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Chief State – ‘Tough Love’ (Mutant League)

Chief State – ‘Tough Love’ (Mutant League)

Posted by | Mar 31, 2020 | ,

In John B’s opinion, good pop punk is very rare these days. Gone are the golden days of Blink-182 or My Chemical Romance, or All Time Low. The bands from back then that are still making music have drifted too far to the pop in pop-punk and have lost what made the genre so good. Our man had just written off the genre these days assuming it would not live up to the nostalgia ever again. Then he put this album on – and it is everything that he thought would never be coming back. It sent him down a rabbit hole of memories. He began comparing every track to the classics he loved. Probably to a standard that would be unfair to hold any artist too. His love of pop-punk comes from a very emotional place so nothing less than perfection will do. Chief State, with ‘Tough Love’, passes that standard with flying colours and would fit right in next to every album I loved growing up.

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Baleful Creed – ‘The Lowdown’ (Self-Released)

Baleful Creed – ‘The Lowdown’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Mar 31, 2020 | ,

Anyone who knows The Dark Queen personally knows she’s a (massive) fan of Belfast’s Baleful Creed; so, when their forthcoming new album, ‘The Lowdown’, popped into ÜR’s inbox Monk decided her majesty had to review this one. They formed in Belfast in 2009 and this new album is their third studio release. They describe themselves as hard/stoner/rock…

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Bakken – ‘This Means War’ (Self-Released)

Bakken – ‘This Means War’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Mar 30, 2020 | ,

Once upon a time – well, in the early part of the last decade – Bakken were one of the great white hopes of both the Northern Irish metal scene and that on the island of Ireland as a whole. Their debut album, ‘Death Of A Hero’, was regarded as something of a marker for other bands flirting between the thrash and power metal sigils the then quartet were seeking to straddle: it was a highly accomplished offering, displaying a maturity that belied its creators’ relative youthfulness. However, it has to be admitted that the band struggled to build momentum: an EP, ‘Worldwide Genocide’, followed in 2014 – and, then, nothing… the amps, drums and guitars fell quiet… until now, as the band, now expanded to a five-piece, have re-emerged – and done so in massively impressive style.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK – TRIVIUM

VIDEO OF THE WEEK – TRIVIUM

Posted by | Mar 29, 2020 | , ,

For the second time in a month, one band stood head and shoulders above the rest of the pile of submissions we received for our coveted ‘Video Of The Week’ – and no amount of bribes of free bog roll and limited-edition branded hand sanitizer were going to stand in the way of the mighty Trivium once again proving that they are very much a band in renaissance.

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