The problem with most female-fronted symphonic / gothic metal bands coming out these days is that they’ve spent the last twenty years worshipping Nightwish. Admittedly, Nightwish thoroughly deserve that worship for their innate ability to combine operatic vocals and keyboard driven melodies into catchy, perfectly executed songs. However, operatic vocals and keyboards do not a [...]
It’s been a week of sending you off other places to read my writing. In June last year – fuck, I’m a bit of a slacker! – I wrote a blog over at NO CLEAN SINGING about some of my favorite NZ metal bands – acts like Skuldom, Human and Cripple Mr Onion – and [...]
The other week, I got together with a bunch of wonderful creative friends to put together the first Gothic Wedding Planner photo shoot. The veils in these photographs came from May Rey Designs, a stunning designer with an alternative bent. I know this probably won’t interest a lot of you – not nearly enough goats [...]
May Day coming up (or easter if you’re down with the bunny), and we’ve got a four-day weekend. I am not doing much, going to a gig (MANOWHORE – Manowar covers – I couldn’t NOT go), making dinner for friends, finishing some painting and a lot of writing, and eating a bit of chocolate (or [...]
I haven’t written much about my trip to Syria, which is a bit of a shame, since, of all the places I’ve been, it was the biggest surprise. We incorporated Syria into our OE because CDH wanted to see Crac des Chevaliers – a virtually intact crusader castle of remarkable size and beauty. But that [...]
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There are plenty of blogs online about metal music, but they only tell half the story. If you think metal is more than just a musical genre, if you eat-sleep-drink and LIVE heavy metal, if you wake up every day with a song on your lips and a blastbeat in your heart, than this blog is for you. Steff Metal is an blog about the metal lifestyle - the music, the festivals, the fashion, the people, and the beer that make being a metalhead so awesome \m/
