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Written by Craggy
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Friday, 28 September 2012 04:30 |
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 Codejak are a bunch o' northern noisemeisters who have just supported Fozzy on their European tour. Uber Rock's Craggy reviews their debut album, 'Times Of Conflict', and hears Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Therapy? and...err...Bang Tango. Read on to find out what in the fuck that's all about.....
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Thursday, 27 September 2012 05:00 |
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 Leeds-based noise merchants Superintendent only formed in early 2011 yet they now present their debut album - released on their own, keenly-monikered label, Mighty Man Bear Records - 'First Offence'. Ben Hughes was the mighty Uber Rock man entrusted with letting you, the humble reader, know just what to expect from this particular long player.....
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Written by Dom Daley
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Thursday, 27 September 2012 04:00 |
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 Garage rock 'n' roll stars of Texas Nashville Pussy return with a remixed version of their last storming album, 'From Hell To Texas', coupled with the real reason the longhorns are getting thrown at URHQ, a great new live album, 'Live And Loud In Europe'. Uber Rock's Dom Daley was the struttin' cock entrusted with telling it like it is.....
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:30 |
 Elisium are a three piece rock band from Virginia who play the type of progressive stuff that makes us go "wtf", but in a good way you know? That's because these guys draw on bands like Tool, System Of A Down and Men Without Hats (yup you did just read Mean Without Hats) for their influences rather than the usual cape brigade, making for a much more interesting prog gene pool for Mark Ashby to take a virtual dip in via the band's latest E.P 'Becoming'. Read on to find out more.
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Written by Rob (Mr Blue Sky) Watkins
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:45 |
 2012 is the fortieth anniversary of ELO, and there is no disputing the influence that band and their mainman Jeff Lynne have had on the music industry during that time. So for his second solo album 'Long Wave' Lynne decided to go back to his roots and play some of the music that influenced him to pick up a guitar in the first place, and as a result produce an album he truly loved making. Uber Rock's resident powerpop guru uncovers an album most definitely light on the electrics and containing virtually no orchestras to give his all important verdict.
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Written by Rob Lane
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:00 |
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 You've heard of an album getting a 'Tour Edition' reissue, but what if an album was made by the three bands sharing the stage together, covering each other's songs and chucking out new tunes...just for fun?! That's exactly what has happened as Texan legends Bowling For Soup prepare to tour the UK with The Dollyrots and Patent Pending, releasing a three-way of a long player in the process! Rob Lane is desperate for his adoption papers to come through as he wants into this One Big Happy family.....
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Written by Dave Prince
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Monday, 24 September 2012 04:30 |
 This debut solo album from Wild Rose guitarist Andy Rock has the names of Michael Bolton, Richard Marx and Bon Jovi all over it influence wise, so that is what we sent Dave Prince 'Into The Night' to find out just what the six stringer from Greece is parping on about. Is AOR Heaven really just a mouse click away?
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Written by Johnny H
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Monday, 24 September 2012 04:00 |
  He's currently out on the road in America playing his seminal 'Copper Blue' album in its entirety as part of said album's twentieth anniversary, but is ex Hüsker Dü/Sugar frontman Bob Mould also about to release his greatest work yet with this his tenth studio solo album 'Silver Age'? That is the question Johnny H has to ponder over as he sits back and takes in an album that even he admits is perhaps the surprise package of 2012.
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 04:30 |
 London metal combo Driven are a new name on us here at Uber Rock, but then that is most likely due to the fact that this E.P going by the name of 'A Breakdown Of Character' is actually their debut studio offering. Ever the curious ones regarding all new things metal we asked Mark Ashby to check out the 5 piece who boldly claim to play music to make your skin curl. Find out what that means exactly by clicking the "Read More" link.
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Written by Dave Prince
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Friday, 21 September 2012 04:30 |
 Austrian rock goddess Emina would love you to pick up a copy of 'Take #1' and for you to immediately have visions of what Ann Wilson singing for Metallica might actually sound like, such is her love for classic rock and metal that she's devoted here entire career to delivering just that. Dave Prince is the man at URHQ to make ladies dreams come true so does he get the Emina sound or does he hear something else?
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Written by Rob Lane
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Friday, 28 September 2012 04:00 |
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 In the two years since releasing their last album, 'A Little Messed Up', LA-based power poppers The Dollyrots turned to DIY in the form of the fan-funded follow up, the self-titled album that fell into the hands of TCC SOB Rob Lane like manna from musical heaven. Click that link to discover just how much Laney loves Starting Over with a band who just might have produced one of the albums of the year.....
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Written by Johnny H
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Thursday, 27 September 2012 04:30 |
 Three years on from their debut self-titled six track E.P, and Essex sextet The Dead Formats have finally released their first full length album, but as Johnny H soon finds out this is now an altogether much different band from the one he first reviewed just a few years back. Ladies and gents welcome to the sound of mod punk, or as our man prefers to call it - proper pop music.
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Written by Johnny H
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:45 |
 Following hot on the heels of Jeff Lynne's second solo album 'Long Wave' comes this all new 12 track collection of recently re-recorded ELO tunes (okay 11 oldies plus a new one) which the record label Frontiers are promoting as a showdown between the Lynne of today and his illustrious past. So what better way to review this album than by letting someone old enough to remember the band the first time around do just the same. Yup, it's time for another trip down memory lane with Johnny H.
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 04:00 |
 This final trio of Anvil reissues takes the band into the noughties with their credibility at an all time low, well that is until 2008's Anvil! The Story of Anvil movie comes along and pretty much changes the bands fortunes forever. As always our very own dedicated metal pounder Jim Rowland is on hand to pick up the story, and just for once for Steve 'Lips' Kudlow and Robb Reiner it just happens to be one with a very happy ending.
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:30 |
 The very prospect of reviewing this the seventh studio album by Italian folk/power metal band Elvenking would have a few of us here at URHQ hiding in our Spiderman lunchboxes. But not Norn Iron fave metal son Mark Ashby, no this battle-hardened warrior is more than up for the task of devouring a few folk metal tunes before breakfast and this is what he thought of said album, 'Era'. So read on to find out more.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:55 |
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 The career path of Boston metal/punk crossover crew Mongrel seems to have run alongside that of Uber Rock, and we've been happy to follow the band through a slew of ass-kicking releases...and also a legion of line-up changes. Now, with a settled band line-up and a new record deal Mongrel unleash 'Reclamation', a full length album that has Dom Daley chasing his tail and throwing the horns.....
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Written by Nev Brooks
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Monday, 24 September 2012 04:30 |
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 Formed by a group of French musicians who have played with the likes of Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield and Genesis, Alfonso XII are as prog as prog can be, and this triple album based around the life of Charles Darwin is about as conceptual as concept albums can be. This is THE prog album that could possibly break one of our team of dedicated scribes, so is Nev Brooks man enough for the job? Well read on to find out.
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:00 |
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 Engraved Disillusion are a modern metal band throwing their crunching riffs straight outta...umm...Taunton. Uber Rock's Darrel Sutton went in search of Embers of Existence for your reading pleasure......
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Written by Dom Daley
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Friday, 21 September 2012 05:00 |
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 Black Magic Six claim that their new release, 'Brutal Blues', should be played at maximum volume...and in mono! Uber Rock's Dom Daley got down and dirty with the swampy garage blues of this devilish duo - click that link for his cultured thoughts.....
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Written by Johnny H
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Friday, 21 September 2012 04:00 |
 Thirty years on from the first time the winged warrior know as the Hellion screamed it's battle cry into the ears of a then hapless schoolboy version of Johnny H and with the arrival of this anniversary CD/DVD package at URHQ he couldn't wait to crack this open and tell you all why he thinks 'Screaming For Vengeance' is still THE defining album of the eighties for British heavy metal music. Whether you agree with this statement or not here's H Bombz case for why everyone should own a copy of this legendary opus.
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Featuring both current and former members of Ignite, Rise Against and Death By Stereo, Nations Afire release 'The Ghosts We Will Become' and we asked Uber Rock's Jo Hayes to get down and get with it. Click that flame red link and read on.....