Posts from the ‘Brutal Tunes’ Category
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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I don’t often write top ten music lists, because my taste in music has been called a) eclectic, and b) horrible. I don’t regard myself as an authority on what sounds good and what’s technically brilliant, as I’m a hopeless musician myself. Nevertheless, a couple of readers have been bugging me for a top ten [...]
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Last week, I explained to the uninitiated why I, as a metalhead, am required to hate Indie music. Now, to even the field, I will attempt to find reasons why I, as a metalhead, love Indie music. Metal can learn a lot from Indie – not in musicianship (I think we own them in this [...]
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he other day, an exasperated multi-genre loving friend of mine asked a question in her Facebook status: Why do metalheads hate indie music? She received several excellent responses from other friends. I thought the question was worth discussing further, so I’m writing my reply here. I actually don’t hate anything, and if I did, I [...]
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As the second installment of FOLK METAL WEEK, I’ve got Cris Frederiksen, from up-and-coming Danish folk metal band Svartsot. We picked up their first album Ravnenes Saga, on our Europe tour of Epicness, and I’ve become an avid fan, so it’s a real honour to be able to talk about music, folk metal, and mythology [...]
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Veldensteiner Festival 2011: Mead, Metal and Mad German Archaeologists
Review: The Physicists – Observation
Ask a Metalhead: He Wishes I were More Metal
Nurmburg: Art Hotel City
Metal Travel: 5 Metal Things to Do in Nurmburg, Germany
