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The title of the project is a bit of a moutful – Metal for Cancer Dragon slayer All star Project, but its fairly simple if you split it up – ignore the Dragon slayer part, and focus on the rest – “All star project” and “Metal for cancer” – that …

If you fancy spending your Christmas gift money on something guaranteed to blow the festive cobwebs away then you could do a lot worse than give this album a go. Released via Pure Legend Records at the end of October it boasts 9 blistering slabs of Power Metal that fair …

MP3 album  downloaded from Stuka Squadron’s website.   Review by Carl “Thunarr” Pickles   Pardon?  Are you sure about that?  OK, let me get this right… Vampires in the Luftwaffe?  They’re playing what?  NWOBHM-influenced Metal?  They’re reminiscent of Maiden, Cathedral and Manowar at their best?  What’s not to like?!   …

Manchester’s finest were grabbed and corralled into a side room at this years Hard Rock Hell festival to talk about their latest tour, album and all things musical. SO, YOUR GETTING READY FOR YOUR SET HERE AT HARD ROCK HELL A BIT LATER, LOOKING FORWARD TO IT? Very much so, …

Braving the by now biting cold wind I was led to a chalet door at this year’s Hard Rock Hell festival in Prestatyn North Wales and eventually summoned into the warmth inside, warmth not just from the rather tired 1980’s storage heater but from the man himself. Ginger Wildheart famed …

Right where do I start? Yeah good place the beginning…. Tracer hail from Adelaide and they are a three piece rock outfit made up of Leigh Brown – Bass and Vocals, Michael Brown – Guitars and Vocals, Andre Wise – Drums and bring a sound something like a lethal cocktail of …

Fallstaf is a unique band – they play Brass metal – or Trombone metal to be more precise.  While this sounds like an oddity, its no more strange than Apocalyptica playing metal on Cellos, or Van Canto doing A Capella metal.  Other bands have used various unusual instruments – Chthonic …

“Cold Comfort” is the fifth album from Dutch heavy rock band Autumn.  Autumn are a band that I’ve heard about regularly but for some reason I’d never got round to listening to them till now.  After listening to the album a few times I wish I hadnt put off listening …

Planetmosh.com caught up with Attica Rage frontman Jonny Parr to talk about the band’s recent touring success, 2011 highlights and future plans for 2012. You’ve just finished your debut UK headlining tour which has taken you all over the country, including some towns you’ve not played before. How did they …

Scythia are a folk metal band from Vancouver, Canada. The band released their debut album “…of war” in 2009, and this, their second album – “…of exile” is due to be released on 23rd September 2011. The music has a strong folk influence, and at times a medieval sound, but …

[media-credit name=”Lucky Thir 13n” align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit]Lucky Thir13n is an oddly named band from Greece. “Lucky Thirteen” would sound right but “Lucky Thir13n” just doesnt read right to me, so I’m not sure why they didnt just call themselves Lucky Thirteen. The band have supported bands including Crashdiet and WASP as …

“Uninvolved” is the debut album for Gothic Metal project Evergaze Eternity, which consists of two stable members, Giovanni (keyboards) and Valeria (vocals). The album has been produced by Marco Ribecai (Eldritch/Node) at Syncropain Studios and mixed at Mastering Room AB by Goran Finnberg. It includes ten songs in a very …

      [media-credit name=”Veronica Maiden” align=”alignleft” width=”720″][/media-credit]  Firstly before we talk about the bands a very big shout out and well done to the Unicorn for having the best toilets I have seen in a North London music venue! Although I did get the impression they had just finished …

[media-credit id=4717 align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit]Seven Thorns are a Danish power metal band that were formed in 1998.  This is their second album – their first being the 2007 release “Glow of  dawn”, although legal issues that affected it’s release mean that the band describe this new album “Return to the past” …

[media-credit name=”voodoo highway” align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit]Voodoo Highway are a new band from Italy.  Only formed in Spring 2010, they’ve already released an EP and now this their debut album, the oddly named “Broken Uncle’s Inn”.  Voodoo Highway play very 70’s feel hard rock in fact listening to the album you can …

“See you on the ground” is the debut album from German melodic death metal band, Deadend in Venice. Deadend in Venice have stuck to the standard formula for vocals for bands with death metal influences and who have a female singer – the female singer sings clean vocals with screams/grunts/growls …

[media-credit id=4717 align=”alignright” width=”300″][/media-credit]If you’ve never come across Van Canto before then you could be in for a shock – Van Canto do what sounds at first like a crazy idea that couldn’t possibly work, but somehow they make it work.  The old saying goes “There’s a fine line between …

Coma Divide are a new band from Germany.  I’m not clear if the name was a deliberate reference to the album of the same name by Porcupine Tree, but it’s bound to cause confusion when trying to do internet searches for instance. Coma Divine consists of singer Sonja Kraushofer, who …

This release consists of the first Bitch EP (Damnation alley) from 1982 and their first album (Be my slave) from 1983.  Both have been remastered and sound better than they’ve ever sounded before.  As well as the album and EP on a CD the package also includes a DVD containing …

Tornado were formerly known as Nemesis Divina, but changed their name to avoid people wrongly assuming they were a black metal group (Nemesis Divina also being the name of an album by black metal band Satyricon).  This release is the bands first album.  The band have been described as “Slayer …