On Friday, 11th February 2011 Home of Metal joined the celebrations at Scruffy Murphys for the rock pub’s 10th Birthday. This was celebrated in true metal fashion with a night of live doom and stoner metal featuring Birmingham’s very own Sally.
We’ brought along photographer Steve .
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Home of Metal joined forces with 2011’s edition of Flatpack Festival to bring together an evening with Chris Needham who also did a Q&A after the screening of the now cult classic. film in which he stars.
“The plot: Chris Needham, a 17 year-old Thrash Metal .
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The Home of Metal Open Days were like an ‘Antiques Roadshow’ for Heavy Metal fans, inviting fans to bring their memorabilia and stories and to contribute to the ever-growing Home of Metal Digital Archive, helping build a new collection.
At least 80 volunteers were engaged in .
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Over a 4-year period artist Chris Coekin has produced beautifully detailed photographs and recorded sounds on the shop floor of a heavy industrial factory. Home of Metal held an exhibition of his work at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Taking inspiration from the 19th-century trade union banners, Coekin .
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HOME OF METAL: 40 years of Heavy Metal and it’s unique birthplace
Home of Metal celebrated the bands that put Birmingham and the Black Country on the musical map. Over four years, Home of Metal scoured the UK and beyond for relics, artefacts, memorabilia and interesting .
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Capsule explored the impact Heavy Metal has had on visual art with ‘You Should Be Living: The Visual Language of Heavy Metal’. Inviting international artists and commissioning a dynamic new piece of work by Napalm Death founder Nicholas Bullen and French artist Damien Deroubaix, Capsule highlighted .
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Working with highly regarded artists Juneau Projects, Home of Metal hosted a number of quality projects for families to play music, make costumes and learn something new about their hometown.
Over the Home of Metal Weekender, The Vintage Mobile Cinema parked outside Dudley Museum and Art .
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BE TRUE TO YOUR OBLIVION
An artist hugely inspired by Heavy Metal, Capsule invited former Turner Prize nominee Mark Titchner to talk at the Metal Symposium in 2007 and have maintained a strong relationship with this artist throughout the Home of Metal project. ‘BE TRUE TO .
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Hell Bent For Leather: Judas Priest and the Heavy Metal Look
The historic home of leatherworking took a look at ‘the look’ of Heavy Metal and its most famous sons of Rock, Judas Priest.
Dressed top-to-toe in an awe-inspiring mixture of shining leather and gleaming studs and .
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Dudley is renowned for its geology and the Black Country for the ingenuity and skill of its craftspeople. Home of Metal celebrates the links between metal manufacturing in the Black Country and Heavy Metal music.
The ‘Metal’ exhibition at Dudley Museum and Art Gallery celebrated the .
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Thursday 21st July 2011 saw Judas Priest return to the Midlands for their HOMECOMING gig at the Wolverhampton Civic as part of their worldwide Epitaph tour.
Judas Priest’s career has spanned over 40 years and has remained at an all time high, including recent Grammy Award .
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Bantock House Museum held an exhibition called ‘The Part They Played’ which was included in the Home of Metal programme of events. The exhibition brought to light the contribution made to the war effort in the 1930s and 1940s by Wolverhampton’s metal industries.
Many of Wolverhampton’s .
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Home of Metal put on a series of cinematic events in its ‘Metal on Film’ programme. It was a juggernaut of Heavy Metal cinema, blazing a trail across the Black Country with an awesome programme of documentaries, rare archive, late-night horror and special guests. The .
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As part of the Home of Metal Festival the Black Country Living Museum celebrated the metal industries that brought fame to the Black Country. The story of the Black Country is distinctive because of the scale, drama, intensity and variety of the industrial might that .
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Home of Metal Black Country Weekender
Home of Metal let loose across The Black Country to continue its celebration of the music that was born there. The public joined in the fun with great Heavy Metal related activities, film screenings, exhibitions and live music during the .
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Home of Metal proudly hosted the UK’s very first Heavy Metal conference. International leaders in the field of Metal studies gathered in the genre’s birthplace for the first time. Delegates traveled from Europe, South America, USA and the Middle East.
The international conference, a key part .
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Reverberation: the art of bashing metal then and now
Working together with Bilston Craft Gallery, Home of Metal presented outstanding historic examples of the Black Country’s metalworking traditions in conjunction with exciting new contemporary practice in metal. The Bilston Craft Gallery demonstrated local excellence in design .
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Home of Metal formed part of The Public’s Art of Noise exhibitions programme. This featured a range of work from local, national and international artists that explored the relationship between sound, music and the visual arts.
The exhibition included a collection of photographs by renowned .
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