Metal Mystics Take Me!

A four year journey into the heart of Metal Music
What are the chances!

An unexpected musical encounter with the Melodic Music Band Wintersun played on a friends car cd both inspired and fuelled a special adventure that took me to a metal music festival in Germany where I shed old prejudices, discovered the magic of crowdsurfing and met music heroes Jari Mäenpää, Teemu Mäntysaari, Jukka Koskinen and Kai Hahtu.
Then on to Helsinki in Finland where I...

Experienced a powerful and unexpected form of Nature

Exchanged my comfort zone for faith and trust

Saw the Northern Lights by a Sacred Lake in Inari,

Found my inner artist and poet

Met Indigenous Sami folk

Listened to story telling stones

Found my inner story teller

Saw other worldly visions

Met one of my metal music Heroes, Teemu Mäntysaari, on the Helsinki Metro and had a great unforgettable guitar lesson with him

Got into Tuska Music Festival with just my bus pass

Experianced traditional perfect smoked saunas

Enjoyed some wild swimming

Drank clear sweet water in Finland

Visited the Hans Anderson museum in Denmark

Visited Santa Clause at the Arctic Circle

Experienced amazing metal music

And recalibrated my spiritual compass





...And then I wrote this journal.