Mongolian metal sensations The HU are to release a deluxe edition of their debut album, ‘The Gereg’ – which was voted #3 in Über Rock’s ‘Albums Of The Year’ writers’ poll for 2019 – on 10 July.
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Astrocreep remembers when he first came across Desert Storm… well, the location at least. It was a cold and rainy Hammerfest, on the Stoner stage and fuck, if our resident gigaholic wasn’t blown away by them from the outset – so much so that the big lad embarked on an almost 24 hour round trip to London to catch them live not long after, only to find out they were playing in hishome city a couple of days before! Oh well! Having taken a break, they’re now back with even more new material – how has the time apart affected them?
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The eighth album from German black metal outfit Horn, ‘Mohngang’ represents a development of the more sinister side of the band. Since their inception in 2002, they’ve created a nature-centric form of BM that incorporates heavy folk and classical like elements that produced an at times upbeat result. Latterly, and since teaming up with Iron Bonehead, they’ve stuck with the nature-like themes but also moved to cover other elements such as warfare and the human condition which has morphed a darker edge to their sound, as Phil C discovered…
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The title of this EP could be seen as quite appropriate for the format, as most EPS are released by artists “in between” their “main” album releases, often to sate the appetite of their fans for new material, or to preview a shift in direction, or even just as a fulfilment of contractual obligations. However, this is a totally different proposition from any of those said scenarios, as it represents an artist returning to her roots and presenting a somewhat different perspective on their craft.
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‘No Brain, No Pain’ may be something Astrocreep said about himself on a few occasions before but it’s now being pushed into his own ears by local Liverpudlian art-rockers SPQR with their latest four-track EP. They’re a band our resident gigaholic first encountered live towards the end of last year before seeing them three times in two weeks after being hugely impressed with his first outing to catch them live. Still, new work brings the opportunity for a change of approach – would that be the case with the big lad’s own local heroes?
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