überlin

August 2013

  • CREATURES: Mirror Mirror

    With so much great music popping off in Berlin, I sometimes struggle to find the words to do justice to it all. Luckily the press blurb that accompanied this video from CREATURES actually (for once) nailed it, with this quote from Wolf Auf Tausend Plateaus: Luke Troynar (the creator of Creatures) declines to be a singer…

  • Metal Montag: War From A Harlots Mouth

    War From A Harlots Mouth pitch themselves as “Extreme Math Metal Mayhem from Berlin, Germany”, which is a description that’s hard to argue with. Along with The Ocean, they’re probably the best known Berlin metal band, having supported Lamb of God on their recent German dates. If you like your brutality technical and mathematically precise, this…

  • überlin does Portugal: Sintra

    Another highlight of our recent holiday in Portugal was a day trip to the historic town of Sintra, a short train ride outside of Lisbon. We walked through the UNESCO World Heritage-listed centre of Sintra-Vila and up a winding, forested hill towards the beautiful Parque da Pena. Once there, Zoë enjoyed the amazing views of…

  • überlin does Portugal: Lisbon

    “Lisbon is the new Berlin.” That’s what we keep hearing from people who go to Portugal to escape the increasingly-hyped German capital, if only for a few days. However, we can neither confirm or deny that concept, as we went to Lisbon to top up on everything we can’t get here, like beaches, fresh seafood and…

  • Metal Montag: Lamb of God

    By Mike T West. Mein (Lamb of) Gott! This week we are dying both physically and musically as we spend the sabbath in the presence of Nintendocore leviathans HORSE The Band / northern UK mathcore heroes Rolo Tomassi, and also bear witness to dirty metal titans Lamb of God. Paint us excited. This is all a…