Posts Tagged ‘grymm and frostbitten lands’
Anyone journeying to Wacken this year will probably find themselves in Hamburg for at least a day or two. A city with a similar population to my entire country, Hamburg feels very homely and welcoming. There’s a real bohemian vibe in some areas, and a seriously great metalhead subculture. After Berlin, Hamburg is Germany’s second [...]
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Festival season is beginning in the Northern hemisphere, and, while I am stuck in this freezing cold house with only a hot water bottle and a cantankerous drummer husband to keep me company, many of you are heading out to a metal festival or two. I attended my first two metal festivals last year, and [...]
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Dear Steff Metal Your Plunder for Metal Chicks post this weekend got me thinking about my money problems. I want to have adventures and travel, and save for big things like a house or a car. But I can’t. I don’t have any debt or anything, but I work at a fast-food place, so I [...]
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On Saturday, CDH celebrated his old man day. He does volunteer work for Mainline steam – a company in Auckland who restores and runs steam trains on the main NZ lines. They’d organised a ride from Auckland to Whangarei (up north) and back. KiwiRail has been doing lots of work and spending lots of money [...]
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Egypt: Land of Pharoahs, beetles and pointy monuments. Ever since I first read R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps book “Curse of the Mummy” at about age 7, I have dreamed of being an archaeologist and exploring pyramids and tombs. I’ve been lucky to do the archaeology part, and have even explored a few tombs in my [...]
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CDH and I are still sick – blah. the resident tour Doctor says it seems to be a viral thing and should be cleared up in the next couple of days. We crossed the border into Jordan today – what a change! CDH was so relieved as Syria was – although interesting – a bit [...]
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Your Summer Reading List: 10 Lovecraft / Cthulhu Mythos books: Since getting a Kobo ereader, I've been doing a lot more reading on my train ride to work (as opposed to staring creepil...
5 HP Lovecraft Metal Albums: After my last set of reviews, many readers wrote and commented and said I should write more music reviews. The tribe has...
Cthulhu Gift Guide: This week - a linking horn with a difference. If you an organization freak, like me, you're probably already panicking a...Metal Mixtape: HP Lovecraft, vol 1: You practically can't write a metal album these days without a passing reference to the Cthulhu mythos, so it's no surpr...
Cthulhu’s Closet: Cthulhu on my head!: Hiyo! Hope you're enjoying the first week of Mythos 101: HP Lovecraft Appreciation Month. Now, I know the last two weeks...
Life lessons according to … HP Lovecraft: "Life Lessons" is a new feature on Steff Metal - quotes from interesting people, both within metal and without, which mi...
HP Lovecraft’s influence on heavy metal music: So, why would a metal blog like Steff Metal dedicate an entire two weeks of posts to the work of HP Lovecraft? One could...
Linking Horn: Cthulhu on the Web:
As part of Miskatonic University: Mythos 101 month, I'm delighted to bring you a special THEMED Linking Horn.
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Metal History: HP Lovecraft: For those of you new to Steff Metal, and I know there are a few, Metal History is a regular column where I talk about al...
Miskatonic University: Mythos 101 – HP Lovecraft appreciation month: I looked at my calender and realized an important person will be celebrating his birthday this Friday – now, he is dead,...
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