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/gig-review-absu-heresiarch-nullifier-and-exordium-mors-at-the-kings-arms-tavern-19-jan-2012/ http://www.steffmetal.com/gig-review-absu-heresiarch-nullifier-and-exordium-mors-at-the-kings-arms-tavern-19-jan-2012/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:01:35 +0000 steff http://www.steffmetal.com/?p=4860 Edited to add some gig photos from Misery of Chaos NZ. So. I missed Heresiarch (because I fell asleep on the couch and had to change my t-shirt because I drooled on it? I can neither confirm nor deny), but my mate Ross said they were “like a bulldozer”, which I think is a pretty [...]

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]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-and-my-dragon-pinata/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:33:21 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4352 In my last blog post, Wacken 2011: Every Band I Saw at Wacken, reviewed, I talked about one side of this incredible festival – the shit ton of incredible bands you get to see. Today I’m giving you a run-down of a different sort – the tale of our Wacken 2011 adventures from our arrival [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-2011-meerkats-toilet-quiz-shows-dolphins-mosh-pit/feed/ 6 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:02:09 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4318 I’ve been putting off writing about Wacken for a few weeks, because trying to articulate the awesomeness of this year’s festival into a series of 500 words posts seemed like such a fruitless endeavor. Instead of just repeating my daily diary (which went something like this: “Dear diary – today, I at sausages for breakfast [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-open-air-2011-band-wacken-reviewed/feed/ 3 http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:55 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4268 “I’d rather play to fifteen people who are kind of spaced out and into renaissance music and the whole vibe of living in those days. I’ve played to two-hundred and seventy-five thousand people, and it’s very good for the ego, but it doesn’t do much for the inner soul.” And he should know. Ritchie Blackmore, [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/blackmores-night-live-burg-veldenstein-2011-concert-review/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/ http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:32:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4192 A few months ago I mentioned that Steff Metal was going to cover the Veldensteiner Festival, a annual festival of folk metal and medieval rock held at the Burg Veldenstein in deepest, darkest Bavaria. We’d been to the castle two nights previously to see Blackmore’s Night (more on the in my next blog) but winding [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/veldensteiner-festival-2011-mead-metal-mad-german-archaeologists/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-heavy-metal-german-phrasebook/ http://www.steffmetal.com/wacken-heavy-metal-german-phrasebook/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:13:18 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4000 If any of you have ever travelled with those little pocket phrasebooks, you’ll know how useless they are. They never tell you what you really need to know. “Die Kirche ist hinter dem Rathaus”? “Ich möchte einen Pullover kaufen.”? When are you ever going to say this stuff? Since I made a Heavy Metal Norwegian Phrasebook for my last [...]

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