Rick Brindle

Cold Steel on the Rocks , the first novel in the Cold Steel trilogy, is free to download from Amazon for a limited time. Get your free copy now. When the pirate Blackbeard buried his treasure, he could never have imagined that it would fall to the heavy metal band, Cold Steel, to come looking for it. Cold Steel, high-octane British rockers who came close to legendary status, until the release of their fourth album, when their excesses send them spiralling into terminal decline. Struggling small-time band manager Johnny Faslane, in the right place at the right time, lands the dream job of managing Cold Steel, and then has the seemingly impossible mission of turning the band around. Cold Steel’s singer, Maxwell Diabolo, claims to have a treasure map that he thinks will lead him to Blackbeard’s lost riches. With the band bent on a terrifying path of self-destruction, Johnny wonders if they will even complete the tour, much less get to the Caribbean to embark on a treasure hunt. Against al...

The Cold Steel trilogy is being advertised in this month's Decibel Magazine. Order one or all three from Amazon! Buried pirate treasure, concerts that affect world events, studio owners with a grudge, feral ex-soldiers, criminal gangs and separatists, godfathers and aristocrats are all thrown into the mix. Life in a metal band is never dull, and you can read about all of that with Cold Steel! Cold Steel on the Rocks   We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone  

The eagle-eyed among you will have seen that 'the players' page at the front of  Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard  described the Damas Infernales as Belles Infernales. This has now been corrected. Apologies to readers with early editions, I hope it didn't detract from your reading enjoyment. Cold Steel are back! Their new album has just been released. Their previously cancelled Spanish tour dates have been rearranged, with the female trio and Spain’s biggest metal band, Damas Infernales, supporting. Cold Steel’s biggest asset though, is Johnny Faslane, their brutally talented manager. But even Johnny can’t fully eliminate Cold Steel’s innate ability to spectacularly destroy their prospects, and even before their second concert ends, the tour is scrapped after an ill-advised trip back to the eighties, and the band are put into creative deep freeze by their record company. Only an unprecedented event and a lot of money can possibly turn their fortunes around. Like a fi...