Well, here at ÜRHQ we are gearing up for our favourite time of the year… yeah, the Christmas ads may be already polluting our television screens and the selection boxes cluttering the shelves of our local supermarket, but fuck that for a tin of beans… it’s only 29 days to Hallowe’en, when the ghouls come out to play and we get to summon our inner demons and annoy the neighbours with some suitably spooky tunes…
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So every once in a while there comes a gig lineup where rather than one particular band Jase W is interested in, our resident gigaholic is massively into every single band on the lineup. This was one of them…
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Tonight was the local heavy metal community’s response to the annual (at least pre-pandemic) ‘Culture Night’ exposé of all that is supposedly great and good about Belfast’s arts and “culture” scene, with pop-up art shows and “impromptu” performances in all sorts of weird and wonderful venues, from office blocks to supermarkets. With the event having virtually ignored the city’s most vibrant underground music scene for the guts of the past decade, two of our most pro-active promoters came together to raise a sturdy middle finger to the cultural elite and showcase a small part of what they had been missing all these years… And then, somewhat ironically, the self-styled anarchist collective behind Culture Night had to cancel this year’s shebang. Why? Lack of funding… Ah well, at least there was some “uncultured” culture to lure Monk and DQ into the city’s backstreets: not that they ever need much incentive to visit their favourite musical haunt anyway \m/
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The nights are definitely getting chillier as Jase W found standing in the line waiting to get into Rebellion but the gig season is certainly heating up. Kicking off our resident gigaholic’s latest week of live action were SOEN, who brought along Oceanhoarse and Lizzard for the ride. JW had been been looking forward to seeing SOEN for a lot of this year following the rescheduling of the date!
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When the EP dropped into ÜR NKOTB Jamie B’s inbox, he didn’t know what to expect as he’d never heard of Eternal Closure before. The only information he had to go on was if you are a fan of Trivium, Jinjer or Killswitch Engage you will enjoy this band. The reality, however, was that only one of those bands is comparable. If JB had to compare them to any band, which our latest recruit hates doing because a band should be able to stand on their own merits, it would be Scar Symmetry. The intricacy of the guitars, the juxtaposition of the clean and harsh vocals, and the groove of the drums/bass all melded into one pretty epic record.
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