On this episode of the Woman Power Zone Podcast Ariel is joined by Lorraine Gill, a reiki master, massage therapist and queen of metal who has some fascinating stories to share.

Taist of Iron performed at the Keep It True Festival, headed by Oliver Weinzheimer in Lauda-Königshofen.

https://en.concerts-metal.com/concert_-_Keep_It_True_Festival_2018-41232.html

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We live in a culture that doesn’t allow us to wail, essentially, and I tend to be a stoic person to begin with. Heavy metal is a way for me to get out there and yell and scream, I can use my vocal chords in that way and it’s a cathartic release. I love the feeling of the pounding in my chest at a loud heavy metal concert, it’s got its own vibration.
• I’m fairly resistant, but if I’m willing to walk forward I can usually make just about anything happen. But I’m always resistant first, saying: “No, I can’t do that!” After some years off I said I’d never be able to sing metal again, but after a lot of building my vocal chords back up it turns out that I can, even doing some Ronnie James Dio songs.
• At a festival in Germany I was giving myself negative self-talk thinking people wouldn’t want to watch us, but there were thousands of people there. I looked down at the front row and saw a woman singing my words back to me. At the signing party later she handed me a copy her own album where she’d covered one of my songs and it’s a really fantastic version.
• Non-metal listeners thing of it as just noise, but it expresses so much. It pounds against me in a way that I really love, and when I’m in a group of people watching a metal show there’s an energy exchange between the musicians and the audience that is so powerful. It’s a very powerful form of music if you love it and there’s a lot of camaraderie in the metal world, especially in Europe – not so much here in the states – where they travel around Europe to festivals, it’s their life.

 

BEST MOMENTS

“Metal is really theatrical. The first concert I played they lowered my from the ceiling in a coffin.”
“Metal requires a lot of effort and it take a lot of energy, it’s kind of like giving birth.”
“I’m one of the mothers of obscure metal… or the grandma!”
“There’s a bit of misogyny in heavy metal, to be sure, but there are so many women singing metal.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

Contact the Taist of Iron page on Facebook and tell her you heard of her through Woman Power Zone or Facebook @LorraineGill.  Lorraine Gill began as a lead singer in 1982, began studying Reiki in 1987 and became a Massage Therapist in in 2008.

Socials:

Facebook: @LorraineGill and from there, you can send a message through messenger

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HOST GUEST

Ariel is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Empath and Psychic who has been involved in holistic healing since 1988. She is also an educator, speaker, author and mentor for empaths, spiritual seekers and medical professionals. To reach Ariel, go to www.arielhubbard.com, where you will be able to contact her directly.  Please let her know you heard her on the podcast and the assistance you need or question you have.

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