Today, March 14, is recognised as Pi Day - 3.14, which is a widely used approximation of Pi. However, in the UK, July 22 would be far more accurate as 22/7 is closer to the actual value of Pi - 3.142
Finally, for jazz fans, Work Money Death have a new album “A Portal to Here”.
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Whatever you’re listening to this week, enjoy your music!
Lamb of God, a band I saw in 2018 supporting Slayer in an epic line-up that included Anthrax and Obituary and kicked off at 6:00pm. Their twelfth album is Into Oblivion.
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The structure of the songs are mostly in classic verse form. Their second album “Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye” is out today.
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Others see parallels in their music to Sonata Arctica or Blind Guardian. The vocals are powerful, multi-faceted and clear, and have been described by reviewers as groundbreaking for the genre and compared to Rob Halford or Ronnie James Dio.
Angus McSix is an international power metal band. The band members each embody a character in the concept story told through their first album Angus McSix and the Sword of Power. The band’s style is influenced by both late 1990s power metal and modern disco elements.
The Gems is a Swedish rock band that was founded in 2023 by three ex-band members of Thundermother. Characteristic of the band is the entire female line-up, which is not commonplace in the rock and metal world. Their new album is "Year of the Snake".
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Their new album is Hugrheim. This word is derived from Old Norse and means realm of the “hugr” — which translates as “mind,” “thought,” or “spirit.”
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Born from ritual, trance, and joyful defiance, Eihwar stand apart in the modern pagan scene. The duo fuse Nordic folk, electro-industrial pulse, and raw percussive power into something fiercely alive.
Not a catch-up, but a new album from a band that can trace its origins to the 1960s Canterbury scene. Soft Machine’s thirteenth studio album, appropriately named “Thirteen” is out today.
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Also on catch-up, I’ve found Yehudi Menuhin’s recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos with the Bath Festival Orchestra, 1 hour and 52 minutes of bliss. Despite what it says on the notes to the video it’s Bath not Bach Festival Orchestra.
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I’ve always liked Bob Dylan, mainly his Greatest Hits, but I’ve picked up on this album because it features “Series of Dreams”, which is the theme to the TV series “Mr Mercedes”, which we’ve just finished watching again.
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IT’S NEW MUSIC FRIDAY! Today’s selection of new albums:
But first, I’ll start with one of my occasional catch-up albums, Bob Dylan’s “The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991.
Happy International Women's Day. For those that ask every year "Why don't we have an International Men's Day" - it's on 19 November.
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Mammal Hands are a British band from Norwich. The band's style combines a broad range of influences including ambient, jazz, contemporary classical, electronic music, minimalism, folk and world music. Their sixth album is Circadia.
Here they are with “Window To Your World”
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Nefastis is an Italian Symphonic Death Metal band, founded in 2008 by Andrea Lenzi & Simone Colombo. After a hiatus, they are back with their second album “Shadows at the Light of Dawn”
Bosse-de-Nage is an American black metal band from San Francisco, California, composed of four anonymous members. Considered a part of the blackgaze scene, their experimental style draws from post-rock, shoegaze, post-hardcore, screamo, and indie rock. “Hidden Fires Burn Hottest” is album #6.
IT’S NEW MUSIC FRIDAY! Today’s selection of new albums:
Lost Society is a Finnish thrash metal band. Hell is a State of Mind is their sixth album.
Mind your business, enjoy your time on the front line.
Or would you have preferred your leaders to have spent a bit more time negotiating and learning from the consequences of past wars?
The thing we are meant to remember is that war is wrong, would you think that war had to be fought if you had to survive in a muddy trench where you ate, slept, pissed and shat while your friends blood and guts were being splattered everywhere?
The war to end all wars?
Perhaps someone should remind these people that it was the Nazis who had "Gott mit uns" on their uniforms.
Can someone remind these warmongers what it is we're supposed to remember.
see also: Shadow MP for Gorton and Denton
The second full-length studio album from Cryptic Shift, a band that has been categorised as just about every sub-genre of metal. The album is called “Overspace & Supertime”
Here they are with the shortest track from the album at 9:21, “Cryogenically Frozen”
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Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer. His new album is “Solo Piano”. His album from last year, “Summer Portraits” turned out to be my most played album of 2025 so I’m looking forward to hearing this one
Samuel Ervin Beam, better known by his stage name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter. “Hen’s Teeth, his eighth album is out today.
Pat Metheny, an American jazz guitarist and composer. with his 14th solo album, “Side-Eye III+”
The eighth solo album from American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor, Rob Zombie – “The Great Satan”. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes
