KK Downing
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Have Yourself a Heavy Metal New Year!
As Steel Mill and metal fans celebrate 2016, a huge update as you notice has taken place with plenty of changes in scope, content and layout of the Steel Mill furnaces. Millworkers have been sweating hard fueling the furnaces and now results can be viewed right here. From now on be prepared for a string…
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Blog January 2016
Hi Everyone! I hope that you all had a very metal Christmas! I was lucky enough to be invited to Nightwish, Arch Enemy and Amorphis at Wembley arena few days before Christmas so it was great to see a show when I suppose I should really have been Christmas shopping. It was great to see…
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Spring update at the Steel Mill!
New update! Springtime is back and so is Steel Mill with a heavy round of new updates! The 30th anniversary release of “Defenders Of The Faith” is now out, and to celebrate K.K. has a new blog with plenty of memories from the era and playing the infamous Madison Square Garden “seat cushion” show. The…
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Home Of Metal by Bill Sneyd
Birmingham and the Black Country has a musical heritage, which until now, has remained largely uncelebrated. That musical heritage is of course: Heavy Metal. The area has spawned many bands, whose importance and influence still stands today.
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British Steel
As the 1980’s dawned there was a rumble in the jungle as punk gave away to a new ferocious movement hailing from United Kingdom. New Wave Of British Heavy Metal stepped up to take the crown. Hundreds of bands had already made their stance at stardom and while most of them would not make it…
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Jul 2007
Hello everyone! Well, the summer is well on its way now, although here in the UK so far it has literally been a washout with the wettest June since 1914. However it has not stopped the festival fans and did anyone see The Who at Glastonbury? I saw them on the T.V. although it was…
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K.K. Downing’s Trip to Finland
ON a humid and windy January evening, the five millworkers gathered together at project manager Jari’s house In Tuusula, Finland to discuss forthcoming K.K. Downing – web pages, do some hard work and relax at the same time. This occurred at a strange time in Finnish weather, nobody could recall a January day completely without…