Welsh duet Henry’s Funeral Shoe have been ripping up a variety of venues since 2008, with some of their music being used on things as varied as ‘I’m A Celebrity…’, ‘Love Island’ and Marshall headphones. This is the fourth CD with the others having been praised by a variety of music press pundits (including, of course, your ever discerning crüe here at Über Rock).
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Few bands will ever experience the creative highs of Swedish prog metal masters Opeth. Starting with 1999’s ‘Still Life’ and running flawlessly until 2008’s ‘Watershed’, the band produced a non-stop succession of masterpieces, blending death metal, folkish elements and prog inventiveness into a package that helped to elevate the wider metal genre. In turn, this helped spawn a procession of high-minded brilliance which today can be found in everything from Nailed To Obscurity to Conjurer, the Swedes’ distinctive long-form metallic epics laying roots deep in the metal genre. And then, they changed.
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earMUSIC/Edel have announced that the first phase of their new high-quality vinyl-led ‘earMUSIC Classics’ range will be released on 25 October 2019.
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Tally ho. Tally ho? Yes, tally fucking ho. Ska legends Snuff are back, with a return to that trademark sound that took up where The Specials left off, turning abandoned dancehalls into adrenaline filled clubs where punks, mods, and skins all stage dived together… and we couldn’t be more excited about it!
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Al Wiseman had not heard of Wicked Stone until encountering this EP, so he was pleasantly surprised by what we have here, which is five tracks of simple old-fashioned rock! His first impression was “Ooh this sounds like how Shinedown did in their early days”, and that’s is no bad thing at all! Punchy, catchy, with a crisp enough vocal that you’ll not have to go Googling lyrics, ‘Devil in Me’ is frankly very easy on the ear, to the point where he actually looked up where they are touring and was pretty damn pissed that they’d played his local venue The Robin 2 in Bilston, two days previous to his picking up this. This was greeted with a resounding “bugger!”. But, we digress…
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