise each instrument is in balance, drums especially appreciable. The …

Belgium’s Possession have released a four-song EP, His Best Deceit, of extreme madness. After an (1:34) eternity-long intro, the real music gets going. The band channels a deep, ‘fizzy’ production and simplistic song structure in to four intense tunes. Mixing equal parts Bathory, Sodom, Bloodstorm, and maybe a little Morbid …

PlanetMosh recently caught up with  Wayne Hussey, Simon Hinkler, Craig Adams and Mike Kelly  of The Mission in Glasgow at the start of their UK leg of their The Brightest Light tour. We talked about the current tour, X Factor type shows, remastered albums and much more. So click on …

  The Mission started their UK tour in Glasgow and PlanetMosh was there to capture the action on stage.

Some photos of this year's Highway To Hell Winners, Screaming Eagles, opening the main stage at Hard Rock Hell.

After interviewing bassist Marco Mendoza for Planetmosh, I made my way round to the venue full of entrepidation of Thursday nights event to come! Joining the gathering and growing crowd we watched the two supporting bands ( Western Sand and The Dead Daisies ) doing an amazing job of warming …

Massive Wagons opened up Hard Rock Hell this year, playing the first set on stage 2 on Thursday evening, which was followed the next day by an acoustic set.  As this was the second year in a row that had played this festival, I was interested to hear how they …

Some photos of Enuff Z'Nuff at Hard Rock Hell.

Some photos of Skarlett Riot at Hard Rock Hell.

For any promoter to stage the amount of quality gigs which James Loveday puts on – this was his 45th straight ‘RocKD’ event of the year, not counting the number of visiting acts he has brought our way over the past 13 years – is no mean feat.  It’s not …

A selection of photographs from Black Sabbath’s show at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena, supported by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats. Check out the gig review HERE     All photos by Paul Verner/LIVE:i photographic agency  

On the Second Day of Xmas Louella brings to you Cop This by The Deep End. G’day Mate! It’s the second day of Xmas and I couldn’t find two turtle doves so I bring you the latest Australian export The Deep End! This Aussie five piece released their début album …