PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

  Coronatus return with not one, not two but three, yes that’s right, three female singers. Original vocalist Carmen Loch returning to the fold following a ’family commitments’ break. My initial expectation was that the vocal duties would be split between the girls but no, to their credit, all three …

Keeping things hard, fast and heavy for Friday night Les-Fest announce a handful of bands for their 3rd event in 2014. First up are Manchester based hard groove Metallers Incassum, signed to Rocksector records and with a very successful Bloodstock Festival under their belts in 2013, this again shows, Les-Fest …

Formed in 1993 by the late Jay-Jay Winter and Lenny Robinson. Tragically Jay-Jay was involved in a fatal car crash in October 2010, a terrible loss which could leave a band deciding to call it a day. However as AC/DC found Brian Johnson after the death of  Bon Scott, Asomvel …

I spoke to Fredrik, drummer with Amon Amarth before their gig in Birmingham on the Defenders of the Faith tour. Planetmosh: Your latest album, Deceiver of the gods was released in the summer.  How do you think the album sounds compared to the previous ones? Fredrik: I think it’s a …

Photos of Hell at Birmingham Academy on 12th November 2013

Photos of Bleed From Within at Birmingham Academy on 12th November 2013

Photos of Carcass at Birmingham Academy on 12th November 2013

Photos of Amon Amarth at Birmingham Academy on 12th November 2013

Some photos of Chthonic performing at Islington Academy on 14th November.  

Some photos of Satyricon performing at Islington Academy on 14th November.  

I’ve been a fan of Ted Nugent for at least 35 years, bought all his albums and 6 of these  have been live  so to me it seemed a strange decision to release another one especially as the concert was recorded over 2 years ago on his I Still Believe …

In The Iron Grip Of Steve Asheim Florida death metallers Deicide return to the fray with In The Minds Of Evil, their 11th studio effort, released via Century Media Records. Recorded at AudioHammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Jason Suecof, the album boasts eleven tracks of blistering, blasphemous music, …

The cavernous Odyssey Arena – built more for ice hockey and other sporting activities than gigs – is curtained off about two-thirds of the way down its length, indicating that tonight’s gig might be suffering the effects of booking two arena shows within 100 miles of each in two cities …

A selection of pictures from the Queens Of The Stone Age gig at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena with support from Little Matador.   All photos by Paul Verner/LIVE:i www.livei.co.uk

German Stoner Rock band Sumosluts released their third album Fat.Hot.Sexy on Friday 13th September 2013 on Noisehead Records. Formed in Bamburg, Germany in 2010 their Debut album ‘An Awesome Piece of Shit‘ was released in 2011, followed by ‘Time To Freak Out‘ in 2012 and now ‘Fat.Hot.Sexy‘ When I hear …

On an evening where darkness has well and truly taken over the late afternoons in the Black Country, the queue of black garbed rockers has been gathering outside Birmingham’s O2 Academy for one of, if not THE finest tour packages of 2013. Opening proceedings are Walking Papers. A band formed …

A gallery of images from the Ghost show supporting Alice in Chains in Birmingham on 13/11/2013 Read a review of the show here All photos by Down The Barrel Photography  

A gallery of images from the Walking Papers show supporting Alice in Chains in Birmingham on 13/11/2013 Read a review of the show here All photos by Down The Barrel Photography

Damnation Festival encompasses a great deal of underground bands, with a variety of acts from around the world playing crust, grind, doom, thrash, extreme metal, to even, this year with Shining, (not the extreme, grotesque, blood everywhere on stage, black metal band) but the band that involves black jazz into …

Bolton’s Railway venue hosted the first night of the Tigetailz uk tour, with Scottish group Estrella as support. Estrella play primarily 70/80s infused rock, and they did just that, they rocked. Since kicking off their first UK Tour and the release of their debut album “Come Out To Play” – …