Despite the current lockdown, we are still receiving a healthy bundle of submissions for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ title. While some artists are trying to find new ways of visually interpreting their songs, others obviously have had the guts of their filming completed in advance of the global quarantine, with the finishing touches being added in isolated post-production. This week’s selection once again sees a balance of these two approaches….
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When is a band’s third album perhaps not their third album, but regarded by the band who produced it as possibly their second album? Confused? Well, so were we when this, the “third album” from German progressive rockers Cryptex landed on our desk at ÜRHQ… because the band themselves regard ‘Once Upon A Time’ as the logical follow-up to their debut, 2011’s rather elegantly titled ‘Good Morning, How Did You Live?’ Still confused? So, are we…
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Caligula’s Horse are one of the slickest and most refined examples of how Australians do prog metal. Each release from them oozes style and quality and their most recent release stays true to this because after all, why fix what isn’t broken? ‘Rise Radiant’ is the follow-up to the absolutely fantastic ‘In Contact’, which oddly didn’t feel like it was released that long ago despite it coming out in 2017.
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Space doom and stoner rock – two of Astrocreep’s favourite music genres! Though the big lad had previously somehow overlooked Kayleth, they’ve been getting their groove on for 15 years already, which is a decent enough legacy in itself. A listen through some of their older tracks from their previous two albums gives him an idea of what to expect, so it was time to give the record its first spin…
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When a new album from Axel Rudi Pell plonks onto the doormat here at ÜRHQ, it’s a fairly safe bet what we can expect it to contain – guitar wankery galore! It’s what he’s been specializing in for more than three decades, so he’s hardly likely to change the formula on this, his 18th studio album, is he? Well, the good news for fans is that he hasn’t changed a thing… not a jot…
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