http://steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Discussion surrounding Christian metal bands can become quite heated. Many argue that the concept is an oxymoron and an affront to the metal ‘ideal’, whatever that may be. Some argue that all music should be judged purely on musical merit and nothing else, and that if a Christian band sounded good they would listen it [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/5-christian-metal-albums-reviewed/ I don’t normally write posts about the history of metal genres, but considering I’m going for a “White Metal” theme this week, I thought it appropriate. While researching this article today, I’ve actually learnt a lot about this strange underground scene of Christian Metal. As I said in yesterday’s post, I’ve tended to ignore most [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/metal-history-christian-metal/ WARNING: I am trying to approach this subject with a much tact and understanding as I can, but I know opinions on Christian metal are very much divided. Everyone has a strong feeling one way or the other. If you want to comment, please remember to keep your comments pleasant, and refute points, not people. [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/white-metal-exploring-oxymoron-christianthemed-metal/ Shane Blay of the band Oh, Sleeper wrote an interesting piece over on Metal Injection about Why Mid-Level Artists Cannot Make Money. He calculates each band member makes around $13 a day on tour, which, while it’s a profit, I guess, it’s not going to pay your mortgage. This was very eye-opening for me, to [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/linking-horn-26-july-2010/ CDH and I are trying to increase our German language skills. I have a reasonabl grasp on the grammar, but I need to seriously increase my vocab, so we try to listen to a lot of German metal and translate the lyrics. I’ve been listening to Subway to Sally quite obsessively for awhile, but I’ve [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/learning-german-with-jbo/ In my interest to look less like a Tall Eastern European Man I have been acquiring more dresses and “shapely garments”. This is one such dress – the Tera Angel Cheerleader dress from Beserk Clothing. Beserk are an Aussie label designed and masterminded by the talented Fleur. I like how Fleur’s designs fit a similiar [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/cthulhus-closet-beserk-cheerleader-dress/ Linking Horn-gasm again. I found this awesome website engine thingy “I write like …“. You copy in a section of your writing, and it uses some fancy computer magic to tell you who you’re writing style is like. According to my novel, I am like H. G. Wells, but my blog is more like Cory [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/linking-horn-19-july-2010/ Rejection of any kind sucks ass. You didn’t get that “dream” job? Your novel got passed over for publication? You were turned down by that hottie you’ve been courting for months? Yeah, rejection’s a bummer. Metalheads deal with rejection, just like everybody else. People online diss the music you poured your soul into, some dick [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/dealing-with-rejection-metalhead/ So the reason you didn’t get a post yesterday is because, while it may be Thursday to most of you, it was Friday for me, and I went to a party. “What kind of party, Steff?” I hear you ask. A bogan party. There was power metal singalongs, goodie bags, sausage rolls, fairy bread and [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/up-the-irons-16-july-2010/ A recent guest post I did on No Clean Singing reminded me of a favorite NZ film I haven’t yet reviewed for you all: Black Sheep. As you may or may not be aware, New Zealanders are rather proud of our sheep. We love to raise them, eat them, shave their fleece for winter jammies [...]]]> http://steffmetal.com/metal-movies-black-sheep/