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/steff-metal-loves-kobo-ereader-2/ http://www.steffmetal.com/steff-metal-loves-kobo-ereader-2/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:11 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3760 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, [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/steff-metal-loves-kobo-ereader-2/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-summer-reading-recommendations/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-summer-reading-recommendations/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:36:23 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=4043 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-summer-reading-recommendations/feed/ 9 http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-countess-rebecca-johns/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-countess-rebecca-johns/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:05:40 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3994 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metalheads-read-countess-rebecca-johns/feed/ 0 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 [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/history-robberies-murders-notorious-pirates-review/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/gospel-of-filth-review/ http://www.steffmetal.com/gospel-of-filth-review/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:06:53 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=2936 Love them or hate them, Cradle of Filth were arguably one of the first bands to define a specific sound for English extreme metal. For nearly twenty years now, the band have been producing their extreme blend of decadence and debauchery, mixing the tropes of gothic literature, horror films, real-life serial killers, occultism and ancient [...]

]]> 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 [...]

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]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-hp-lovecraft/feed/ 0 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 [...]

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