Steel Edge, the colourful rock mag whose per month duvet was once collaged with footage of Bon Jovi, KISS, Skid Row, White Zombie and Dokken all the way through the mid-’80s and ‘90s, is again. To start with revealed by means of Sterling, it close in 2009 because of the waning acclaim for each print and the most commonly hair steel style Steel Edge excited by.
Steel Edge is now owned by means of Challenge M, the corporate in the back of different song and tradition retailers together with Revolver, Brooklyn Vegan, Goldmine, Inked and the Onerous Occasions.
At the moment, Steel Edge will probably be on-line handiest, and so they’re kicking off with an unique characteristic on bassist Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue (pictured). The 2019 Netflix biopic “The Grime” helped rekindle passion within the band and their ‘80s rock style.
“Again within the day, Steel Edge’s mixture of unique artist interviews, onstage, behind the curtain, in-the-studio and behind-the-scenes reporting, up to the moment information and top of the range pictures helped to outline the glance, sound and really feel of heavy song,” new Editor-in-Leader Richard Bienstock says in his debut editor’s letter. “Now, that particular voice and point of view is again.”
Bienstock, co-author of “Nöthin’ However a Excellent Time: The Uncensored Historical past of the ’80s Onerous Rock Explosion,” is a long-time journalist for Guitar International and different publications. He was once keen on Steel Edge’s authentic incarnation, noting, “as arduous rock and steel cycled thru adjustments and tendencies within the ’90s and 2000s, so did Steel Edge, maintaining with the days (hi Pantera…and Korn…and Slipknot…) … I will be able to say that the mag performed a not-insignificant function in my very own song schooling and fandom, in addition to my resulting profession as a song journalist and musician.”
Steel Edge was once first revealed by means of Sterling Publishing in 1985, beneath the auspices of founding editor was once Gerri Miller. Miller, a passionate and made up our minds journalist all the time armed with a digital camera, was once the guts and really public face of the mag, which ran for twenty-four years sooner than shuttering. Miller kicked the bucket in March, 2021, sparking social media tributes and condolences from KISS, Warrant, Nikki Sixx, Slaughter, Skid Row and plenty of different bands she championed over her years on the helm of Steel Edge.
After Miller’s reign, former editor-in-chief Paul Gargano took over Steel Edge within the ’90s and 2000s and remains to be concerned within the e-newsletter’s branding/advertising, retailer curation, products and extra.
In his editor’s letter, Bienstock teases the potential of “specials and collector’s editions, print and another way,” whilst “Steel Edge will proceed to stay it arduous ‘n’ heavy with in-depth reporting on rock legends, fresh icons and the next day’s stars, nowadays.”
Antique content material may also be to be had at the web site. “Since such a lot of of you may have been asking in regards to the articles you grew up studying, we’ve created a distinct Archive segment to reintroduce one of the absolute best interviews, reported options, artist roundups and extra from the name’s nearly 40-year historical past,” Bienstock says.
Archive interviews lately to be had come with conversations with Poison’s Bret Michaels, Alice Cooper, Metallica’s James Hetfield, Cinderella and Hanoi Rocks’ entrance guy Michael Monroe and extra.
New options will come with interviews with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Dee Snider, Mark Tremonti, Sebastian Bach, Kim Thayil, Ministry’s Al Jourgensen and extra.
