PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

The Illusions Of Grandeur, the 4th full length studio album from Gothenburg based melodic death metallers Evocation features a drum sound i’ve not heard since John Boecklin’s performance on Devildriver’s  album The Last Kind Words! As good as the rest of the band are, Evocation’s drummer Janne K.Boden puts in …

Seeing as it’s Christmas Eve I thought you lot deserved a nice round of…………………….. free downloads!!! Here is a few of the latest free downloads that we’ve featured on PM over the last few weeks as well as the awesome free download from the boys in Beholder. Hope you all …

After some 15-plus years very firmly at the top of the local tree, NI death grinders Condemned shocked many fans a little earlier this year when they announced their decision to call it a day. The reason was not the usual ‘internal divisions’ or ‘musical differences’ bullshit that many acts …

The stars pay homage to 87-year-old Blues guitar legend Riley B.King in this thought provoking biographical documentary, which features Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Bobby Bland and Buddy Guy among others. Mr Cool himself Morgan Freeman, does the voiceover as we’re we are taken on an extraordinary journey beginning …

For anybody growing up in the early 80’s, there were certain ‘video nasty’s’ that people had claimed to have seen, yet never had, owing to the outright ban by the British Board Of Film Censorship. These included such films as ‘I Spit On Your Grave’, Driller Killer’ and ‘The Texas …

The German six piece show how to combine classic Death Metal with cutting edge riffs.   From the land formerly known as East Germany and now known as….Eastern Germany come Led Astray with their second full length release and their first since signing with Massacre Records. ’Decades Of Addiction’ will …

Enter Shikari and Cancer Bats photos, Roundhouse, London 17th Dec 2012

Arriving at the Roundhouse I felt rather old – being at least twice the age of most the schoolkids queuing up outside the venue.  Enter Shikari certainly don’t seem to attract many people over the age of 16 if this crowd was anything to go by.  The night started with …

Asylum Pyre serve up an excellent album of Melodic / Symphonic Metal.   Formed in France in 2006 ‘Fifty Years Later’ represents Asylum Pyre’s second full length album following on from their debut ‘Natural Instinct’. Sitting very comfortably in the Melodic Symphonic camp the band have produced a thoroughly engaging …

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The night started off with Hounds.  Dear god, what idiot thought they’d be a good band to support Stone Sour?  I can only assume they paid to get on the tour, as they were so unsuited musically it was shocking.  Normally when a band is either awful or just the …

I must admit, it came as somewhat of a surprise:  flicking through the PM archive, yours truly discovered that, despite the amount of coverage we have given to Plymouth groove metallers Huron over the past 12 months or so, we’ve actually been somewhat remiss in failing to cast our critical …

Belgian black metal mob Enthroned have been slowly carving out a reputation for themselves as one of the continent’s more accomplished, if hardly innovative, black metal outfits, and this ninth album is as solid as anything the genre has produced in the last couple of decades. There’s nothing hugely original …

A selection of photos that I took at the Hard Rock Hell festival in December.   For all the interviews and reviews from HRH 6, click on the panel on the right hand side or click here http://planetmosh.com/series/hard-rock-hell-6/         Thursday %%wppa%% %%cover=541%%   Friday %%wppa%% %%cover=540%%   …

I didn’t manage to catch their set at Hard Rock Hell VI but I did meet up with them afterwards for what I can only describe as a simply hilarious interview.  Yes I didn’t see them live, but they get my vote everytime after this. Their new album ‘GET EVOLVED’ is …

From start to finish Saratan deliver a masterpiece of Death/Thrash Metal.   The band formed in their native Poland back in 2003 and have since been honing their craft and developing into what we see today. ‘Martya Xwar’ represents Saratan’s third full length release and is without doubt their strongest …

This second album from France’s Abinaya – their name is Sanskrit for ‘passing on’ – definitely lives up to its conjunctive title, for it most definitely is a ‘Corps’ of work that should be passed on. The problems start early on, with the apologetic Algerian drum line on the opening, …

This apocalyptic themed debut album by Berlin (self-described) melodic thrashers Declamatory has been some 12 years in the making, and apparently is the first of a triptych of similarly conceptualized offerings… The concept in question revolves around “the post-apocalyptic war between the Raiders and the Crystal Gods, fought in the …

Planetmosh had the pleasure of talking to Epica guitarist Issac Delahaye deep in the bowels of the HMV Ritz in Manchester just before the band took to the stage as part of their U.K. tour. Aside from the current tour we talked about the Metal Female Voices Fest in Belgium, …