{"id":28452,"date":"2026-05-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28452"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:14:48","slug":"ultrabomb-the-bridges-that-we-burn-virgin-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28452","title":{"rendered":"Ultrabomb &#8211; &#8216;The Bridges That We Burn&#8217; (Virgin Music Group)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600-300x300.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600-65x65.webp 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/s-l1600.webp 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A couple of years ago I was introduced to Ultrabomb for the first time by being recommended their album Dying to Smile \u201cChris this is right up your alley, you will love it\u201d and oh how DD was right, turns out that it ended up being one of my albums of the year, roll on a couple of years and Ultrabomb are back with album number three the absolute banger \u201cThe Bridges That We Burn\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legendary\u00a0H\u00fcsker D\u00fc\u00a0bassist Greg Norton has been on fire now for the last few years with three fantastic albums. This time, however, the supergroup has had a few lineup changes, now on lead vocals and guitar is Ryan Smith (Soul Asylum) and the man with the sticks, Derek O\u2019Brien (Social Distortion, Adolescents). For any fan of the alternative punk scene, there is no chance this was going to disappoint and that, my friends, it does not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening the album, we have a mega riff and thundering bassline into the extremely catchy \u201cDarwin Awards\u201d I\u2019ll be amazed if there\u2019s a better opening song on an album this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight away, I know that even though the line-up has changed, the quality hasn\u2019t at all, the production here is very clean and loud, and the band are on fire. \u201cDivert\/Deflect\u201d is a pounding beast that will have fists pumping during the chorus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next album is the first single off the album and one of the many album highlights, \u201cArtificial Stars\u201d. This could be taken right out of a Soul Asylum classic, the Melodies are everywhere throughout, it\u2019s nearly impossible to get the guitar licks out of your head on this one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artificial Stars \" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_F-0GDg-tvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite song on the album is just around the corner with the excellent \u201cNo Cap\u201d with verses that Dave Pirner would be proud of before exploding into a prime Supersuckers-like chorus at breakneck speed. This will have audiences jumping around like lunatics, no doubt about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a resume from these three musicians it should be no surprise that this album is so good but yet somehow it does, Greg had been away from the music business for so long to have come back this strongly is no joke, his songwriting here is on top top form, Ryan really shines here as well as his voice is so infectious with guitar harmonies all over the place and Derek keeps everything so tight, fantastic stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re on the flip side of the album now and we get another few album highlights the absolute brilliant \u201cChecked Out\u201d which boasts a anthemic chorus followed with a stunning guitar solo and then we go straight into a pounding bassline from Greg in the equally fantastic \u201cLook Forward In Anger\u201d another one that will get fans off their feet around venues (hopefully in the UK as well please).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re coming close to the end now, and we are given the smile-raising \u201cBSS\u201d which stands for Bull Shit Song, which had me grinning from ear to ear, and to close out the album, we have the brutal \u201cMosquito Crucifixion\u201d which is a monster of a song with a huge riff throughout to end a brilliant album on a massive high note!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There we have it, Ultrabomb album #3 &#8216;The Bridges That We Burn&#8217; in the bag, it\u2019s safe to say it will be high up on my end of year list, give it a listen and make sure to buy it!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4eNQjBP\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4eNQjBP\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Christian Davies \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I was introduced to Ultrabomb for the first time by being recommended their album Dying to Smile \u201cChris this is right up your alley, you will love it\u201d and oh how DD was right, turns out that it ended up being one of my albums of the year, roll on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1787,1818,1710,1681,1680,1833,7553,2052],"class_list":["post-28452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-new-album","tag-rpm-online","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-tourlife","tag-ultrabomb","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28457,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions\/28457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}