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Lee Beamish - 2022
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Top Ten Of 2022: Lee Beamish

16th December 20226th February 2023 Lee Beamish Deadhead, Drowse, Feed Me To The Waves, Jo Quail, Pit Pony, Reverend Mother, Serpentent, The Bobby Lees, The Gathering, Top Ten 2022, VLMV

Well, hey there, how you been, it’s been quite the year, right? So, musically, there was some proper dross out

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Reza Mills - 2022 - Iran Flag 1964-1980
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Top Ten Of 2022: Reza Mills

15th December 20226th February 2023 Reza Mills Black Math Horseman, Grieving Sea, Lustmord, Mac Gollehon, Munly & The Lupercalians, Tension Span, The Bobby Lees, The Catatonics, The Lord, The Shenandoah Electric Company, Top Ten 2022

Well, it’s been one hell of a year, I won’t endeavour to touch on the Geo-Political comings and goings, we

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Dave Bowes - 2022
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Top Ten Of 2022: Dave Bowes

14th December 20226th February 2023 Dave Bowes BlackLab, Blut Aus Nord, Boris, Celeste, Chat Pile, Cult Of Luna, GGGOLDDD, The Lovecraft Sextet, Top Ten 2022, Zeal & Ardor

I’ll admit that I didn’t have high hopes going into 2022. It was coming off the back of a year

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Simon Brotherton - 2022
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Top Ten Of 2022: Simon Brotherton

13th December 20226th February 2023 Simon Brotherton And So I Watch You From Afar, Black Midi, Clutch, Enablers, Envy Of None, Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Russian Circles, Top Ten 2022, Warrington Runcorn New Town Development, Wormrot

It’s fair to say 2022 has been tough. War, floods, famine, economic crisis, oh, and an ongoing pandemic. Thankfully, it’s

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Mark Hunt Bryden - 2022
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Top Ten Of 2022: Mark Hunt-Bryden

12th December 20226th February 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Author & Punisher, Battalions, Benjamin Tod, Cave In, Cult Of Luna, Final Light, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Sleestak, The Hellacopters, Top Ten 2022, Wo Fat

What a year. Whilst I may not have played Sweden or Canada, I changed career after fifteen years in quite

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Woman Life Freedom #MahsaAmini
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A Tribute To Mahsa Amini, Women And The Freedom Of The Iranian Nation

24th October 202211th December 2022 Reza Mills Mahsa Amini, Woman Life Freedom, Zan Zendegi Azadi

Mahsa Amini was born to a Kurdish family in the city of Saqqez in Northwestern Iran on September 23rd 1999. 

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No Place For Tolerance Of Abuse
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No Place For Tolerance Of Abuse: Rob Walsh Reflects On The Dark Secret Of Scott Kelly

2nd September 20229th December 2022 Rob Walsh Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Scott Kelly

The last few years have seen tragedy in the music world. Many musicians who were completely irreplaceable and profoundly influential

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Mark Lanegan @ Effenaar, Eindhoven, 2017 – Photo by Paul Verhagen
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Raise A Whiskey For The Holy Ghost – Rest In Peace Mark Lanegan 1964-2022

25th February 202228th March 2022 Martin Williams Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age, RIP, Screaming Trees

On Tuesday afternoon, 22nd February 2022, I had just finished a Zoom meeting in my office at my tattoo shop,

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David J McLaren
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Top Ten Of 2021: David J McLaren

30th December 20218th February 2022 David J McLaren Bokassa, Carcass, Gojira, Iron Maiden, LLNN, Sheev, Shun, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Top Ten 2021, Wall, Warning

2021 has been a strange fish hasn’t it? Not quite so dramatic as all of the doom n gloom of

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George Green
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Top Ten Of 2021: George Green

29th December 20218th February 2022 George Green Black Sun Void, Blackfold, Charlie Butler, Gnod, Johan Zetterquist, Kowa Axis, Lucy Adlington, PAK40, Primitive Knot, Stonecirclesampler, Top Ten 2021

What to say about 2021? To misquote Mr. Dickens, ‘it was not the best of times, it was not the

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Richard Murray
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Top Ten Of 2021: Richard Murray

28th December 20218th February 2022 Richard Murray Ad Nauseam, BRUIT ≤, Chelsea Wolfe, Converge, Daxma, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Hans Zimmer, ISON, Kabbalah, Lingua Ignota, The Silver, Top Ten 2021

My name is Richard Murray, I write in a pretentious manner where I just make lists of similes, I hope

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