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    Review: Twisted Tower Dire – Make it Dark

    January 12th, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Music twisted-tower-dire-make-it-dark-steffmetal

    According to their biography, Twisted Tower Dire have been around since the “anti-metal nineties”, but I only heard about them a couple of weeks ago from my friend Chrissy. In 1999 they released their debut album and did a seriously epic world tour to promote it, playing with the likes of The Lord Weird Slough [...]

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    Tips for Forming Your Own Metal Band

    January 9th, 2012 | Tr00 Metal Life Trial by Fire final gig 022

    This article is a follow-on from the piece I wrote the other week called Finding Metal Musicians My Own Age. When you’re starting out as a metal musician, you’re normally shut up in your room, playing Black Sabbath riffs over and over until they sound suitably heavy, or drumming on the furniture until your girlfriend [...]

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    Ten of the Best 2011 Metal Songs from Downunder

    January 5th, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Music, Steff Metal Top 10 Steff-Metal-10-Best-From-Down-Under

    Occasionally – far too occasionally – I guest post on No Clean Singing. Since they’ve been doing a seriously epic round up of end-of-2011 lists, I thought I’d contribute one. You can read my take on Ten of the Best 2011 Metal Songs from Down Under over on the NCS blog, including bands like Heresiarch, [...]

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    Blackout: Real Metal Radio NZ returns this Sat

    January 3rd, 2012 | Tr00 Metal Life blackout-nz-metal-radio-steffmetal

    Samantha Hudges and Luke Golds, the DJ team behind kiwi metal radio show Blackout, are looking for requests of this week’s show – the first of 2012 – which will be on air 10-12pm this Sunday, Jan 8. Blackout is a late-night metal show on Flat FM – a radio station staffed by volunteers dedicated [...]

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    Review: Indian Metal Compilation from Metal Spree

    January 2nd, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Metal Gods, Music, Tr00 Metal Life metal-spree-indian-metal-compilation

    “Metal is not defined by oppressive, negative bullshit. Metal is defined by a creative freedom and a type of power that’s visceral in a way that no other kind of music is.” – Devin Townsend(on Metalsucks.com) Indian metal has for me always been characterized by a sense of overcoming odds. I remember that great scene [...]

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