Archive for June, 2010

  • Metal History: Mummification

    June 30th, 2010 | Metal History | steff | 6 Comments

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    Mummies – not the kind that tuck you in at night and lend you money for sweets on Fridays, but the kind that are corpses preserved by either accidental or deliberate chemical means. Mummies turn up on metal album covers, in cheesy metal songs and on cheesy b-grade horror flicks which we love to hate [...]

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  • Ronnie James DIo Tributes – honouring a hero or a cash-cow?

    June 29th, 2010 | Metal Gods, Metal News | steff | 5 Comments

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    As you all are no doubt aware, earlier this year, Ronnie James Dio lost his battle with cancer and another metal great passed into the blessed realm. A bit of controversy in the metal community was sparked when Manowar announced the release of a special CD “Magic – a Tribute to Ronnie James Dio”, featuring [...]

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  • New Zealand Metal

    June 28th, 2010 | Brutal Tunes | steff | No Comments

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    In the interest of spreading the Steff Metal wuv (awwwww) you’ll find today’s post over on No Clean Singing, where I share a few of the more well-known (meaning, you’ve probably never heard of them) New Zealand metal bands. I’ll be writing a second post on more underground New Zealand metal at a later date. [...]

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  • Metal Mixtape: Steff’s 2010 Metal Top Ten

    June 26th, 2010 | Brutal Tunes, Metal Mixtape | steff | No Comments

    A selection of songs from my favorite metal albums of 2010 so far. I haven’t written much commentary, as I think I’ve written it in the review post. Enjoy. Cynic – King of those Who Know Eluveitie – Thousandfold Love that hurdy-gurdy. Also, why is everyone in this band so HOT? It must be a [...]

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  • Up the Irons! 25 June 2010

    June 25th, 2010 | Up the Irons! | steff | No Comments

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    A very cake-filled week. \m/ Sunday is Helen Keller day. Helen Keller is wicked cool – at the age of two she contracted a disease which took her sight and her hearing, but she went on to become the first deafblind person to graduate from College. She travelled the world teaching people about deafblindness and [...]

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