Blood

**Contains spoilers for all seasons** What's the saddest thing that can happen to a TV show? Maybe it's the death of a beloved character, or the cancellation of the show before its time? I don't think so, I posit that these things are…

The truth is a strange beast, and often the best that history can do is simply tell you what is likely to be true rather than give a definitive answer. Elizabeth Báthory is a good example of this. She is painted by some historians as…

In Heavy Electricity, Dublin synth-metal bruisers No Spill Blood have crafted one of the most sonically-arresting records of 2015. Claustrophobic and intense, the trio's full-length debut proper (following on from 2012's Street Meat EP)…

No Spill Blood Heavy Electricity It's almost grin-inducingly ironic that, in the wake of a debate on this very website about whether or not guitar music is dead, an album should surface that strongly supports that very hypothesis. No…

I know what you're thinking. There's no need for that many tildes. It's excessive. More to the point, it's obnoxious. Madness, really. What could possibly justify such extravagant repetition? GLAD YOU ASKED, SIR OR MADAM:  TRACK OF THE…

It’s been a while since there has been a Shot of Science and a lot has happened since the last one! Rosetta mission reveals findings from 67P Keeping up with the very latest science news, we really can’t ignore the…

I like to ask phlebotomists for an approximation of how much blood they’ve drawn over the course of their careers. Then I always add “in units of bathtubs, if you please.” No one has ever given me a good answer. Not one phlebotomist in…

I stood in pitch darkness. I couldn’t see it or smell it but I knew that a metre away stood a mannequin composed of compacted dried blood. Every thirty seconds a luminous drip splashed down, briefly highlighting the contours of the face,…