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I recently spoke to Saxon frontman Biff Byford to talk about Saxon’s new DVD release – Heavy metal thunder, Eagles over wacken, live dates, and their next album… Planetmosh: You’ve just released your new live DVD – Heavy metal thunder, Eagles over wacken.  What made you choose Wacken as the …

The mission was a success. We managed to infiltrate their lair and capture 2 of the Stuka Sqadron soldiers. Then I got to interrogated them! Please note a sense of humour is essential for viewing this video, as it contain some bad language, torture*, nudity* swearing, damn fine tunes, flashbacks …

Dave Farrell.Hi Gareth!! The last we talked was in Wigan, you were on the bill with Crash Diet and Houston; you said then, you were looking forward to your debut Firefest gig, so how was it for you? Gareth Noon.“It was an absolute blast, and coupled with Rockfest in Madrid …

Glasgow saw a mini invasion of Germanic Teutonic vampires as Stuka Squadron made their first attack on enemy soil here to kick off their mini tour of destruction around the UK and, while it was a disappointing crowd for them to play to (thanks in part to the almost unheard …

I recently spoke to Metal Scent’s Ronen Ziony to talk about the recently released album “Home Made”,  the metal scene in Israel and much more. To listen to the interview, hit play on the player below:     Metal Scent are: Drums – Ronen Ziony Guitars – Dror Yakar Vocals – Rami Salmon Guitars – Yaniv …

When you see the names Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders you know you’re in for an evening of intense, mind-blowing music. Tonight’s show took place at the Concorde 2 in Brighton and with a 600 capacity the show was sold out and filled with people in which I can only …

  Planetmosh recently caught up with Lunocode’s drummer and co-composer Perseo to talk about the current album ‘Celestial Harmonies’ and the bands history.   Firstly many thanks for taking time out to talk to us here at Planetmosh. I’d like to begin by asking you how the band came together …

Planetmosh talks to Jules from White Widdow as the band prepare for their uk tour with Ten and Serpentine. PM:Classic Rock magazine placed your debut CD in the top ten AOR records of the year in 2010; that must have put enormous pressure on the group to follow up that …

Thanks for taking the time to speak to us. No problem, thanks for having us. For people who haven’t heard about you how would you describe the band? SB: Ear piercing vocals, thundering bass, raging guitar and pounding drums How did you form and what made you chose the band …

Tonight’s headliners became the envy of every metal band in Ireland – and beyond – when they managed to secure the opening slot at Machine Head’s forthcoming only two headline dates outside Download. To get themselves fighting fit for the challenge of the brace of shows in Belfast and Dublin, …

The Mariana Hollow are a female fronted, London based 5 piece who play dark, ambient progressive rock.. Fronted by the gorgeous and extremely talented Rebecca Spinks, TMH are a force to be heard both live and on album. Recently they have been on tour across the UK with the mighty …

Fantasist are a wierd, progressive blues rock band from Manchester, who wear pinstriped suits onstage… What could be better? After the release of their astounding debut album entitled, Giggle Juice last year – Fantasist have had a relentless year touring all across the UK and Europe and have recently opened …

Hailing from Coventry, Steel Threads are a power folk band armed only with a fiddle, double bass, acoustic guitar and the power of ones voice. At their recent show in Manchester supporting the mighty Breed 77, lead singer and guitar player Neil, took the time to talk to me about …

Just under two weeks before this metal monster of a quadruple bill rolled into Belfast, the demolition crews moved into the neighbouring Spring and Airbrake (separated only from the Limelight by the width of the rawk ‘n’ roll watering hole that is Katy Daly’s) to gut the place out in …

I had the honor of catching up with former Exodus singer Zetro aka Steve Souza about his new band Hatriot via email.   Hello Steve! Great news that Hatriot has taken off. Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. It is my pleasure.  I’m glad to talk …

When New Orleans black metallers Goatwhore hit the UK, in support of both their fifth studio album, ‘Blood For The Master’  and 3 Inches Of Blood, we caught up with vocalist Ben Falgoust as the tour hit Belfast, where he updated us on the reaction to said album, talked about …

Irish trio Dead Label! became the envy of bands all over the island of Ireland when they landed the prestigious opening slot for Machine Head’s only headlining shows outside Download – at Belfast’s Ulster Hall on May 28 and Dublin’s Olympia Theatre two nights later. As the young band gear …

Metal and Rock returned to the Railway for another night of high volume and high energy mischief, with a triple bill of quite varied bands. First up are Polly, a Nirvana tribute/covers band who kick things off very nicely with a 45 minute set of grunge which is well received. …

I was looking forward to tonight’s gig at Ivory Blacks as I’ve not seen Mair play in ages and I was definitely looking forward to hearing some of the new tracks played live from Blaze’s latest album ‘The King Of  Metal’ that was released in March this year. When I …

Sunday afternoon on the May bank holiday seen me heading through to Ivory Blacks in Glasgow for the second day of Rock For Funds. Tonight’s bill was called the ‘Rock Extravaganza’ a mixture of cover/tribute bands along with local bands and headliners Kyrbgrinder who hail from London I had been …