Pete Alander
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“Can you feel the beat, everybody’s rockin’ in the summer heat!”
Greetings fellow metalheads! To set the course of summer in a properly metal direction, we have added a bunch of new interviews at the Steel Mill. First of all we take a look at Seattle’s Q5, a band that has been sort of a cult classic amongst the Millworkers greatly thanks to their 84’s brilliant…
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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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Apr 2015
Metal Defenders! In 1984 Priest “Defenders Of The Faith”- tour sold out Madison Square Garden! Now that was what you call a memorable gig, exuberant fans decided to fill the stage with foam cushions from their seats. It was crazy but full-on metal, in the picture above you can see a cushion still airborne heading…
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Joe Petagno interview
Besides Motörhead´s brilliant album covers and extremely popular ”Snaggletooth” AKA “War-Pig” character Joe Petagno has a honourable history as a graphic designer and artist. Working also with bands like Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Pretty Maids, Sweet and Pink Floyd he has created uniqe visual images for the world of music. Joe stopped by in the dark…
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Jarno Lahti from Kaamos Art interview
All work courtesy of Kaamos Design, interview by Pete Alander Hi Jarno, nice to have you here at the Steel Mill. You run your own design company called Kaamos. What services you provide? My main services are CD cover and booklet designs, promotional design for bands, websites and MySpace sites. I’m also available for…
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Jeremy Morgan interview
Jeremy Morgan interview by Pete Alander Hi Jeremy, nice to have you here at the Steel Mill. First of all could you tell us how and why you started to work as a graphic designer/illustrator? Growing up I really enjoyed Cartoon Network showing old Hannah Barbera cartoons all day like Bird Man and Johnny Quest,…
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FATBOY – Hyvinkää 11.10.2014
I was thrilled and anxious being aware of the fact I was gonna anticipate to my very first rockabilly festival in Rock’n’Roll Nights vol 21 in Hyvinkää city. Every genre-knowing metalhead should be aware of the fact that heavy metal owns a lot to this blues based music style which has rocked through many generations…
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Nov 2014
Tribute! To Tribute Hi Everyone! At this time I would like to pay my personal tribute to all Priest tribute bands around the world! My sincere thanks to all of them for helping to bring additional recognition for Judas Priest and also to help to satisfy the loyal fans of Priest when the band has…
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Fatboy
© Fatboy Rockin’ Out With Fatboy Interview By Pete Alander / November 2014 Ever since I first injected my first dose of metal music to my ears I noticed the remarkable musical similarities they had with artists such like Elvis and Chuck Berry. The pounding rhythms, very guitar oriented playing and songs in high speed…
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LORDI – BABEZ FOR BREAKFAST (SONY 2010)
Lordi has come a long way from early attempts to find a record company to win the Eurovision song contest. With “Hard Rock Hallelujah” blasting the sh*t out of all the usual and generic Eurovision songs Lordi proved the power of melodic heavy metal. Now Lordi has released their fifth album “Babez for Breakfast”. With…