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Written by Russ P
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:45 |
  "There's a new sound from Nashville and one that you wouldn't ordinarily associate with that musical mecca. This is the sound of melodic, punky pop rockers fORMER", so proclaims uber scribe Russ P. So what exactly could he be so excited about? Well, if I were to tell you that these guys might utter the odd prayer at the church of Butch Walker would that get you interested? Read on for the powerpop discovery of 2011.... only in 2012.
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:00 |
 A night of extreme metal in one of London's best live venues always had Darrel Sutton's name all over it for review purposes, especially when his old mates The Black Dahlia Murder were headlining the bill. So notepad in hand our brave scribe entered a packed out Underworld for the opening night of the band's expansive European trek in support of their last album 'Ritual'. Did he survive? Well...just... Read the review to find out what happened next.
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Monday, 23 January 2012 05:00 |
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 Another Monday in the first month of the year yet another early contender for album of the year: Nada Surf return with their seventh studio album and, as our power pop picker Ben Hughes happily discovered, with a severe case of The Posies. Read on for even more reasons why you too should own this album......
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 04:45 |
 There was a time when the name of Anvil was only mentioned in hushed tones within metal circles. Thankfully that's not the case here in 2012, but long time pounder Jim Rowland wants to take you all back to the beginning of the band's fallow years via this series of re-releases from Steamhammer/SPV and a Sony best of, to prove it wasn't all as bad as you might care to remember. Pound on people, pound on....
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Written by Don Daley and David Whistance
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 05:00 |
 Saturday night in Swansea and it feels like the sea might be about to freeze over. Well, tonight Dom Daley and David Whistance certainly don't need any ice in their drinks as they don their thermals ready for a night of some of the best rock music Wales has to offer right now. Dom braves the mosh pit for The Guns whilst David starts a circle pit for headliners Revoker.
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Friday, 20 January 2012 05:00 |
 Following the release of their long awaited second album 'III', the hottest rock & roll supergroup in the world, Chickenfoot, flew into our European coop just last week for a blink and you'll miss it 5-date trek. Jim Rowland was the Uber Rocker lucky enough to be stage front and centre for their London show, and boy was he egg-cited.
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 04:45 |
 Back for their third album together, Italian guitarist/producer Dario Mollo and ex Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin are threatening to shake the house of hard rock to its very foundations with 'The Third Cage' as Rob Watkins was about to discover. But will this album live up to the duo's otherwise faultless reputations? Well read on to find out.
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Written by Fraser Munro
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 04:45 |
 Next month Chicago IL punk rocking trio Juicehead hit the UK supporting their record label bosses in a series of six shows. We asked uber fiend Fraser Munro to prise open the band's suitably piratey second album cover and tell us what to look out for from the would be horror punkers. Let's just say he didn't exactly find what he was expecting. Intrigued? Well read on...
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 04:45 |
 It's a staggering 43 years since bandmates Andy Parker and Phil Mogg first stepped onto a stage together as UFO, the band's current guitarist Vinnie Moore would probably have just been starting school around about that time, whilst keyboardist Paul Raymond was making a name for himself on London's blues scene. All these years on and UFO may have long since swapped their space rock for classic rock but as Rob Watkins finds out they are a band still dancing to the tune of the 'Seven Deadly'.
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 16 January 2012 05:00 |
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 Have the world's biggest metal bands dropped a bollock by allowing the mighty Lamb Of God to release 'Resolution', the band's seventh studio album, at the start of the year, setting the bar so high that many, if not all, will fail to match its high standards? Gaz E accepts the muthafuckin' invitation to find out....
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 05:00 |
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 Now here's an album that I'd guess half of the Uber Rock writing staff could have waxed lyrical over: 'Third Eye' by Redd Kross is just one of those albums that, no matter the weather, no matter the mood, always slaps a smile right across your face. Ben Hughes offers his first piece of Hi-Fi To Die For and, seriously, couldn't have made much finer a choice....
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:45 |
 Just a few days before Christmas 2011 the metal world was shocked to its very foundations with the news that David Gold, founding member of Canadian metallers Woods of Ypres, had been killed. Jim Rowland picks up the story as he reviews the band's fifth album 'Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light'
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Written by Andrew Johnston
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 04:40 |
 Playing a series of four UK shows accompanied by a 38 piece orchestra, Deep Purple most certainly couldn't be accused of scrimping on arena production values due to austerity measures. In fact add US powerpop legends Cheap Trick onto an already packed O2 stage and you suddenly had yourself a recession busting classic rock package par excellence, as Andrew Johnston found out.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Friday, 13 January 2012 04:45 |
  The Jolts '8%' album comes loaded with tunes alleged to be as good as vintage Hanoi, The Damned, and Rose Tattoo. This veritable promised land of fine riffery proved a touch too much for our eager scribe Dom Daley as he plunged headlong into iTunes instead of waiting for his physical CD winging its way over from Canada. Was it worth the effort? Well read on and find out.
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Written by Mark Ashby
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 05:00 |
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 Lavish, deluxe, epic...and that's just the double CD box set. Mark Ashby delves into 'Imaginaerum', the seventh album from symphonic rock heavyweights Nightwish, and finds a grand exercise in atmospheric, gothic rock. Who will survive this most ambitious of orchestral manoeuvres in the dark....and what will be left of them?
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Written by Johnny H
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:00 |
 Celebrating their three decades together as a band via four special shows in San Francisco recently, thrash godfathers Metallica gave the fan club members who couldn't be present at those concerts an early Christmas present in the shape of a free download four track EP of studio outtakes from the 'Death Magnetic' sessions. Metclub member Johnny H reviews said EP ahead of its worldwide release on CD later this month.
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