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Cicadastone – ‘Cold Chamber’ (Golden Robot Records)

Cicadastone – ‘Cold Chamber’ (Golden Robot Records)

Posted by | Mar 16, 2021 | ,

Although their debut album ‘Chance Collide’ was only released in 2016, listening to Cicadastone easily revokes memories of the peak of the grunge rock era three decades ago. With echoes of Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden ringing in your ears you might wonder if this kind of sound could be progressive enough to succeed in 2021. Certainly, our friends at Golden Robot Records seem to think so, as the band signed with them in 2019.

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Metalite – ‘A Virtual World’ (AFM Records)

Metalite – ‘A Virtual World’ (AFM Records)

Posted by | Mar 16, 2021 | ,

In the interest of full disclosure, we should probably let you know John B is a big fan of Metalite. They are one of the few bands he requests first dibs to review. This is probably his favorite style of power metal. Especially the whole technology theme. Sure, it is kinda cheesy, but it is a lot of fun! Needless to say, JB was very excited to see this land in his inbox. The real question is did it live up to the hype or had he set his expectations too high?

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Trollfest – ‘Happy Heroes’ EP (Napalm Records)

Trollfest – ‘Happy Heroes’ EP (Napalm Records)

Posted by | Mar 15, 2021 | ,

Ah Trollfest. They are pretty ridiculous, but Jonny B has been hooked on them ever since a night at HRH Metal which involved a light up saxophone, a conga line – and a man in a princess dress… Anyway, we all know that Trollfest are the kings of silly covers: you only have to look at their cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ (and the accompanying video) to realise that!

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – THUNDERMOTHER

VIDEO OF THE WEEK – THUNDERMOTHER

Posted by | Mar 14, 2021 | , ,

Well, 2021 may have may have finally taken its reasonably confident steps into its third month, with some light seeming to finally appear at the end of the tunnel for what otherwise has been pretty much of another shitstorm of a year, with the vaccination programme finally starting to take effect and BoJo’s much-vaunted “roadmap” out of the crisis finally having some form of, albeit loose, timetable. Of course, it comes too late for the first half of the festival season, with both Download and Glastonbury already shelved for the second successive year and it remains to be seen if there will be any longer lasting restrictions on live events, either indoors or outdoors. With the path to our previous level of “normality” still a long way off, 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 inbox here at ÜRHQ is anything to go by…

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