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January 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Black Smoke Trigger: Set It Off [EP]

Black Smoke Trigger Set It Off (ep) Black Smoke Trigger Black Smoke Trigger is a band from Napier. They took their sound to America – got the legendary Michael Wagener to produce. In the 1970s and 1980s Michael Wagener produced so many of the records you loved or nearly loved – artists from Alice Cooper […]

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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Metal on Metal – That’s What I Crave: Ten ‘Gateway Drug’ Metal Albums In My Life

Recently I posted this – about “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I’m going to repeat the opening paragraph from that post: We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” […]

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February 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Aerosmith: Awful!

Here’s something you won’t read all that often – but it’s (still) the truth: Aerosmith is really a pretty awful band. Oh, I had Rocks on cassette tape when I was a kid and just learning up on all this stuff. And Pump (the real comeback record for them; they crossed over to the younger […]