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Red Cain – ‘Kindred: Act II’ (Self-Released)

Red Cain – ‘Kindred: Act II’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Dec 23, 2020 | ,

For Jonny B, power prog metal takes the best aspects of two of his favourite genres and smashes them together into a hybrid that is almost better than the sum of its parts. It’s almost like the time some hard working Northern lad took the initiative to combine chips and gravy together and completely revolutionised English cuisine. So, as you can tell, it’s a genre that he’s particularly familiar with, and would count several bands from the genre among my all-time favourites too. So while this is great for our readers, it does mean that any band that flies the power prog banner has quite a benchmark to overcome…

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EvilDead – ‘United $tate$ Of Anarchy’/Them – ‘Return To Hemmersmoor’ (Steamhammer/SPV_

EvilDead – ‘United $tate$ Of Anarchy’/Them – ‘Return To Hemmersmoor’ (Steamhammer/SPV_

Posted by | Oct 27, 2020 | ,

With just a few days to go until our favourite day of the year here at ÜRHQ, the annual hunt for new music to serve as our seasonal soundtrack was well under way when this little double package of two thrash albums from bands who take their names from classic horror movies plonked itself on our doormat. Being a massive fan of both Romero’s ‘Evil Dead’ series of B flicks, and especially David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s sublime ‘Them’, it didn’t take much encouragement to get Monk to slip the little shiny discs into the ÜR deathdecks and turn the volume-annoying levels…

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The Über Rock Singles Club – Helloween Havok (Special Edition)

The Über Rock Singles Club – Helloween Havok (Special Edition)

Posted by | Oct 25, 2020 | , ,

It’s may be only a week since the Singles Club opened its virtual doors and we fired up the death decks with a selection of the finest single-track releases to have come our way in recent weeks, but it’s Halloween week and our favourite time of the year here at ÜRHQ, so here we are again with a seasonal selection of spooky tunes for your aural delectation. OK, admittedly some of them do have a rather tenuous connection to this time of year but, hey, it’s the thought that counts, isn’t it?

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Deep River Acolytes – ‘Alchemia Aeterna’ (Argonauta)

Deep River Acolytes – ‘Alchemia Aeterna’ (Argonauta)

Posted by | Oct 23, 2020 | ,

Monk first came across Finnish heavy blues/doom proponents Deep River Acolytes around the middle of 2018, when their second album, ‘The Hour Of Trial’, exploded its way out of the towering speaker stacks in the ÜRHQ studio and into he aural cortexes. The boss man has one abiding impression remaining from that introduction, and that is the fact that ‘The Unknown Grandeur’ was one of the singularly most impactful opening tracks he had heard to any album in a very – no, make that VERY – long time. It most definitely, and defiantly, was up there with the likes of ‘Black Sabbath’ or ‘Planets Collide’ in those terms…

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