Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Rare Bird Books Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS is the creation of Jeremy Saffer. A professional photographer by trade, he is like the Mark Weiss of the modern Metal era. Saffer’s photography has been seen in Kerrang, Revolver, Metal Hammer, Guitar World and…
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Interview with Jeremy Saffer, creator of Daughters Of Darkness
Interview with Jeremy Saffer, creator of Daughters of Darkness by JP While it is always fun to interview musicians, there are many, many other forms of creative people in the Metal industry and we at Metal-Rules.com often try to chat with these folks. In this case I spoke on-line with Mr…
Interview with Mark Weiss, author/creator of The Decade That Rocked
Interview with Mark Weiss, author/creator of The Decade That Rocked by JP From conception to when this book rolled off the presses, how long did this project take? I first signed the contract with Insight Editions seven years ago. It was to be a book of my photographs of bands…
Weiss, Mark-The Decade That Rocked (Book Review)
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: 2020, Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP It can be said that Hard Rock and Metal fans are an obsessive bunch. Not only do they know the names of their favourite artists, songs, band names and so on but they also know the year those albums came out,…
Espedal, Tore E. (Ed, w. Ulver) Wolves Evolve-The Ulver Story (Book review)
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: 2020, House Of Mythology Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I feel a little bit like an outsider reviewing this book. I’m not the world’s biggest Ulver fan. Like many fans, their radical changes in sound and style from album to album have left me in the dark. …
Interview with Peter Beste, creator of the book Defenders Of The Faith
When did you first come up with the idea about doing a visual history of the battle vest? In 2015 on the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise it occurred to me that I should photograph interesting metal vests and make a book out of them. Within a few months the…
Beste, Peter- Defenders Of The Faith (Book Review)
November 2019 Released: 2019 Publisher: Sacred Bones Books Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP This month I reviewed a photographic visual history of Black Metal demo cassettes called ANALOGUE BLACK TERROR. In that review I said it had to be one of the least colorful books about Metal in my library. By…
Simoulin, Jean-Analogue Black Terror (Book review)
November 2019 Released: December 2019 Publisher: Nuclear War Now Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP This month I reviewed Peter Beste’s photographic visual history of Battle Vests, called DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH. In that review I said it had to be one of the most colorful books about Metal in my…
Kreator + Sepultura + Soilwork + Aborted @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Kreator + Sepultura + Soilwork + Aborted @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London March 2, 2017 Review by Torbjørn ‘Toby’ Jørstad Photography by Michelle Murphy
Cradle of Filth @ KOKO, London
Cradle of Filth + Ne Obliviscaris + She Must Burn @ KOKO, London 23rd October 2015 Review by Jacob Ovington Photography + Videos by Jo Blackened www.facebook.com/Altercarnated.Photography