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  • 2022 Progradar’s Best Of The Year – The Editor’s Top 20

    2022 Progradar’s Best Of The Year – The Editor’s Top 20

    As most of you know I am a very committed runner so the above picture is really my personal running highlight of 2022 (a 24 hour running event) but below you will find my top 20 albums of the year for 2022. The first fifteen are in no particular order, they are just brilliant albums…

  • Review – Gandalf’s Fist – Widdershins

    Review – Gandalf’s Fist – Widdershins

    English speakers today are most likely to encounter widdershins as a synonym of counterclockwise. But in earliest known uses, found in texts from the early 1500s, widdershins was used more broadly in the sense of “in the wrong way or opposite direction.” To say that one’s hair “stood widdershins” was, in essence, to say that…

  • Gandalf’s Fist announce Pre-Orders on 8th?Album Widdershins”

    Gandalf’s Fist announce Pre-Orders on 8th?Album Widdershins”

    UK Prog-rock wizards, Gandalf’s Fist, have today announced details of their 8thfull-length album, Widdershins, and have begun pre-orders on the title. The release marks their first full album following the hugely acclaimed 5-disc Clockwork Saga and is again a conceptual work, this time a collection of individually crafted songs, exploring the superstitious nature of human existence. Gandalf’s…