January 2 - Top 2021

Our Personal top 5 of 2021

Jan-Erik Johansen:
05.FORTRESS: Devil’s wheel – Don’t Spare The Wicked
04.MANIMAL: Burn in hell – Armageddon
03.ACCEPT: Sucks to be you – Too Mean To Die
02.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits – Access All Worlds
01.WICKED SMILE: Wait for the night – Wait For The Night

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
05.ACCEPT: Too mean to die – Too Mean To Die
04.IRON MAIDEN: Stratego – Senjutsu
03.HELLOWEEN: Robot king – Helloween
02.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Inhumane harvest – Violence Unimagined
01.EXODUS: The beatings will continue – Persona Non Grata

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
05.THE CROWN: Let the hammering begin! – Royal Destroyer
04.EINHERJER: West coast groove – North Star
03.IRON MAIDEN: The writing on the wall – Senjutsu
02.VREID: Shadows of Aurora – Wild North West
01.HELLOWEEN: Skyfall – Helloween

Raymond Smith:
05.EXODUS: The years of death and dying – Persona Non Grata
04.HELLOWEEN: Indestructible – Helloween
03.HYPOCRISY: Children of the gray – Worship
02.CRADLE OF FILTH: Necromantic fantasies – Existence Is Futile
01.ACCEPT: Symphony of pain – Too Mean To Die

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Jan-Erik Johansen

November 28

01.RAMMSTEIN: Links 2 3 4
02.MAJESTICA: Glory of Christmas
03.BATTLE BEAST: Master of illusion
04.ATROCITY: People are people
05.ABSTRAKT ALGEBRA: Shadowplay
06.PERFECT PLAN: Don’t leave me here alone
07.RETURN: To the top
08.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
09.MERCURY CIRCLE: Call on the dark
10.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Chains of destiny
11.LEPROUS: From the flame
12.GIRLSCHOOL: When your blood runs cold
13.HATE: Saturnus
14.WE CAME AS ROMANS: Daggers
15.WOMBBATH: The age of death
16.KVESTA: Sadistic goat regime
17.MORK: Født til å herske
18.HYPOCRISY: Children of the gray
19.CADAVER: Reborn
20.MAYHEM: Falsified and hated
21.NECROPHAGOUS: Traitors and the pendulum
22.TESTAMENT: Throne of thorns

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 9 - Opeth

We had an interview that Jørn did with Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth when they visited Norway in September.

01.TESTAMENT: trial by fire
02.GAMMA RAY: fight
03.HONCHO: messenger messiah
04.PENDRAGON: no place for the innocent
05.PERSUADER: fire at will
06.DESTRUCTION: the calm before the storm
07.IRON MAIDEN: can I play with madness
08.MORNING: hour of joy
09.MANOWAR: king of kings
10.AMULET: profane wishes
11.EXODUS: raze
12.OPETH: Ghost of Perdition
13.OPETH: Isolation Years
14.OPETH: Beneath The Mire
15.NIDINGR: the wathtowers of the universe
16.PATHS OF POSSESSION: the butchers bargain
17.NILE: sacrifice unto sebek
18.TRIVIUM: pull harder on the strings of your martyr
19.ARCH ENEMY: carry the cross
20.DETONATOR: portals to uphobia
21.HYPOCRISY: warpath

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud
Engineer: Raymond Smith
Reporter
Jørn Livrud

September 25 - Jeff Urso

Vega had an interview with Jeff Urso.

01. PRIMAL FEAR: Silver & gold
02. DREAM THEATER: Pull me under
03. KINGS X: Stay
04. EL CACO: Substitute
05. AUDREY HORNE: Confessions & alcohol
06. GAIA EPICUS: Inside the storm
07. JEFF URSO: Straight ahead
08. JEFF URSO: Low down
09. THE CARBURETORS: Alright Alright
10. BORKNAGAR: The genuine pulse
11. TAD MOROSE: No mercy
12. MORGANA LEFAY: Hollow
13. CONCEPTION: Missionary man
14. HYPOCRISY: Craving for another killing
15. DESTRUCTION: The calm before the storm
16. FROSTHARDR: Koma
17. FORGERY: Know the pain
18. LIGHT THIS CITY: Letter to my abuser
19. SIEBENBÜRGEN: As legion rise
20. DECAPITATED: The empty throne
21. EISBLUT: Krankes herz
22. MINDGRINDER: Hellfire
23. STYGGMYR: Fallen angels

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Interviewer:
Vega Tanas
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

September 18

01. AC/DC: Who made who
02. MUNICIPAL WASTE: Unleash the bastards
03. S.I.N: Johnney’s running
04. CATHEDRAL: Tree of life & death
05. EWIGKEIT: The thought police
06. CRYSTAL BALL: He came to change the world
07. REDEMPTION: Threads
08. KYLESA: Fractured
09. NUCLEAR ASSAULT: Third world genocide
10. CONCEPTION: Roll the fire
11. EDGUY: Superheroes
12. SILENT VANQUISH: The obscure entity in man
13. EXODUS: Raze
14. EXTOL: Essence
15. OPETH: Ghost of perdition
16. VESANIA: Lumen clamosum
17. ROTTING CHRIST: Tyrannical
18. VADER: The sea came in at last
19. THE DUSKFALL: The shallow end
20. THE ALLSEEING I: Grotesque and macabre
21. RED HARVEST: Symbol of decay
22. ARCH ENEMY: Taking back my soul
23. MANIFEST: Grind whore
24. HYPOCRISY: Fearless

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

September 11 - Obituary

We had an interview with Frank Watkins from Obituary recorded at the Hole In The Sky festival.

01. CONCEPTION: Fairy’s dance
02. ILL NINO: What you deserve
03. STONEGARD: Hunter
04. KORN: BBK
05. YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Revolution
06. BIOMECHANICAL: Existenz
07. SPIRITUAL BEGGARS: Treading water
08. FENCE: Like the other kids
09. DEAR JOHN LETTER: Our responsibility
10. HELLOWEEN: Mrs. God
11. SUBWAY TO SALLY: Sieben
12. SILVERSTEIN: Fist wrapped in blood
13. STRATOVARIUS: Gypsy in me
14. ZENSOR: Nothing
15. MORTIIS: The grudge
16. KISS: Detroit rock city
17. SUSPERIA: Lack of comprehension
18. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Alaska
19. OBITUARY: On the floor
20. OBITUARY: Slow death
21. OBITUARY: Back inside
22. SINCERA: Blinded
23. BEECHER: Function! Function!
24. FEAR FACTORY: 540,000o Fahrenheit
25. HYPOCRISY: Warpath

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporters:
Vega Barkley
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

June 26 - Mastodon/Earth Shaker Festival

Jørn had an interview Brann Dailor from Mastodon at the Waldrock festival in Holland 2005.
We also did a one hour special for Earth Shaker Festival.

01.BLACK SABBATH: paranoid
02.SOULFLY: pain
03.WHERE ANGELS FALL: hollow
04.IRON MAIDEN: iron maiden
05.MASTODON: seabeast
06.MASTODON: iron tusk
07.MASTODON: megalodon
08.WATAIN: on horns impaled
09.MIDNIGHT: war
10.PESTO BALLET: seasons

Earth Shaker Special
11.FINNTROLL: forsvinn du som lyser
12.GRAVEWORM: (N)utopia
13.GRAVE DIGGER: rheingold
14.CHILDREN OF BODOM: needled 24/7
15.MACHINE MEN: falling
16.RHAPSODY: unholy warcry
17.NIGHTWISH: end of all hope
18.DISBELIEF: sick
19.OVERKILL: old school
20.PRIMAL FEAR: suicide and mania
21.MASTERPLAN: crimson rider
22.HYPOCRISY: stillborn
23.DIMMU BORGIR: vredesbyrd
24.STORMWARRIOR: odinn’s warriors
25.MANOWAR: blood of my enemies

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse
Reporter: Jørn Livrud