With King's X drummer Jerry Gaskill recovering from the heart attack he suffered in February there seems no better time than the present to look back at the band's debut album. Jamie Richards provides us with another must-read Hi-Fi To Die For feature that not only dissects Kerrang's 1988 Album of the Year winner, but also questions the magazine's former scribe Mick Wall to see if his thoughts on 'Out Of The Silent Planet' stand up almost a quarter of a century later. Read this, love this, listen to this.....

Is it my imagination...or is it time to read the last words of the next victim of the Midnite Mixtape Massacre? Spit Like This are set to release their new, Chris Tsangarides produced, album, 'Normalityville Horror', in a couple of weeks so what better time to catch up with frontman Lord Zion and try to pry the ultimate list of songs from his cold, dead hands? Read on to discover the devil's dozen of songs that make up his Midnite Mixtape.....

We're three victims into Über Röck's Midnite Mixtape Massacre and, to be brutally honest, the dark lords behind the website have not been happy with what has come before. Why? Because the three guitar attack of Leatherwolf has not featured once in any of the mixtapes featured. That, my friends, is about to change as John Jj Watt of UK rockers Spill Sixteen gifts us a thirteen song mixtape (and intro!) that is sure to make us laugh and cry in equal measure.....

With an eight date tour of the UK starting this coming week we here at ÜRHQ felt that it was time to reconnect with the great Obsessive Compulsive. Giz, guitarist with the Manchester DIY mob, is the latest victim of Über Röck's Midnite Mixtape Massacre - read on as he talks us through his ultimate thirteen song mixtape......

Another startling new feature starts today on Über Röck - Midnite Mixtape Massacre! Witness members of bands too numerous and awesome to mention detailing the thirteen songs that they would put on their ultimate mixtape. First up we have Anthony Allen Van Hoek, guitarist with Über faves Chesty Malone and the Slice 'em Ups, and what a mighty fine mixtape this ghoulish gentleman present to you for your reading, and listening, pleasure........

Boombox Bootlegs returns with another vintage performance recorded from the crowd of a classic gig and archived on a timeless Memorex dB 90 cassette. Gaz E goes back to 1990 and the debut UK headline shows from The Black Crowes, shows filled with seminal cover tunes and original songs that would never see the light of day again....

Recorded after a European tour at the start of 1983, 'Flick Of The Switch' saw AC/DC attempt to bring back the raw sound of the band. While considered critically to be one of the band's lesser moments Malcolm and Angus Young have always stood by the album and now they are joined by Über Röck's Jamie Richards who cracks open his time capsule and finds a record that he still considers Hi-Fi To Die For......

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....

Here it is, Uber Rock's twisted Xmas present to all our faithful readers! Episode 10 of the legendary Zoot's Gig Giggles column saw our anti-hero turning down a fat girl and engaging another troubled gentleman in a spewing competition. Episode 11 picks up the story as a gig by Wolfsbane became filled with more shitheads (and feet) than usual.....