Posts from the ‘Tr00 Metal Life’ Category
What do you get when you cross Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree with Rip Van Winkle and space cowboys? That would be Spiral – a 2-piece prog rock band from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their 2011 release, The Capital in Ruins, begun a modern retelling of Rip Van Winkle, only Rip is a scientist who creates [...]
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You might have noticed things have been quiet around here this week. Not for me – I’ve been busy … a whole new level of busy. This past weekend I spent the day helping my friend Jaimee, of Cog and Compass, run her stall at AetherCon, the first annual NZ Steampunk Convention. What is Steampunk? Steampunk [...]
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When I was about seven, I was reading a cat book in the library when I came across a section about Siamese. I learned about their long association with the royal court, and how they were extremely vocal and fiercly loyal. Then I scrutinized the pictures. “What a hideous cat,” I thought. “Who’d ever want [...]
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This article is a follow-on from the piece I wrote the other week called Finding Metal Musicians My Own Age. When you’re starting out as a metal musician, you’re normally shut up in your room, playing Black Sabbath riffs over and over until they sound suitably heavy, or drumming on the furniture until your girlfriend [...]
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Samantha Hudges and Luke Golds, the DJ team behind kiwi metal radio show Blackout, are looking for requests of this week’s show – the first of 2012 – which will be on air 10-12pm this Sunday, Jan 8. Blackout is a late-night metal show on Flat FM – a radio station staffed by volunteers dedicated [...]
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Review: Spiral – The Traveller
Linking Horn: Links for Kevin Costner
AetherCon: The 2012 Auckland Steampunk Convention
Review: Workhorse – Fire Before All
Eulogy for Toby Metal – Feb 1998-Jan 2012
