November 3

01.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Jekyll and Hyde
02.GREENLEAF: Different horses
03.THE DOGS: You drive
04.WARMEN: Alone
05.DELAIN: Dance with the devil
06.BLACK DEBBATH: Den femte statsmakt
07.KOSMODOME: Turmoil
08.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Challenge the wind
09.DREAM THEATER: Night terror
10.HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD: Hollywood forever
11.IRON MAIDEN: Running free
12.HATEBREED: Outro + I will be heard
13.ENSLAVED: Isa
14.TRUEANDTRUE: Pin my gaze
15.ENFORCED: A leap into the dark
16.200 STAB WOUNDS: Ride the flatline
17.GATECREEPER: Flamethrower
18.EXTOL: Labyrinth of ill
19.BLACK HILL COVE: Become the master
20.THE HALO EFFECT: Detonate
21.CRADLE OF FILTH: Malignant perfection
22.KEEP OF KALESSIN: Dragon iconography

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 27 - Homer

Kim Aron from Homer visited our studio

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.SEVENTH CRYSTAL: Path of the absurd
03.ANVIL: Metal on metal
04.LAST AUTUMN’S DREAM: Just one more time
05.MYLES KENNEDY: Say what you will
06.KISS: Hotter than hell
07.HOMER: Skaters paradise
08.HOMER: Go for the jump
09.HOMER: Scared
10.HOMER: The dream
11.LACUNA COIL: I’m not afraid
12.KVELERTAK: Endling
13.ABHORRATION: The grace of immolation
14.SOILWORK: Stålfågel
15.IN FLAMES: Only for the weak
17.ARCH ENEMY: The watcher
18.KEEP OF KALESSIN: Dragon iconography

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 20

01.GREEN DAY: American idiot
02.STRYPER: Rhyme of time
03.MARKO HIETALA: Frankenstein’s wife
04.SMASH INTO PIECES: Heroes are calling
05.MOTÖRHEAD: In the name of tragedy
06.FISH: The company
07.D.A.D: The ghost
08.CHIODOS: Flagpole sitta
09.KALANDRA: The state of the world
10.SEIGMEN: Tønsberg
11.BLOMST: Ypper
12.BATHTUB SHITTER: Hip is the main
13.EXODUS: War is my shepherd
14.PICTURE ANN: Shore sermons
15.BARATHRUM: Death by steel
16.NILE: Under the curse of the one god
17.INTER ARMA: Violet seizures
18.SYN: Demons come
19.AS I LAY DYING: We are the dead
20.BEHEMOTH: Cursed angel of doom
21.OLD MAN’S CHILD: The last chapter
22.BEASTCRAFT: Beastcraft manifest
23.KIRKEBRANN: Englemaker

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 13 - Høstsabbat

Preben Astrup & Elisabeth Horne from Høstsabbat visited our studio

01.GHOST: Dance macabre
02.MIKE TRAMP: Lights & thunder
03.FIND ME: Can’t wait here anymore
04.UFO: Melinda
05.THE DOGS: I’m done with fucking, I just want to dance
06.PINK CREAM 69: Shout!
Høst..
07.UMA: Enthralled by enslavement
08.HÄXER: Heksedans
09.DREAD WITCH: Leech
10.BARREN WOMB: Bug out bag
11.SÂVER: Formless
12.MONKEY3: K.I
13.EYES: Generation L
14.PURPLE HILL WITCH: Astral booze
..Sabbat
15.MASSACRE: The colour out of space
16.ENSLAVED: Midgards eldar

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 6

01.GAMMA RAY: Heaven can wait
02.POWERWOLF: Sinners of the seven seas
03.SLOMOSA: Red thundra
04.HOMER: Go for the jump
05.NIGHTWISH: Lanternlight
06.SABATON: Soldier of heaven
07.METALITE: Cyberdome
08.PAIN: Go with the flow
09.TREMONTI: The mother, the earth and I
10.BAILTAK: Heksesabbat
11.TARJA: I walk alone
12.WITHIN TEMPTATION: The reckoning
13.EUROPE: Start from the dark
14.WHITECROSS: Living in a lost world
15.WYRUZ: Chaos
16.UNDER THE OAK: Inner truth of denial
17.JINJER: Rogue
18.WICKD: No rest
19.SYBREED: System debaser
20.BEYOND DYSTOPIA: Silence
21.HEIMLAND: Iskald raatten jord
22.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Valotus
23.NON EST DEUS: Babylon

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 29 - Under The Oak

Jostein Sandaker og Marius Paulsberg Vedal from Under The Oak visited our studio

01.FATE: Love on the rox
02.YESTERDAZE: Make my day
03.SAHG: More of nothing
04.NAZARETH: Busted
05.THE NAIL: Broken
06.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Walking downtown
07.UNDER THE OAK: When the sirens call
08.UNDER THE OAK: Grim Reaper
09.UNDER THE OAK: Death by cutlery
10.UNDER THE OAK: Nightmare
11.FUNHOUSE: Come together
12.SCHIZOPHRENIA: Cranial disintegration
13.IMMOLATION: An act of god
14.MUNICIPAL WASTE: Crank the heat
15.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Summoned for sacrifice
16.DOG TIRED: Eyes of the divine
17. EQUILIBRIUM: Gnosis
18.WINTERFYLLETH: To the edge of tyranny
19.INTER ARMA: Southern man

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan Erik Johansen

September 22

01.SAMSON: Take it like a man
02.POWERTRIPPIN’: Rats in a cage
03.RITUAL: Chichikov Bogd
04.LED ZEPPELIN: Good times bad times
05.CHEMTRAILS OSLO: Beautiful indifference
06.RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Why don’t you love me
07.MEER: Take me to the river
08.HELLOWEEN: Dr. Stein
09.JERRY CANTRELL: Vilified
10.FUNHOUSE: World turning
11.DEEP PURPLE: Speed king
12.MILLENCOLIN: No cigar
13.CALIGULA’S HORSE: The stormchaser
14.ROOT: Legacy of ancestors
15.JINJER: Someone’s daughter
16.SERVANT: Death
17.SCHAMMASH: Rays like razors
18.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Hostage
19.ASAGRAUM: Impure fire
20.CARPATHIAN FOREST: Death triumphant
21.HATE ANGEL: Morningstar
22.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 15

01.ANTHRAX: Metal thrashing mad
02.SEIGMEN: Dyret
03.DAN DARK: Bring down the wall
04.INGLORIOUS: I am the fire
05.GLORYHAMMER: The land of the unicorns
06.APOCALYPTICA: Harvester of sorrow
07.GRAND MAGUS: Skybound
08.SERIOUS BLACK: High and low
09.TUNGSTEN: King of shadows
10.FIREWIND: Salvation day
11.SONATA ARCTICA: California
12.SOILWORK: This momentary bliss
13.EVIG NATT: Når lyset svikte
14.NATTSJÄL: The last voyage
15.ODIO DEUS: The con man
16.ELDAMAR: Akt I; …with forces good and evil
17.DEN SAAKALDTE: Å skjende en engel
18.TULUS: Frossen skog
19.MORK: Utbrent
20.BÖDEL: Grisarna och snuten
21.PONTE DEL DIAVOLO: Nocturnal veil

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 8 - Octohawk

Steffen Overaa from Octohawk visited our studio

01.AC/DC: Who made who
02.RITUAL: The inn of the haunted owl
03.JADED HEART: Intuition
04.JOE LYNN TURNER: 14 years
05.NIGHTWISH: The day of…
06.CYHRA: Aslight
07.EVERGREY: Falling from the sun
08.JUDAS PRIEST: Rocka rolla
09.MEER: Chains of changes
10.BLOMST: Dans til du dør
11.ERADIKATED: Hazardous
12.OZZY OSBOURNE: I don’t want to change the world
13.OCTOHAWK: Arcane dawn
14.OCTOHAWK: Decode
15.OCTOHAWK: Momentum
16.ATENA: Hard day
17.AURA NOIR: Hell’s fire
18.KOLDBRANN: Fortærer av minne og form
19.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: Labyrinth of disfigurement

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 1 - Drammen Metalfest

Ola Flatebø Sørensen og Jonathan Hamre from Drammen Metalfest visited our studio

01.BON JOVI: Runaway
02.MARILYN MANSON: Raise the red flag
03.VAN HALEN: It’s about time
04.GIRLSCHOOL: Race with the devil
05.AGENT STEEL: Agents of steel
Drammen..
06.KINGSEEKER: Butterflies
07.FORCEHEAD HORSEHEAD: Iri
08.OCTOHAWK: Quantum age
09.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: The wolf of Bedburg
10.ZUSTAND NULL: Existence nihil
11.ASPHERIUM: Architects of the hollowed
12.THEFALLS: Nadir (I)
13.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host
…Metalfest
14.FIRTAN: Contra vermes
15.ATENA: Full force to the heart
16.CANCER: Tasteless incest

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 25 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knut Ivar’s top 5 of Wacken Open Air 2024

01.SAXON: 747 (strangers in the night)
02.GREENLEAF: Avalanche
03.AVATARIUM: Long black waves
04.LAUREN HARRIS: Steal your fire
05.KOSMODOME: Fatigue
06.W.A.S.P.: Love machine
07.BLACK TOOTH: Iron clad
08.YOB: Original face
Wacken…
09.BLUES PILLS: Birthday
10.WATAIN: Malfeitor
11.MESSIAH: Choir of horrors
12.VREID: Pitch black
13.BLIND GUARDIAN: Violent shadows
..Open Air revisited.
14.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits
15.INSOMNIUM: While we sleep
16.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Shining
17.THEFALLS: Patterns emerge (II)
18.IN VAIN: To the gallows
19.DWAAL: All masters, all servants

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 18 - Hellbotn Metalfest

01.BONFIRE: Starin’ eyes
02.YESTERDAZE: Beehive
03.HAMMERFALL: Freedom
04.DEVIL’S TRAIN: American woman
05.THE DOGS: I’m done with fucking, I just want to dance
06.POWERTRIPPIN’: Rock on
07.GLORYHAMMER: The land of unicorns
08.RITUAL: Chichikov bogd
09.CHARLOTTE WESSELS: Dopamine
10.PETRA: He came, he saw, he conquered
11.MEER: Golden circle
12.CUSTARD: Black Friday
13.WARFARER: Heir uncrowned
14.PICTURE ANN: A dark stretch between there and home
Hellbotn..
15.FUNERAL HARVEST: Fire sermon
16.LOWEST CREATURE: Under the night sky
17.SLAGMAUR: Lange knivers natt
18.NEKROMANTHEON: Rise, vulcan spectre
19.TORMENTOR: Damned grave
20.HORRIFIER: Hooks in flesh
21.SMOULDER: Spellforger
22.NACHASH: Fleshtemple incineration
23.SODOM: Remember the fallen
..Metalfest.

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 11 - Midgardsblot

Silje Brekke from Midgardsblot Festival visited our studio.

01.GRAND MAGUS: Kingslayer
02.KALANDRA: Are you ready?
03.AMON AMARTH: Shield wall
04.INCULTER: Diabolic forest
05.VADER: Helleluyah!!! (God is dead)
06.GÅTE: Ulveham
07.MORTAL FEAR: Capital punishment
08.TESTAMENT: Do or die
09.VULTURE INDUSTRIES: This hell is mine
10.EREB ALTOR: Vargtimman
11.DESTROYER 666: Wildfire
12.SEIGMEN: Berlin
13.NATTVERD: Det stormer i Norge
14.TEXAS CORNFLAKE MASSACRE: Give them water guns
15.LUMSK: Ormin lange
16.UNLEASHED: The king lost his crown
17.DWAAL: Pseudanthium aionios
18.EMPEROR: Into the infinity of thoughts

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 4

01.SLAYER: South of heaven
02.FIXATION: Random acts of violence
03.HALESTORM + I PREVAIL: Can you see me in the dark?
04.JULIE CHRISTMAS: Silver dollars
05.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: No one knows
06.BAILTAK: Kjemp
07.HAMMERFALL: The end justifies
08.NAZARETH: Beggars day
09.GRAND MAGUS: Hammer of the north
10.NEW HORIZON: Before the dawn
11.SIMONE SIMONS: In love we rust
12.ASCENSION THEORY: The way of death
13.EISREGEN: Schmutzliebe
14.ALARM: For lost times
15.NILE: Chapter for not being hung upside down on a stake in the underworld and made to eat feces by the four apes
16.PICTURE ANN: Indistinct
17.DESTROYER 666: Black city- black fire
18.ILLDISPOSED: Lay low
19.DISINCARNATE: Stench of paradise burning
20.AS I LAY DYING: The cave we fear to enter
21.ALCEST: Flamme jumelle
22.1349: Maggot fetus
23.AMON AMARTH: Guardians of Asgard

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 28

01.RAVEN: On and on
02.ACCEPT: Frankenstein
03.KAASIN: We are one
04.DEEP PURPLE: Any fule kno that
05.ISSA: Armed & dangerous
06.CRYSTAL VIPER: See you in hell
07.MYLES KENNEDY: Say what you will
08.MR. BIG: Addicted to that rush
09.BEASTO BLANCO: Machine girl
10.URIAH HEEP: Sweet Lorraine
11.KALANDRA: The state of the world
12.ZELBO: Small town girl
13.PRIMORDIAL: No grave deep enough
14.NOCTURNUS AD: Hod, the stellar light
15.CULT OF FIRE: Kali ma
16.EVILYN: Limits
17.ULVEHUNGER: Consumed by hate
18.DEVOURER: Spirit of the north
19.VIO-LENCE: Calling in the coroner
20.VEMOD: True north beckons

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 21 - Beyond The Gates

Radio Fresh FM
Northern Metal Radio
21st July 2024  

Part of the show was about Beyond The Gates 2024

01.DIO: Rainbow In the dark
02.WICKD: No rest
03.UNLEASH THE ARCHER: Green & glass
04.SILVERSTEIN: The ballad of Wilhelm Fink
Beyond…
05.WHOREDOM RIFE: A thousand graves endured
06.WATAIN: Reaping death
07.BLACK ANVIL: Ten talons deep
08.MAYHEM: Bad blood
09.TRELLDOM: Between the world
10.RITUAL DEATH: Black metal terror
11.VENOM: Don’t burn the witch
12.BEHEMOTH: The deathless sun
13.DEATH SS: Heavy demons
14.OLD TOWER: Storms of the dragon’s spells
15.OWL WOODS GRAVES: Return of Satan
16.DØDHEIMSGARD: The snuff dreams are made of
17.DJEVEL: Kronet av en væpnet haand
18.ENSLAVED: Forest dweller
19.AURA NOIR: Hell’s fire
20.VREID: Flammen
21.SATYRICON: Mother north
..The Gates.
22.BATHORY: Raise the dead

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 14 - Wacken Open Air

All the show was about Wacken Open Air 2024

01.THE DARKNESS: I believe in a thing called love
02.EVILE: The unknown
03.ARMORED SAINT: Mad house
04.RAGE: Days of December
05.MESSIAH: Christus hypercubus
06.KK’S PRIEST: One more shot at glory
07.INCANTATION: Fury’s manifesto
08.ACCEPT: The reckoning
09.SCORPIONS: Rock you like a hurricane
10.TRELLDOM: Til minne
11.BLUES PILLS: High class woman
12.EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY: Orgies of the inseminated
13.LIV KRISTINE: Love decay
14.EINHERJER: Odin owns ye all
15.BLIND GUARDIAN: Bright eyes
16.VREID: Pitch black
17.TANKARD: Rectifier
18.EMIL BULLS: The devil made me do it
19.BOKASSA: The ending starts today
20.TESTAMENT: Low
21.BEHEMOTH: Blow your trumpets Gabriel
22.MISTER MISERY: Hand of death
23.MAYHEM: Buried by time and dust

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 7

01.ALCATRAZZ: God blessed video
02.P.O.D.: I got that
03.POWERWOLF: 1589
04.VAN CANTO: Rebellion
05.VICTORY: Count on me
06.THE HELLACOPTERS: Stay with you
07.EVERGREY: Cold dreams
08.TUSMØRKE: Dwarven lord
09.TESSIA: Voidwalker
10.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Black wizard
11.OVERKILL: Promises
12.THE TROOPS OF DOOM: The impostor king
13.MESSIAH: Morte al dente
14.ALTERTUM: Glimmer of steel
15.UNLEASHED: Violent ecstasy
16.ATVM: Cancer
17.BEHEMOTH: No sympathy for fools
18.ZORNHEYM: None for all
19.AURA NOIR: Hades rise
20.BOLT THROWER: The IVth crusade

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 30

01.ACCEPT: Fast as a shark
02.PRAYING MANTIS: Defiance
03.LOCH VOSTOK: The great wide open
04.PEARL JAM: Down
05.NIGHTWISH: Dark chest of wonders
06.VANDEN PLAS: My icarian flight
07.DROPKICK MURPHYS: Rose tattoo
08.JULIE CHRISTMAS: Supernatural
09.GOTHMINISTER: I am the devil
10.BAD LUCK 13: White lines (don’t do it)
11.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Monsters
12.IQ: Until the end
13.BAILTAK: Finnmark
14.ILLDISPOSED: Spitting your pain
15.MESSIAH: Battle in the ancient north
16.EXPULSION: Lain hidden
17.NIFELHEIM: Possessed by evil
18.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Muuntautuja
19.ARCH ENEMY: Dead eyes see no future
20.AS I LAY DYING: Burden
21.INCANTATION: Impending diabolical conquest

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 23

01.WARLOCK: Burning witches
02.MARKO HIETALA: Left on Mars
03.BETTER LOVERS: The flowering
04.MARTY FRIEDMAN: Dead of winter
05.AIRBAG: Awakening
06.ROB ZOMBIE: We’re an American band
07.NOVA TWINS: Antagonist
08.METALLICA: Creeping death
09.DARK MILE: The boy
10.STONED: Homecoming
11.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Primal
12.EINHERJER: Deaf forever
13.ASINHELL: Desert of doom
14.DISKORD: Shivering, as we shed our hides
15.BATUSHKA: Yekteniya III
16.PESTILENCE: Sinister
17.MESSIAH: Living with a confidence
18.CAVALERA: Nightmares of delirium
19.GJENDØD: Død manns skygge
20.IMMORTAL: One by one
21.MORBID ANGEL: Blessed are the sick

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen