June 5

01.LEE ARON: Metal queen
02.SPIRITS OF FIRE: Shapes of a fragile mind
03.WITCHCRAFT: No angel nor demon
04.NAZARETH: I don’t want to go on without you
05.AIRBOURNE: Runnin’ wild
06.ALICE COOPER: School’s out
07.NASHVILLE PUSSY: Go motherfucker go
08.VICTORIOUS: Dinos and dragons
09.SOCIAL DISTORTION: Story of my life
10.NOFX: Dinosaurs will die
11.ROSS THE BOSS: Blood of my enemies
12.DROPKICK MURPHYS: I’m shipping up to Boston
13.CITY BOY: Young men gone west
14.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Afterlife
15.NIGHTRAGE: Falsifying life
16.PICTURE ANN: A lonely moorland
17.THE HALO EFFECT: Shadowminds
18.KAMPFAR: Fandens trall
19.BAEST: Meathook massacre
20.RECIPIENTS OF DEATH: Death forever
21.VIOLATOR: Thrash maniacs
22.AENIMUS: Demon of the fall
23.ARTILLERY: In thrash we trust

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 6

01.KING DIAMOND: The family ghost
02.CAP OUTRUN: Run before we walk
03.MERCURY X: Until the break of day
04.GUS G.: Money for nothing
05.DREAM THEATER: Disappear
06.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Rattlesnake Charlie
07.GIANT: Let our love win
08.OVERDRIVE: Black revenge
09.SAVAGE GRACE: Sins of the damned
10.SCHWARZER ENGEL: Ring frei
11.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Paradise (what about us?)
12.OPETH: Cusp of eternity
13.CREDIC: Vermillion oceans
14.FULLMÅNE: Started a war
15.CYNIC: 6th dimensional archetype
16.1914: Pillars of fire (The battle of Messines)
17.KVAEN: In silence
18.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
19.IBARAKI: Tamashii no houkai
20.MORBID ANGEL: Radiokult

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 21

01.TWISTED SISTER: Come out and play
02.HOUSTON: Heartbreaker
03.YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS: Sulphur ahoy
04.HANK VON HELL: Disco
05.THE OTHER: Demon eyes
06.BLACK DEBBATH: Norsk barsk metal
07.ACCEPT: Koolaid
08.HIMELLEGEME: Agafia
09.EXODUS: The years of death and dying
10.PICTURE ANN: A subtle musical nod to the author of sagnlore
11.LUCIFER: Crucifix (I burn for you)
12.OPETH: Porcelain heart
13.JINJER: Disclosure
14.THE HELLACOPTERS: Electrocute
15.AMULET: Nosebleed
16.THE HALO EFFECT: Shadowminds
17.PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERN’S APSÛ: Caliginous whorl
18.ENTOMBED: Crawl
19.JUST BEFORE DAWN: The hours before the dawn
20.IMMINENCE: Ghost
21.TRIBULATION: Nightbound
22.PATHOLOGY: Dirge for the infected
23.LENG TCH’E: Tightrope propaganda

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 18 - Wacken Open Air

Most of this show was about Wacken Open Air.

• 01. SCORPIONS: Rock you like a hurricane

• 02. MYSTIC CIRCLE: God is dead, Satan arise

• 03. LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Into the eye of the storm

• 04. OPETH: Demon of the fall

• 05. NEVERMORE: Bittersweet feast

• 06. SIX FEET UNDER: It never dies

• 07. KORPIKLAANI: Midsummer night

• Listeners request

• 08. DISSECTION: Starless aeon

• 09. CHILDREN OF BODOM: Living dead beat

• 10. VREID: Evig pine

• 11. CELTIC FROST: Circle of the tyrants

• 12. PRIMAL FEAR: Evil spell

• 13. AMON AMARTH: Valkyries ride

• 14. SOILWORK: Stabbing the drama

• 15. MINISTRY: Jesus built my hotrod

• 16. ARCH ENEMY: Burning angel

• 17. FEAR FACTORY: Smasher/devourer

• 18. MORBID ANGEL: Curse the flesh

• 19. GAMMA RAY: Hell is thy home

• 20. SOULFLY: Prophecy

• 21. EMPEROR: With strength I burn

• Jørn Livrud

• Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 8 - top 2005

Our best albums for the year 2005.

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
01. 05.MORGANA LEFAY: Hollow – Grand Materia
02. 04.ARCH ENEMY: Carry the cross – Doomsday Machine
03. 03.GAMMA RAY: Fight – Majestic
04. 02.CANDLEMASS: Seven silver keys – Candlemass
05. 01.KREATOR: Murder fantasies – Enemy Of God

Raymond Smith
06. 05.OBITUARY: Blindsided – Frozen In Time
07. 04.RAMMSTEIN – Benzin – Rosenrot
08. 03.BOLT THROWER: Granite wall – Those Once Loyal
09. 02.SOILWORK: Stabbing the drama – Stabbing The Drama
10. 01.HELLOWEEN: Mrs. god – Keeper Of The Seven Keys The Legacy

Jørn Livrud:
11. 05.GRIMFIST: Breed apart – 10 steps to hell
12. 04.ARCTURUS: Hibernation sickness complete –Sideshow Symphonies
13. 03.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Why am I here – The 1’st chapter
14. 02.AUDREY HORNE: Candystore – No Hay Banda
15. 01.OPETH: Beneath the mire – The Ghost Reveries

Cecilie Nilsen
16. 05.VADER: What colour is your blood – The Art Of War
17. 04.SOILWORK: Weapon of vanity – Stabbing The Drama
18. 03.HELLOWEEN: The shade in the shadow - Keeper of The Seven Keys-The Legacy
19. 02.DREAM THEATER: These walls - Octavarium
20. 01.NIDINGR: Righteousness in beauty - Sorrow Infinite And Darkness

The Listeners:
21. RAM-ZET: Left behind as pieces – Intra

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 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

August 28 - Manifest

Raymond had a phoneinterview with Stian Leknes from Manifest.

01.DEEP PURPLE: knocking at your backdoor
02.ORDER OF NINE: the end
03.VOIVOD: rebel robot
04.MARILYN MANSON: tainted love
05.RICHARD ANDERSSON: confusicus
06.MANIFEST: manufactured lie
07.MANIFEST: mess-age to death-age
08.IMBALANCE: ride the blades of the maneater
09.MYRKSKOG: domain of the superior
10.GRIFFIN: rest
11.PAIN OF SALVATION: lilium cruentus
12.INSENSE: gasping for air
13.VREID: raped by light
14.THULSA DOOM: kick me
15.ENSLAVED: isa
16.MY DYING BRIDE: a kiss to remember
17.UNSANE: re lease
18.KOLDBRANN: koldbrann
19.OPETH: the grand conjuration
20.SAVAGE CIRCUS: evil eyes
21.FRAMFERD: ulvetid
22.ÅSMEGIN: til rondefolkets herskab

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

August 21 - Wig Wam

We had an interview with Glam from Wig Wam, Raymond and Knut did that at Marthas Have in Hokksund.

01.DEF LEPPARD: rocket
02.HUTCHINSON: don’t let them through
03.THE DIRTY CALLAHANS: fucked up and standing
04.NIGHTWISH: the siren
05.LINEA 77: charon
06.WIG WAM: hard to be a rock ‘n roller
07.WIG WAM: in your dreams
08.PEDESTRIANS OF BLUE: the garden
09.XANDRIA: fight me
10.METALLICA: turn the page
11.ANATHEMA: panic
12.SUSPERIA: chemistry
13.LUMSK: åsgårdsreia
14.KHOLD: død
15.DESTRUCTION: soul collector
16.UNSANE: killing time
17.EQUILIBRIUM: unter der eiche
18.TSJUDER: helvete
19.TAAKE: hordalands doedskvad
20.OBITUARY: back innside
21.OPETH: The Grand Conjuration

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

August 14 - Imbalance / Hole In The Sky

Raymond had a direct phone interview with Anders Tomter from Imbalance.
We also had a one hour special about Hole In The Sky festival.

01.MOTORHEAD: Going to Brasil
02.AUDIOVISION: The king is alive
03.EVEREVE: You’re mine
04.JEFF URSO: Low down
05.END OF GREEN: Weakness
06.A PERFECT MURDER: Snake eyes
07.ASCENSION THEORY: Pieces
08.INSENSE: Gasping for air
09.IMBALANCE: Ride the blades of the maneater
10.IMBALANCE: Burial of consciousness
11.SVÖLK: Sheperd

Hole In The Sky
12.MALSAIN: The marsh
13.RAGNAROK: Black door miracle
14.BLOOD RED THRONE: Flesh to destroy
15.SODOM: Persecution Mania
16.ENSLAVED: Isa
17.ANATHEMA: Fragile dreams
18.OPETH: Dirge for November
19.AUDIOPAIN: Thrash mental
20.BEHEMOTH: Demigod
21.NILE: Sacrifice of sebek
22.OBITUARY: Mindset

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud
Engineer: Jørn Kruse