http://www.steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:02:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-death-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-death-review/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:29:19 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3669 One day, while I was angrily emptying my bank account at the local ATM (I’m always angry whilst extracting money), CDH spied a poster on the local Video-EZY window for this film, Black Death. It had a picture of Sean Bean, who we love in the Sharpe’s series and practically everything else he does, and [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-death-review/feed/ 7 http://www.steffmetal.com/promised-land-heavy-metal-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/promised-land-heavy-metal-review/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:34:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3478 Port O Call: The Promised Land of Heavy Metal, a documentary about Finland, the only country where heavy metal has become mainstream (read more at the Promised Land of Heavy Metal website) Mateys: Kimmo Kuusniemi/Tanja Katinka Karttunen, Double Vision Interactive Ltd/Sarcofagus Ltd, UK. Starring Alice Cooper, Mr. Lordi, Ville Valo, a smarty-pants psychiatrist, and thousands [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/promised-land-heavy-metal-review/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-kimmo-tanja-kuusniemi-sarcofagus-promised-land-heavy-metal/ http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-kimmo-tanja-kuusniemi-sarcofagus-promised-land-heavy-metal/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:44:56 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3442 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-kimmo-tanja-kuusniemi-sarcofagus-promised-land-heavy-metal/feed/ 2 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-bela-lugosi/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-bela-lugosi/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:10:57 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2957 I’ve been remiss in my Metal History posts lately, and for that I can only beg your forgiveness and cite extreme busyness and over-indulgence of chocolate. But today happens to be the birthday of someone dear to my heart. Indeed, anyone who loves horror owe a debt of thanks to this man for helping to [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-bela-lugosi/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecraft-horror-film-roundup/ http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecraft-horror-film-roundup/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:07:01 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2687 Lovecraft – like Stephen King – doesn’t translate well to screen. So much of his effect relies on the choices and shapes of words on the page, on the reader’s own interpretations of “unspeakable” horrors, that “seeing” the horrors in a film context renders them no longer frightful. Directors struggle to capture the mood of [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecraft-horror-film-roundup/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-sheep/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-sheep/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:01:59 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2278 A recent guest post I did on No Clean Singing reminded me of a favorite NZ film I haven’t yet reviewed for you all: Black Sheep. As you may or may not be aware, New Zealanders are rather proud of our sheep. We love to raise them, eat them, shave their fleece for winter jammies [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-sheep/feed/ 7 http://www.steffmetal.com/repo-the-genetic-opera/ http://www.steffmetal.com/repo-the-genetic-opera/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:15:16 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2200 You may have heard me exclaim over Repo! The Genetic Opera in recent weeks, so I thought it only fair to put up an actual review. Port O’ Call: Repo! The Genetic Opera, a 2008 American Rock Opera musical about organ repossession. Mateys: Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III and IV), based on [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/repo-the-genetic-opera/feed/ 5 http://www.steffmetal.com/anvil-story-anvil/ http://www.steffmetal.com/anvil-story-anvil/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 10:26:19 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1862 I’ve been waiting for this movie to arrive at the library, and it finally came in. We watched it the other night and laughed, and cried, and cheered and made sad faces along with Anvil’s journey. Here’s a review. Port O’ Call: Anvil: The Story of Anvil, a 2008 documentary about Canadian metal band Anvil [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/anvil-story-anvil/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/global-metal/ http://www.steffmetal.com/global-metal/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:40:51 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1396 Seven Countries, Three Continents, One Tribe. Port O’ Call: Filmed around the world – in Brazil, Japan, China, Indonesia, India and the Middle East. Mateys: Directed by canadian anthropologist metalhead filmaker Sam Dunn (of Metal: a Headbangers Journey and Flight 666 fame) and Scott McFadyen. The film previews at the Bergen International Film festival in October [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/global-metal/feed/ 9 http://www.steffmetal.com/tim-burtons-tricks-treats/ http://www.steffmetal.com/tim-burtons-tricks-treats/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:00:08 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=490 Steff Metal will never be a dumping ground for fashion spreads, because I’m just not clued in enough to catch all the fabulous darkly death metal goodies out there – better bloggers tackle fashion spreads, and I look upon them and drool. However, when a spread so fantastic, so magnificent, so utterly Steff Metal comes [...]

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