Here we go again: the mighty cogs of Europe’s biggest rock and metal music festival are turning and the production line of epic live performances is thundering into life once more. Download 2015 is underway. And what a Friday headliner it has produced… The biggest, angriest monster of a metal …
Read More »Wacken 2014 Festival Preview
With under 30 day go until the 25th Wacken and with bands like Accept being added to the line up last month the excitement is starting to build. I was last there in 2012 the year of torrential rain so I’m hoping this year it’ll be different. There has been …
Read More »Five Finger Death Punch – Academy, Birmingham – 28th March 2014
Opening tonight’s bill were Pop Evil from Michigan USA, and here in the UK for the first time. Straight away they impressed me – they sounded great and put everything they had into their performance. The band members were constantly running around the stage, jumping, and generally burning off more …
Read More »PlanetMosh Album of the Year 2013
Twenty-Thirteen was another amazing year in the world of hard rock / metal. With so many crunching releases to sift through,the staff here in PlanetMosh Towers sent in their submissions for their favourite albums of the year. All the numbers were crunched in the PlanetMosh super-computer and we are proud …
Read More »WACKEN online Advent calendar latest band announcements 18th and 19th December
We are up to the 19th announcement on the Wacken Advent calendar! So far the bands that have been revealed are: Skid Row, Bring Me The Horizon, Excrementory Grindfucker, Crematory, Hammerfall, Steel Panther, Bülent Ceylan, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Vogelfrey, Pampatut, The Vintage Caravan, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Saxon, August Burns Red, …
Read More »Avenged Sevenfold – LG Arena Birmingham, 05/12/13
There hasn’t been as much controversy about a Download headliner since My Chemical Romance topped the bill in 2007; even Feeder and The Offspring got better receptions in 2005 and 2008. But with a new album that reached #1 in both the UK and the US and a near-sold out …
Read More »Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1
It’s been a while since I reviewed an album ( I think my last was Wolfsbane Save The World) so I may be a little rusty, so apologies in advance. Anyway on with matter in hand, It would seem that Five Finger Death Punch are not the taste of your …
Read More »Download Festival, Part 3 – Sunday 16th June, 2013
So two days of rock and metal carnage down, one to go. And as this punter walked down towards the Main Stage on the Sunday morning of Download Festival 2013, I couldn’t help but smile at the wires attaching the stage to the sound tower, knowing what they were for. …
Read More »90,000 fans rock out at DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL – 2014 dates and early bird offer announced!
Download Festival – THE biggest weekend in the rock calendar – took place this weekend as 90,000 people rocked out in Donington Park to headliners Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein plus a host of other bands across the weekend. Crowds of rock fans packed out Donington Park as the opening …
Read More »30+ new bands announced for Download.
Download 2013 takes place on June 14th – 16th at Donnington Park. They have released the next instalment of band this morning. Today’s announcement was: Limp Bizkit, Korn, Cancer Bats, Down, Airborn, Amon Amarth, 3 Doors Down, UFO, The Sword, Black Dogs, Huntress, Jimmy Eat World, In This Moment, Five …
Read More »Download Festival 2013 Donington UK
Download 2013 will be held on the 14th to 16th June at Castle Donington at Donington Park, DE74 2RP. Confirmed headliners are Slipknot, Iron Maiden and Rammstein *Announced Line up so far: FRIDAY 14 JUNE SATURDAY 15 JUNE SUNDAY 16 JUNE MAIN STAGE SLIPKNOT IRON MAIDEN RAMMSTEIN Bullet For …
Read More »Xerosun – Absence Of Light
This debut offering from Dubliners Xerosun actually came out in their Irish homeland back in 2010, to great acclaim on both sides of the border, but now has been picked up, re-packaged and given a worldwide release by Rising Records. And much deserved the development is, as this is – …
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