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  Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 29/03/2025 - Track 4 Today's offering from The Granite Way takes us back to the folklore of Dartmoor with the track The Black Fox. The legend tells of a mythical fox spirit that is seen as a guardian of the moor and seen as symbol against hunting. Album Of The Week - 29/03/2025 - Track 3 My third selection from this week's album is another track with its setting being firmly set in Devon. Born To The Strain is about the decline tin mining, ship building and fishing in the region. This is a cracking full band song that comes across brilliantly live. Album Of The Week - 29/03/2025 - Track 2 My second selection from The Granite Way is the track The Huntsman And The Moon. This song is essentially the title track from the album which tells of a Dartmoor legend where a spectral figure prowls the moor looking for souls to claim. I love the slower pace of the song and the menace conjured within the lyrics and the beautifully errie backing vocal f...
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  Album Of The Week 2025 - Archive Album Of The Week - 04/01/2025 Century Child - Nightwish   To kick off 2025 we have the third of my 18 Nightwish albums to be selected, the album, Century Child being the bands 4 th  studio album, released in 2002. By the time this album came out in 2002, Nightwish were already well established on the metal scene and were big selling artists, especially in their native Finland where their previous album, Wishmaster (album of the week 01/07/2023) went to number 1. As stated previously, Nightwish are a band that helped changed my opinion to metal back in the late 90’s prior to which it was not a genre that held much interest for me. Nightwish introduced me to the dark symphonic side of metal which blends rock guitars with melodic vocals, choral and orchestral effects. The mix, when done right, is powerful, atmospheric, grandiose and is generally very easy to listen to. Like any genre, there are plenty of bands that struggle to get it right...
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