Northern Ireland’s favourite vaguely proggy, kinda stoner-ish, big grooving trio, Skypilot, have confirmed that they are to release their long-teased second album, entitled ‘The Affront’, in May.
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It’s just as well we don’t really celebrate Hallmark Day here at ÜRHQ – well, not in the sense of going out for an over-priced dinner that would cost you half the amount any other night of the week, only to have waiters hovering over the table forcing your to virtually gulp your grub down yer gob at heartburn-inducing speed ‘cos there’s a queue a mile long waiting for a table you can usually spend all night hogging… sure, wouldn’t we be much better served crammed into on of our favourite clubs along with an assorted bunch of fellow metallians for an evening of ear-shattering DM?
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Dutch quintet The Royal formed back in 2012 producing metal music that Jolee Flatman declares is “certainly relentless”. Previous releases include an EP, two albums and a single. Upcoming album ‘Deathwatch’ is for sure an interesting one, consisting of ten songs altogether: parts of it our NKOTB really digs, others however aren’t for her. For fans of Upon A Burning Body, Shields and Currents.
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Caustic Vomit – they were never really going to make it as a pop punk band with a name like that, now were they? All jokes aside, with their debut release the Russian four-piece leans on a core death doom sound, augmented by further ventures into other areas of extremity, resulting in an impressively varied demo.
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Aussie rockers The Faim recently visited the Über Kingdom as part of extensive run of pre-Brexit dates around Europe. We sent our dynamic duo of Jess R and the ketamine queen along to the penultimate date in Glasgow, where they ended up having to avoid a fight before the show even began…
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