Finnish shock rock monsters Lordi return with album number six, 'To Beast Or Not To Beast', the band's first for AFM Records. With the passing of drummer Otus and another line-up change to contend with, how would Mr. Lordi and creature crew cope with the added putrid pressure? By turning out the heaviest album of their career, says Uber Rock's horror nerd Gaz E.....

Loosely described as progressive pop or Lady Gaga does Alice In Wonderland, what this latest collaboration between acclaimed singer/songwriter Doris Brendel and producer Lee Dunham actually is is a melting pot of rock, pop, folk and dance, and all it requires now is for Russ P to once again rediscover the delights of The Violet Hour and he soon finds himself not far from his idea of musical utopia.

Continuing to work their way through the alphabet in album titles, the legendary UK Subs eschewed the chance to call their 24th album 'Xylophone Masterclass' or 'Xentrix Copycats', instead settling on the much classier 'XXIV'. Uber Rock's Dom Daley couldn't wait to get numbered and numbed with an early contender for album of the year from one of the finest bands to ever come out of this fair isle.....

Playing week in week out across this country of ours, largely it must be said as a heavy metal covers band, what would the second album of original material by seasoned road warriors Celtic Pride offer our very own stallion of the highway Matt Phelps? Well, if an album chock full of old school metal riffs and armoured rhythms sounds like your thang you know what to do. Click the “Read More” link now!

He may not be Networking any longer but if, like some of us at URHQ, you managed to see Dan Reed on any of his tour dates last year you'll realise just what a gifted storyteller the famed musician has become. Uber Rock's Rob Watkins - who else? - got spiritual with Dan's brand new solo album, 'Signal Fire', and found a piece of work that was, well, smoking.....

Not My Finest Hour are a young South Wales pop punk quartet that will scare the living daylights out of the elders here at URHQ, not so much because of their spiky brand of anthemic music but more to do with the randy sods having one eye on our female offspring. Lewis Brooks takes a look at the band’s latest EP which you can also download for free right here.

‘Baphometic Chaosium’ is album number three for Los Angeles black/death metal quartet Lightning Swords Of Death and as Uber scribe Jim Rowland soon finds out it’s a muscular effort that’s brutal, nasty, violent, disgusting, evil, blasphemous and menacing. He also thinks it’s bloody great. Click the link to find out why.

You may not already know this but W.E.T. are actually a melodic rock supergroup formed under the guidance of the President of their record label. Doesn’t exactly make for easy reading that intro does it? But as Russ P soon finds out perhaps we should pin our ears back and actually listen to the band’s second album, a record already being dubbed the melodic rock album of the year.

Within the realms of melodic death metal how exactly does a band adopt a less is more songwriting approach? Well let’s ask Mark Ashby to answer that one shall we as that appears to be exactly what German quintet Hero’s Fate have managed to do with their debut album ‘Human Tides: Black Light Inception’.

In a world where rock ‘n’ roll apparently seems to lack a certain positive nerve, Diamond Dawn are looking to stand as a vision of energy and excitement conveying it through their pompous and melodic, yet hard rocking songs. Yup we’re talking an AOR band with balls here Uber peeps, and guess what they come from Sweden. Rob Watkins goes into ‘Overdrive’ on this the band’s debut release.