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The Dollyrots - 'Whiplash Splash' (PledgeMusic)
When Ben Hughes was half way through reviewing these 13 tracks of radio-friendly three minute bursts of sunshine from Californian pop punks The Dollyrots, his son walked in and asked him why he was...
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EXTENDED PLAY: Bite Size Chunks Of Musical Mayhem
As regular readers will know, we love EPs here at Über Rock: those shiny little discs that sit somewhere between a single and a full-length album, but are all-too-often criminally ignored by the...
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The Picturebooks - 'Home Is A Heartache' (Another Century)
The German duo of Fynn Claus Grabke and Philipp Mirtschink describe their album, released on the eve of their recent UK tour with Monster Truck, as being about “two best friends, being on the road,...
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The Hip Priests – ‘Those Fucking Boys - A Decade Of Disdain’ (Ghost Highway...
Despite being ignored by the so-called mainstream media, The Hip Priests – a band constantly championed by us here at Über Rock – have managed to make it to their tenth anniversary. To mark the...
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Vatican – ‘March Of The Kings’ (Pure Steel Records)
UR editor-in-chief Mark Ashby is by no means a religious man… far from it! He’s a fucking Viking by descent, his ancestors more used to burning down churches than kneeling down in them… so, what...
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Tom Baker & The Snakes – ‘Lookout Tower’ (Rum Bar Records)
If you’re a fan of the glut of fantastic hard rockin' pop pickin' bands that Dom Daley seems to be uncovering out there at the moment, then you need to click the link to find out why you should make no...
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Flamin’ Groovies – ‘Live In San Francisco 1971’ (Wienerworld)
A little more than 50 years after they first formed, the Flamin’ Groovies are about to release a new studio album. Before that, however, Dom Daley turns the clock back to the band’s heyday and revels...
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Pyramaze – ‘Contingent’ (Inner Wound Recordings)
Huge symphonic soundscapes? Check. Loads of guitar wankery? Check. Big choruses on long songs? Check. Must be Danish power metal then? Check, check and check again. UR’s resident shredder, Marc...
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Vandroya – ‘Beyond The Human Mind’ (Inner Wound Recordings)
Marc Leach loves his power metal. And in the new album from Brazilian purveyors of the genre Vandroya he might just have found himself in seventh heaven… Click the link to find out why, if he took his...
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The Dead Daisies - 'Live & Louder’ (Spitfire Music/SPV)
Recorded during their European tour late last year, 'Live & Louder' is the first live album from the hard touring Aussie/US Supergroup and sees Messrs Corabi, Tichy, Mendoza, Lowy and Aldrich,...
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Peter Murphy – ‘Bare Boned And Sacred’ (Metropolis Records)
Great music endures, as Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy has been proving consistently over and over again over the course of the past few years. Dom Daley got under the bare bones of this latest live...
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Hercules Morse – ‘Vita Boundary’ (Self-Released)
Like a phoenix, reborn from the ashes of ‘The Blue Screen Of Death’, Hercules Morse are now set to release their self-released debut album ‘Vita Boundary’ on 4 May. With their love for combining...
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Maverick – ‘Cold Star Dancer’ (Metalapolis)
It is often said, not least in these very pages, that a band’s second album can be their most difficult. Well, UR head honcho Monk for one would argue that the same argument could be applied, to a...
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Saints Of Sin - ‘Welcome to the Circus’ (3Ms Music)
We are playing a bit of catch up with our review of this debut album. Saints of Sin first crossed UR’s path at last year’s HRH Sleaze fest, and this CD has been lying around HQ ever since… well, until...
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The Dwarves – ‘Take Back The Night’ (Burger Records)
OK, it’s another year and another Dwarves record - and another five minutes for Double D to spend sticking up for a band who don't adhere to social boundaries, and then another five minutes spent...
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Desdemonia – ‘Anguish’ (Mighty Music)
Tim Bolitho-Jones reckons that Desdemonia are living proof that persistence pays off. The Luxembourg four piece formed way back in 1994 and are only now catching a break. To put into perspective how...
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Perception – ‘Monolith’ (Self-Released)
If ever an EP lives up to its title, UR boss Monk reckons that this second offering from Oxfordshire tech-metal quartet Perception, with our man proclaiming that there is a fire and a fury in the...
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Christmas – ‘Scum As You Are’ (Kidnap Music)
Hell, we may only be in the teeth of the time of year known to many as Easter, but already Double D is celebrating Christmas! Now, before you start sending for the nurse, he’s not talking about the one...
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Digital Criminals - ‘Hell Yeah’ (Digital Criminals Records)
It’s funny how one thing leads to another, one connection links to the next… Gerald S found himself hooked into the “genre defying, innovative” sound of Ponypool’s Digital Criminals when he was pointed...
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Eureka Machines - ‘Victories’ (Wrath Records)
The bunch of rapscallions that our man with a rather snazzy line in hats describes as “Britain’s best kept secret/best live band” return with album number five – oh, and a double disc of rare,...
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