FESTIVAL NEWS: ManorFest cancelled
ManorFest, which was due to take place at Whittlebury Park in Northamptonshire next weekend, has been cancelled.
Read MoreManorFest, which was due to take place at Whittlebury Park in Northamptonshire next weekend, has been cancelled.
Read MoreThe sun may have been making one of its increasingly frequent appearances and the mercury may be starting to rise, albeit temporarily, but there was a definite chill in the air and sense of impending darkness about to descend… but that was probably something to do with the fact that two of the most iconic names on the European black metal scene were about to hold court and bring their individual and collective brands of ritualistic musical extremity to the heart of Belfast town…
Read MoreWith Download Festival 2022 on the horizon, we at ÜRHQ can feel the hype building for the return to Donington, and so we asked our dynamic duo of Dave and Jase to give us some insight into what bands they are most looking forward to catching over the weekend…
Read MoreBelfast-based noiseniks Archives introduced themselves to us at the tail end of last year, when they emerged out of the darkness and despair of two years of Covidications with their impactful and declarative debut album. At the time of its release, Monk described it as “deftly crafted and stridently confident”, an opinion he still holds some six months later.
Read MoreBack in 2020, Canadian metal legends Anvil released ‘Legal At Last’, one of their strongest albums in a while, but the onset of the pandemic meant they couldn’t complete the tour to promote it. So, like a lot of bands unable to tour, they forged ahead with writing and recording another one, and the result is the band’s 19th studio album, ‘Impact Is Imminent’.
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