Posts from the ‘Metal Mixtape’ Category
Have I got a treat for you all this week! I’ve been a little Countess Bathory obsessed after researching and writing the Metal History post this week, so I’ve made you a special Countess Bathory Metal Mixtape. Some of these songs you metalheads will know, some will be completly new to you (as they were [...]
Read MoreThis week’s Metal Mixtape has an easter theme. Unfortunately, not many metal bands write songs about bunnies and chocolate eggs, so you’ll have to listen to this selection of songs about crucifixion. Arch Enemy – Carry the Cross I’ve mentioned my love of Arch Enemy before. I think this is a great song to blast [...]
Read MoreI’ve already done five posts this week, but as a special treat I’m sending you out an extra Metal Mixtape for your saturday listening pleasure. This week, I’m taking a look at “female-fronted metal (and non-metal) bands. Nightwish – The Poet and The Pendulam I’ll come right out and say this, and you can all [...]
Read MoreYarrrrrrr! Pirates, the oft-forgotten metalheads of the seven seas. Drinking and plundering and pillaging and sword-fighting and drinking some more, and making up phrases like “Yarrrrr!” and “Keel Haul!” and “But why is the rum gone?” What’s more metal than that, I ask? The romanticised pirate life – more popular than ever thanks to the “Pirates of the [...]
Read MoreYet another interesting factoid I’ve discovered from the surveys submitted so far is that you’d like to see more music on the blog. I’ve been deliberately avoiding discussing music in-depth as I’ve been doing that on forums for years and find the whole “intelligent discussion” (read: petty argument over nothing) consists of writing imaginative insults for [...]
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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
