This is something completely different for our Valleys correspondent – well almost. He does like popular classical music and he is the father of a cellist (albeit he hasn’t played for 15 years), so when the chance to see Apocalyptica was open Dave O thought he would use it, despite not being a huge fan of Metallica.
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Blackout Problems represents a shining example of how catching a support act can very quickly move them from an unknown to a fast favourite. This was Jase W’s third time seeing them this year, due to Enter Shikari picking them as European touring partners as well as grabbing them for a festival warmup show.
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Hermano, fronted by John Garcia of Kyuss, were one of the coolest purveyors of stoner/desert rock in the Noughties. Their debut album, 2002’s ‘Only A Suggestion’, is a bona fide classic of the genre. Now they’re back with new album ‘when the moon was high…’, a mixture of unreleased live recordings, plus the first new studio music from the band since 2007’s final album ‘Into The Exam Room’.
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Monk’s latest pick of the day is so hot off the presses that it burned his fingers, and comes from an old friend of ours here at ÜRHQ, a man who never seems to sit still, never mind stay silent, for more than a hot minute or three – and, not only that but it also features one of our favourite female artists of all time…
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It’s been five long years since we last opened the Astral Doors and transported ourselves into the power metal Überverse of these Swedish genre veterans, a hiatus which perhaps inevitably had us questioning if it indeed was #TheEndOfItAll for this project fronted by powerhouse vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson. But, we need not have feared the worst as, while the various band members have been off doing different things over the past half a decade they have now reunited to celebrate their coming of age with this, their ninth studio album in their storied 21-year career.
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