“Chronicles of Fire and Steel” — a musical novel.
Notes by Viktor Stahl on the life, work and adventures of the band Metallherz.
This section is an ongoing blog-novel where each chapter is published as a separate post.
It tells the story of Metallherz — the search for sound, the birth of the project, and the journeys of its characters, written as entries from Viktor Stahl’s personal diary.
The story unfolds chapter by chapter through illustrated notes about music, life, and the adventures of the band.
Start reading — the novel is still being written.
To be continued…
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Part I: Impulse (Intro). Chapter 1.0: Music of Silence.
Instead of a preface: about the piano, the author, and the birth of music. A prelude to the musical novella Metallherz.
Chapter 1.1: The Origin.
2012. This story wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for… but first things first. The awakening of rock music and...
Chapter 1.2: Kilometer Zero.
2014. The early period of Metallherz (then StahlHerz). Family and trio: two guitars, a drum machine, and Klara’s...
Chapter 1.4: Voices of the Wind.
Jürgen Stahl. Location: The skeleton of an unfinished high-rise. Height: Incompatible with sanity. Why extreme, risk,...
Chapter 1.5: Sky Level (Demon).
On the creation of the custom guitar Demon Metallherz in the skyscraper workshop of “StahlCraft Guitars.”
Chapter 1.6: The Chapel of the Ascension.
Sometimes a mystery begins not with what was found, but with what is missing. A vanished image, a gap in history —...
Chapter 1.7: The Breath of a Quiet Wind.
After the fire comes silence. But sometimes, in that silence, the body hears what the ear cannot — and the past...
Chapter 1.8: Rising Toward the Stars.
Beneath a new image, an older one remains. Between fire and silence lie the stars; between earth and sky — free fall....
Chapter 1.9: Beyond the Fall.
Sometimes, to hear music, you must first lose the ground beneath your feet. In free fall, Viktor crosses to the other...