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I really have no words to express how overjoyed I feel in the wake of The Wrecking Ball. The event was a grater success that I had ever hoped for.
Thank you to the poets: Dani Couture, Chris Doda, Damian Rogers, and angela rawlings, who performed their poetry brilliantly and got a room full of metalheads clapping and howling along. Thank you the bands: Ein Traum, Vilipend, and Sylvus, who inspired poets to headbang and scream and do the death metal boogie. Thank you to the photographers and reviewers who came, and to the publications who gave us press before the …
Hello, 2011. So far, you look even more post-apocalyptic than the last year.
Just went through a major update; this blog once again functions as an accurate portfolio of all the music writing that I have done over the past 10 months or so. I’d like to make some promises right now, like I’ll never fall nearly 3 months behind in keeping this up to date again, but you and I know that promising to stay more organized is an open invitation for the universe to dump an entire toolbox into my gears.
I would, however, like to use this space a …
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I am sitting on a train, travelling between Brussels, Belgium and Frankfurt, Germany. Before Belgium, I was in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, spending my time in coffee shops and sex museums, drinking the cheapest and most delicious beer I’ve ever encountered. And yet. And yet part of me can’t wait to be home. I can’t wait to step off the airplane, leave Pearson airport, and resume my schedule of …
Everyone is doing these things, so here’s mine. Hellbound.ca has a collective top 20 we put together, but here are the albums I flat out enjoyed the most this year.
Top Ten Metal Albums of 2010
1. AGALLOCH – Marrow of the Spirit (Profound Lore)
2. ALCEST– Écailles de Lune (Prophesy Productions)
3. BLIND GUARDIAN – At The Edge of Time (Nuclear Blast)
4. ANATHEMA – We’re Here Because We’re Here (Kscope)
5. KAMELOT – Poetry for the Poisoned (KMG Recordings)
6. TRIPTYKON – Eparistera Daimones (Century Media)
7. LUDICRA – The Tenant (Profound Lore)
8. KVELERTAK – Kvelertak (Indie Recordings)
9. BORKNAGAR – Universal (Indie Recordings)
10. DANGERS – …
On November 4th, a review of the Mares of Thrace album The Moulting, written by Erik Thomas, was published on Metal Review. You can read it here.
This review made me almost impossibly angry. It was the kind of red-hot magma flow anger that could not be assuaged by all the counting to ten, deep breaths and violent video games that I could muster. Despite the fact that what I am about to do is arguably very, very stupid, here it goes. I’ve decided to write a response.
This is not a rebuttal in the traditional sense. There’s a general consensus (certainly …
Holy crap, does it ever look spiffy around here. Thanks again to Adam Wills for doing such an incredible job with my blog redesign!
This is the new home of The Zed Blog. Welcome!
Damn it. My first real, non-archiving, blog-ish post here and it’s going to be about my feelings.
It’s been an excellent week in Poetry for Natalie Zed. Wednesday night, I read at the 7th installment of the NOW HEAR THIS! Hear/Hear reading series with Angela Szczepaniak and Elisabeth De Mariaffi. The back room we inhabited at the Free Times Cafe was filled with a happy, responsive crowd. Angela and Elisabeth read beautifully; both of them produce (very different) work that is disarmingly funny and devastating by turns. All our work dovetailed together into a performance that felt successful and coherent. I …
The only thing I know to do when something ends is to start something new.
I’m Natalie Zed. I write CD reviews, live reviews, and blog entries for Hellbound and Metallus Maximus. I write poetry about S&M, gastroporn, comic books, video games, and heavy metal.
I’ve never been very good at keeping my mouth shut.