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/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/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 [...]

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]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/nurmburg-art-hotel-city/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/steff-metal-munich-photos-road/ http://www.steffmetal.com/steff-metal-munich-photos-road/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:59:06 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4105 I feel like I didn’t really give Munich much of a chance. After all, we were only there for two days, and one of those days we were no better than zombies. There was so much we didn’t get to see and do, and a lot of beer we didn’t drink, but here are a [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/steff-metal-munich-photos-road/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:38:39 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4080 On our second night in Munich (the first night being a desparate attempt to not fall asleep in our bratwurst), CDH and I hung out in the train station. No, we didn’t have timetables, binoculars and stopwatches – we were there for After Dark, the Munich Ghost Tour. I’m a fan of ghost tours, having [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-travel-dark-munich-ghost-tour/feed/ 4 http://www.steffmetal.com/update-bavaria/ http://www.steffmetal.com/update-bavaria/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:33:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4074 OK OK, so it has been 10 nights since I arrived in Germany and I haven´t updated the blog. In my defence, I don´t own a laptop or a phone that does … anything, so I have only just managed to find an internet cafe. So there will be no pictures, and this confounded German [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/update-bavaria/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/unofficial-wacken-open-air-gear-list/ http://www.steffmetal.com/unofficial-wacken-open-air-gear-list/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:31:54 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3675 If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I am, at present, in Germany, on my way to Wacken Open Air – the Biggest Heavy Metal Party on Earth, for the second time, to see Judas Priest, Blind Guardian, Ensiferum, Subway to Sally, Moonsorrow, Apocalyptica, Avantasia, Deadlock, Helloween, Kataklysm, [...]

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