Posts from the ‘Lifestyle’ Category
In honor of a special guest interview I’m posting tomorrow, I’m declaring this week the week of metal chicks. If you’re a lass who loves her music loud and dark and full of shred solos and double bass, then horns up to you sister \m/ Ten Reasons Being a Metal Chick is awesome: We will [...]
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Dear Steff Metal I’m a seventeen-year old teenager stuck in the middle of high school and I feel like I’m going to go crazy! I love metal music and have since I was twelve-years old, but it’s not accepted at my school (or in most places for that matter) and I’m often excluded from the [...]
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I haven’t visited Finland yet, but it’s very high on my to-do list. In 2008 we did a little bit of Norway and Sweden, and while we loved what we saw, we haemorrhaged money buying $10 cans of coke and 5 different Oslo road tolls, and had to hoof it back to Germany where everything [...]
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Maybe you’ve heard of Sarcofagus – the Finnish band that broke ground during the 80s with their classic heavy metal sound, then moved to England when it was clear the Finns weren’t quite ready for metal to broach their shores. Now Kimmo Kuusniemi and his wife Tanja return to their homeland to explore the metal [...]
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CDH and I spent a typically rainy NZ summer’s weekend hanging out in Taupo – the giant crater lake in the centre of the north island, for those of you not in NZ – at the 10th Annual Taupo Joust. This is NZ’s biggest medieval festival, where jousters come from all over the world to [...]
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Wacken Heavy Metal German Phrasebook
Can’t Blog – Gone to Wacken
