Posts Tagged ‘metalheads’
A reader emailed me recently asking if I could recommend a few albums for people getting into metal. When I was thinking about my recommendations (Megadeth! Iron Maiden! Sabbath! Amon Amarth!) I realized the albums you show to non-metalheads are always the albums you feel crush their preconceptions about metal. Think about it. When you [...]
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Dear Steff Metal I really like metalhead boys (long hair and piercings = mmmmmm) but they just don’t seem to like me… I listen to lots of metal and absolutely love it, but I don’t really look like a metalhead (I normally just wear jeans and band shirts). I hang out in metal pubs (I live near Bristol, [...]
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Dear Steff Metal Sometime I feel a bit out of place in the metal community. It seems that I don’t really like as much metal as most people do. Metal consists of probably 95% of what I listen to, but whenever I hear people talking about metal online or irl they always seem to have [...]
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Last week, in Metalheads 101, we talked about what IS metal music, and boy howdy did it incite some discussion! Genre classifications fascinate me, as it’s essentially a label given to a type of music in order to help record companies market, and yet, it’s impossible to talk to any kind of music lover without [...]
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What turns a gig from a great night into a crappy one? For some people, it’s the price of beer at the bar. For others, it’s the sound quality, or the band’s stage presence, or the lack of pyro, or the crap lighting, or getting an elbow in the face, or not getting laid, or [...]
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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
