Uragh - Tempest / Wisp (EP Review)

Release Date: July 31st 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

Tempest / Wisp - Tracklist

Tempest

Wisp

Lineup

Craig Murphy - Vocals

Marcelo Varge - Guitars

Sebastian Sparr - Bass

Jason Hodgkins - Drums

Review

Uragh are a Progressive Metal band who blend Groove, Metalcore, Alt Metal and Sludge Metal into a highly destructive style of music with their thrilling two track EP - Tempest / Wisp - being my first exposure to the band. The sound is melodic with its highly intricate style of Post-Metal and Thrash beats which allows the listener to be pulled into multiple different directions. The music does have some funkier moments with some great slow paced beatdowns before Uragh focuses on a more aggressive and metallic attitude especially on the thumping opening track Tempest.

The vocals from Craig Murphy have an intense quality and delivery to them with some fantastic hardcore and extreme passages shining through. The rest of the band lay down some fast-paced Heavy Metal sounds that are quintessentially modern throughout. Though, there’s a touch of classical music that appears through the sublime appearance of Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan of Belfast band Domhain who provides a chilling and emotionally charged CELLO performance.

The second track Wisp is a gloomy Post-Rock offering with shades of Gothic and Occult themes with the song mostly being a semi-acoustic track with Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan’s intense cello changing the course of the whole EP and the sultry vocals are just the icing on the cake. This is perhaps suited to fans of Chelsea Wolfe compared to the bombastic and violent opening track but it’s good to see Uragh offering different styles of music with the song ending on a Doom & Gloom note with ambient sounds leading the way.

Tempest / Wisp is a great record for Uragh to broaden their musical and creative horizons with. This may take their fanbase a few moments to fully get accustomed to but it shows that the band are aiming for a different sound for future releases whilst keeping to their core original sound at the same time.

Excellent and Highly Recommended.

Words by Steve Howe

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Adur - We Fail To Love Ourselves (Album Review)

Release Date: August 29th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD.DD/Vinyl

We Fail To Love Ourselves - Tracklisting

1. Arrival

2. Silhouette

3. We Fail to Love Ourselves

4. The Longing

5. Null

6. The One Percent

7. Self Control

8. Nothing Grows

9. Nothing Lives In This Soil

10. Permanence

11. The End Of Us

Members

Review

We Fail To Love Ourselves is the debut album from Post-Metal collective Adur who are made up of members from bands such as Grave Lines, Aerosol Jesus, Johnny Truant, and Sea Bastard. With great talent like that involved then you expect an album of great magnitude and Adur delivers that right across the board. Adur blends Post-Hardcore, Sludge Metal, Doom Metal and a sense of classic METALCORE keeping up the aggressive elements for the band to play the heaviest moments on the record.

Adur will appeal to fans such as BOTCH, CAVE IN, MASTODON, CULT OF LUNA, DEFTONES and CONVERGE. Though, there’s a sense of Pitch-Black mentality which could easily see bands such as THOU and DEAFHEAVEN being added. The record is constantly evolving atmosphere, moods and sheer brutal technical ability with Adur not settling on one straight-forward sound. 

The Post-Metal vibe is quite downbeat, violent and chaotic for the most part but there’s a sense of hopeful melodies that allows a brief sense of happiness and reflection to appear before Adur return to their fucked-up and destructive world. The emotionally charged themes and dark subject matter that Adur have written for this record offers a true reflection of the nasty shit going on in the world with the band telling a captivating story through the power of music.

The length of the track varies from a couple minutes to six minutes in length with frenzied Post-Metal passages appearing throughout. I’m not the biggest METALCORE fan but Adur have that aspect implemented brilliantly well especially on the technically impressive POST-METAL beats of tracks such as Silhouette, We Fail To Love Ourselves, The Longing, The One Percent and Self Control. Though, the shorter tracks that appear show Adur’s more tender Psychedelic, Ambient and Post-Rock side that allows the listener a breather before putting through another round of HARSH SOUNDSCAPES and intense Progressive Sludge Metal melodies.

The record has some huge talent involved behind the scenes with Wayne Adams (Petbrick) producing, proving once again why he’s one of the best producers around. You also have the legendary mastering talents of James Plotkin (Khanate) helping out as well. This helps We Fail To Love Ourselves to sound epic and brutally heavy from start to finish.

Adur have crafted a real punishing slab of Post-Metal that should open a lot of doors within the UK underground Sludge/Post-Metal scene where they can preach their music to the biggest audience possible. 

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Since Always Press for the promo.

We Fail To Love Ourselves will be available to buy from all good digital stockists from August 29th 2025.

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Tiberius - The Beautiful Ones (EP Review)

Release date: May 20th 2017. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD

The Beautiful Ones – Tracklisting

1.Without Hesitation 04:56

2.Cult of Adonis 04:45

3.Sderot Cinema 04:08

4.The Beautiful Ones 05:53

Band Members:

Grant Barclay - Vocals;

Chris Foster - Guitar;

Jahan Tabrizi - Guitar;

Ryan Anderson - Bass;

Edersson Joffre - Drums

Review

I don't know why I'm reviewing Tiberius new EP – The Beautiful Ones. They're not exactly Outlaws Of The Sun Material. As Tiberius play proggy-tech-hardcore-heavy metal kind of sound. Whilst we feature more Doom/Sludge/Stoner kind of stuff.

Though I have to admit The Beautiful Ones is super damn catchy at times. I used to listen to this kind of music in my younger years quite religiously. Now, not so much. Though this was a pleasant surprise to hear Tiberius doing a bang-up job in creating superb progressive tech metal riffs with some hints of absolute madness thrown in.

Opening track – Without Hesitation – has a cool Iron Maiden NWOBHM influence wrapped up in progressive tech metal riffs. The vocals feel they were influenced by Bruce Dickinson with lead singer Grant on impressive form from the start. The riffs are played with deadly precision and they leave you gasping for breath at times. These guys can play and I mean really PLAY!!!!

Second track – Cult Of Adonis – has elements of djent noises spliced with their familiar hard rock/heavy metal sounds. It's another fast paced track that will go down a storm with the metalcore/NWOBHM crew.

The final two tracks – Sderot Cinema and The Beautiful Ones – carry on the crazed madness as Tiberius can't decide if they want to be primarily a progressive rock/metal band or something more brutal and heavier. The keyboards did make me feel I was listening to an 80s/80s computer game at times. Maybe I'm too old now (40 years old currently) but I felt old listening to this EP at times. So maybe this is for the younger generation who like their rock/metal more modern sounding to my advancing years.

Still, Tiberius have released a hugely enjoyable EP and it's one that I can see the Extreme Metal crowd worshipping from afar.

Words by Steve Howe

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