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Review: Haggard Cat – Common Sense Holiday

11/03/2020 Dave Musson

Haggard Cat. You like them, don’t you? Sure you do. If you’re browsing these pages through choice then of course you like Haggard Cat.

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Review: Spanish Love Songs – Brave Faces Everyone

07/02/202005/02/2020 Dave Musson

If ever you wanted a case study for how the internet has changed how we discover cult bands in 2020, Spanish Love Songs could well be it.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums Of The Year 2019: 10 to 1

29/12/2019 Dave Musson

Anybody for the second half of my Albums Of The Year hit-parade? Good.

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Albums Of The Year

Dave Musson’s Albums Of The Year 2019: 20 to 11

29/12/2019 Dave Musson

The end of the year means end-of-year lists. Here’s the start of my Albums Of The Year.

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Review: Renounced – Beauty Is A Destructive Angel

25/09/2019 Dave Musson

Some record labels become synonymous with quality. They build a back catalogue so strong that, when they put something new out, you trust that it will hit the spot. Think Roadrunner Records in the 1990s.

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Revisiting

Revisiting All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot

07/08/2019 Dave Musson

Most bands, no matter who they are, end up putting out a record somewhere along the line that doesn’t quite hit the mark. When it comes to Slipknot, that record is All Hope Is Gone.

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Revisiting

Revisiting Iowa by Slipknot

05/08/2019 Dave Musson

Slipknot’s second major label release, which turns 18 in a few weeks, is like nothing else the band has released its whole career. It wasn’t back in 2001 and it still isn’t now.

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Revisiting

Revisiting Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. by Slipknot

03/08/2019 Dave Musson

The band themselves only see it as a demo. Some of the songs re-appeared in a more refined form on later albums. Only half the Slipknot line-up we know and love actually played on it.

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Live Reports

Live report: a day out at 2000 Trees

18/07/201918/07/2019 Dave Musson

When one of the best festivals around puts a good chunk of your favourite bands together on one day, there’s only one thing for it. You jump in the car and have yourself a day trip.

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Features

Metallica’s St Anger on trial: the defence

05/06/2019 Dave Musson

I guess you could call me a St Anger apologist, but it’s not a term I use myself. Why? Because it suggests Metallica has something to apologise for on this record.

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Live Reports, The Decayist

Live report: Ithaca at The Victoria, Birmingham

01/06/201901/06/2019 Dave Musson

Fucking hell, The Victoria is a sweatbox. It’s not even at capacity for the visit of Ithaca and it’s not even that warm outside, but that hasn’t stopped the mercury rising to uncomfortably sticky levels inside the tiny room above a not-particularly-large pub in the second city.

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Review: Petrol Girls – Cut & Stitch

23/05/2019 Dave Musson

If you were picking one band to tackle the clusterfuck that is planet earth in 2019, Petrol Girls would be more than a solid shout.

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