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Extrema – ‘Headbanging Forever’ (Rockshots Records)

Extrema – ‘Headbanging Forever’ (Rockshots Records)

Posted by | May 10, 2019 | ,

Despite having been kicking around the boot of Europe for more than three decades now, Italian metallians (sic) Extrema only came to the attention of ÜRHQ last month, when their declaration that they were doing what they do ‘For The Loved And The Lost’ won them a much coveted stool at the Singles Club bar. That, of course, was the lead track from what is, unbelievably, their seventh studio album (they’ve also released three EPs, two live albums and a retrospective compilation in their 32-year long recording career), ‘Headbanging Forever’ – and a more appropriately monickered opus you will not cross paths with this year, as it basically summarizes everything this band is about.

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Aphyxion – ‘Void’ (Prime Collective)

Aphyxion – ‘Void’ (Prime Collective)

Posted by | May 10, 2019 | ,

Danish five-piece Aphyxion have come back with their third album ‘Void’. The new release represents 11 tracks of the bands brand of melodic death metal. Since their formation in 2007, the band have earned wide spread critical acclaim and a large fan base. 2014 saw the debut album ‘Earth Entangled’ then follow up ‘Aftermath’ in 2016. Their rise in popularity has seen them support the likes of Metallica and become the youngest band to play Wacken Open Air. With hefty praise already earned and earmarked as saviours of melodic death metal, there is certainly pressure on for them to deliver. Aphyxion are being watched closely, will ‘Void’ be the album to send them even higher?

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CJ Ramone – ‘The Holy Spell…’ (Fat Wreck Chords)

CJ Ramone – ‘The Holy Spell…’ (Fat Wreck Chords)

Posted by | May 9, 2019 | ,

In the history of power pop, pop punk or just plain punk, whichever term you care to apply, there can only be one name that is synonymous with the evolution of the genre, and one which quite probably has been checked more often than any other in these hallowed pages – and that is, of course, Ramone. Of course, more than two decades after the band called it quits, all four of the original “bruvas” subsequently have shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving it to their second generation “cousins” to keep the name alive – which is just what the man born Christopher Joseph Ward, the longest serving of the band members and therefore perhaps most deserving of the right to retain his adopted monicker, seeks to do on this, his fifth solo album.

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Asomvel/Rabid Bitch Of The North/Scimitar – Belfast, Voodoo – 3 May 2019

Asomvel/Rabid Bitch Of The North/Scimitar – Belfast, Voodoo – 3 May 2019

Posted by | May 9, 2019 | ,

It truly was a sight to gladden the heart of every true red-blooded metallian and even make it skip a beat. A truly wonderous spectacle – four towering Marshall stacks, two on each side of a crystal-clear double bass Pearl drumkit.  There can be no more beautiful vista on this planet. And it was this vision that greeted us when, having successful battled through the crowds of spides kicking off their Bank Holiday drinking sprees, we climbed the stairs into one of our favourite haunts. Yes, Asomvel were in town for their first ever visit to Belfast.

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