http://www.steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:52:23 +0000 en hourly 1 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/absu-at-the-kings-arms-tomorrow-night/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-and-my-dragon-pinata/ http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-and-my-dragon-pinata/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:09:14 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4633 Humorous, interesting tidbits and metal news from around the internet. The Musical Exploration Timeline – from Something Awful. This cracked me up. If you haven’t checked out my new webcomic – Corpsepaint Kitty – yet, you definitely should! I’m putting a new comic up every Monday, and I’ve had some great entries in the REAL [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-and-my-dragon-pinata/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/new-zealand-metal-news-heresiarch-ulcerate-stonerfest/ http://www.steffmetal.com/new-zealand-metal-news-heresiarch-ulcerate-stonerfest/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:43:54 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4621 Time for another list of kiwi metal news and gigs to wet your metal appetites. If any of you missed last week’s list, and are wondering what happened to the Linking Horn, I’m trying to do my bit (however small) in promoting local kiwi metal talent. This NZ Metal News and Gig Guide will go [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/new-zealand-metal-news-heresiarch-ulcerate-stonerfest/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:33:21 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4352 In my last blog post, Wacken 2011: Every Band I Saw at Wacken, reviewed, I talked about one side of this incredible festival – the shit ton of incredible bands you get to see. Today I’m giving you a run-down of a different sort – the tale of our Wacken 2011 adventures from our arrival [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/feed/ 6 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:02:09 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4318 I’ve been putting off writing about Wacken for a few weeks, because trying to articulate the awesomeness of this year’s festival into a series of 500 words posts seemed like such a fruitless endeavor. Instead of just repeating my daily diary (which went something like this: “Dear diary – today, I at sausages for breakfast [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/feed/ 3 http://www.steffmetal.com/concert-review-alice-cooper-auckland-sept-22/ http://www.steffmetal.com/concert-review-alice-cooper-auckland-sept-22/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:14:22 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4304 We showed up at the arena, Alice Cooper tickets clutched firmly in hand, to hear a busker outside singing the same Poison song, over and over and over. And the night only got better from there. Trusts Sadium Arena was out in the middle of nowhere, and I’d never seen a gig there before. The [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/concert-review-alice-cooper-auckland-sept-22/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-mixtape-veldensteiner-festival-2011/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-mixtape-veldensteiner-festival-2011/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:57:56 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4199 In my last few posts, I’ve talked about the Veldensteiner Festival -- an awesome folk metal and medieval rock festival we got to attend while in Bavaria, held inside the grounds of the Veldenstein castle. You can read my other posts at: Mead, Metal and Mad German Archaeologists: Veldenstein 2011, Veldensteiner Festival 2011 photos, and [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-mixtape-veldensteiner-festival-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:55 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4268 “I’d rather play to fifteen people who are kind of spaced out and into renaissance music and the whole vibe of living in those days. I’ve played to two-hundred and seventy-five thousand people, and it’s very good for the ego, but it doesn’t do much for the inner soul.” And he should know. Ritchie Blackmore, [...]

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