Posts from the ‘Metal History’ Category
I do not intend this to be any kind of definitive list. Eassentially it’s a list of my non-guitar-player opinion of the best metal guitarists. To me, a great metal guitar player needs a high level of technical skill, but also the ability to transform that skill into interesting riffs, solos and elements. There may [...]
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A little history lesson on Finnish metal, compiled in about 20 minutes from total memory while a nerd tries to fix my internet, so please feel free to comment/correct in the comments if I haven’t got this quite right. Finnish Metal: The Beginning Finnish metal began when tr00 metal began – In the late 70s, [...]
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In 2006, I was lucky enough to be selected on a field school of 20 students to spend 6 weeks in Greece and Crete, visiting various archaeological sites and completing coursework based on our experiences. This trip (which I extended with additional travel on the end) occurred at the end of a long, hard academic [...]
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One feature Steff Metal has been sorely lacking is a column dedicated to metal newbies. I’ve been assuming everyone who stumbles upon this site has been a metalhead for hundreds of years already, and would find such a column boring. I was wrong. Metalheads 101 is the ultimate course on how to become a metalhead. [...]
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As one of a handful of ardent students of ancient literature at university (I studied ancient Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphs to honors level, with a slight diversion into Akkadian) and a love of make-up languages like Tolkien’s Quenya, I admit to spending many an afternoon sipping tea in the classical studies library and discussing manuscript [...]
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Review: Kasium – Exhale
Linking Horn: A Quest Into the 77th Link
Review and Album Stream: Aborted – Global Flatline
Review: Avatar – Black Waltz
Gig Review: ABSU, Heresiarch, Nullifier and Exordium Mors at the Kings Arms
