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Lucero – ‘When You Found Me’ (Thirty Tigers)

Lucero – ‘When You Found Me’ (Thirty Tigers)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2021 | ,

This one is pretty surprising for John B. He fully expected to not be a big fan of this one. He lives on the border with Tennessee and because of this has not turned on the radio in approximately ten years. Pretty much everything played on the radio this close to music city is not his style. Needless to say, our man in Kentucky’s expectations were low. That being said, once he hit play he loved it. He found himself listening to the album over and over, beyond what he normally does for a review. Even to the point of learning the lyrics well enough to sing along at times. Every track is a hit in JB’s book…

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Dreamslain – ‘Tales of Knights and Distant Worlds’ (Self-Released)

Dreamslain – ‘Tales of Knights and Distant Worlds’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2021 | ,

Every so often, an album will surface at ÜRHQ that promises to combine two of Jonny B’s favourite things in a tantalizing mix. And on occasions like this he simply has to pick it up and give it a spin because the opportunity is too good to miss! This is how he felt when he stumbled across ‘Tales of Knights and Distant Worlds’, on which Dreamslain have promised that “epic metal meets prog rock”, which is definitely enough to grab JB’s attention!

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And Now The Owls Are Smiling – ‘Dirges’ (Clobber Records)

And Now The Owls Are Smiling – ‘Dirges’ (Clobber Records)

Posted by | Feb 1, 2021 | ,

And Now The Owls Are Smiling, the collective name for north Norfolk based musician Nre. Having already made a mark with the release of 2019’s ‘The Comforting Grip of Misery’, Nre has returned to embark once again on a twisting and evocative path of atmospheric black metal. The result is the eight-track ‘Dirges’. A collection of music that works together to hold onto a grip of winter and enthral the listener into a whirl of sombre, emotionally charged darkness.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – L.A. WITCH

VIDEO OF THE WEEK – L.A. WITCH

Posted by | Jan 31, 2021 | , ,

Well, 2021 may be coming to the end of only its first month but already it is looking as if it as going be as much of a shitstorm of a year, if not more so, than its predecessor, with the Government apparently losing the war with the pan(dem)ic and “fighting back” with renewed, and even more stringent, lockdowns in place the length and breadth of the Über Kingdom (and beyond). But, with BoJo’s much vaunted pathway out of the crisis still some way off, and the summer festival season already in severe doubt following the cancellation of Glastonbury and other events looking set to fall like the proverbial dominos, at least 2021 is sharing something more positive in common with 2020, in that it already has produced some terrific new music, with the promise of plenty more to come, if the if the inbox here at ÜRHQ is anything to go by…

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Kickin’ Valentina – ‘The Revenge Of Rock’ (Mighty Music)

Kickin’ Valentina – ‘The Revenge Of Rock’ (Mighty Music)

Posted by | Jan 30, 2021 | ,

There are very few times that a band, or more especially an album, live up the hyperbolae piled upon them, and it, by often overpaid PR teams. To ÜR’s big bad boss, Kickin’ Valentina are one of those rare exceptions – and, to be brutally honest, it is nothing the do with the self-serving praise heaped upon them by those within the machine… You see, Monk first came across the band’s name standing on top of a mountain… literally!

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