FESTIVAL NEWS: Full line-up confirmed for Teddy Rocks weekender
The full line-up has been confirmed for this year’s Teddy Rocks festival, which takes place at Charisworth Farm in Blandford, Dorset, over the weekend of 3-5 May.
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FESTIVAL NEWS: Deaf Havana to headline Camden Rocks Sunday bill
Deaf Havana have been confirmed as headliners for the Sunday night of Camden Rocks.
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Walls Of Blood – ‘Imperium’ (Metalville)
Walls Of Blood is the latest project from Canadian guitarist Glen Drover, who may be familiar to long-term ÜR readers for his brief stints with King Diamond, Megadeth, Testament and the first incarnation of Geoff Tate’s post-Queensrÿche project. Remarkably, he has been silent on the recording front for pushing eight years – since his debut solo album, the instrumental ‘Metalusion’ back in 2011. But, now he has re-emerged from the darkness of musical exile with this collaboration with an assortment of different vocalists, including the likes of Tim ‘Ripper’ Ownes, his old bandmate Chuck Billy, Todd LaTorre (oh, the irony in that one) and Firewind’s Henning Basse, among others.
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Black Therapy – ‘Echoes of Dying Memories’ (Black Lion Records)
As the continent which birthed melodic death metal, it’s not entirely surprising that Europe has spawned a mass majority of the bands within the genre. But, some 20-odd years on from its initial inception many of melodeath’s godfather bands have either shifted their songwriting to closer resemble the boom of metalcore or shifted enough that the melodic sides now far outweigh the death in the equation. Enter Italy’s Black Therapy – a band whose sound stands proudly within the traditions of grandiose melodic death metal records of old without dispensing any of the genre’s hallmarks.
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Captain Obvious – ‘Let It Burn’ EP (One Hot Minute/Wagram)
Monk admits that when he saw the name Captain Obvious pop up on my emails, he seriously thought some PR guru in a padded cell somewhere had to be taking the proverbial brand of underwear, as images of a certain very annoying character from a series of television advertisements immediately came to mind. Fortunately for me, and the wider Überverse, said bearded gentleman has not been given a recording deal; rather, this particular incarnation of Captain Obvious are two young brothers (they’re 19 and 21) called Angus and Joseph who hail from Paris and drop this, their debut five-track EP, this weekend.
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