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Shadows Of Love

I'm gonna do my best not to gush like a little school girl here but it won't be easy. I don't make a habit of keeping score but I'd be full of shit if I didn't acknowledge SNUFF as one of my favorite bands of all time. Few bands -- let alone punk ones -- are as multi-faceted and diverse as this one. Drawing just as much influence from punk luminaries No Means No and contemporaries Leatherface as they do from The Bangles, Marvin Gaye, Slayer, European folk music, British telly adverts, and nearly everything else under the sun. Which also makes them one of the coolest cover bands in the business, hands down. They started out in 1986, releasing their first of more than fifteen full-lengths in 1989 and though they broke up twice, chief arranger, songwriter, singer, and drummer, Duncan Redmonds, gifted us with well received similar side projects in the interim. Guns N Wankers filled the void for their short split in 1993-95, then after the split in 2004 he formed Billy ...