Jim’s Big Crossword of 2024

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Across
  1. 2. My Album of the Year (4)
  2. 4. Female Japanese metal band (9)
  3. 6. Daniel Cavanagh’s new band (7/7)
  4. 7. Portnoy’s back (5/7)
  5. 9. Return of the growl (5)
  6. 11. Listening to Yes in July (9)
  7. 13. Rocked hard at Paris 2024 (6)
  8. 15. Caused uproar with their dynamic pricing ticket fiasco (5)
  9. 16. Jon’s musical nerds (3/4/5)
  10. 18. 1st word of my Ren Kujo Beatdown video (4)
  11. 20. Surname of keyboard player interviewed twice this year (7)
  12. 21. 1st Theme Songs subject (3/3)
  13. 24. We listened to 2 albums by this Canadian trio this year (4)
  14. 26. Aquatic sounding Scottish singer (4)
  15. 27. Huge loco (3/3/5)
  16. 29. Von Hertzen Brothers’ 9th (2/11)
  17. 31. 1st band of 2024 (6/7)
Down
  1. 1. Winners of the 1st album of the month (7)
  2. 3. Surname of keyboard player interviewed once this year(6)
  3. 5. if_then_else (3/9)
  4. 8. Jim’s channel (10/2/5)
  5. 10. My Favourite Band of All Time (4/6)
  6. 12. Maynard, Adam, Justin and Danny collectively known as (4)
  7. 14. He hung up his sticks in December (5/7)
  8. 17. Number of full album reactions in 2024 (7/3)
  9. 19. 1st Pink Floyd live video on the channel (11/4)
  10. 22. Their album was so nearly my number 1 (5/11)
  11. 23. Pick for album of the month in May (9)
  12. 25. Who introduced me to Metropolis Part 1?
  13. 28. Mixtape #36 (7/4)
  14. 30. Orbit Culture’s album listen (7)