About the Valley of Steel (the Blog)
“Why the hell,” you might be asking, “do we need another metal blog? Aren’t there already more than enough out there?” In response to your hypothetical query, I tip my hypothetical cap at your hypothetically astute powers of observation. No, you do not need another metal blog, and there are absolutely plenty already in existence. In fact, there are barely enough hours in a day for me to keep track of all the ones I read religiously, peruse regularly, or skim occasionally, on top of scanning through all the updates in my Facebook news feed.
But, therein lies a key to my conundrum. I have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bands and record labels and distros and PR firms and etc. among the things that I “like”. I often comment on things I read, and sometimes share updates or news or make snide remarks on my personal wall. Well, one day recently, disaster struck in the form of some genius who thought it would be really nice to teach Grandma how to use the Facebook. Awesome, because now she can communicate with all the family members in the same place and share baby pictures and crap like that. Not so awesome though, because now it becomes impossible to say things like, “Just got done listening to the Carnal Befoulment demo Cunt Struck, and it was fucking brutal; I especially liked their use of the sample from the Machete movie before the title track – the part where the nurse says, ‘I can feel your eyeballs in my uterus.'” I’ve known my Grandma a long time and have grown fond of her over the years; I would rather not be responsible for giving her a heart attack and/or stroke.
So coming back to my original point, it may be true that you don’t need this blog. Well, I do. After all, isn’t that really the purpose of a blog in the first place? Just an outlet for personal expression, somewhere where I can inject my own sarcastic and snarky responses to the things I see and hear? Honestly, I don’t know the answer to that question, because I don’t know who invented blogs so I can’t really determine what their actual motivation was. If I ever do meet that person, though, I’ll likely punch him in the face, because “blog” is such a fucking stupid word.
Anyway, that’s how I plan on running things here. Don’t expect daily updates or any features to appear with any semblance of regularity. I will have album reviews, show reviews, reactions to new songs or other things in the news, whenever I feel like it. If you see something you like or something you hate, leave me a comment. Feel free to “follow” this blog on WordPress, because like I said, updates will be very irregular and sporadic. Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
A Denizen of the Valley
13 responses to “About the Valley of Steel (the Blog)”
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I like… SMT strikes again…
Thanks, Andy. I’m assuming you found your way here by way of one of the “Signmeto” band of the week profiles…
May I ask: are you associated with one of the artists there? Or just a fellow writer?
Premiere !!Swedens hardest Female fronted metal band new killer musicvideo “Bleeding Sanity”
Frantic Amber – Bleeding Sanity watch it here seance.blogg.se/ and feel free to share the music video.
Frantic Amber is a female-fronted metal band with members from four different countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan) Since the line-up was solified 2010 the band has made two tours to Russia, the latest one in September 2011, as well as a successful gig at Sweden Rock Festival 2011 which also was played in whole in the Swedish National Radio program P3 Rock Live. Frantic Amber performed at the P3 Gold 2012 Awards that was broadcast on swedish national television and radio.
Tossing this your way, melodic black/death metal band from Iceland. Pretty bile spitting and evil sounding stuff, outside of what I’d cover on the church but you may find some interest.
That’s their single, album is coming out soon. Email is azoiccontact@gmail.com.
Cheers
Hey, Ben… thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it!
I just heard from these guys too, sometime over the weekend — not sure if it was before or after you left this comment. I will definitely be checking this out ASAP.
Any recommendations or suggestions are always welcome, so whatever you’ve got, feel free to throw it in my direction…
Here’s another from me to you, it’s like Christmas except, not Christmas.
Cenobite, low-fi blackened thrash/doom, whatever. It sounds evil.
cenobite.bandcamp.com/
Cool, thank you! It’s downloading right now…
Took a little while (sometimes I feel like I’m drowing in piles of music waiting to be written about — #firstworldproblems), but I finally got around to this one yesterday.
valleyofsteel.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/get-to-know-cenobite-review-of-the-black-ep/
Hey, how does one go about sending you albums to possibly review? I’ve got a couple of bands that I rep that you may be interested in.
Well since you’ve commented here, now I’ve got your e-mail address so I’ll be contacting you directly very soon :)
Thanks!
Cool man, I look forward to the ride
Nice. Thanks for dropping by… hope you enjoy your visit.