Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks
It's been three decades since the release of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart's classic. Matthew Lindsay casts an ear and an eye back over a "sad, strange and popular" album that "pulled off the New Pop trick of having your cake and eating it; revelling in what you deconstruct"
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bathory's seminal third album Under the Sign of the Black Mark, one of the blueprints for black metal. As the Godreah label prepare to release a tribute to Bathory's late mastermind Quorthon, Steve Earles speaks to label head Crin about his influence