Category: Features

The Über Röck Singles Clüb Daily Pick – Rumour Den

Our latest selection marks something of a turning back of the clock for Monk, as he used to hang out with singer Al Gilmore and a bunch of other like-minded but otherwise isolated rockers and metalheads in the sleepy seaside town of Carrickfergus. In fact, the boss used to manage one of the bands he fronted – Nineties hopefuls Abandon, who managed to get coverage in the likes of Kerrap! and Metal Hammer (although that was probably more down to the connections forged by one Steve “Wee Bollox” Strange). Now, some three decades after their life journeys followed divergent paths, they find themselves back on the same rock ‘n’ roll highway with a new, and heavier (who said you have to grow old gracefully?), alt-rock reincarnation of one of Monk’s aul chum’s subsequent projects:

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The Über Röck Singles Clüb Videö Of The Week – Slaughter To Prevail

Having got all #Grizzly on us with their latest album, released late last year, the Russian metal monsters have turned back the pages of history with this fiery retelling of one of their country’s most famous folk tales, released as a standalone offering to coincide with their latest run of shows, which kicked off in Greece just three nights ago and bring them to these shores in two weeks time…

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The HU invade Buckingham Palace

Earlier this month, Mongolian folk metal horde The HU achieved something their most famous ancestor, Genghis Khan, could never have imagined, by not only once again sweeping triumphantly into the heart of the UK but also into the inner sanctum of one of its most heavily guarded landmarks – the home of King Charlie himself.

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The Über Röck Singles Clüb Sünday Service –Jübilant Jüly (Pärt Two)

It is literally the hottest night of the year here in ÜR’s home city, when the sky will turn red with the heat of a hundred fires lit in the name of (to misquote Marillion) some long forgotten cause subsumed by that to get hellishly drunk on a combination of Buckfast and WKD and subsequently either piss it out against the nearest wall or chuck it up all over the bonnet of nearest conveniently parked drug dealer’s Audi… But, no matter how intense the heat gets, it won’t be as hot as the sounds blasting from our death decks as we bring you yet another selection of the best rock ‘n’ rollin’ sounds to have tickled our aural fancy over the past seven days…

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