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Hot off supporting Halestorm on their sold out UK and Europe tour, Heaven’s Basement have barely taken a breath before joining Seether on their tour. Tonight is the first of the UK dates and Heaven’s Basement leap onto the stage fresh footed and raring to go and with ‘Unbreakable’ we …

Saturday 17th of November was the second date of the Dublin Thrashathon hosted by DME (Dublin Metal Events) and held in the Button Factory. Thrash Kings Sodom took over Dublin for one evening and showed us all how thrash should be done! Gospel of the Horns were a great support …

Since reforming nine years ago, Europe have released four albums , all receiving critical acclaim, and selling by the truck load, ‘Last Look at Eden’ was my surprise hit of 2009, as it marked a turning point in the bands musical direction, heading more into hard edged blues territory. Paul …

I recently spoke to Andi Derris, singer with German power metal band Helloween to talk about their new album, “Straight out of hell”, which is due for release in January, and also about their tour plans including who they tried to get to join them on their tour with Gamma …

Having only discovered The Temperance Movement a couple of weeks earlier, it was with eager excitement, that I headed down to London’s legendary 100 Club. Opening with the first track on their EP, I was in no doubt from the initial words and notes that I was hearing and watching …

Manchester Metal is alive and kicking, just ask anyone who was at NQ Live last night to witness the launch of Dark Horizons, the debut album from the latest addition to Rocksector Records. Expectations were high as three top class bands were booked to support Babylon Fire and despite an …

Planetmosh caught up with vocalist Guido Grawe of German Thrash Metal bad boys Scornage to talk about the bands history, current album ‘ReFEARance’ and much more.   Welcome to Planetmosh guys. Firstly, let’s go all the way back to the beginning of the bands history, how did it all start? …

The first band of the night was Blackguard, a melodic death metal band who take to the stage in front of a very small audience due to their early stage time coming on shortly after the doors opened.  They’re an odd choice of band for this bill and despite their …

A few weeks back I had the pleasure of reviewing Bison B.C.s latest piece of heavy, Lovelessness, here on Planetmosh and enjoyed it quite a good bloody bit it’s safe to say.  Following on from this we’ve had a chance to chat with frontman James Farwell on just how the album …

We caught up with guitarist Emanuel Seis from I Spit Ashes to talk about the bands history, the current album and future plans.   Firstly, many thanks for your time. I’d like to start by getting to know the origins of the band in its present form, I believe you …

After a silence of over a decade, Jim Martin agreed to a Q&A session with fans via a British based fan site. A set of 15 questions were selected by administrators of the fan site from over 500 submissions by fans eager to hear from Jim. What follows is a …

Redlight King have recently been tagging along with Shinedown for their UK tour. This is a band made of men with many years of experience in writing and playing music. After releasing their debut album, Something for the Pain and completing the arduous task of being a band on the …

Anthrax have been more regular visitors to this little part of the world than the vast majority of their counterparts, with this – their only UK headlining show, during a ‘night off’ from their support run with Motorhead – being their fifth time playing Northern Ireland. And, the sense of …

Rumours of Sabaton’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The Swedish power metallers went from supporting Iron Maiden in Gothenburg and recording a fine album in ‘Carolus Rex’ to ending up with just two original band members out of six following a parting of the ways. But now, with guitarists Chris …

I was lucky enough to grab a chat with vocalist Rute Fevereiro to discuss the bands history, current album and much much more.   Firstly, many thanks for taking time to speak to us here at Planetmosh.Take us back to the beginning for Enchantya, you formed in 2004, how did …

Interview with Sabaton's Joakim Brodén

Interview with Máté Molnár and Máté Bodor from Wisdom

I spoke to Oliver Palotai, keyboard player with Kamelot, in the band’s dressing room shortly before they played the Forum in Kentish Town, London, and asked him about the bands latest album, their tour and his other work.  You can listen to the interview with the player below.  

Taking a short break from their European tour with Dragonforce, Huntress headed over to the UK for a few gigs – three headline shows in small venues around the UK plus tonight’s appearance at the Metal Hammer Halloween party, held in London’s Islington academy.  With three other bands on the …

A cold crisp evening in Glasgow was kicked of with main support from Rise Above stalwarts Gentlemans Pistols now featuring Bill Steer of Carcass/Firebird/Napalm Death fame. Commencing their set with an up-tempo rocker which bled Deep Purple, Captain Beyond and Quo, the pistols laid down the tone for the rest …