http://www.steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:02:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-kasium-exhale/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-kasium-exhale/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:52:23 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4891 In light of my desire to include more reviews from local NZ metal bands, Kieran Cooper – vocalist/guitarist of Auckland band Kasium (and producer of I Spit on Your Grave’s debut, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago) – contacted me about doing a review. And here it is: Kasium’s sound is pure, unaltered [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/review-kasium-exhale/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-and-album-stream-aborted-global-flatline/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-and-album-stream-aborted-global-flatline/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:39 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4883 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/review-and-album-stream-aborted-global-flatline/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-avatar-black-waltz/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-avatar-black-waltz/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:41:55 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4870 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/review-avatar-black-waltz/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/gig-review-absu-heresiarch-nullifier-and-exordium-mors-at-the-kings-arms-tavern-19-jan-2012/ http://www.steffmetal.com/gig-review-absu-heresiarch-nullifier-and-exordium-mors-at-the-kings-arms-tavern-19-jan-2012/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:01:35 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4860 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/gig-review-absu-heresiarch-nullifier-and-exordium-mors-at-the-kings-arms-tavern-19-jan-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-i-spit-on-your-grave-baby-im-bullet-proof/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-i-spit-on-your-grave-baby-im-bullet-proof/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:14:30 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4829 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/review-i-spit-on-your-grave-baby-im-bullet-proof/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/absu-at-the-kings-arms-tomorrow-night/ http://www.steffmetal.com/absu-at-the-kings-arms-tomorrow-night/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:13 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4847 As part of the Hailstorm of Fire and Choas tour, Absu will be unleashed on the King’s Arms Tavern tomorrow night. Doors open 7:30 for the first of many awesome gigs this year. Absu are hot off playing multiple sold-out shows in Australia, and they’ve been receiving rave reviews for their rare appearance on stage. Absu [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/absu-at-the-kings-arms-tomorrow-night/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-grindcore-super-happy-story-time-land/ http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-grindcore-super-happy-story-time-land/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:37:47 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4742 Super Happy Story Time Land doesn’t sounds more like a Japanese seizure-inducing children’s video game than a <> grindcore band. But if you were on one of those torture game shows, and you guess the video-game, you’d have a bucket full of scorpions crawling over your testicles right now. Their stage shows incorporate storyboards and [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-grindcore-super-happy-story-time-land/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-twisted-tower-dire-make-it-dark/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-twisted-tower-dire-make-it-dark/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:27:57 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4817 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/review-twisted-tower-dire-make-it-dark/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/ten-of-the-best-2011-metal-songs-from-downunder/ http://www.steffmetal.com/ten-of-the-best-2011-metal-songs-from-downunder/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:08:18 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4802 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, [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/ten-of-the-best-2011-metal-songs-from-downunder/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/review-indian-metal-compilation-from-metal-spree/ http://www.steffmetal.com/review-indian-metal-compilation-from-metal-spree/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:06:11 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4789 “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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