ÜS circus rockers Avatar, whose latest ÜK tour was due to begin this coming weekend, have pushed the dates back to next year, because of the ongoing Covidications continuing to grip the Überverse.
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If there is one word which can possibly summarize what many of us have felt over what is coming up to be the past two years, it is most likely isolation. Isolation from our family. Our friends. Our loved ones. Even our passing acquaintances, to whom we might have nodded knowingly across the pub. Isolation from reality. From the facts. Isolation in a world of social media. A world of algorithms. A world of unreality. A world where our true isolation has been in music, and the catharsis and redemption which it brings.
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This five-piece from Llanelli had been giggling around the scene almost constantly until Covid hit. David O first came across them several years ago when they were called VoiD, but the existence of several bands with the same name prompted the name change to Scarlet Rebels, which also fits with their roots.
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There aren’t many artists who deserve a decent tribute more than New York’s mighty Blue Öyster Cult, together for over 50 years and, as proved in recent years, still going strong. This new tribute gathers together numerous artists from the worlds of hard rock, punk, stoner, doom and occult rock, all of whom have digged deep into the extensive BÖC back catalogue to pick a suitable tribute. Now sometimes these kinds of albums can disappoint, but here it’s most definitely a case of a ‘(Don’t Fear) The Tribute Album’!
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While 2021 has been another traumatic and troubled year for the music industry, especially on the live front, rock ‘n’ rollers the Überverse over have once again been proven themselves to be a resilient and imaginative bunch with a continuing avalanche of high-quality new music on a scale that would bury a small eastern European republic. Our team of ninja reviewers have been consistently amazed at how artists, both individually and collectively, have consistently risen to the challenges we have all faced over the past 12 months to produce, in many cases, the best work of their careers to date.
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