Islander and team over on No Clean Singing are, and I quote, “happier than pigs in shit” to premier the full-album steam of Global Flatline, the new Aborted album being released by Century Media. And she’s a absolute beaut. With new blood in the form of Ken Bedene (ex-Abagail Williams) and Michael Wilson (System Divide) Aborted [...]
Black Waltz, the forth full-length album from Swedish metallers Avatar, releases on the US on Feb 14 2012. Don’t let the Valentine’s Day release date fool you – this is no soppy power metal lovefest, but a solid, catchy, almost industrial-style album that will probably launch Avatar into the mainstream market. Produced by Tobias Lindell [...]
Edited to add some gig photos from Misery of Chaos NZ. So. I missed Heresiarch (because I fell asleep on the couch and had to change my t-shirt because I drooled on it? I can neither confirm nor deny), but my mate Ross said they were “like a bulldozer”, which I think is a pretty [...]
Uber-talented music critic Natalie Zed has started a new column on the Canada Arts Connect website, titled “Girls Don’t Like Metal” after the infamous Metalsucks post by Sergeant D “Public Service Announcement: Girls Do Not Like Metal”. Natalie’s biweekly column examines gender issues, feminism, and sexuality within heavy metal music. Each post will come in the [...]
Named after one of the sickest horror films I’ve ever seen (I watched the original version a couple of weeks ago, it still sits uncomfortably at the back of my mind), I Spit On Your Grave’s debut EP will have filthy grindcore fans gnashing their teeth in appreciation. Aside from having a classy cover, their [...]
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There are plenty of blogs online about metal music, but they only tell half the story. If you think metal is more than just a musical genre, if you eat-sleep-drink and LIVE heavy metal, if you wake up every day with a song on your lips and a blastbeat in your heart, than this blog is for you. Steff Metal is an blog about the metal lifestyle - the music, the festivals, the fashion, the people, and the beer that make being a metalhead so awesome \m/
