{"id":3189,"date":"2016-01-01T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/?post_type=kksblog&#038;p=3189"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:44:22","slug":"blog-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/blog-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hi Everyone!<\/h2>\n<p>I hope that you all had a very metal Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>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 the show sold out at such a large venue, also watch out for the video release as the whole show was filmed.<\/p>\n<p>It is now a pleasure for me to announce the winners of our Metal for Men competition they are<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Grennan<\/strong><br \/>\nTipton<br \/>\nWest Midlands U.K<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathias Liljhammar<\/strong><br \/>\nSolna<br \/>\nSweden<\/p>\n<p>So big congratulations to you both and a big thank you to all of you who entered, I wish you better luck next time. Please keep checking in to Metal for Men facebook as there is always plenty of things going on there too.<\/p>\n<p>We had a good time on Halloween when Steel Mills Jari and guitarist Jukka came over from Finland, I am not sure if it was to do a survey of UK pubs or to do a bit of new filming for you but I am pleased to say that we \u00a0managed to do both.<\/p>\n<p>People said they have never heard me play &#8220;Before The Dawn&#8221; so I put down a quick \u00a0version for you, this solo was originally much longer but I was persuaded to cut it right down as I guess the song was thought to be a single possibility, although I really like the short \u00a0version I of course preferred the long version as it was really quite epic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g0zdLGYnKZw\" width=\"411\" height=\"231\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is with great sadness that I am sure we all feel to have lost our beloved Lemmy, I can say that I am truly proud to have been able to share stages, dressing rooms, and a few beers with the great\u00a0 man, I am sure that words alone cannot truly express the emptiness that will be felt by every fan in the metal world,\u00a0 Thankfully and fortunately we will forever be able to enjoy the great musical legacy that we are still able to cherish, I would like to say Lemmy:\u201d thank you from us all for giving us the great \u201c Motorhead\u201d we can still hear you loud and clear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>2016 is already here so I would like to wish you all a great new year, as always a big thanks to the Millworkers for all of their dedication and of course to all of you that make the metal world go around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Regards K.K.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! 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