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2012 – The Year in Albums

December 29, 2012, 6:50 pm

With the year in gigs covered, it’s time to turn to the album releases of 2012. Note that these are just the albums I got – there are countless others, obviously! Albums listed are in no particular order.

All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win

Keeping their trademark dual vocal sound and with [...]

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Year in Review – Gigs (and which were the best?)

December 26, 2012, 4:41 pm

Well, December is almost over and it’s time to dig through the reviews and see what I reckoned was the live musical high-point of the year. And it’s bloody hard, believe me. If you just want to skip down to the bit where I try to make my mind up, scroll down until you see [...]

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The Embodiment Of All That Is Metal

November 13, 2012, 10:44 pm

This photo will make some kind of sense if you read the blog post (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I mentioned in the recent Shinedown review that some comments at the gig had got my head ticking. I also said that it would result in another blog post.

This is that blog post. The events posted [...]

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Shinedown – Edinburgh HMV Picture House

October 31, 2012, 11:07 pm

Shinedown (Photo credit: Iain Purdie)

[Complete set of photos available on Flickr]

I’m writing this eight days after the gig as a result of a ridiculous workload, so apologies if it’s not as precise as other reviews. It’s certainly no reflection on the band themselves who were superb.

We managed to get there and [...]

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Shinedown / Halestorm – Glasgow O2 Academy

February 16, 2012, 11:33 pm

Halestorm (Photo credit: Iain Purdie)

[Many more pictures of both bands on these Flickr sets: Halestorm / Shinedown]

There was a third band on the bill for this gig, Liberty Lies, but we missed them. We caught about the last half of their last song and all I can say is that they sound [...]

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