Posts from the ‘Metal News’ Category
Uber-talented music critic Natalie Zed has started a new column on the Canada Arts Connect website, titled “Girls Don’t Like Metal” after the infamous Metalsucks post by Sergeant D “Public Service Announcement: Girls Do Not Like Metal”. Natalie’s biweekly column examines gender issues, feminism, and sexuality within heavy metal music. Each post will come in the [...]
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As part of the Hailstorm of Fire and Choas tour, Absu will be unleashed on the King’s Arms Tavern tomorrow night. Doors open 7:30 for the first of many awesome gigs this year. Absu are hot off playing multiple sold-out shows in Australia, and they’ve been receiving rave reviews for their rare appearance on stage. Absu [...]
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Despite the fact it’s currently pissing down over here (hello, Summer, are you IN there?) and we should all be thinking about beaches and BBQs, there’s still some awesome things happening in the local kiwi metal scene. Ulcerate have landed a fucking amazing European tour alongside Svart Crown. Hot off their signing [...]
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Time for another list of kiwi metal news and gigs to wet your metal appetites. If any of you missed last week’s list, and are wondering what happened to the Linking Horn, I’m trying to do my bit (however small) in promoting local kiwi metal talent. This NZ Metal News and Gig Guide will go [...]
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When we think back to what first drew us to heavy metal music, most of us would remember the first time we ever heard a metal riff or a shred solo; that loud, rumbling distortion, that soaring melody, the speed of those fingers across the frets. It’s a powerful kind of magic that keeps bringing [...]
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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
