Maybe in 2030 we’ll stop doing these lists featuring a number corresponding to the given year and make it a little easier for us but for now we’re still finding it hard to whittle down the artists and albums that kicked ass for us so if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it, y’know? And 2022 delivered yet again!
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It’s a real special kind of album that, at barely three tracks in, we’re already searching for our in progress “Best of 2022” draft and adding it to the list. This Sceptred Veil, the latest from Bath’s Sergeant Thunderhoof, is that kind of a special album. The kind of album that, the moment you press “play”, just immediately emits a kind of aural glow. Like, if you were in Supernatural or some Ghostbusters movie with all their gadgets and gizmos and held one up while any of the tracks from This Sceptred Veil were playing you’d get some major readings that’d probably break said gizmos and gadgets with their sheer power is all we’re trying to say. Got all that?
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There is so much that is right with this two-song split by Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof. Firstly, can you say epic??? A forty-minute runtime between two bands supplying a song each. Do the math. Secondly, I know of Howling Giant already and they rule. Thirdly, I did not know Sergeant Thunderhoof going into this but now that I do, they rule as well. And fourth and finally, Ripple Music rule. Or have you not been paying attention to every single album they’ve released?!?!?
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