The holiday season is here and it’s Christmas Eve which can only mean one thing. Listmania begins! This year we’ve got a wealth of Metal entertainment coming your way ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous in our Awards Season for 2020 although we’ve been forced to axe the “Top #5 live bands of 2020”
Sometimes you need an antidote to all the Christmas cheer in Holiday Season; you’re just not in the mood, things are going pear shaped; your lover left you and you know you’re going to be spending time having to explain it to your family rather than just sinking a bottle of Wild Turkey in front
Filmmakers Mike Redman and Jason Köhnen have launched a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo to help finance the first-ever documentary to focus on the underground extreme metal scene in the Netherlands. A full length documentary film that consists of exclusive new interviews with 40+ Dutch Metal bands, journalists, radio DJ’s, label owners, international legends, the fans and a host of other key
That’s right, it’s that time of year folks! Spotify Wrapped has given us the top 20 tunes we listened to in 2020, so rather than share the full list, we’re going to do what we did in 2019 and hit you with 5 of those records which we listened to the most in 2020. Just
It must be international Slaughter To Prevail day because not one but two remixes of “Demolisher” have landed on Planet Metal. The first comes from Gun Drummer, who met the band and filmed with them the last time they were in the US, while the second comes from famed Deathcore enhancer Misstiq who adds some
Talking of charity, here on Skull Island there are struggling independent venues who are in need of a helping hand. A cause supported by Holy Roar Records and Employed To Serve, there is a crowdfunding campaign underway to help them out here. After all, no venues = no live shows = less bands = everything
Much to our surprise, Alternative Press have dropped a list of Hardcore bands that they think you should know in 2020 – and – there is no-one questionable on it! Our very own Ithaca are the surprise on the list with a number of female fronted acts getting a look in!
It seems hard to imagine that Between The Buried And Me are going to be celebrating their 20th Anniversary on 15th May 2020. It seems like only yesterday that a copy of “Alaska” found it’s way to our CD player and we were introduced to their Progressive Death Metal tones. Well that 20th Anniversary will bring
One of the most nomadic bands around have to be Canadian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats. They’ve played everywhere and anywhere in the World from huge festival stages to dive bars, because they simply love playing. Finally able to pin frontman Liam Cormier down for a few minutes, Banger TV persuaded him to spill his guts
We wouldn’t normally share other people’s reaction videos but… this one is something special. TrueShot shared a reaction video for the recent August Burns Red single “Defender” from their upcoming new 3rd April album “Guardians” which ABR frontman Jake Luhrs stumbled across. So having been impressed by that, he offered to return the favour. So here’s
