Hailing from Finland and featuring two ex members of Eurovision winners Lordi within their ranks you might expect Stala & So to be the natural born killing half brothers of their former paymasters, but as Mark Granger soon finds out Stala & So are a band formed very much in the vein of 1970s glam with a touch of 1980s arena rock thrown in. So is the Beau Hill produced ‘Play Another Round’ about to make Stala & So Euro metal winners this time around? Click the link to find out.

'United World Rebellion - Chapter One', the new EP from Skid Row, has been available in North America since last month, but the European Union release happens today, the UK and the rest of the world following next Monday, the Euro edition featuring covers of Judas Priest and EZO songs as a bonus. Uber Rock's Gaz E has a hair metal flashback heart attack.....

This weekend South Wales bruisers Doomchild will be slaying a few tunes from their latest five track EP ‘Guided By Idols’ live at Bulletfest, here Uber Rock’s Darrel Sutton gets his ear warmed up nicely for that event with a review of this five track feast of bowel looseningly brutal sludge. Click the link to find out more.

Uber Rock's keen-eared svengali Rob Watkins hears a bit of a Brit Pop thing going on inside UK trio Belasco's new album, 'Transmuting' - hit that Read More link like Watkins hits the Skol every hour (on the hour) and find out why......

It Ain't Half Metal Mum - Uber Rock's Matt Phelps slips into his most comfortable khakis to review the new album from the Don Estelle of the heavy metal world, the one and only Udo Dirkschneider! Released by AFM Records, 'Steelhammer' is the metalli-shot in the arm that our lovely boy was craving. Hit the link and get hammered!

‘Lure Of Ephemeral Beauty’ is the third full release from French metal trio Eclectika, and it’s one that has got Mark Ashby earning his uber rock dollar that’s for sure. Devoid of any supporting background information, this is a review written on gut instinct and with the help of a fine bottle of red as our man goes a hunting for good music. Click the link to discover what he finds. 

Five years on from the infamous documentary that made Anvil almost overnight stars, band mainstays Lips and Robb Reiner return with a new bass player Sal Italiano, and with Bob Marlette once again behind the mixing desk for their fifteenth studio album ‘Hope In Hell’. URHQ’s sole metal pounder Jim Rowland loves his Anvil music hard ‘n’ heavy so is the record to finally see the band recapture their early full on metal on metal promise? Click the link to read his verdict.

We find thirteen bands giving it the large one on the same amount of Oi!/streetpunk tracks as volume three of ‘Oi1 This Is Streetpunk’ the ongoing series of compilations from Pirates Press kicks its way into URHQ. On the receiving end of this aural shoeing is seasoned veteran of many a terrace war Dom Daley, and nobody gets one over on him during his watch not even his once beloved Strongbow!

30 Seconds To Mars debuted the first single from this, their fourth album, in Outer Space. Now, the band find illegal alien Rob Watkins waxing lyrical over their new opus, 'Love Lust Faith + Dreams'. Will Watkins want to punch the band's frontman Jared Leto in the face Fight Club-style, cave his head in with an axe American Psycho-style, or simply get addicted to him Requiem For A Dream-style?

Uber Rock's favourite record label, Baldy Longhair Records, provides us with yet another Fonz-cool curio. Crazy & The Brains return with 'Let Me Go', a full length album that, on its limited cassette edition, feature no less than fifteen bonus tracks! Uber Rock's Dom Daley glockenspiels the beans on another must-hear release.....