Metal-Adjacent
Metal-Adjacent · 02/06/2024
This is a personal blog after all, so today I am feeling obliged to write something personal. It is my birthday. I am turning 39. Really bad age and to be honest, I don't feel like celebrating. I haven't celebrated my birthday for years and if I have the choice, I prefer to be out of town for my birthdays. I hate the fuzz about this day, I hate being the birthday girl and yet it makes me sad when certain people forget my birthday. Welcome to my very twisted mind full of social insecurity....
Metal-Adjacent · 16/02/2023
167 days till W:O:A 2023. Pentagram, celebrating it's 50-something-th anniversary this year at W:O:A. Depending on the source the band was founded in 1969 or 1971 by Bobby Liebling (vocals) and Geof O'Keefe (guitar). The initial line-up was completed by Vincent McAllister (bass) and Steve Martin (drums). Until 1985 when the band released their first official studio album the line-up had changed several times, and it would continue to change throughout the band's history. More than thirty...
Metal-Adjacent · 15/12/2021
The music of Motörhead was said to be something completely different in 1975 with a sound that had not been heard before. In interviews Lemmy Kilmister stated that he modeled Motörhead after the US band MC5. They were his most direct musical influence. Up till last week I had not heard about MC5. This band was completely new to me. But - there was another name that came up and caught my eye. When reading about the MC5 there is another band that is closely connected to them and that is Iggy...