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Written by Craggy
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:00 |
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  Following a limited cinematic release, Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski's 'Lemmy' finally sees release on DVD and Blu-ray. With the disc's bonus features offering around 200 minutes of extra footage, this is one tasty package for anyone with a rock 'n' roll pulse...but we didn't want anyone, we wanted uber Motorhead fan Craggy to indulge himself in this release. Read on for the Bomber's thoughts......
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Written by Dom Daley
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Monday, 17 January 2011 05:00 |
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 Social Distortion return with their first album since 2004 and their first for Epitaph Records. 'Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes' is the long-awaited seventh studio album from the band and Dom Daley is like a dog with two dicks as he checks it out. Read on to find out why......
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Written by Gaz E
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Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:00 |
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 It is an idea so simple that it borders on genius - reviewing vintage bootleg tapes on a vintage radio cassette recorder. Gaz E gets born again in the ghetto blaster as he opens up the Uber Rock archives and rediscovers The Dogs D'Amour live in 1988.....
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Written by Dom Daley
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Saturday, 15 January 2011 05:30 |
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 Dom Daley checks out the fourteenth album from long running, and long rocking 'n' rolling, Swedish reprobates The Diamond Dogs. What he finds may be a slight departure from the sounds of a band that every true Uber Rocker should hold dear to their heart, but it is still the unmistakable sound of Sulo and his bande à part. Read on for the lowdown on 'The Grit & The Very Soul'......
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Written by Darrel Sutton
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Friday, 14 January 2011 05:00 |
 With a career spanning nearly 3 decades it's about time we got a career-defining studio album from UK thrash metallers Onslaught, a band who have promised so much for so long. So will studio album number five be the album that will finally see Darrel Sutton raise the URHQ cat skin glove in devil horned celebration? What do you think????
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Written by Gaz E
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Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:00 |
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 A long-lost gem of the AOR world, the second album from Italian melodic rockers Danger Zone finally sees release, over two decades after its recording. Featuring the songwriting talents of Marc Bolan and Steve Jones (sort of) and the guest vocals of Grace Jones (no relation) this is certainly one for the curious.....
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Written by Mark Taylor
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011 05:00 |
 In the lead up to the release of 'Sounds Of Violence', the long awaited new studio album from UK metal titans Onslaught, we asked Mark Taylor to pop along to a London watering hole to sample some of the finest thrash known to humanity whilst also catching up with the band's frontman Sy Keeler.
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Written by Rich Jones
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011 05:00 |
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 We wanted the inside scoop on Ginger's Xmas UK tour so who better to ask than one of his 'friends', guitarist Rich Jones? Read on to see how Rich, Ginger, Tom Spencer and Denzel battled the elements to travel the length of the country with tales of special guests, crowd surfing birthday cakes and a one string guitar.........
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Written by Ross Welford
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Monday, 10 January 2011 05:00 |
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 'The Cold', the tenth album from thrash metal legends Flotsam And Jetsam, finally gets a UK release through the good people at Nuclear Blast and Ross Welford was more than happy to get to grips with it. Read on to see why he thinks that, in 2011, thrash fans shouldn't just settle for the Big Four.........
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Written by Johnny H
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Sunday, 09 January 2011 05:00 |
 Hurtsmile's debut album has been a long time coming according to their frontman Gary Cherone. Yup that Gary Cherone of Extreme and (once of) Van Halen fame. So will Johnny H be keeping a welcome in the hillside for this release or looking to get the funk out? Read on and find out....
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Written by Ian Bell
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Saturday, 08 January 2011 05:00 |
 Back in the country promoting two albums in their 25th anniversary year, German power metal pioneers Helloween were about to hit the stage at the UK's annual Hard Rock Hell Festival when Ian Bell grabbed some time with Sascha Gerstner to get some larger than life confessions from the larger than life guitarist, Room 101 style.
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Written by Mark Taylor
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Friday, 07 January 2011 05:00 |
 "Everyone should see a Hawkwind show before they die" so proclaims Mark Taylor, a man who loves the band so much his entire shirt collection is made from their old backdrops. But with only Dave Brock left from the original members would the current line up still deliver the goods in the same essential way?
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Written by Jim Jones
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Thursday, 06 January 2011 05:00 |
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 Jim Jones, yes he of The Jim Jones Revue, opens our 2011 Gig From Hell account with a tale of Jack White, heavy fog, little sleep and the threat of arrest for playing too loud. Read on for the horrific truth as Jim opens up, exclusively for Über Röck.
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Written by Howling Matt Phelps
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Wednesday, 05 January 2011 05:00 |
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 'In Bed With Wolfsbane' was originally a fan club only VHS release back in 1991. Now, two decades later, the band have released the much-loved footage as a two disc DVD, complete with a whole host of extras, including the band's full set from London's Astoria twenty years ago! Let howling mad shithead Matt Phelps tell you why you need this disc NOW!
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Written by Russ P
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Tuesday, 04 January 2011 05:00 |
 Guess who's just come back into Russ P's life like a long lost friend? Why it's John Waite, respected solo artist and one time lead singer with The Babys and Bad English. So who's up for a little 'Rough & Tumble' then? Well Russ is obviously...but will he enjoy the grapple?
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Written by Tazz Stander
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Monday, 03 January 2011 05:00 |
 What better way to start our 2011 interviews than with the proud winner of our Uber Rock gig of the year award Mr Michael Monroe? Captured deep in the heart of a freezing cold London venue towards the end of his recent Motorhead support tour, Tazz Stander gets Mike to discuss the release of his upcoming studio solo album whilst casting a cautionary glance over his shoulder to matters Hanoi, and lots more....
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