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Vaughanstrosity – ‘Memes And Dreams’ (Self-Released)

Vaughanstrosity – ‘Memes And Dreams’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 7, 2023 | , ,

As regular ÜR readers will know, we first crossed paths with the artist known as Vaughanstrosity when he closed the revolving door of bass players who had made their various entrances and exits with Belfast shock punks So Long Until The Séance. What we didn’t know at the time was that Ruaidhri was also an extremely talented solo artist in his own right – something about which we were made to sit up and take notice about at the beginning of November when he absolutely nicked our precious #VideoOfTheWeek title right from under our very noses. Now, he has followed up with this absolutely show-stealing debut four-track EP which has been on almost constant repeat since it first landed on our death decks \m/

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Fredlös – ‘Fredlös’ (Threeman Recordings)

Fredlös – ‘Fredlös’ (Threeman Recordings)

Posted by | Feb 7, 2023 | ,

Fredlös came together in the Spring of 2021, rising from the ashes of previous musical adventures, based in the country around Nortallje, northeast of Stockholm and united by a deep sense of their historical roots and a love of dark sounds. The band is Robert Lindgren (bass), guitarists Tomas Karlson, Fredrik Danielsson and Alex Hellid (yes, from Enslaved), lead singer Liv Hope  and Victor Dahlin on keyboards. We have to assume that the drums are either by a session musician or, the gods forbid, programmed!

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pMad – ‘Who Why Where What’ (Self-Released)

pMad – ‘Who Why Where What’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 6, 2023 | ,

Asking four out of the five Kipling questions on which us journalists are trained, this is the debut album from Irish solo artist Paul Dillon, who hails from that well-known rock ‘n’ rock outpost of Portumna in picturesque County Galway, Coming in at eight well-constructed tracks, plus five remixes, the big question that has to be answered is if the album lives up to the epic beauty of the landscape which serves as its creative backdrop, or is it as cold and bleak as an Irish winter’s night. Well, the answer is somewhere in between.

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Agarwaen – ‘Channel: Lunacy’ (Self-Released)

Agarwaen – ‘Channel: Lunacy’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 6, 2023 | , ,

Finnish horror-obsessed metallers Agarwaen trace their roots back to 2006, but have had something of an on-off-on-off-on again career, with project founder Anthony ‘Vryko’ Hodju seemingly unable to settle on a line-up of musicians compatible with his vision, splitting the band twice – although he did manage to record an EP and an album along the way… This, the follow-up to that aforementioned debut, has been a suitably long time in emerging, actually being recorded in the midst of the 2021pandemic and seeing its creator veer into the (almost dreaded) territory of the concept album. Um!

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