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.