Tag Archives: DEATH

Here are an evil Lucky 13 metal bands, representing a variety of genres, for you to listen to, plus learn the Wikipedia versions of their name origins. The rules: Only metal is included; no rock, blues, or punk feature in this round. No origin stories from anywhere but Wikipedia are …

Monte Pittman streams new track, “Be Very Afraid”, online There are great guitarists, great vocalists and great songwriters, but Monte Pittman is one of the elite few who can truly lay claim to all three titles. With his fourth full-length, Inverted Grasp Of Balance, he has once again raised the stakes, delivering a …

Formed in India in 2003, death metal band Third Sovereign, certainly have their genre down to a refined art which can easily compete on the world stage. Opening with the time honoured tradition of eerie intro, the band are straight down to business with the raging ‘Grave of Humanity’. This …

2015 is fun. Here are some ‘Twitter’ Reviews by Iris North The gist: Very freely associate words and phrases with whatever comes to mind first, based on the prompts. Adrenaline Mob – Dearly Departed EP: They’re cursed. Aptly named! Karyn Crisis’ Gospel Of The Witches – Salem’s Wounds: Gospel?! *gasp* Metal …

Ascended Dead hail from San Diego and present a four track 7” ep full of death metal violence. This is not your ultra modern produced and tweaked to within an inch of its life death metal, this is raw chaos. This is the second release by the band and first …

PlanetMosh is proud to be sponsoring the main stage at the fourth incarnation of Monsters Of Rot, which takes place in Letterbreen, County Fermanagh, on Saturday August 16. The festival brings together some of the best extreme metal bands on the island of Ireland.  As part of our build up to the …

To be a proper death metal band you need to bring something to make think, be it superior musicianship, atmosphere or something that people can’t quite put their finger on. Louisiana’s Abysmal Lord have all three but definitely mostly the latter. Their 26 minute long MLP “Storms of the Unholy …

Nunslaughter are  a 7” single releasing machine, collectors of this band must be driven to drink trying to keep up with their release schedule. At last count they had 138 different releases since 1987. This is only their 4th full length release which is a double album made up of …

Another slab of pure depravity delivered from the Hells Headbangers label . Cemetery Lust crawling from Portland, Oregon have unleashed this their second full length. The band describe themselves as “Rape Thrash” so from the starting blocks you just know this is going to be nasty and not very politically …

Massacre came into existence as far back as 1984 and disbanded and reformed a multitude of times before Rick Rozz, Bill Andrews and Terry Butler all joined Death for the ‘Leprosy’ album. Soon after that line-up dissolved, the three went back to Massacre, with Kam Lee at the helm and …

@Planetmosh @AnybodyBC reviews ‘Leprosy’ reissue set by .@DeathOfficial released via .@RelapseRecords This band needs no introduction. As death metal pioneers, they grew with each of their albums and formed a huge base of fans that endures even after their leader’s death. Yes, I am talking about Chuck Schuldiner and Death. …

Winnipeg’s death metal troopers Psychotic Gardening have teamed up with Bravewords.com for the exclusive premiere of their tribute to Death with their cover of ‘Open Casket‘ featuring guest appearances from Tim Roth (Into Eternity) and Chuck Wepfer (Broken Hope). Bravewords.com Stream – http://www.bravewords.com/news/219751   Both Andrew Wiens (guitar) and Chuck Labosssiere …

The fifth installment in Relapse’s exhaustive reissue campaign of DEATH’s immensely influential catalog is Leprosy, the band’s titanic second album.  Originally released in 1988 Leprosy was a pioneering album, building upon the thrash sounds of Metallica and Slayer but adding a previously unheard level of raw extremity. These songs are the …

EXORCISM have been confirmed for Netherlands DOKK’EM Open Air 2014, which takes place June 20 – 21 in Dokkum. Other bands confirmed include: Death, Metal Church, Annihilator, Gammay Ray, Napalm Death, Mayan, Arkona, Vicious Rumors, Circus Maximus, Enthroned, M.O.D., Norcturnus AD, Carach Angren, more to be announced soon. EXORCISM recently …

@PlanetMosh gallery of .@DeathOffical in Dublin last year. Back in November, Death DTA came to Dublin to celebrate the legacy of the music of Chuck Schuldiner. What went down was one of the better metal shows the city has ever witnessed as younger fans were given the opportunity to hear …

Finland has a history of  producing a lot of top notch death and doom bands such as Hooded Menace, Reverend Bizarre, Unholy and Skepticism to name but a few. This is Altar of Betelgeuze’s  debut album with only one prior EP release in 2012. The band has mixed the styles …

This legendary death metal band have become somewhat of a parody in the last few years due to the antics of frontman Glen Benton. Once upon a time Benton was extremely cool and bucked against the accepted norm of worldwide Christian society and I for one as an impressionable 16 …

Each memory evoking disc is well thought out. Treating the listener to some of the mainstay classics that everyone has and plays, along with tracks that you may have forgotten about or not just heard in years!