Hans Knappertsbusch - In Memoriam

In memory of days gone by

Advantages: Very interesting start to a great career
Disadvantages: Slow, depressing and very extreme

Cathedral are one of the most underrated bands in metal history, and it’s time someone redressed the balance. Their new album, Endtyme, is being released on the 26th of February, and so I have decided to review their entire back catalogue before then. Cathedral began life way back in 1990 when vocalist Lee Dorrian left death metal legends Napalm Death behind him. Him new band, Cathedral, couldn’t have been more of a departure. Their first release was an EP called In Memoriam, and it was pretty groundbreaking stuff for its time. Cathedral played doom metal, in the vein of Saint Vitus, but much slower and heavier. This was certainly the heaviest music being released at the time. Since then, this EP has been re-released with four live tracks. This very early material is thoroughly unpolished, but has a strange charm all ...

Spongly 19.02.2001 (20.02.2001) · Read full review
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In Memoriam

Advantages: You decide
Disadvantages: You Decide

I sometimes write fiction, based on past experience. Here is one such tale. In Memoriam I headed past the checkouts at Sainsbury's and slouched towards my car. As I got to the door I saw the Tin-rattler, wearing her best tweed suit trying to make eye contact with everybody that passed. It was as though she was inspecting us. "You're not wearing your poppy!" she shrieked as I drew near. "We always need to remember the sacrifices made for us, not just in the two world wars but in all the conflicts around the world since." I tried to ignore her, what did she know about it? She never laid face down in freezing mud, trying to be invisible as white hot tracer rounds cracked overhead, chipping pieces out of the rocks. Forget? I wish I could. Every time I close my eyes I see the face of the young Argentinean conscript, no ...

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A Han-dy Choice for Chinese

Advantages: Great food, fair prices, good service
Disadvantages: Nothing I can think of

I'm sure everyone - well everyone who likes Chinese - probably has a favourite Chinese restaurant that they keep returning to. For the area where we live - between Northampton and Market Harborough - the Han is our Chinese of choice. It's located in the small Leicestershire market town of Market Harborough and you can find it on St Mary's Road. For those who know the town, it's the road which runs from the Market Square towards the railway station. With the Square behind you, pass the new Starbucks on the left hand side and it's just a hundred meters or so further along. From the outside your first instincts might be that it doesn't look that much like a restaurant. This is because the Han is on two levels and you will only be able to see the downstairs reception area. Here there are sofas and coffee tables where people usually wait ...

koshkha 07.10.2008 · Read full review
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