Rick Brindle

  Cold Steel on the Rocks , the first instalment in the hilarious 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 ...

  Hey, never say never, but I think probably not. Bronze is made by combining copper and tin. It’s an alloy of two other metals and it took centuries to perfect as a process, and while it’s still in use as a specialised metal, it was then superseded by iron as the better all round metal. All of which was a long time ago. The problem post-apocalypse, would likely be joining the sources of copper and tin, because they don’t tend to be found in the same places. So the first thing you’d need is extraction, followed by trade, followed by then re-learning how to make the stuff. I’m not saying that it would be impossible, and of course, we all imagine our own apocalypse, but I’d imagine that the survivors, which of course will include you, will most likely revert to scavenging what’s already available and picking up on the remnants of whatever fragments of ‘civilisation’ have also survived. And if you’ve got someone like Lord Humungus on your arse, you’ve probably got more pressing matter...