‘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.....

The band name should be enough for most true Uber Rockers to take this bunch of Swedish reprobates to their hearts. Guess what? These Vietcong Pornsurfers sound even better than their badass name suggests! Fusing the likes of Gluecifer, Turbonegro, The Hellacopters and the BYBs to the grooves of one of the year's best independent releases, these glunk rockers spread diseases.....and Uber Rock's Ross Welford is covered in their dirty rash.....

What Now are the latest South African rock sensation to knock the socks off Uber Rock’s Nev Brooks, and as he explains with his review of their latest album ‘Move Like a Sinner’ he thinks they’ll do the same for you too. So click the link to find out why it’s always the bad boys and girls who throw all the best dance shapes.

Produced by Chris Tsangarides and released on his label, 'The American Scream' from Chemicals Of Democracy is finally afforded an official UK release after being out there for some time. Uber Rock's Ross Welford thinks he's found the band to save you metal fans from your modern-Megadeth blues - read on to find out why.......

If one album of Hammond driven bluesy progressive rock wasn’t enough to send Nev Brooks over the edge, we sent our intrepid scribe two to review just to make sure, as here he discovers the back catalogue delights of Swedish trio Three Seasons.

Oxford-based sludgemeisters Desert Storm return with 'Horizontal Life', a new twelve track album that Uber Rock's Gaz E can't help but fall knee deep into. Like stoner, desert or space rock? Like swampy blues? Like Clutch? Then this could be for you.....