German band Edenbridge ended their UK tour on Sunday night with a show at the Robin 2 in Bilston.  Despite suffering from a bad cold which did affect her voice, Sabine Edelsbacher still put in a great performance.  Support came from Apparition, Sage’s recital and Seventh Sin.  Check out these …

In August last year Canadian thrashers Annihilator released their fourteenth studio album – Feast.  Now it’s being re-issued with a bonus DVD. As with the original release last year there are two CDs, with the discs being very different. The first disc is the new album – nine new Annihilator …

Anette Olzon is due to release her debut solo album, Shine next month.  Ahead of the release I spoke to her to talk about the album, whether or not she has any touring plans, and of course I asked her some questions relating to her time with Nightwish.  Read on …

“Metal is the kind of music that was made for everybody, every outcast, every misfit, everybody who didnt have friends….I think it’s silly that people who like this kind of music then become judgemental of people” I spoke to Carla and Heidi, the two singers for Butcher Babies backstage shortly …

American band Butcher Babies have been making a name for themselves with superb live shows on their UK tour with The Defiled, as well as on US tours with acts such as Marilyn manson and on the Rockstar energy mayhem tour.  Their early shows saw them performing topless with just …

The night started with three spectacularly badly chosen opening acts which were incompatible musically and of varying levels of ability and seemed to only manage to bring one fan between the three of them. Finally, several hours after the doors opened the first of two Belgian bands took to the …

Tonight was the final night of the UK leg of Dream Theater’s European tour, at an almost sold out Civic Hall in Wolverhampton.  The gig was an all-seated one with no support act, and Dream Theater doing two sets. The night started with projections onto a curtain in front of …

Dream Theater ended the UK leg of their European tour last night with a superb performance.  With no support act they played two sets with a short interval between them.  Check out these photos from their performance…

Belgian bands Hell City and Mental Circus played Rock Zombie in Dudley on Friday night as the first night of the three date UK tour.  It was the first UK date for both bands and Hell City also had a special guest – Wolfsbane and former Iron Maiden singer Blaze …

Belgian bands Hell City and Mental Circus played Rock Zombie in Dudley on Friday night as the first night of the three date UK tour.  It was the first UK date for both bands and they went down well with the small crowd (Valentines day and very bad weather probably …

Tonight’s gig was Tarja’s first UK show outside London since leaving Nightwish.  As a result I was curious to see how big a crowd would attend, and when support band Elyose took to the stage at 7pm the venue wasn’t busy – they certainly suffered from the early start, but …

French band Elyose were the support act for Tarja’s European tour including dates in London and Nottingham, and put in an excellent performance that went down very well with the crowd. Check out these photos of their performance..

On Monday night, the Forum in Kentish Town saw an invasion of Black Metal fans to see Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, In Solitude, Inquisition and Svarttjern.  Behemoth were the headliner with Cradle of Filth sub-headlining, and judging by the crowd reaction Cradle of Filth had plenty of fans in the …

On Monday night, the Forum in Kentish Town saw an invasion of Black Metal fans to see Behemoth, Cradle of Filth, In Solitude, Inquisition and Svarttjern.  Behemoth were deservedly the headliner and put in a superb performance. Check out these photos from Behemoth’s set.

First up tonight were Detroit band Battlecross, here on their first trip to the UK.  Despite going on stage soon after the doors opened they still had a good sized crowd to play to – fans had been queuing outside the venue for a couple of hours before doors opened.  …

Detroit thrash metal band Battlecross have been on tour in the UK with Trivium, Killswitch Engage and Miss May I.  I spoke to their guitarist Hiran Deraniyagala to talk about their album, their tour plans and the summer festivals they are due to play.  Listen to what he had to …

@Planetmosh photographed .@kseofficial rocking out O2 Academy Birmingham .@rrusa .@Roadrunner_UK Killswitch Engage put in a superb performance in a packed out venue.  Security were kept busy catching the steady stream of crowd-surfers while the band played an excellent set.  Check out some photos from their set with the  slideshow below.  …

I spoke to Ann Wilson of Heart earlier this week to talk about their new CD/DVD, “Fanatic live from Caesars Colosseum” which is due for release on 24th February.   Planetmosh: Your new album, Fanatic Live from Caesars Colosseum is due for release at the end of February.  First of …

Trivium played to a packed out Birmingham Academy last night as part of their tour with Killswitch Engage.  With an arctic themed stage set and lots of smoke not to mention artificial snow, they put in an excellent set.  Check out some photos from their set with the  slideshow below.  …

Tonight was to be a very special show – Within Temptation doing an intimate acoustic set to 180 fans.  Tickets had been made available free of charge a week or two ahead of the show and had been snapped up in just 20 minutes.  There was to be a short …