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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 28/03/2026 At The Mill  - Paradise Lost   We move back into my metal collection this week with the second of my 21 albums to be selected by British gothic/doom metal masters, Paradise Lost. The importance of this band in my route into gothic and doom metal, and my general keenness on metal as a whole, cannot be overstated following the purchase of their Reflection compilation album back in 1998. In the late 90’s I was looking for rock music with some more power and edge as well as broadening my horizons from punk, post-punk and associated genres. As a result I got more into metal and it was the music of Paradise Lost at that time, along with their contemporaries Anathema and My Dying Bride that really grabbed my interest. In all the time I have followed Paradise Lost, they have shown they are a band that does not stand still and no two albums are the same, each one showing a progression and development of ideas and influences...
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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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