Pewter known as "trifling metal" or "trifle", was used for holloware and is made up of fine metal with approximately 4% lead. The last type of pewter, known as "lay" or "ley" metal, was used for items that were not in contact with food or drink. It consisted of tin with 15% lead. These three alloys were used with little variation until the 20th century. Older pewters with higher lead content are heavier, tarnish faster, and oxidation gives them a darker silver-gray color. Pewters containing lead are no longer used in items that will come in contact with the human body
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! United Kingdom, and combines metal guitar riffs, disco backing and conspicuous drum stomps. Throughout the album, there are what AllMusic's Ned Raggett described as "intriguing surprises," including multiple moody goth and post-punk elements. Influences of rap, heavy metal and the band's early influence of punk rock are spliced with numerous "found" auto artefacts "collected from all over the junk-culture landscape," including Motown snippets, adverting slogans and the "play-by-play call of a John Elway touchdown pass. The music press found the band's sound hard to categorise. Band member Graham Crabb explained: "Nobody's really come up with a description of what we