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GUEST COLUMN – MWJ – Black Candle In The Wind – Marc Evans Epitaph

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Also sadly gone too soon, Marc Evans. A few years on from my early musical efforts I was back in Pen, when he (and Nige, the other guitarist) made the effort to come over from Wrexham from whence I had recently returned from a tour of college duty.
They were keen to get me involved in their new black metal project, and while I had known them from death metal gig-going over there, seeing the two of them play in Amethyst when the Memorial Hall was in its heyday, it was the first time we’d really chatted about the our interests and motivation in making music.More

GUEST COLUMN – MWJ – Innit, For Life – Dave Lewis Epitaph

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[by mark watson-jones]
Sadly, this last week I lost two people who’d featured significantly in my and local musical history so I’ll take a moment in a couple of columns to celebrate the type of people they were and the positive examples that they set.
First, Dave Lewis, who I first think we met when he was doing weekend discos in the late 80’s at the remnants of The Grand Hotel in Pen, a huge Shining style decaying mansion and a haunt for our underage drinking practical lessons.More

GIG REVIEW – Krhanice Open Air Festival, Czech Republic

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I went to a festival in the summer of 2020. There, recorded for time immemorial, a monument to a
moment of “normal” chaos in the wider insanity of constrained, hushed times. Since 2008 I’ve
embraced festival going as my religious retreats, the epiphanies of self-destructive liver flagellation,
aural ecstasy, revelation, redemption and survival to a soundtrack of your choice. But the prayer rug
and the muddy earth pulled from beneath my feet this year with developing events, already had lost
Pit Fest in Holland in May, and the intended destination here of a return to the glorious Brutal
Assault was also postponed, the spiritual loss and the shaking of the musical pillars of my faith was
palpable.More

GIG REVIEW – Marine-core! #1 @ The Marine, Old Colwyn

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Dogsflesh / Rabo De Toro / Fatalist / Spam Javelin / Entity


I’ve had a few requests from random Americans to join the Marine-core! Facebook group, I don’t think they are intending to visit North Wales, and this was not set up to fetish-ise some elite murder squad.  Marine-core! is rather a celebration of the fact we can sustain alternative music in the area, as we have been for a few years before settling into our accommodating venue of choice.  Sheer sparsity of numbers and disturbance of the gentrified peace is always against us, but we’ve proven that friends are still willing to gather for live original music whether they are particularly into the styles or not. More

Campaign for Musical Destruction @ Stylus Leeds

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This is a campaign that’s been running since at least the late 80’s/early 90’s, I’d seen an early edition
involving Obituary and Dismember, (possibly the first time the crossed out musical stave symbol was seen?), there’s been versions in the States, but there’s always a common factor – Napalm Death.
I think now moving comfortably into the lead in the band seen most over the years, this three decade plus standard-bearer of extremity occasionally gathers some other choice brutality together for a touring line-up and we return to the front and over the top once more.More

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