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Hipster metal. Or is it just popular?

Now here’s a hot topic if ever there was one; ‘Hipster metal’. This is something that I’ve been giving a fair bit of thought to recently, mainly thanks to the release of The Sword’s new album, Warp Riders. Regular visitors to Thee Big Black’s forum will probably have spotted the thread Ed from Doom Metal [...]

No gigs please, we’re British!

I’ve noticed a bit of a worrying trend of late, there seems to have been a sudden increase in venue closures, or at least there has been down here in ol’ Brighton town. Now I can only speak for Brighton (and I will) but I’m fairly sure that these aren’t isolated incidents.  Gig turn out [...]