Author: Team Uber

Minneriket – ‘Gjennom meg går ingen til hvile’ (Self-Released)

Norwegian black metallers Minneriket have just released their fifth album. The sounds of nature were all recorded by Stein Akslen while on field trips and include owl and wolf sounds. In all, Stein has spent six years working on this album and “it is dedicated in loving memory to those we have lost”. Stein plays guitar, bass, keyboards and sings, so this sounds like a solo album, and he is obviously a very talented man. Our man Bona was informed that this album might appeal to fans of Myrkur, Jinjer, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy and Evanescence in equal measure, so he was quite looking forward to getting into this review. ..

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The Über Rock Singles Club – Jaunty January (Volume Two)

Welcome to the second edition of the Über Rock Singles Club of 2022. We have managed to keep the Club up-and-running despite the numerous Covidications which we all have had to endure over the past 24 months, in order to bring you the hottest new sounds around. And once again we have another hitlist of superb sonic experiences to tickle your sonic senses, with a selection of my favourite tunes to have found their way on to the ÜRHQ deathdecks over the past couple of weeks… Bearing in mind that, despite the new rock ‘n’ roll year still being slightly less than a month old, we received more than 400 submissions, it was not an easy task to whittle them down to this all-too-short playlist of just a handful musical gems…

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