Following on from the success of the very first Les-Fest in Scotland last year, two of our Scottish team made their way back down to Valley International Park to catch up with festival organisers Dave Ritchie and Fede Valls to get an overview of just what’s happening at this year’s festival. First up the guys [...]
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As most of you will now be aware today, the metal world has lost another of its greats as news broke around midnight GMT that Jeff Hanneman had died at the age of 49. “Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11 a.m. this morning near [...]
Recently I caught up with Scottish metallers Dana O’Hara as they took part in waving goodbye to Dirty Rose (also interviewed here on Planetmosh that same night). The boys gave us a little bit of background into just what it means being in the band along with their thoughts and feelings on the Scottish metal [...]
On a bitter sweet night in Bathgate near Edinburgh, I saw a band who I not only had the pleasure of sharing the stage with at times but also count as mates of mine in the metal scene up here, call time on a career that’s been on the go for just five years. So [...]
During their whistle-stop visit to Scotland at the weekend I caught up with the boys in Severenth to discuss their sound, their set, what makes them tick and just why they love doing what they do. Severenth are: Peet Bailey – Vocals Adam Sidor – Guitar Ste Ensall – Guitar Dave Roberts – Drums Ben [...]
Voodoo Highway’s second album, Showdown, is out this month and we sat down with bassist Filippo Cavallini to get a little bit more info from them on just what makes them tick. Hi guys and thanks for taking the time to chat to us today. Before anything else, for those readers of the site who [...]
BLOODSTOCK 2013 is shaping up to be the metal event of the summer, with another ten head-bangin’ bands confirmed to join headliners SLAYER, KING DIAMOND, and LAMB OF GOD. Canadian prog thrash pioneers, VOIVOD are set to play their only UK show of 2013 at Bloodstock Festival!! The band’s latest album, ‘Target Earth’ was released in [...]
Female fronted tech-metallers MASK OF JUDAS have released their debut music video, Axis, from the forthcoming mini album of the same name. They follow this up with single release ‘Crown the Sun’ coming out on 1st April 2013 [youtube &w=560&h=315] Mask of Judas are a unique blend of groove and tech metal, hailing from the south [...]
We recently had the pleasure of reviewing the debut album from Raven Lord (check it out here on the site) and enjoyed it immensely. Following on from that, vocalist Csaba Zvekan took the time out to give us a bit of background on just how the band came into being. Hi Csaba, thanks for taking [...]
Recently we caught up with Australian metallers Raven Black Night ahead of their album launch later this month. Find out their thoughts on the scene down under and just what they have in store with their latest release. Hi guys, can you introduce Raven Black Night to the readers, please? Greetings! Jim the White Knight [...]
Sometimes it’s good to kick back and take a look at what’s happening in the local metal scene around the UK. We did exactly this in Glasgow as we caught up with local unsigned band Beckon to find out just what their thoughts are on the future and on getting yourself known in this part [...]
Australia has been producing some quality metal and rock acts of late and another, Mammoth Mammoth, recently released their third studio album last month through Napalm Records that was pretty cool to the ears as you can read from our recent review. We caught up with guitarist Ben Couzens to get a bit more behind [...]
With Huron taking to the road for a brief tour of the UK with ragga punk metal meisters Skindred, we caught up with guitarist Rimmy Sinclair to talk about their EP and tour and what lies ahead in 2013. Hi Rimmy, thanks for taking the time to chat to us today. Before anything else, for [...]
The Arches in Glasgow is not renowned as a venue for metal bands to play. Its very design, part of the old railway arches under Glasgow Central Station, means playing anything loud tends to bounce from one end to the other and can make things sound very muddy. Thankfully however, the gig seemed to have [...]
Adam Zadel of US rockers SOiL took time out when they came to Glasgow with Fozzy and Breed77 to chat to us about the tour and how progress on the new album is coming along. SOiL have launched an interactive pre-sale campaign on Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soil/soil) to enable fans to participate in the release of their [...]
Chris Jericho of US rockers FOZZY took time out when they came to Glasgow with SOiL and Breed77 to chat to us about the tour and how life is treating the form WWE wrestler. To see photos taken at the gig click here [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLl8uhImtDk&w=560&h=315] FOZZY are: Chris Jericho – Vocals Rich Ward – Guitar [...]
J. Bergman and his creation Man.Machine.Industry have released their second video, TO A BLOOD RED SKY, out of the critically acclaimed album “Lean Back relax And Watch The World Burn”. When the band recorded the album they also invited fifteen fans to do some back up singing on the song. At the same time they filmed [...]
Testament came to Glasgow earlier in the week and absolutely destroyed it with a monstrous set as you can read from our review right here. Beforehand we had the opportunity to sit down with one of the band’s guitar maestros, Alex Skolnick, to discuss the tour and life in general. [audio=http://planetmosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Alex-TestamentInterviewNov12.mp3] Testament are: Chuck [...]
Ben Symons and Dale Butler of British metallers Malefice took time out when they came to Glasgow with Testament to chat to us about the tour and what they’ve been up to since their move to Transcend Music this year. [youtube
Owain Williams and Richard Thomson of British orchestral groove metallers Xerath took time out when they came to Glasgow with Testament to chat to us about the tour and how they go about bringing their unique sound to the live shows [youtube
