Über Röck

As the Über Kingdom prepares for not only one of its biggest ever metal celebrations but also another heatwave for it to bask in, Jase W looks back at how two of Holland’s biggest festivals handled a record-breaking rise in the mercury levels…

RIP Kevin Chown

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Bassist Kevin Chown, best known for his work with Tarja Turunen, Cosmosquad and Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatballs, has died at the age of 56, following a battle with cancer.

The Über Röck Singles Clüb Sünday Service –Jübilant Jüly (Pärt One)

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It’s feckin’ warm outside, but it’s even hotter in the ÜRHQ dungeon, where the sounds are so feckin’ hot the smoke alarms are going off every 30 seconds and the local fire brigade are on 24 hour standby… Yes,, here we are, batterin’ and breezin’, poundin’ ‘n’ pummellin’, stompin’ ‘n’ strollin’ our way into the dirty heart and soul of another busy rockin’ ‘n’ rollin’ month here in the Überverse…

The Über Röck Singles Clüb Videö Of The Week – 7 Miles To Pittsburgh

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These Dutch progressive hard rockers are definitely, and defiantly, more than #HalfWayThere with this powerful and evocative visual interpretation of the second single from their upcoming third album.

Blackbird Festival – Cardiff Castle – 27 June 2026

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Cardiff Castle rarely felt as alive as it did for the inaugural Blackbird Festival, a day that balanced hometown pride with heavyweight rock pedigree, capped by Alter Bridge’s long-overdue Cardiff return.

Jera On Air – Ysselsteyn – 27 June 2026

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The third and final day of this year’s Jera On Air arrived last Saturday, and despite all the trials and tribulations of the extreme heat experienced over the weekend, Jase W and his fellow festival goers still persisted in their pursuit of world-class performances…

Jera On Air – Ysselsteyn – 26 June 2026

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Here it was: the hottest day of the year the Netherlands had ever had in June. It was also the second day of the JOA weekender and our man Jase had heard through the grapevine that Defqon electronic music festival had thrown in the towel… but it took more than the minor matter of a heatwave to stop the metal action…

Bakken ‘Consent To Deception’ (Self-Released)

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By Monk Once upon a time – well, in the early part of the last decade – Bakken were one of the...

CJ Wildheart ‘DEViL’ (Devilspit Music)

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The artist by the nom de plume of CJ Wildheart should need absolutely no introduction to not only regular readers of this here always ever so humble website but lovers of classy rock ‘n’ roll music as a whole, as he was one of the similarly-monickered co-founders of one of perhaps the singularly most recognized and notorious glunk pop acts to have emerged from the Über Kingdom in the past two generations. After a nigh on 40-year interaction with the band that has experienced more stops and starts than a rain-sodden TT race, the firebrand sauceror (sic) has just unleashed his eighth, and perhaps most visceral and vital, solo album on an unsuspecting Überverse…

Glenn Kingsmore ‘Cairn Holy’ (Casualty Records)

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Best known as the drummer with Belfast punk legends/veterans (whichever term they prefer to use) The Defects, this latest solo album, his fifth, is a completely different prospect from what one might expect given its creators’ background and pedigree, but at the same time what one should expect from a solo offering, in that it treads different waters from those in which he normally swims…