Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 28/03/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from At The Mill is another one of those Paradise Lost songs that rate very high in my list of top songs from the band. So Much Is Lost, from the divisive 1999 release Host, an album that saw Paradise Lost opening up creatively and incorporating goth rock and electronic elements into their sound while retaining the darkness within their lyrics and overall atmosphere. Album Of The Week - 28/03/2026 - Track 3 The third selection from At The Mill is No Hope In Sight, originally the opening song from the 2015 album The Plague Within. This song highlights the shift Paradise Lost were making back to a more doom/death metal sound while retaining the musicality and melody of their more gothic metal influenenced albums. As per the title, lyrically this is a doom laden song with themes of aging, death and despair. Album Of The Week - 28/03/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from At The Mill is ...
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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...