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/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/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, [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-photos/ http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-photos/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:37:34 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4242 To read about this amazing festival and see more photos, check out my review of the Veldensteiner Festival 2011. All photos copyright Steff Metal and CDH

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-photos/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/ http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:32:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4192 A few months ago I mentioned that Steff Metal was going to cover the Veldensteiner Festival, a annual festival of folk metal and medieval rock held at the Burg Veldenstein in deepest, darkest Bavaria. We’d been to the castle two nights previously to see Blackmore’s Night (more on the in my next blog) but winding [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/nurmburg-art-hotel-city/ http://www.steffmetal.com/nurmburg-art-hotel-city/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:13:27 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4085 I’m a huge fan of small, boutique hotels, and also art, and also, not paying much for accommodation while travelling (got to keep that metal t-shirt fund stocked up) so when I saw the pictures for the ArtHotel City in Nurmburg, I booked it immediately. For €60 per night, we got the biggest room I think [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/nurmburg-art-hotel-city/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-5-metal-nurmburg-germany/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-5-metal-nurmburg-germany/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:50:41 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4083 After the sleepy-times and metropolitan feel of Munich, it was thrilling to hop off the train and find ourselves enclosed in high medieval walls. Even though much of the city is reconstructed, Nurmburg has an old world charm that makes it seem much smaller than it really is (the second-largest Bavarian city after Munich). The [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-5-metal-nurmburg-germany/feed/ 3 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:38:39 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4080 On our second night in Munich (the first night being a desparate attempt to not fall asleep in our bratwurst), CDH and I hung out in the train station. No, we didn’t have timetables, binoculars and stopwatches – we were there for After Dark, the Munich Ghost Tour. I’m a fan of ghost tours, having [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/feed/ 4 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-heavy-metal-german-phrasebook/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-heavy-metal-german-phrasebook/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:13:18 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4000 If any of you have ever travelled with those little pocket phrasebooks, you’ll know how useless they are. They never tell you what you really need to know. “Die Kirche ist hinter dem Rathaus”? “Ich möchte einen Pullover kaufen.”? When are you ever going to say this stuff? Since I made a Heavy Metal Norwegian Phrasebook for my last [...]

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