RIP Colin Harkness
Colin Harkness, vocalist and rhythm guitarist with Liverpudlian NWoBHMers Spider, has died.
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Author: Team Uber
Desert Storm/Gravity Well/Blurred Reality – Belfast, Voodoo – 17 July 2022
So, here we were again – well, at least one half of the ÜRHQ team – back at our favourite city centre venue for the second time in as many nights. Yes, this time Monk was flying solo as he joined the small band of hardy souls gathered to help Oxford sludge groovers Desert Storm celebrate their 15th anniversary with a long-awaited and overdue return to this wee corner of the Überverse.
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Haint/ForeignWolf/Puresonic Outcasts – Belfast, Voodoo – 16 July 2022
If there is one date on the calendar that is more important to emerging heavy metal bands than Christmas, Easter and their collective birthdays all put together, it surely must be the day they perform on the New Blood Stage at Bloodstock. Having served as a launching pad for so many bands to propel themselves on to bigger stages, it is little wonder that the title of ‘Metal 2 The Masses Champion’ is as coveted as the Tour de France yellow jersey or the Open green jacket.
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Jack Starr’s Burning Starr – ‘Souls Of The Innocent’ (Global Rock Records)
For the past four decades or so, Jack Starr has been one of the leading lights (sic) of what can perhaps best be described as the ÜS traditional heavy metal scene, first as the six-string shredder with the much-maligned and under-rated Virgin Steele and more latterly with his own Burning Starr project, which has just produced this, the tenth album and the first with new vocalist Alexx Panza (they seem to have a thing for double consonants in their names, these boys).
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Egres – ‘Introspection’ (Self-Released)
Finland is on record as having more heavy metal bands per head of population than any other country in the Überverse – and if they keep on producing them at the rate they have been doing then virtually every Finn between school and retirement ages will be churning out riffs with the sort of gay abandon that would make Errol Flynn blush with envy. The latest export from the easternmost side of the Scandinavian peninsula are these self-styled cinematic progressive metallers, centred around the creative force of bassist and composer Pekka Virtanen and now departed vocalist Veera Hänninen.
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