Rick Brindle

It's Not For Everyone  is a military memoir the like of which you've never read before, and for a limited time, you can read about the RAF Regiment's dark underbelly for free. Download your free copy now! What do you do when your dream job turns into a nightmare? Rick Brindle was a third generation military child. His father and grandfather served their whole lives in the Army, and all he wanted to do was join up. But for Rick it was more than just the job. Growing up on Army estates in Germany, he wanted to keep hold of the sheltered lifestyle that he’d enjoyed all through his childhood. Having left school, and after three years of trying and failing to become an officer in the Army, Rick was still determined to pursue a career in the armed forces. So in 1989 he joined the RAF Regiment as an Airman. Life in the Regiment, though, was a world apart from being a forces dependent, and Rick’s dream quickly became toxic. Facing a culture of bullying, beatings, verbal abuse and s...

I’d have to say, my sleeping bag. I served in the RAF Regiment. When I was going through Basics, I had this bad boy as my sanctuary. Your sleeping bag was the one thing that you absolutely kept dry, and they absolutely never got into with wet clothes. Even if you had to do the soul destroying thing of taking off your soaking wet camouflage, getting in your sleeping bag, and putting your cold wet clothes back on when you woke up. Once your tucked up in your fart sack, you’ve got one, two, maybe even three hours of recharge time, and you emerge feeling invincible. When I was posted to a squadron, I got an even better one. Warm as hell, and inside your bergen it crammed down into a stuff sack, and used with a bivi bag instead of the poncho-type bivi between two trees. Your issue sleeping bag, an absolute life saver. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

Amazon have announced an increase in printing costs, which means that I've had to increase the prices of some of my print books on some of the Amazon sites. The price rises are as small as I can make them, and absolutely out of my control. Apologies to all of my readers. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

  What are the best rock/heavy metal bands playing live? For me... Of all time, Dio Sadly, we won’t see such things again, so right now, I’ll go for these: Saxon Status Quo Judas Priest Nickelback AC/DC The Rolling Stones And if you want to read about a great live band, look no further than Cold Steel. Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

  My latest novel, currently titled Sister Alex, is under construction. It's a post apocalyptic story about a transgender called Alex, and her fight for both acceptance and survival. I'm working though the editor's report and comments, and I hope to publish as soon as it's ready. In the meantime, try my other books... Cold Steel on the Rocks We Are Cold Steel Cold Steel and the Underground Boneyard It's Not For Everyone

Ah, the big three. Well, my opinion, and it’s purely subjective. From top to bottom for me is Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin. And I’ll tell you why. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath, for me, are the absolute top of the heap with these three bands. The first Sabbath album I bought was Seventh Star, then the Dio albums, then the Tony Martin ones as they came out, then Born Again, and only then did I listen the the Ozzy ones. But you know what, I really don’t care about the lineup, because they’re all amazing, all awesome slabs of mega metal. Whoever was in the band, I just got it, I got their message, and their music just spoke to me every time. Each different lineup has got its own magic, and I love every one of their albums. Black Sabbath rule! Deep Purple So, number two on my list. My first Purple album was Perfect Strangers, and didn’t they look super-cool in 1984? I loved Perfect Strangers, then I got The House of Blue Light, which I didn’t like quite so much, and then I got in...

Cold Steel on the Rocks,  the first book in the Cold Steel trilogy, the one that started the most outrageous metal journey on the planet, features right now in the June 2023 issue of Metal Hammer. Pirates and heavy metal in the same book? You know it! 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 ...