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James Hinchliffe

@haroldvs.bsky.social

I used to write about music in Terrorizer (UK) and Extreme Noise (Oz), but that was a long time ago. Now I guess I'm just an amateur opinion-haver. Metal, drone, minimalism, maximalism, bit of industrial, etc.

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Simply cannot mentally separate Jeff Mills and Jeff Wayne in my mind. "Oh it's cool that the War of the Worlds guy went on to have a second career as a DJ", etc. Irrevocably merged forever in my remaining shreds of brain, inseparable, sorry.

28.10.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣

28.09.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Idly scrolled past this post without noticing the author when my lizard hindbrain went "hang on, old magazine + 'eldritch' + 'Smithy', was that Jimmy Martin?" and yes it was. Have we been online too long, dja think

28.09.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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#nowplaying Phantom Spell 'Heather & Hearth' - superb and wildly eccentric new LP from the utterly mental prog/NWOBHM leaning Seven Sisters side project. My favourite album of the year *thus* far *by* far.

Bandcamp link here:

phantomspell.bandcamp.com/album/heathe...

11.09.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

This post has resulted in about 4-5 album sales from my buddies and a possible future Manchester gig attendance. Who says the good guys can't monetise social media? May I also offer this: Queen II + Alan Parsons Project + 80s Helloween?

16.09.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The whole album's brilliant and bananas, you'll love it. All on YouTube of course now.

27.08.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Agnes Bernelle - The Hurdy Gurdy
YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup Agnes Bernelle - The Hurdy Gurdy

I *always* immediately think of this (bought on LP for Β£2 at an impressionable age) - if you don't know it, it's an almost unbeatable example of a song not going in the direction you expected: youtu.be/MBmJLUsUa_8?...

27.08.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolute banger

19.08.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ

14.08.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dave Matthews Band bus incident
Article Talk
Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank
On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto
an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident! or Poopgate. 2]

Dave Matthews Band bus incident Article Talk Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident! or Poopgate. 2]

Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

08.08.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1461    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 67

Don't start up with your white zone shit again

06.08.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, is nobody going to mention the *goose*?

06.08.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Nightmare Continues
YouTube video by Discharge - Topic The Nightmare Continues

;)
youtu.be/JlQCQ2YyUFU?...

01.08.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For many years I was a bit ashamed of how much I liked 'Sabotage', but since I eventually stopped caring about what other people think I'm and out and proud 'Sabotage'-lover. It's *brilliant*. The opening *rinsing* of 'Hole in the Sky'. Casually inventing thrash on 'Symptom'. Fucking *Supertzar*

28.07.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Five skulls / radiation symbols / other transgressive imagery, no half marks, plus the option to use '666 fucking skulls' twice a year. A perfect system, easily generalisable to, for example, rating one's Toyota service.

20.07.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They have been persuaded to adopt Net Promoter by a consultant, and the punishment for this is having to endlessly explain Net Promoter to people over and over again until the heat death of the universe.

20.07.2025 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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*taps mic*
*short squeal of feedback*
*clears throat*
"I can't believe the Doors are on first. Jim Morrison must be fuming."
*applause*

05.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the early 90s I was getting off a tube carriage just as Bobby Gillespie was getting on. I said, 'Oh, Bobby Gillespie'. He nodded and said 'All right?'

13.06.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the best one 🀣

13.06.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heard about this on t'news. Very very awesome. Next step: Solar Lander? πŸ€”

11.06.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Years ago I was sent a demo by a Scottish metal band called, er, The Crab, obsessed with crustaceans. 'Fabulous Crabulous' it was called. They'd really gone all in on the crab stuff. Awful, obviously, but if they'd put the effort spent on crab puns into learning to play they could've been great.

13.05.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This thing has been lodged in my skull for nearly 30 years and still gets played at least every 6 months. Absolute belter of a record.

12.05.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha I forgot you were on here. No, not quantum enough for him.

25.04.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My commute was delayed today by a guy riding an actual penny farthing in full technical MAMIL lycra get-up. Peak Oxfordshire.

25.04.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED i.e. I will now entirely forget that I ever agreed to even consider this 🀣

14.04.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh, fun challenge. Before I spent four days thinking about it, is there an answer that you already know of? Don't tell me it, of course.

14.04.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interview with Ihsahn and Samoth ’95 conducted by Bard Faust Stephen O’Malley gave me the honour of letting me speak in this excellent rag and I thought it would be interesting doing some β€œjournalistic piece or art” again. Anyway, I decided…

I will confess I was scratching my head a bit about who the Lord of Silence was. Was it an interchangeable pseudonym? A buddy unearthed this beauty which points the finger at Samoth: blackdeathmetalhistory.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/i...

14.04.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The "donuts" caption may have earned Jason Arnopp his death threat after Emperor visited the Kerrang! office in London 1993. HT Neil Sackman

13.04.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is *simply* delightful.

13.04.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NOT NOW FENRIZ

04.04.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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