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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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The BIG Über Rock Interview – Brittney Slayes (Unleash The Archers)

The BIG Über Rock Interview – Brittney Slayes (Unleash The Archers)

Posted by | Oct 18, 2020 | , ,

Over the past decade, Canada’s Unleash The Archers have been slowly and steadily building a reputation as being one of THE rising forces of the international power metal scene, not least since the arrival of vocalist Brittney Slayes. It is a reputation that was firmly cemented by most recent album, ‘Abyss’, released this past August. There is no mistaking that it is an absolute beast of an album, and one worthy of all the positive feedback which has been fired its way. So, having spent weeks immersing myself in its utter gloriousness, Jonny B jumped at the chance to have a quick chat with Ms Slayes about the album, it’s characters and story and how both the band and the Canadian music scene have been coping with the wave of lockdowns in the wake of the continuing C-19 pandemic.

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RIP Pete Way

RIP Pete Way

Posted by | Aug 15, 2020 | ,

Legendary bassist Pete Way, best known as a founding member of UFO and his own band Waysted, as well as for his tenures in Fastway and Ozzy Osbourne’s band, has died after a battle against injuries sustained in an accident earlier this year.

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Lythium – ‘Have It All’ EP (Self-Released)

Lythium – ‘Have It All’ EP (Self-Released)

Posted by | Aug 12, 2020 | ,

This rising young quartet from Preston must have caught ÜR boss Monk on a good day. We say this because they committed one of THE cardinal sins when it comes to submitting your CD for review to this or any other website… although it came nicely packaged, in a handmade brown paper envelope and was accompanied by a colourful badge with the slogan “you could have it all”, as well as a couple of stickers, that was all they wrote – or, rather, didn’t, as there was no press release or any form of useful information included… nada, diddly-squat, sweet FA to tell us anything about the band or the EP (apart from the song titles). Now, normally such a basic error leads to the offending submission going straight in the appropriate recycling bin…

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