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Written by Ben Hughes
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Friday, 29 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Music for computer geeks and metal heads? As if those kind of people exist. Ben Hughes checks out Next Life, a Norwegian duo who describe their sound as "electronic violence", fusing metal riffage to the sounds of vintage computers and games consoles. Sound bizarre? Read on as our man gets his ram on for your reading pleasure......
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Thursday, 28 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Swedish AOR fifteen years in the making? How good must this melodic rock be if it has taken so long to perfect? We asked Rob Watkins to open his frozen heart and embrace the latest high quality parp from the legendary Frontiers Records.
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Written by Rich Hobson
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Famed Nineties ska rockers Sublime return with a new vocalist, new band name, and a brand new album. 'Yours Truly' is the first album to feature vocalist Rome (hence the new moniker) who replaces the band's former frontman Bradley Nowell who died of a heroin overdose in 1996. Rich Hobson checked out the new album and we think you should click on that red link to see what he thought of it.....
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Written by Johnny H
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Friday, 22 July 2011 05:00 |
 Take a band chock full of ex members from the likes of Marilyn Manson, Satyricon and Turbonegro, put them in a studio and get them to write an album. Make the genre they have to write in industrialised gothic metal and what do you think the outcome will be? Johnny H enters the world of Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult to find out exactly that.
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Written by Dom Daley
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Thursday, 21 July 2011 06:00 |
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  Sonny Vincent, famed punk rocker who was a regular performer at Max's Kansas City and CBGB alongside the likes of The Cramps, Suicide and Dead Boys, returns with yet another album to add to his prolific discography. Dom Daley checks out 'Bizarro Hymns' and thinks you should too...
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Written by Dom Daley
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Glam punk rock 'n' roll from Stockholm, Sweden - seems right up Dom Daley's anarchic avenue. Here he checks out the smartly-titled new extended player from The Slagsterz - read on as he puts the x in sex exclusively for Uber Rock.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Monday, 18 July 2011 06:00 |
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 Die Pretty, a Brooklyn-based pop punk outfit, were unknown to Uber Rock until Gaz E clicked on a link to one of their music videos and fell in love. The music was pretty good too. Read on to see what has tickled our man's minute fancy.....
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Written by Gaz E
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Sunday, 17 July 2011 05:30 |
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 Idiom are a young British band who have been lucky enough to share stages with the likes of Skindred, 36 Crazyfists, Die So Fluid and Devildriver, and have recently played the Hard Rock Hell Road Trip in Ibiza. Gaz E checks out their six track mini-album and likes what he hears....
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Written by Dom Daley
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Saturday, 16 July 2011 05:30 |
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 Uber Rock-related mysterious parcels are usually the ones that Zoot's missus finds in the back of his Y-fronts on a Sunday morning...but not this time. A mystery disc wrapped in a DIY card sleeve turned up in PO Box 666 with zero information - we didn't even know what the band was called! We handed it over to the Doom Patrol and our man in the West discovered a noisy bunch of punk rock mofos; read on for the facts....
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Written by Seb Metcalfe
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Friday, 15 July 2011 05:30 |
 Twenty seven years after their highly acclaimed debut album, hotly tipped AORsters Airrace are back with their follow up album, 'Back To The Start'. The normally reclusive Seb Metcalfe surprises us all by rolling up his satin-jacketed sleeves whilst backcombing his mullet to give the Uber Rock faithful the low down on what some are calling the UK AOR album event of the year.
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Written by Johnny H
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Thursday, 28 July 2011 05:30 |
 Uber Rock's very own David Dickinson knows a bargain when he sees one, and when a 5-disc box set spanning all of UFO's albums with Michael Schenker is retailing for little more than a tenner, even we have to agree with the H Bomb that this is a must have purchase. Join our man with a tan as he journeys with the band through their halcyon years, a time when arenas beckoned for the band and not Butlins....
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Written by Gaz E
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011 05:30 |
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 Small Stone Records does it again. The Detroit-based independent record label have released the sophomore record from New York's Ironweed and, as Gaz E discovered, it is one of 2011's finest releases. Fusing political angst to noisy, grungy metal but with a frontman gifted with the voice of the gods, 'Your World Of Tomorrow' is a surprise package of awesomeness....
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Written by Jim Rowland
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Monday, 25 July 2011 05:00 |
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 West Country heavy hitters Huron return with album number two, 'Mary Celeste', following on from their well-received debut 'Cheyne Smoking'. Echoing prime Pantera the band pleasantly surprised Jim Rowland who, due to the spiked logo and ghost ship album title, expected something a lot less palatable. Read on for the lowdown....
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Written by Rob Watkins
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Friday, 22 July 2011 05:00 |
 Whilst they might have nothing to do with X-Men, former Musicians Institute members Daniel Palmqvist and Johannes Stole posses the superhuman powers to make kick-ass AOR music in the vein of some truly great bands like Giant, Foreigner or Toto. Rob Watkins straps on the URHQ keytar and discovers 'State Of The Art' .
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Written by Ben Hughes
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Thursday, 21 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Top Buzzer are a London-based trio who get Ben Hughes thinking of the sharper end of the Brit Rock movement of the Nineties with their new album, 'Outside Is A World' - think Baby Chaos, The Wildhearts, The Wonderstuff and many bands in between. Read on as the Ben Pen drips virtual ink awash with rock over your wanton flesh.....possibly.
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Written by Johnny H
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011 05:00 |
 'This Is Gonna Hurt', is the second album from Sixx:A.M. a musical project that features the legendary Nikki Sixx, DJ Ashba and James Michael. This is an album that promised so much for our very own Johnny H that he rushed out and bought a copy when it was first released back in May. So why has it taken him nearly two months to review it? Read on to find out...
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Written by Dom Daley
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Monday, 18 July 2011 05:30 |
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 Today at Uber Rock is all about musicians returning with different projects. With Adam Ant making a stunning return to the stage this year what better time to check out what some of his former bandmates are up to? The Wolfmen feature former Ant Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou (who played with Adam under the name Chris De Niro) and 'Married To The Eiffel Tower', the band's second album, is being lauded over as one of the year's best by the likes of Mark Lamarr and Jonathan Ross. Read on to see if our very own high profile celebrity Dom Daley agrees....
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Written by Craggy
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Saturday, 16 July 2011 06:00 |
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 Bristol-based noiseniks The St. Pierre Snake Invasion cite The Bronx, The Stooges and Refused as major influences but would the spirit of those great bands burst out of the grooves of 'Flesh', the band's debut EP? We asked our very own manly snake wrangler Craggy to get his hands on this meaty offering and spit out the word residue for your reading pleasure...
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Written by Ross Welford
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Saturday, 16 July 2011 05:00 |
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 It would appear that Bai Bang are yet another Swedish sleaze outfit rolled off the yellow and blue cock rock conveyor belt...but wait....these guys have been around since the 80s and have shared stages with the likes of Motley Crue and Ratt. Reckless Ross Welford was teezed 'n' pleezed to be checking out 'Livin' My Dream', the band's seventh album. Click on that ruby red slippered link to discover our man's critical assessment.....
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Written by Ross Welford
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Friday, 15 July 2011 05:00 |
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 Nitroville are a female fronted, bluesy rock 'n' roll band flying out of London Town like a projectile mongoose. Ross Welford turned off his Sleeze Beez rarities anthology just long enough to try on his new assless chaps and check out the band's new long player, 'Can't Stop What's Comin' - did he like it? Click on that shiny red link for all the answers...and more.
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Sofy Major are an French outfit who, with their brutal debut album, 'Permission To Engage', walk the left hand path to levels of extreme heaviness. Wrapped in a stunning digipack and available as a double vinyl package, this album caused the first headache that Gaz E was happy to live with.....