PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

I met up with Nick Ingram (lead guitar) and Alex Macaskill (lead vocals and bass) at Hard Rock Hell VI to talk about their new EP ‘The Visitors’ which was released that weekend.  I also threw a few random questions at them for good measure. Check it out – it’s amusing.     …

  Having recently toured with Romeo’s Daughter, Serpentine were now due to take on Hard Rock Hell VI for their last gig of the year.  But they will be back in 2013, so have a listen to our interview with Gareth Noon (keyboard) and Gareth Vanstone (bass) and find out …

Classic Metal riffs aplenty as the French headbangers return with their seventh opus. The origins of Mystery Blue can be traced way back to the early 80’s, although the current line up bears no similarity whatsoever to those early days, only founding member Frenzy Philippon remaining from the bands original …

It’s probably a bit pat to say – but, then, the band do allude to it in their own press collateral – but a German band playing industrial-tinged metal and singing in their native language are inevitably going to draw comparisons with Rammstein. And, yes, there are other references with …

The problem with this EP is epitomized at the very beginning of the closing track, ‘Drowning In Atlantis’, when vocalist Stephen ‘Fire Breather’ Caffrey screams out the title as if introducing it on stage… said scream says volumes about the lack of imagination which has plagued metalcore in the recent …

Bristol born Glass Wing Pilot have released their debut mini-album ‘Diamonds For Stones’  and this young and vibrant group have a strong power that feeds from the epic nature of metal with a combination of pop hooks. Starter song ‘Vultures’ is a pop-punk/operatic number with chunky axe licks alongside rampaging …

Five years on from their last outing, 2007’s ‘Liberation=Termination’, Finnish-based melodic death metallers Mors Principium Est have returned with their new, international line up – featuring the twin guitar attack of the UK’s Andy Gillion and Andhe Chandler, all the way from New Zealand – and their eagerly anticipated fourth …

Generation.On.Dope, or G.o.D, trace their roots back a decade, to the Italian sleaze rock outfit Razzle Dazzle, who were starting to make a bit of a name for themselves outside their homeland until the untimely death of bassist Mario Gilardengo forced the band to re-evaluate themselves and start all over …

I’ve always been a big fan of instrumental music. Long before bowed my knee at the altar of metal, I used to sneak home from school early – mainly because it was quicker to walk the quarter of a mile in a straight line through the park than take the …

It would be very easy to dismiss Crashdïet as yet another Swedish sleaze metal outfit, and indeed they have been very much at the forefront of the revival in that regard. However, personally, I’ve always found them to be more appealing than, certainly, the awful Reckless Love or their poppier …

Saturday 1st December was the second year Dublin was to be subjected to a beating. The dealer of this beating was Robbie McCabe of Eye Hate Tony Promotions. Seasons Beatings 2 was an all day gig with a long line-up of a variety of Irish metal bands. So, let me …

Goat Horn was Jason Decay’s previous band that had similar attributes to Cauldron. Now Cauldron are into their third album ‘Tomorrow’s Lost’, discovering a whole new path in what you could call ‘retro-metal’. They return to Europe on a headline tour covering some of the major cities that they once …

Check out the interview I did with the lovely Rusty, vocalist from Electric Mary who played a corker of a set at Hard Rock Hell VI.  It was so good, it scored a 9 from the man himself.    

Not only did I speak to quite a few bands at the recent Hard Rock Hell VI festival, I also got to speak to Jonni Davis CEO of Chic Festivals and the creator of the Hard Rock Hell empire.  With two new festival in 2013 added to the line up along …

It’s times like these I realise I should have learned German instead of French at school. 9MM, like Rammstein, shove their music in your face in without any English language alternative and, just like Rammstein, you wouldn’t really want the tracks to sound any other way because the language sits …

Another Saturday night another opportunity to watch some great bands in action, so I headed down to Brixton for what would prove to be a fantastic night of metal. On the bill that night were Diaries Of A Hero, Anthrax and Motörhead so I knew even before I got there …

Summer Breeze Open Air is about to go into its 16th round. For the seventh time, the metallic breeze will blow in beautiful Dinkelsbuehl, Germany from August 15th to 17th, 2013. As usual, this year’s Summer Breeze will take place over three days on two open air stages on the airfield …

I spoke to Bonafide at Hard Rock Hell VI last week to talk about the three (yes, count them, three!) UK tours this year.  I also threw some random questions at them for good measure.   Their new album ‘Ultimate Rebel’ is out now, so check it out.   Also get …

Just a short time before their set at hard Rock Hell VI I spoke to Jon from Jettblack who will tour with CrashDiet in April 2013, so get online and grab yourself a ticket.   https://www.facebook.com/JETTBLACKUK          

I met up with Luke Appleton, bass player in Iced Earth at Hard Rock Hell VI to talk about life on the road with Iced Earth, their upcoming World Dystopia tour and Belgium Beer.  Oh and cake, there’s always room for cake.     http://www.icedearth.com/