Posts from the ‘Metal History’ Category
I thought I’d tie this week’s Metal History into one of the artworks I’m working on at the moment. I’d brought this huge canvas ready to create a highly detailed fantasy vision of Yggdrasil – the tree of life in Norse Mythology – with all it’s resident animals and jötunns and serpents and dragons. I [...]
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Continuing Folk Metal week into it’s second week (thus making it Folk Metal Fortnight – ah, aliteration), I thought I’d talk about those stick letters adorning the cover of every folk metal album – runes. Prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet – along with everything else Christian – in around AD 700 – [...]
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Metalheads and beer go together like two things that go together. Beer and sausages, beer and festivals, beer and sex. Beer and more beer. As Kat from Hell Bent for Wacken so eloquently expresses it: “I would crawl through the mud, broken glass and possibly the piss ditches to see these bands. As long as [...]
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In this - the second installment of Metal History - I’d like to talk of a women who has inspired countless metal songs – Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian Countess who died locked in her palace, accused of torturing over 650 young girls and bathing in their blood. I admit, I didn’t know much about Elizabeth Bathory (Báthory Erzsébet [...]
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Metal History is the brand new column here on Steff Metal. Don’t let the title fool you – I won’t be recounting endless discographies of influential bands from the 80s. Metal History profiles personalities, events and discoveries of ancient and modern history that are, essentially, metal. Some are immortalised in metal songs, others are simply people I [...]
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Linking Horn: Linkages from the Other Side
New Zealand Metal News and Gig Guide for March/April 2012
Steff Metal Reviews Desultor – Masters of Hate
Steff Metal Reviews: Overkill – The Electric Age
Linking Horn: Links of the Irish
