NEW RELEASE: Extreme whip up a ‘Hurricane’
Funk rock legends Extreme are literally whipping up a ‘Hurricane’ with the latest single to be lifted from their comeback album, ‘Six’.
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Author: Team Uber
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR
Our latest #VOTW comes from blues-rock songstress Joanne Shaw Taylor, who celebrated Friday the 13th by weaving some of that ol’ ‘Black Magic’ with the acoustic-led latest single to be lifted from her most recent album.
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The Ocean/This Will Destroy You/Jo Quail – Haarlem, Patronaat – 9 October 2023
As the weather steadily gets colder, we enter into the close of the year’s autumn period of gigs. Definitely feeling the warmth of the air drain out today more so than previous weeks, Jase W was back off to Haarlem to catch one of his favourites, The Ocean, supported by This Will Destroy You and ArcTanGent-adjacent darling, Jo Quail.
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Sinocence – ‘The Fire Rises’ (Distortion Project)
When you’ve been involved in a local music scene for as many years as UR boss Monk has been, you get to see dozens, if not hundreds, of bands come and go, careers career (sic) out of control and success ebb and flow like the tides on the rivers that lie at the heart of the dirty ol’ town he lovingly, if sometimes grudgingly, calls home. One band whose career most definitely has ebbed and flowed, crashed off every wall in every venue they’ve ever played, and almost incinerated itself in the process, is Sinocence, stalwarts of Belfast’s metal scene for the past two decades, a longevity which in itself epitomizes how much the smell of the survival instinct has imbued itself into the very fibre of their being and existence. Now, after an extended, and somewhat enforced hiatus, the godfathers of the local scene are back on the attack with a new line-up and a new EP and, as this release forcefully proves, a new fire rising (sic) in their collective and individual bellies…
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Domhain – ‘Nimue’ (These Hands Melt)
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. The beginning is usually a very good place, but even then, and especially in this case, where to begin is shrouded in the fog of dilemma. Monk could talk about Northern Ireland’s bittersweet (and mostly more bitter than sweet) relationship with black metal; about how BM bands have, until relatively recently, struggled to emerge from the darkness of ignorance into the dim light of recognition; about the struggles its devotees have undergone while remaining true (or should that be trve?) to their beliefs, steadfast in their commitment to the purveyance of the dark art… But, he won’t. he will resist the temptation to digress and divert from the (left hand) path and instead dive straight in and talk about the sheer and utter towering majesty of this magnificent debut offering from semi-supergroup Domhain.
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