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They Were Not Evil: The Loveable Raconteurs Of NWOBHM

Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s *Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal* and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past
Black Sky Thinking

The Mark Is Upon Them! The Musical Legacy Of Witchfinder General

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Witchfinder General. But in a world still characterised by corruption and violence, did we learn nothing from its warnings? Sean McGeady traces the film’s musical legacy and asks what keeps us coming back to it.
Film

Bizarre Distractions: An Uncle Acid Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

With their new LP The Night Creeper out now, Mat Colegate talks to Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats singer Kevin Starrs about the horror and exploitation films that feed into the band's rich world of imagery and music
A Quietus Interview

Bring Out Your Dead: Cathedral’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to Lee Dorrian and mourns the passing of the mighty Cathedral

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