http://www.steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:52:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-armand-rosmilia-author-metal-queen-ebooks-win-free-lifetime-subscription-metal-queen/ http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-armand-rosmilia-author-metal-queen-ebooks-win-free-lifetime-subscription-metal-queen/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:39:37 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3522 I told you all I had a special guest today, and here he is. Armand Rosamilia has been a metal fan for over thirty years, and he’s the author of “Metal Queens” a series of ebooks celebrating women in metal. These aren’t pun-up pictures of hot metal chicks (although,

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/interview-armand-rosmilia-author-metal-queen-ebooks-win-free-lifetime-subscription-metal-queen/feed/ 9 http://www.steffmetal.com/history-robberies-murders-notorious-pirates-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/history-robberies-murders-notorious-pirates-review/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:22:54 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3040 If you were a metalhead about in the 16th-19th century, you … wouldn’t have been a metalhead at all. You’d be a pirate, and rightfully so. All that drinking, smoking, fighting, cursing, robbing and pillaging sounds like your average metalhead party, really :) Pirates are a particularly fascinating subject close to the hearts of many [...]

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]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/gospel-of-filth-review/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/summer-reading-list-10-lovecraft-cthulhu-mythos-books/ http://www.steffmetal.com/summer-reading-list-10-lovecraft-cthulhu-mythos-books/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:27:40 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2647 Since getting a Kobo ereader, I’ve been doing a lot more reading on my train ride to work (as opposed to staring creepily at cute boys or practising German, which probably isn’t a good thing) and I’ve been happily delving into the world of short fiction anthologies. I can read a story in one train [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/summer-reading-list-10-lovecraft-cthulhu-mythos-books/feed/ 2 http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecrafts-influence-heavy-metal-music/ http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecrafts-influence-heavy-metal-music/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:40:20 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2561 So, why would a metal blog like Steff Metal dedicate an entire two weeks of posts to the work of HP Lovecraft? One could argue that if I were to write a book about all the awesomely grymm things in the universe that have influenced metal, at least one hundred and eighty-five pages would be [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/hp-lovecrafts-influence-heavy-metal-music/feed/ 5 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-hp-lovecraft/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-hp-lovecraft/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:15:05 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2542 For those of you new to Steff Metal, and I know there are a few, Metal History is a regular column where I talk about all sorts of people, places and events throughout history that have, in some way or another, influenced heavy metal. I used to be an archaeologist, so I love writing these [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-hp-lovecraft/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/miskatonic-university-mythos-101-hp-lovecraft-appreciation-month/ http://www.steffmetal.com/miskatonic-university-mythos-101-hp-lovecraft-appreciation-month/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:17:57 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2537 I looked at my calender and realized an important person will be celebrating his birthday this Friday – now, he is dead, but I doubt that sould stop us having a good time. Since the age of seven – when Mother Metal brought me my first Goosebumps book – I’ve been a fan of horror [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/miskatonic-university-mythos-101-hp-lovecraft-appreciation-month/feed/ 4 http://www.steffmetal.com/author-stephanie-kuehnert/ http://www.steffmetal.com/author-stephanie-kuehnert/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:07:53 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1559 I haven’t done an interview in awhile, and to celebrate the release of my ebook I thought it might be appropriate to post this interview today. I’d like you all to give a big metal Up the Irons! to Stephanie Kuehnert, writer and punk princess. Stephanie is the author of I Wanna Be Your Joey [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/author-stephanie-kuehnert/feed/ 8 http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/ http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:44:47 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1550 I am so excited to tell you about my ebook project! Grymm & Epic ebooks is my line of ebooks about the heavy metal life. They are like my blog posts, but much, much longer. I wanted a way to talk in-depth about topics I’m passionate about, and since I’ve already written five ebooks, the [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/beautiful-city-of-the-dead/ http://www.steffmetal.com/beautiful-city-of-the-dead/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:11:28 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1514 “You know how if you turn the volume all the way till your ears almost bleed, how when it’s so loud there’s a quiet place inside the noise? Loud enough to shake your teeth loose but in there somewhere is a ghost voice, like silent singing. That’s the sound I want to get.” Wow, okey. [...]

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