We are often surprised by how many people with an interest in Wagner - and the Ring cycle in particular - also have an interest in Tolkien and the Lord Of The Rings. At the same time, we find a greater than expected number with an interest in heavy metal music (but then a number of metal legends have cited Wagner as an influence - even if "traditional metal" has structurally closer links to baroque).
Given this and that today is the beginning of probably the best European Heavy Metal festival this side of Wacken -
Bloodstock Open Air (BOA) and that Bloodstock was founded by Tolkien and heavy metal album artist
Paul Raymond Gregory we thought the following documentary might be of interest to someone.
