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...a good thing or a bad thing? - that's what I need explained to me.

...Camfield told Paul Di'anno (the original Iron Maiden singer & complete psychopath)that the deputy editor of a music magazine was talking shit about him, when actually all he said was that he preferred the Bruce Dickinson albums to Di'anno's in a casual conversation with Camfield. He told Di'anno this because he didn't like this guy and wanted to see him get beaten up. I think that makes Camfield a bit insane himself.

...will be out via STA in September.

...I'm with Dom Gourlay on this one.

Sure, they make a satisfying musical racket, that said, it's been done a million times before to a much better standard, solely because it's been done before, by bands who actually had something to say with their music.

I've listened to all of their records, and I do like a lot of their music, but lyrically they have nothing to say.

I await the "This new album is about Simon's mum dying how very dare you" retorts with much anticipation.

It's a finalised song title for the album...

I've been lucky enough to hear the entire album and I think it's fantastic. Of course it's very different to their last two records, I suppose you could place 2, maybe 3 of the songs into the tracklisting of the previous two records, but in terms of scope and scale, it's highly ambitious. The guitar playing is fantastic, I've never heard a contempary rock act in the UK play some of the stuff that is on this record, while the drumming is intricate and concise.

It's multi-layered and takes a number of listens to begin digesting, not to mention trips to wikipedia to find out (if you're a musical philistine like myself) who the likes of Sonia Sanchez and Jamerson are.

In the UK, the press and music listeners constantly bemoan the lack of artists who throw caution to the wind and change things up and make the record they truly want to.

I suppose at the end of the day it'll either be their master of puppets or their st anger, although it deserves to be the former in my view.

I think that Best Of Collections are great for getting into a band you may know nothing about. Normally, you'll get all the hits, and a basic overview of the band's career. I found both Remastered by Led Zep and Singles by the Smiths very useful in getting into both of those bands.