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Linking Horn 9 June 2010
June 8th, 2010 | Linking Horn, Plunder | steff | 1 Comment
FUCKING MAYHEM \m/. In New Zealand. In September. We are stoked. Also in fucking awesome metal news, Iron Maiden’s website counted down today to the announcement that their new album “The Final Frontier” with some of their best cover art yet, will be released on August 16. The first sinle, called “El Dorado” will be [...]
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International Day of SLAYER!
June 6th, 2010 | Grog Fests, Metal Gods | steff | 1 Comment
It was decided that metal – as a distinct and minority cultural group – deserved it’s own holiday. A time for metalheads the world over to put aside their difference and come together in bogan brotherhood. To whit, an international metal holiday had to be centered around a global metal concept – something universally loved [...]
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Innovation
June 3rd, 2010 | Makes me Giggle | steff | No Comments
Pyromania is so often the handmaiden of Innovation – Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday.
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Artwork in Progress: Yggdrasil at Ragnarök
June 3rd, 2010 | Metal History, Steff | steff | 4 Comments
I thought I’d tie this week’s Metal History into one of the artworks I’m working on at the moment. I’d brought this huge canvas ready to create a highly detailed fantasy vision of Yggdrasil – the tree of life in Norse Mythology – with all it’s resident animals and jötunns and serpents and dragons. I [...]
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Steamtrain to Whangarei
June 2nd, 2010 | Grymm and Frostbitten Lands, Steff | steff | 2 Comments
On Saturday, CDH celebrated his old man day. He does volunteer work for Mainline steam – a company in Auckland who restores and runs steam trains on the main NZ lines. They’d organised a ride from Auckland to Whangarei (up north) and back. KiwiRail has been doing lots of work and spending lots of money [...]
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