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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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Will J
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Top Ten Of 2021: Will J

27th December 20218th February 2022 Will J Divide And Dissolve, Everson Poe, Fluisteraars, Full Of Hell, Panopticon, The Sun And The Mirror, Top Ten 2021, Turnstile, Underdark, Violet Cold, Wolves In The Throne Room

This year certainly hasn’t been as chaotic as the last, but it feels like there’s been even more music making

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Josh Schneider
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Top Ten Of 2021: Josh Schneider

24th December 20218th February 2022 Josh Schneider Cortége, Doomsday Profit, Gangrened, Greenleaf, King Buffalo, Kowloon Walled City, Mos Generator, Red Beard Wall, Spelljammer, The Age Of Truth, The Penitent Man, Top Ten 2021

Well, this is difficult. I’ll be starting a petition for top twenty bands in 2022 because choosing ten is nearly

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Jamie Grimes
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Top Ten Of 2021: Jamie Grimes

23rd December 20218th February 2022 Jamie Grimes Ænigmatum, Black Iron Prison, Chimers, Gas Chamber, Glassing, Midwife, Scopophilia, Seed, Sigil, Suffering Hour, The Cowboy, Top Ten 2021

First a disclaimer regarding selection: while on a personal level this year was horrific, it was an exceptionally bountiful year

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Premiere: Grub Nap ‘God Pile’ – Debut EP Drops Tomorrow, 17th March, via Human Worth
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