Posts Tagged ‘Metalheads Who Read’
If you’re anything like me, your ultimate chill-out involves curling up with a good book. I read roughly a book a week, sometimes more, and, as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, I’ve kept my eye on the developments in e-publishing over the last five years. When affordable e-readers started coming on the market, [...]
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Hey Metalheads! I’m planning on having one of those unusual (for me) holidays where you do plenty of relaxing and don’t think about the mountains of work waiting for you when you return. I am bringing along my Kobo ereader and want to fill it up with awesome books before I go. Do you [...]
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In 2010, Rebecca Johns (author of Icebergs) wrote a fictionalized account of the life of Countess Bathory (whom I’ve profiled in my Metal history column – see Metal History: Countess Bathory), the hungarian noblewomen accused of torturing and murdering hundreds of servant girls and bathing in their blood. Although many fiction books (and oodles of [...]
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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,
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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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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
