Birmingham-based rockers, Led By Lanterns are set to drop their debut album, ‘Paralysis’ which to Jase W’s great delight has landed in his lap to review prior to its release this month. Described as fusing heavy riffs with boyband vocals, something that fits a lot of bands he’s found himself listening to heavily over the past couple of years, he’s looking forward to getting his ears around this on a cold January morning…
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David O just picked this from a list of albums to review on the Über Rock team page as a result of it being AOR. He has a penchant for AOR especially stuff like Toto and Journey among many others. Never having heard of HTGR, he wondered how much they had previously released he searched around to find this Philadelphia-based band only released the one album, waaay back in 1989 and only then on a limited run from a Canadian label – so that would be why. The publicity blurb reckons that original copies go for up to a thousand quid! This is again released on a limited run of 500 copies, so it may add to the desire for someone looking for a potential investment opportunity. However, is it worth the cost was my question. Well, as an eight track CD with two bonus tracks and another eight tracks on the second of the double CD mix makes it certainly value for money…
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Custard is something that Jonny B loves with a little bit of pud – and he’s seen some footprints in it – but he doesn’t think he would have considered it as a name for a power metal band. There’s always a surprise here at ÜRHQ though and JB’s is that such a thing does exist and, not only that, but they have also done since the ‘90s. So that’s him schooled, we guess! So there’s nothing else to do but see what power metal delights are in store with their latest in a long line of albums – ‘Imperium Rapax’.
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For many years, the EP – or ‘Extended Player’, to give it its full title – was a criminally overlooked format. But, in recent years, it has made something of a deserved comeback, as bands face the challenge of continually producing new material but often not being able to commit to the cost of, or time to, recording full-length albums. They have been especially important over the past 24 months of on-and-off-on-again lockdowns and restrictions, as the format has enabled artists to snatch valuable moments of recording time to get new product out to their fans.
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We may be only a couple of weeks into the new rock ‘n’ roll year, but we’ve had a surprising number of videos come our way over the past seven days – almost 140 of them in fact – vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… not the best, we stress, but our favourite…
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