Dan Bradley

Dan Bradley

Dan started guitar in his early teens – playing every day on a sunburst Les Paul copy he still regrets selling – and has never stopped. He read English at Cambridge, spent several years in Australia and Japan, then worked as a Japanese to English translator for over a decade. His fiction, essays, translations, and reviews of books and live music have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Independent and Times Literary Supplement, among others. He fell in love with playing bass after the pandemic, and now performs in a sludgy post-metal band in Cardiff, Wales.

Latest articles by Dan Bradley

Chat Pile

Meet Chat Pile, the sludge metallers shouting down the “tone lords” and “goobers” ruining guitar culture

By Dan Bradley published

The self-taught DIY quartet are making seismic waves across the noise rock scene – and they’re doing it with cult electrics, solid-state amps and a baritone that’s neither a “djent stick” nor “a surf guitar made of plastic”

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BIG|BRAVE

“We don’t rely on fretboard technique”: BIG|BRAVE conjure some of today’s most thrilling guitar tones

By Dan Bradley published

A Chaos of Flowers finds the Canadian trio broadening their otherworldly sound as they look forward to “dismantling the little boys’ club” of heavy music. But try as they might, they can’t turn down the volume – this is vital guitar music made to be performed loud

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