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Written by Mark Ashby
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:00 |
 UK symphonic metallers Winter In Eden kick off their UK dates in support of their second album 'Echoes Of Betrayal' this weekend at the Sea Mills Community Centre in Bristol. Mark Ashby took the opportunity to catch up with the band's lead vocalist Vicky Johnson recently and whilst chatting about the album he got the chance to also savour some of the pre-tour excitement building within the camp. Click the link and find out more.
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Written by Johnny H & Dom Daley
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:30 |
 Spread over three days at Pontypool's Hog And Hosper pub, Punkfest Weekend offered up...a festival of punk rock for anyone brave enough to step out into the monsoon-like weather conditions. With the prospect of catching the UK Subs and a whole host of other great bands on the Saturday Johnny H and Dom Daley put some conical studs in their sou westers and headed out into the rain. Read on to find out what happened next.....
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:30 |
 The name "Hawkwind" is stitched into the very fabric of great British music. With the imminent release of the band's latest studio album, 'Onward', Jim Rowland took his chances speaking with band mainstay Dave Brock, drummer Richard Chadwick and bass player Mr. Dibs as they were tinkering in their studio. Would he get any sense from the guys? Well, read on to find out...
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Written by Fraser Munro
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:00 |
 In the first of two reviews online this week on Uber Rock involving our team spending lost weekends watching punk music, Fraser Munro ventures to the usually placid world of Butlins to discover what the inaugural Great British Alternative Festival has to offer. With the likes of The Damned, John Otway, Anti-Nowhere League and Wilko Johnson all playing he was going to be an uber busy Billy Bear that's for sure....
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Written by Gaz E
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:30 |
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 Signed to Hollywood Records when the band's average age was thirteen, managed by a former member of Motley Crue; could 'This Is The End Of Control', the debut album from all-girl outfit Cherri Bomb, possibly live up to the hype? Gaz E gets in touch with his feminine side and finds that this is the end of nothing....this is a potentially glorious beginning....
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:00 |
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 The Smears, the essential British all-girl punk rock outfit, promised to follow up their 2009 debut with dirtier songs and, as Ben Hughes was delighted to discover, the band have not gone back on their word. Could their new album, 'Dirty Protest', fill an L7 shaped hole in this rock 'n' roll world? Click that lipstick red link to discover yet another reason why you don't have to look overseas to find albums to die for....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 14 May 2012 05:00 |
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 Garbage return with their first album since 2005's 'Bleed Like Me' and, as Gaz E discovers, are certainly not on any kind of nostalgia trip. 'Not Your Kind Of People' may have replaced some of the bleakness with hope lyrically but, musically, the band is as adventurous and confident as any of their fans could have hoped for in 2012. Click that red (head) link and set the volume to stun.....
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Written by Phil Wrathchild
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Sunday, 13 May 2012 05:00 |
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 With a surname like that he was born to be in a band. Phil Wrathchild, guitarist with the stakk attakked legends of UK glam rokk is the latest victim of Uber Rock's Midnite Mixtape Massacre. Click that blood red link to uncover Phil's ultimate thirteen track mixtape, containing the likes of Queen, Kiss, Van Halen and.....err....Extreme.....
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Written by Mick Priestley
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Sunday, 13 May 2012 04:45 |
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 Uber Rock is proud to introduce you to the coolest bands on the planet.....now we're gonna help you be in one! If you read Mick Priestley's Midnite Mixtape last week you'll know that the guitarist of The Green River Project knows his onions. Now, in a new monthly UR column, Mick will teach you how to up your game on the guitar with videos, downloadable tabs and a monthly 'Lick From Hell' - Axe Attack is built to shred.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:00 |
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 After co-writing every song on Alice Cooper's 'Constrictor' and 'Raise Your Fist And Yell', guitarist Kane Roberts went out on his own, inviting his Coop band mate Kip Winger along to write some songs for his self titled solo album. Gaz E checks out the album's reissue and finds the reasons why it never exploded like a burst of machine gun guitar fire upon its original release all too easy to find.....
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Written by Jamie Richards
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Friday, 11 May 2012 04:30 |
 Studio album number twelve from American hard rockers Great White, and all sounds well on the tunes front from what we've heard, but 'Elation' is an album shrouded in controversy as long time frontman Jack Russell is long since gone and he's not a happy bunny that the band have continued without him. Will this album ever actually get released, and if so will anyone really care? We've got Cap'n Jamie Richards aboard the Orca looking to catch him some shark - you want to join him?
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:30 |
 We received an email recently from ex-Venom drummer Antton Lant telling us all about his new band Def-Con-One, which he claimed played powerful, groove fuelled metal of the heaviest order, and ever the fanboys we have to admit we were just a little bit excited by the sound of this. So excited, that we asked Mark Ashby to catch up with Antton to find out all about his band's debut album and get the low down on one or two of his ex bandmates.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 04:00 |
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 What do you get if you cross members of bands like Black Flag, Rocket From The Crypt, Circle Jerks and Redd Kross and throw them in a studio together? How about an essential album that features sixteen songs in as many minutes? How about the 'long player' (yeah, right!) from OFF!? Dom Daley borrows a bomb and checks out explosive results.....
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Written by Mark Taylor
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 04:00 |
 Greek guitar god Gus G was in London recently doing some promotional interviews for Firewind's seventh studio album 'Few Against Many' which is due out later this month. Mark Taylor caught up with the esteemed six stringer to find out all about the band's new heavier direction and to challenge the man who also shares the stage with the mighty Ozzy Osbourne to an impromptu arm wrestle...Click the link to see the full interview.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Monday, 07 May 2012 04:00 |
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 Tyla once again dips into the back catalogue of The Dogs D'Amour and reworks a much-loved record. This act may be seen as heresy to some but, to Uber Rock's very own Satellite (City) Kid, Dom Daley, this reworking of 1989's 'A Graveyard of Empty Bottles' is no trail of tears. In fact, he thinks it's love again. Click that gypsy blood red link to read how this album can be your saviour.....
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Written by Mick Priestley
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Sunday, 06 May 2012 05:00 |
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 "Mick Priestley is easily one of the most exciting guitarists in the UK at the moment." - Sam Totman, Dragonforce; do guitarist endorsements come much higher than that? Mick Priestley is the guitarist with The Green River Project, a true crime-fuelled mob whose latest EP is a must-listen-to piece of dark, riotous metal. This heavy duty helter skelter is coming down fast so creepy crawl to that blood red link and find out the thirteen songs that make up Mick's Midnite Mixtape.....
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