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    Album Of The Week                                                                    Album Of The Week - 08/08/2026 - Track  5 It is fitting that on the evening of a partial solar eclipse my final selection from this week's album is entitled The Darkness. The closing song on the album and probably one of the strongest selections which is a full on gothic metal offering complete with strong rhythm guitars and a violin running throughout add an air of melancholy to the song. A fitting end to what was a promising debut from the band. Album Of The Week - 08/08/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from The Awakening is, for me, one of the really powerful songs on the album. We, The Abused is both musically and lyrically powerful, a driven gothic metal song about domestic abuse. This is one the finer Wor...
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Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive

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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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