Posts from the ‘Iron Maidens’ Category
It’s a long-held belief among self-righteous metalheads that girls can’t do extreme metal. Extreme Metal is probably the most aggressive, angry, violent form of music there is, and every study ascertains its audience as overwhelmingly male. There’s a kind of “lost boys club” surrounding extreme metal, a sort of grymm forest treehouse with a badly [...]
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Move along weary adventurer, nothing to read here. You’ll be travelling through the ether to find today’s post. If you’ve been curious on my thoughts on post-apocalyptic fashion, pop over to Wicked-Whimsy where I talk to the always awesome Michelle (she of the wicked hair) about Apocalypse Ladies: Dressing for the End of the World.
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Valentine’s Day looms on the horizon, like a dark, looming thing. It seems horribly clich’ed, but I’m not a Valentine’s Day fan. It seems like such a fake, commercial “holiday”. There’s no real “holiday” aspect to it. You don’t relax on the beach, or curl up on the couch with a good book, or hang [...]
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In the second of my heavy metal fashion reports, I talk about the grymmest of the grymm, the kreigest cats of all: Black Metal Fashion. Born in the early 90s of a disgust at the death metal scene in Europe, and a general disgust at middle-class, conservative Christian Norway, black metal emerged as a rasp [...]
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Power metal defies many of the stereotypes associated with heavy metal – it’s upbeat, happy, melodic and popular. Every word of the clean, melodic vocals can be understood. Subject matter references medieval legends, fantasy books, role-playing games and battles with dragons. Every power-metal album contains at least two ballads – and a “call to arms” [...]
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Review: Workhorse – Fire Before All
Eulogy for Toby Metal – Feb 1998-Jan 2012
Review: Erupted – “Faces of Death”
Review: Sadistik Forest – Death, Doom, Radiation
NZ Metal News and Gig Guide: 7 Feb 2012
