Jay Hampshire, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

Elder: Ill Omens

Music is timeless. Though albums or songs may be a product of a particular time, the listening experience transcends this,

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Every year in a small town called Cooper’s Hill, just outside Gloucester in the United Kingdom, people gather for the