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Album Of The Year 2021 – Number 11
Welcome to Day 20 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown series. That means that this annual labour of love is now two-thirds complete already. I can’t quite believe it, but that’s the situation. I’m still really enjoying putting this together and I hope so of you are enjoying the daily updates Continue Reading »
The best of 2018 so far – Part 4
Hi and welcome to day four of my half-year round-up of the best music released during the first six months of 2018. I hope you’ve enjoyed this mini-series so far? And more importantly, if you’ve missed any of my reviews this year so far, I hope that this series helps to fill in the gaps Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2017 – Number 25
Welcome to day 6 of my ‘Album of the Year 2017 top 30 countdown’. Bored yet? I hope not, because I’m only just getting into my stride. More than any other year, I am very excited to share this list with you. Not only do I now have my biggest number of loyal readers and Continue Reading »
Cosmograf – The Hay-Man Dreams – Album Review
Artist: Cosmograf Album Title: The Hay-Man Dreams Label: Cosmograf Music Date Of Release: 14 July 2017 When I reviewed ‘The Unreasonable Silence’, the fifth album from Robin Armstrong under the Cosmograf moniker, it was my first real exposure of this project. I really enjoyed that record and still listen to it on a relatively regular Continue Reading »
Lonely Robot – The Big Dream – Album Review
Artist: Lonely Robot Album Title: The Big Dream Label: InsideOut Music Date Of Release: 28 April 2017 Those who know me and my style of writing will know that I never shy away from bringing personal experiences into my reviews, particularly if it helps to contextualise or explain my feelings towards an album. And this Continue Reading »
BlogOfMuchMetal – Metal News – 23 March 2017
As you can see from the title of this post, I’ve gone through a bit of a re-branding with these regular news reports. They will still focus on news about albums in the pipeline, so keep expecting updates on new releases, big album announcements, new tracks, studio reports etc. However, I wanted something a bit Continue Reading »
Pallbearer – Heartless – Album Review
Artist: Pallbearer Album Title: Heartless Label: Profound Lore Records (North America) / Nuclear Blast Records (Rest of the World) Date Of Release: 24 March 2017 My introduction to Pallbearer came via their sophomore release, ‘Foundations of Burden’, released in 2014 whilst I was still writing for Powerplay magazine. And it was an enlightening introduction for Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2016 – number 20
It’s getting a little more serious now as I enter the Top 20 of my ‘Albums of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. Can you feel the tension start to increase? Your nerves jangling? Biting your nails?… What do you mean ‘no’? You heathens! Anyway, here we are over a third of the way through Continue Reading »
Album of the Year 2016 – Number 23
Welcome to day eight of my epic ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. And today is one of those posts that get to the heart of what my blog is all about – it’s not about singing the praises of the biggest bands out there, although I will do that too. It’s more Continue Reading »
Frost* – Falling Satellites – Album Review
Artist: Frost* Album Title: Falling Satellites Label: InsideOut Music Date Of Release: 27 May 2016 I’m a late convert to the Frost* cause, but better late than never as the old saying goes. Last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Lonely Robot, the debut album under that moniker from John Mitchell, he of Arena Continue Reading »
