Channel 13 and Metal Trek going in Hiatus

Good day Plebeians of the digital information highway.

With the 2013 Belgian Invasion series of posts finished, it is time for me to take a leave of absence from blogging. I need this time to reorganize certain parts of my life as I have been on a huge escalation of being busy on the outside of the internet, and that means internet time will be reduced to nothing more than research, communicating with friends and eating shit just for pure enjoyment.

I can't say when I will return as this time I need to have a wide open girth to be able to address the other aspects of my life outside of blogging, but I will return, and when I do, I intend to come back with full force.

For now, please enjoy the blogs past postings.

Many \m/ HEAVY \m/ thanks.

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Tarnished Iron: Kokon Tozai Spring Summer 2013 Clothing Line

Fashion. Something Metalheads exceed in without trying. Our sense of fashion is renowned for being easily identifiable to anybody. When you consider what consists of our wardrobe, it is basically 1 pair of jeans, a battle vest with a toilet bowl full of patches and plenty of black t-shirts (size XL). While its easy to see how we all look alike, the differences lie in the details of what is emblazoned on the shirt and the vest.

While the ranks of Metalheads are aware of the credibility that comes with wearing such wardrobe, every once in a while there is the encounter with an outsider who wears a Metal shirt due to the fashionable nature of such wardrobe (especially from the big box retailers a la Wal-Mart, Target and Kmart). While this can be quickly resolved with the word "poser" being shouted at such individual, today's posts involves a reputable individual from the enemy camp.

Tarnished Iron presents Kokon Tozai Spring Summer 2013 Clothing Line. I know this flew over your head, but if you look at your Facebook/Twitter/Random Metal website and-or blog on-or around May 17, 2013, the following picture was emblazoned on your smartphone/tablet/laptop/desktop and you either A) got a chuckle or B) got enraged (depending on the band shirt you are wearing at that moment).

Photo Courtesy of Random Metal website and-or blog

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Quintine Beer (Metal Trek)

Taken from the 2013 Belgian Invasion, PPM Fest Day 1

Quintine Beer, another Metal Beer discovered during the invasion. A Belgian Strong Pale Ale standing at 8%. Its taste can best be described as a dirty fruit, and very good. Its credentials? For those of us fortunate enough to mate with best half of the sexes, don't you think for one minute they are witches? Think about it, your girlfriend/wife has the capacity to get you to do things you normally wouldn't do, and have managed to cast a spell over you. Than there was the whole Salem Witch Trials debacle which has become a point of interest for Metalheads when visiting Massachusetts, a double whammy for this beers Metalocity (thanks ladies) \m/

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Spurious Harmonics: The Conspiracy Frequeny

In a recent announcement, Geoff Tates Queensrÿche‎ (aka the Crytal Pepsi of Queensrÿche‎) announced a contest for fans who wish to berate the "Frequency Unknown" album in a new forum; directly in front of the artists who created the album.

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Vikking Beer (Metal Trek)

Taken from the 2013 Belgian Invasion, Brussels and Leuven Day 3

Vikking Beer. This Blond Ale at 8.5% ABVis definitely the heaviest of the batch, and what makes this Metal is not the obvious (being after the most Metal species of humans that existed), but rather the not-so-obvious. How many times have you gone to a concert/house party/football game/etc and some random guy wears the viking helmet? The guy in the picture is probably someone you have seen in the aforementioned predicament many times over and he looks exactly like that, acting very Metal just by putting on the helmet \m/

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