On music fandom and the nature of trust
We live in a disposable world. Our attitudes towards physical products have rewarded us with landfill mountains and polluted oceans, and that’s just the items we’re told are being recycled.
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Playlist: TD0420
Our fourth Spotify playlist of 2020 is all cover versions. Good ones, mostly.
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Playlist: TD0320
Our third Spotify playlist of 2020 spans years, genres and moods. What could be finer?
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Ride The Lightning: Metallica and the sound of Sweet Silence
By the time they arrived in Copenhagen in February 1984 Metallica were established as thrash metal pioneers.
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Playlist: TD0819
For our eighth Spotify playlist of 2019 we’ve delved into the heyday of the Big Four for a 1980s thrashageddon.
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Metallica’s St Anger on trial: the defence
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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Metallica’s St Anger on trial: the prosecution
There are certain rites of passage that every Metallica fan experiences regardless of when they discover the greatest metal band there’s ever been.
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Playlist: TD0319
For our third Spotify playlist of 2019 we have a collection of oldish, newish, and just plain goodish.
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Cut from Diamond: how the Midlands made Metallica
“Drummer looking for other metal musicians to jam with. Tygers Of Pan Tang, Diamond Head and Iron Maiden.”
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Dave Musson’s Albums of the Year 2016: 20 to 11
Well, what a year 2016 has been! By June I already had 30 albums on my end-of-year shortlist, and that’s without considering the vast amount of brilliant EPs I’ve listened to and reviewed for Dave’s World Podcast this year.
Chris Nee’s Albums of the Year 2016: 20 to 11
It’s the moooost wonderful time of the year. Not because of Christmas. Not because of festive food and drink, or a bottomless supply of Quality Street, or Boxing Day football.
Picks: Metallica, Frozen Gate, Eight Sins
As we hurtle towards the end of the year, the inevitable lull in new heavy music releases is taking hold.