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    Album Of The Week                                                                    Album Of The Week - 15/08/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from Heretics & Lullabies is another single released from the album, again with a visually captivating video, although a little more tongue in cheek playing on the Hallowean theme. Boo, the song itself, is one of the more melodic songs on the album with a lyric that references the Candyman films. Album Of The Week - 15/08/2026 Heretics & Lullabies - Frayle   We stay firmly within my metal collection this week with a band that I had not heard of prior to the release of this album in 2025. Frayle are an American doom metal band, formed in 2017 initially as a duo but since 2019 a 4 piece outfit. The creative core of Frayle is vocalist Gywn Stran...
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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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