Ellende are one of those bands who seem to be able to paint music with alluring depth and vibrancy. A

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Now, I wouldn’t know what a ‘Cyberpunk’ was if it turned up at my door, barrelled through me and tucked

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Well, it’s only the 15th January at the start of a year that appears to be no different to the

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It’s been quite a year for many reasons and many of us find ourselves reaching the end of it and

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I always remember the impact that projects such as Arx Atrata had on me when I first settled down with

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Now this is clever. Really clever. Being a man who is partial to enjoying the odd drink with some of

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Holy smoke, the brutally bombastic battering ram of black metal has just entered the building. And it’s not likely that

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Totally unknown to me, just another album, half way through a glass of the red stuff, if I had kids

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Sometimes, you can convince yourself that you have listened to something before and then spend hours trying to remember why

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And just when you think that the term ‘miserable’ could not get any more miserable than a world where every

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