Recent content by Helmuth Von Moltke

To say the least, yes indeed. When I first watched this clip I didn’t realise at first that was my voice coming on during Mariner.

Also a new snippet of the movie was released today:

I have found my article! Outside a payall, this should give you the PDF: Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums:Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of War (2010)...

Oh dear yes, Nicko's drum show / stand up comedy routine in Shepherd's Bush London, maybe around 2010? I can never recall the year because I have largely blocked it from memory. The comedy material was let's just say 'dated'. And perhaps not in tune with the local demographic mix outside in...

This is a trip down memory lane for me, these are old articles: Machine Guns and Machine Gun Drums: Heavy Metal’s Portrayal of War (2010) Cycles of Metal and Cycles of Male Aggression: Ageing and the Changing Aggressive Impulse (2011) The Trooper or the Sandman: The differing creative paths...

Thanks guys, all really really appreciated! A quick note on how I got involved: some years ago while limping through my doctoral studies, I tried to cheer myself up by writing psuedo academic articles on metal. The first on how metal music portrays themes of warfare. The second on metal music...

Yes totally agree, especially that he could have been an Andy Sneap like figure but it clearly didn’t happen. Agree with your other point, which is Roy Z had a great run - but that was some time ago, and maybe the universe lined up perfectly for him in the late 90s early 00s when Lady Luck was...

Hi GhostofCain, the secret is out! Yes sir that is me, I made the cut rather than the cutting room floor, very very proud indeed. I am looking forward to telling the story of my experience with the documentary crew and understandably cannot wait to watch it!

I would disagree, remember back to the late 90s, it took something special to modernise the classic metal sound back then. There is an overflow of that style now, but not back then, so credit to Roy Z for being able to do it in a musical climate that didn't favour that sound at all. He played...

Bruce can sell you toilet roll if he needs to... I learned that in 1999 when he started to over enthuse about the Ed Hunter PC game!

This is one of the keys to the mystery. TMP has six Dickinson/Z credits and they clearly tried to pick up the songwriting partnership that flourished from the 1990s till 2005. But in my view, TMP is something of a musical flop and missed my expectations for musical excellence by a very long way...

Doesn't the camping ticket for Friday give access? Plus the standard show ticket. Correct me if I am wrong...

Classy also to feature Blaze in the Burning Ambition trailer prominently

Almost a dead heat. Like the IM/Killers of the new era, two albums with very different personalities but destined to be bracketed together. Objectively, Senjutsu has better production, a far better album closer and some fantastic songs. Lost in a Lost World has really grown on me these last 4...

He is looking pretty relaxed this week... https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18HUnsxq1W/