Author: Team Uber

Days Of Jupiter ‘The World Was Never Enough’ (Reigning Phoenix Music)

After maintaining self-imposed radio silence for something like six years, this Swedish alt-rock crew have come storming back with an album which, in Monk’s personal opinion, puts a lot more high profile genre contemporaries such as Alter Bridge in the darkest and shadiest of corners (a controversial statement in itself, given that DQ is the Uber Kingdom’s #1 Kennedy/Tremonti fan so the boss is probably getting the “all picture no sound” treatment until the next AB album comes out to try and prove him wrong).

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Havukruunu ‘Tavastland’ (Svart Records)

Breaking a silence of four years, these Finnish black metallers return with an epic album that echoes both the bleak beauty and the eloquent elegance of the landscape which formed, gestated and inspired this equally beautifully bleak and elegantly eloquent fourth album from a band who truly know how to blend beauty, bleakness, elegance and eloquence with a rare sense of cohesive equanimity that is as entrancing as it is enervating.

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