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    Album Of The Week                                                                    Album Of The Week - 14/09/2026 Night Eternal - Moonspell   After our summer break we return to my album of the week with the first of my 8 albums from Portuguese metal band Moonspell to be selected. As far as metal genres go, they are labelled a gothic metal band but there are a wide variety of styles with their output, which for me, goes back to 1999 with their Butterfly Effect album. What there is with Moonspell is power within their music from driving guitars and strong vocals from band frontman Fernando Ribero who can deliver both baritone clean vocals and throat searing death metal vocals. Atmosphere is added, as with many metal bands within these realms, from keyboards and sampling from long term membe...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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