Metal & High Heels Podcast - Metal, Lifestyle And Entertainment.

We all miss festivals, but have you ever thought about how we experience them as women? Should all festivals have women-only camping areas? And are there even enough female musicians good enough to be on festival billings? In this episode, Kiki, Pia, and Steffi discuss their experiences at festivals, how important it is to have more and more women on festival stages, and how we can make female musicians more visible. This is our last episode before our first-ever summer break. We will be back in September but, until then, you can give our other episodes a listen. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

Many games have included metal music in their soundtrack and their concept. Of Bird & Cage started the other way around. Composer Arnold Nesis tells Kiki and Pia about how he and his metal band wrote an album and decided to turn it into a story-driven video game. After discussing the game and the music, we discuss important subjects from the overlap between music and gaming, like financing, licensing, and why the music industry as it is now can't tap into the wealth of gamers around the world. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

Leoni is Head of Media Relations and Tiffany is Head of Marketing in one of the biggest record labels in heavy music, Nuclear Blast. We had the pleasure of talking to them about their work, sexism in Metal, and marketing strategies for newcomer bands. The fact that women have always been a part of the heavy music scene and belong in Metal is apparently still not anchored in the brain of many metalheads. Leo and Tiff are doing a great job standing up to sexist comments in the social media posts of Nuclear Blast. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

It had been too long since the last time we had Marcela Bovio on the podcast, so there was A LOT to catch up on. So many things have happened in her life and with her music and although not all of them have been positive, Marcela is stronger than ever and back with a new band and their first release! Tune in for a very personal and intimate chat, where we talk about Marcela's musical work, a dark period in her personal life, and how the support of her Patreon community helped her come out stronger on the other side. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

On our 6th minisode, Kiki, Pia, and Steffi talk about their favorite releases of the first three months of 2021. We mention PHANTOM ELITE, EPICA, SIRENIA, ARCHITECTS, TO KILL ACHILLES, LANDMVRKS, AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS, ANNISOKAY, ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN, DREAMSHADE, and SOEN. Guest sound editor: Savvier Nelson Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS impressed us with the singles they released until now. Pia already listened to the album "Within Each Lies The Other" - which will be out on March 26th, 2021 - and asked a lot of questions! Kiki asked about the musical background, feminism in metal, and marketing strategies. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

Kiki and Steffi join forces to analyze "Omega", the 8th studio album of one of their favorite bands, Dutch Symphonic Prog Metal band EPICA. Listen to them agree and disagree and tell us what you think about it! Later in the episode, singer Simone Simons talks to Kiki and shares a lot of insight into the production of the album, what was happening in the five years in-between releases, and how the pandemic affected the band members financially. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

We've known Sophia Aslanides since 2013 and have happily watched her band SEASON OF GHOSTS grow throughout these years. Our latest talk with her and her partner in music and life, Zombie Sam, was entertaining and informative as we discussed different aspects of live streaming: from community building to business. Tune in to learn how SEASON OF GHOSTS streams live on YouTube and how the two digital marketers work together behind the scenes of their music. Additionally, Kiki offers some insight about streaming on Twitch and why she thinks Discord (and not Tik Tok) is the new social media star - mostly because, unlike on the usual social platforms, there are no brands selling you things, people can connect more intimately in a safe space, and have less pressure to show a picture-perfect life. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

Kiki, Pia, and Steffi put their heads together to figure out if what they are doing with Metal & High Heels is still necessary in today's world. This episode is not an existential crisis - or is it? - but it certainly gave us a new appreciation for what we do and refreshed our motivation to keep doing it. Listen in as we go through the different categories of Music Journalism, our perspectives as consumers and producers in this industry, and tell stories about what we've been doing since even before we started Metal & High Heels in 2013. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

In a new episode of the Metal & High Heels Podcast, Pia and Steffi welcome GENUS ORDINIS DEI-bassist Steven F. Olda to talk about the Symphonic Death Metal band's latest album. "Glare Of Deliverance" was released worldwide on December 4, 2020, via Eclipse Records and produced by Tommaso Monticelli. It is a series of ten individual songs, each with its own music video. These "episodes" combine in sequence like a short film or television series that tells the story of a young woman named Eleanor, who is persecuted by the Holy Inquisition. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

The three of us talk about our highlights from 2020, whether we attended concerts, and what we are looking forward to in the new year - more details in the show notes! The more we talk, the more we consider changing the name of our magazine - and adding the core to the metal. Because our taste in music has changed over the years. What do you think? ;)

We've known PERSONA for a while, at least vocalist Jelena Dobric and guitar player Melik Khalifa. The couple moved from Tunisia to Germany two years ago and reformed their band there. They're currently writing music and recording songs for their third, still-untitled album. Therefore, they started a crowdfunding campaign with a lot of cool perks. For those of you who want to know how PERSONA sound nowadays, there is already a video online for the first single 'Alpha'. The music, once again, transformed and became more modern. Pia and Steffi talked to Jelena and the new drummer Simon Schröder about everything that happened since our last chat at Female Metal Event 2017.

It's never too late to promote the impressive work of incredible women like Kristine Kruta. The cellist is also the musical director of LITTLE KRUTA, the women's orchestra that released the METALLICA-cover album "Justice" in 2019. In this episode, Kristine tells us all about her musical upbringing, how Chesky Records contacted her to make "Justice" happen, and how is lifting other women up everywhere she goes. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of music and entertainment has been searching for new concepts and trying them out. In this new episode of the podcast, we talk about some of the new kinds of live shows and performances that are taking place nowadays. We discuss the first two episodes of the Finnish travel-meets-Metal show Tuska Utopia and the difference between watching it live along with other metal-heads and watching it on demand - in double isolation. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

It had been a very long time, since we had talked to Heidi Parviainen about her band DARK SARAH. We had the pleasure to talk to her for an hour about the band's latest album "Grim", which came out in the middle of the global pandemic and the whole process of producing it and releasing it. Heidi also tells us about how she's become a business woman and is building a brand around the music project with merchandise of all sorts. Listen to the Finnish singer talk about her musical background and the future of DARK SARAH. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

We had two interviews with THE CHARM THE FURY: First one with Caroline Westendorp in April 2017, shortly after "The sick, dumb & happy was released. The second one with Matthijs Tieken in July 2018, shortly before their split in November 2018.

Pia and Kiki get together to talk about the Dutch Deathcore band THE CHARM THE FURY. Like on our other band specials, we talk about the band's history, their releases, and the interviews we've had with them over the years. Then, sadly, we also talk about their disbanding. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

AYREON's new album “Transitus” is 82 minutes long and tells a long and important story, so it makes sense to have a popular storyteller: actor Tom Baker - who was the 4th Dr. Who! The 10th album of Arjen Lucassen's project was released by the end of September and features a lot of famous musicians and singers. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

On a new minisode, Kiki, Pia, and Steffi bring you their perspectives on the following releases: ESKIMO CALLBOY - "MMXX" GHOSTKID EIVØR - "Segl" FIT FOR A KING - "The Path" EPICA - "The Quantum Enigma - B-sides" LONG DISTANCE CALLING - "How Do We Want To Live?" OCEANS OF SLUMBER - "Oceans of Slumber" IN HEARTS WAKE - "Kaliyuga" LUX GRAVES - "Sex & Superstition" LEECHCRAFT - "Thoughts of the plague" Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment

The Israeli progressive Metal band SCARDUST is releasing a new album called "Strangers" on October 30th, 2020 - the perfect occasion to talk to them again. Singer Noa and drummer Yoav tell us about the concept behind the album, the cover art, the people involved, and the difficulties of recording it in the middle of the global pandemic. Jingle by MERCY ISLE. www.metal-and-highheels.com Metal, Lifestyle & Entertainment