PlanetMosh Keeping it Metal

With a name like This Is Not A Game Of Who The Fuck Are You, you get the impression that this Swedish five piece are a group of pubescent, wannabe teenagers trying to make it as the next Devil Wears Prada, August Burns Red or The Black Dahlia Murder…… How …

Punk bands get a load of stick and get branded as “Those guys with spiky hair, who can’t really play their instruments and just play noise”, when in fact what the haters don’t realise is that punk is one of the hardest types of music to play and takes real …

Only just recently witnessed this band when supporting Evile on their UK tour. I saw them on the stage at HMV Ritz, making one hell of an impression. So it was a must for me to see them live again in the Hammerfest experience with a longer set. Their new …

I caught up with Hellhog and Wez4 from the band Dripback after their set on stage at Hammerfest IV to talk about their debut EP ‘Inhaling the Ashes’, their video for ‘Kick out time’, touring with Biohazard and playing at Hammerfest IV.   Check out their video for ‘Kick Out …

Friday night saw many a clash of stages with me for one being torn between which bands to go see first. However, given the interview I had undertaken earlier in the day, there was no question of me not heading over to Stage 2 to see Evil Scarecrow perform. They …

March 28th sees us at London’s Kentish Town Forum. The 2400 capacity venue is buzzing with excitement, as Rival Sons and Black Stone Cherry are set to give us a damn good night of rock.   Both support and main act are alike with their hard rock roots, but both …

Links to the interviews, reviews and pictures from Hammerfest IV – The Hammer Of Thor \m/  More to be added soon \m/    Overviews – Rowena’s Overview of Hammerfest 4 Rowena’s Hammerfest 4 – The Planetmosh Experience   Photos taken during the festival – Picture Gallery     Interviews   …

I caught up with East Anglian band Elimination at Hammerfest IV to talk about their current album, touring with Triaxis, their most embarrassing moment to date as a band and Winchester.  Check it out.   Elimination are: Neil Stevens – Vocals Daz Abbott – Guitar Dave Spencer – Guitar Jus …

Opening the main stage on Saturday were British metal band Hell.  They’ve exploded onto the scene this year and were generally regarded as the best band at Bloodstock 2011 by many people, and their album Human Remains has been impressing a lot of people.  Tonight they had a full hour …

Tonights main attraction for many people was the mighty Anthrax.  Apart from large festival appearances they havent played much in the UK in recent years so this tour was always going to attract a lot of fans. They came on stage to the sounds of “Worship” from their latest album, …

Despite listening to and attending gigs by numerous female fronted metal bands, Zoltar speaks are a new name to me.  They come from Somerset, and according to their bio have toured in the South and in Wales, which presumably means they havent toured much in the rest of the country …

Late on Friday afternoon after I had finished interviewing for the day I headed down to catch the remainder of Spirytus’s set. They start off the set with ‘Bullet Ride’ intro before launching  into ‘Qandahar’ and ‘Heaven’ Ryan banters away with the crowd in between songs; ‘Hot Stepper’ is rap …

After Inferno had warmed the crowd up, Kyrbgrinder took to the stage and changes the tempo.  I’m really disappointed as I only managed to catch the last few songs by the Kyrbgrinder due to interviews; however what I managed to catch was a krushing performance by the trio! If you …

I headed over to see Achren slay the stage 2 crowd straight after Paradise Lost finished their fantastic set. I arrived at Stage 2 just as Achren are finishing Aura, considering that Anthrax are due to come on and a lot of people are away to the toilets and/or bar …

I only managed to catch a few songs by this tremendous trio who are Inferno during their set in The Queen Vic at Hammerfest. I’ve seen them twice before so knew I was going to be in for a great time. I arrived just as they started off ‘Water Into …

Normally, in conversation down the pub, if the words ‘Israel’, ‘power’ and ‘metal’ come in proximity it’s usually referring how much of one the former has used to drop tonnes of the latter on the Gaza Strip or elsewhere… (not that we’re not getting political, like…). Which is a roundabout …

If ever an album did exactly what it said in its title, it is this one. For this, the fourth album from this Italian outfit, is one sick mutha of an album. After the brooding intro of ‘The Breeding’, the title track well and truly sets the scene, and the …

First up were the oddly named pet slimmers of the year. Dear lord what idiot thought they were a good choice for tonight’s bill. They were a totally unsuitable choice musically and the lack of interest from the crowd during their frankly dull and tedious set was clear with them …

Opening up tonight’s proceedings are Heavy Metal Kids. They have a decent crowd and work there way through a hard rock, bluesy set with a hint of punk for good measure. Although the crowd are not all that lively (unfortunately, this is something that would continue through the night), they …

Formed in 1976 it is  correct to say that Accept are one of Germany’s high profile metal bands. Since their inception they are now on their 5th vocalist. Founding member Udo Dirkschneider left in 1987 ,rejoined in 1992 but after a band split from 2005-2009 he did not want to …