Author: Team Uber

Me And That Man – ‘New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol 2’ (Napalm Records)

For those unfamiliar with the concept – and, if you’re not, where the feck have you been hiding for the past few years – Me And That Man is a sort of “alter ego” project from Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski which has seen him explore a much darker, and defiantly more personal side, of his artistry than the pure black metal limitations of Behemoth have allowed him to do. Now, Darski has never been a man to compromise. In his 25 years as the frontman of Behemoth, one of the most iconic, confrontational and innovative extreme metal bands not only of their own but any generation, he has never backed down from a fight. He has taken on leukaemia – and beaten it. He has taken on the Polish government – and beaten it. He has taken on the critics, and beaten us, consistently. He has stood on the precipice, and jumped wholeheartedly into the abyss below, confident in the knowledge that he will both survive and prevail.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – BETH BLADE AND THE BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS

We had another massive wave of videos come our way this past week – a veritable tsunami of more than 150 of them – all vying for the coveted title and virtual gong of being named our favourite… Believe me, we do watch all of the submissions, and a lot of them are of an extremely high quality, but there can only ever be one winner…

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All Hail The Yeti – ‘Within The Hollow Earth’ (MinusHEAD Records)

Despite hailing from the City of Angels, there is nothing in the slightest angelic about All Hail The Yeti. Indeed, they deliver a style of NOLA-encrusted sludge so dense and intense that the four guys must have been bathing in the muck and mire dredged the furthermost depths of the Mississippi for most of their individual and collective lives, while at the same time sounding like it has been dragged from the very bowels of Hades itself.

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