FESTIVAL NEWS: Bloodstock releases day tickets, announces first M2TM winners
A limited amount of day tickets from this year’s Bloodstock festival will go on sale this Thursday.
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RIP Paul Rowan
One of the true characters of the Northern Ireland glunk scene, Paul Rowan, has died, following a short battle with cancer.
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Morass Of Molasses – ‘The Ties That Bind’ (Wasted State)
Even by stoner metal standards, the latest album by Morass Of Molasses is a laidback affair. Sure, over the course of the 39 minutes that make up ‘The Ties That Bind,’ there’s plenty of hard riffage and fuzzed up anthems to enjoy. But there’s also a surprisingly large amount of tripped out, melodic sprawls. Fortunately, Morass Of Molasses are capable enough to manage both the brutal and the pleasant equally well.
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Earth – ‘Full Upon Her Burning Lips’ (Sargent House)
Nobody has mastered the art of the slow burn quite like Earth. The top of the game when it comes to minimalistic post-rock, the band have managed thirty trips around the sun whilst maintaining an exceptional high-quality in the soundscapes they create, building a legacy one brick at a time and proving that you don’t need to come charging out the gates to make an indelible mark on the rock n roll landscape. ‘Full Upon Her Burning Lips’ marks the ninth studio effort from the instrumental act, keeping things as steady and powerful as ever as they push the boundaries of what post-rock can achieve.
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Fireland – ‘Forged In Fire’ (Self-Released)
Guitarist Steve Moore will be better known to regular ÜR readers as the lead shredder with Belfast power metal crue Stormzone, and perhaps more latterly as the one-time touring guitarist with hard rockers Maverick. But, for the past 16 years, he also has been very firmly at the helm of another project he proudly calls his own – and that is Fireland, who have now emerged from the darkness of studios on either side of the Atlantic (vocalist David Brown is American, and should be familiar to long-term readers through his work with Chaos Frame) to enrapture us with this, their third full-length album and fourth release overall.
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