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It was a fantastic year for new music, with some truly wild, innovative and ambitious albums on offer. These were 10 of the ...

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Promising to squeeze Oberheim-style sound into a compact and portable package, UB-1 Micro is described by Behringer as the ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

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