December 10 - Twilight Ophera

We had an interview with Mikko Hakkinen from Twilight Ophera.

  • 01.MANOWAR: The gods made heavy metal

  • 02.MORTAL LOVE: While everything dies

  • 03.IMAGES OF EDEN: Beyond the horizon

  • 04.THIN LIZZY: Jailbreak

  • 05.THE PROVENANCE: Thanks to you

  • 06:WHITESNAKE: Here I go again

  • 07.ELIS: Show me the way

  • 08.THE CARBURETORS: Burnout

  • 09.3 LEGGED DOGG: Frozen summer

  • 10.JON OLIVA’S PAIN: Though the eyes of the king

  • 11.ICEPICK: Tomorrow is not a promise

  • 12.DEATHSTARS: Blitzkrieg

  • 13.CRADLE OF FILTH: Under huntres moon

  • 14.OKTOBER FILE: Hallowed be thy army

  • 15.TWILIGHT OPHERA: Charagma

  • 16 TWILIGHT OPHERA: Wraith reveries

  • 17 TWILIGHT OPHERA:. Hollow movements of flesh

  • 18.MOONSPELL: Blood tells

  • 19.BLACK MESSIAH: Howl of the wolves

  • 20.THE HAUNTED: The cynic

  • 21.DIMMU BORGIR: Progenies of the great apocalypse

  • Jørn Livrud

  • Raymond Smith

  • Knut Ivar Jacobsen

  • Interviewers:

  • Jørn Livrud

  • Raymond Smith

May 14 - Angry Brew

Mathis Ek Mathisen and Jørgen Honerud from Angry Brew visited our studio to talk about their demo "4 cl"

01. AC/DC: The furor
02. EVERGREY: Obedience
03. ALICE COOPER: Brutal planet
04. DREAM QUEST: Black rose
05. THE CARBURETORS: Rock’n roll forever
06. THE GATHERING: Box
07. COMMUNIC: Under a luminous sky
08. JORN: End of time
09. ANGRY BREW: Cruizin’
10. ANGRY BREW: Slave
11. ANGRY BREW: Save me
12. SATYRICON: The pentagram burns
13. RAISE HELL: Devilyn
14. SCAR SYMMETRY: The illusionist
15. THE SEVENTH CROSS: Let misery flow
16. DECAPITATED: Day 69
17. TYR: Dreams
18. MOONSPELL: Blood tells
19. PANTHEON I: Silent massacre
20. LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Werewolf corpse

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith

April 30 - Battered

We had an interview with Frode Glesnes from Battered which was recorded at the Inferno Festival.

01. MACHINE HEAD: Ten ton hammer
02. IRON FIRE: Ironhead
03. BLUE TEARS: Save yourself
04. ATREYU: Our sick story
05. THE CARBURATORS: Rock’n’roll forever
06. ANGEL BLAKE: Retaliate
07. SILENTIUM: Frostnight
08. BEYOND FEAR: The human race
09. UMPHREY’S McGEE: Women wine and song
10. FIREWIND: Beware the beast
11. SPIRITUS MORTIS: Beware of the quiet one
12. SYMPHONIUM: Draken har tre hoder
13. BATTERED: Oblivion awaits
14. BATTERED: Not one
15. PRESIDENT EVIL: Deathcar racer
16. SATHANAS: Descent of the holy
17. BLUDGEON: Out of reach
18. ANSUR: Post-apocalyptic wastelands
19. ZYKLON: Core Solution
20. NILE: Defiling the gates of Ishtar
21. SUBZERO: Suffer, squeal, burn
22. LORD BELIAL: Hymn of the ancient misanthropic spirit of the forest

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporters:
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 12 - Wenche Snoen

Raymond did an interview with Wenche Snoen about her book project.

01. RAGE: True face in everyone
02. WILD WILLY’S GANG: Burn the puppet
03. U.D.O: Mean machine
04. BLOODBOUND: Metal monster
05. DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND: Vampira
06. JR EWING: Naked pavements
07. THE CARBURETORS: Rock’n roll forever
08. SKUMDUM: Demoner
09. AMORPHIS: House of sleep
10. RUMBLE IN RHODOS: Count your footsteps
11. TÖMMERMENN: Urbant helvete
12. SEIGMEN: Mørkets øy
13. TWILIGHT GUARDIANS: Still
14. SUSPERIA: Home sweet hell
15. CATHEDRAL: Upon Azrael’s wings
16. DISIPLIN: Kniferegime
17. MANNGARD: Wreathed in rot
18. ABANDONED: Holy terror
19. DAGOBA: Cancer
20. KALMAH: Bitter metallic side
21. SADUS: Down

Cecile Nilsen
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporter:
Raymond Smith

January 29 - Hanoi Rocks

We had an interview with Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks, Jan Orsteen did that at John Dee.

01. KING DIAMOND: The 7th day of july 1777
02. THE CARBURETORS: Burning rubber
03. DEEP PURPLE: Rapture of the deep
04. ELVENKING:The wanderer
05. AUDREY HORNE: Confessions & alcohol
06. PROTO-KAW: Relics of the tempest
07. HANOI ROCKS: People like me
08. HANOI ROCKS: No compromise, no regrets
09. HANOI ROCKS: Reggae rocker
10. PERZONAL WAR: 5 more days
11. SOLSTAFIR: Bloodsoaked velvet
12. ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET: So grim so true so real
13. EKTOMORF: Show your fist
14. CHILDREN OF BODOM: Are your dead yet
15. LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Death’s head march
16. DEMIRICOUS: Vagrant idol
17. BLOODLINE: What never was dead
18. EMPEROR: Depraved
19. AZURE: Dead men’s shadow flickering
20. IMMORTAL: One by one

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporter:
Jan Orsteen “Blå Rock”

October 30 - Nordic Fest

We had a direct phone interview with Pål Dæhlen from Nordic Fest 05

01.AC/DC: hard as a rock
02.BLOODPIT: platitude
03.SAVAGE CIRCUS: ghost story
04.THE CARBURETORS: burnout
05.DYECREST: rush of life
06.DEEP PURPLE: rapture of deep
07.THUNDERBOLT: days of confusion
08.SAGA: it’s time
09.SHAKRA: take me now
10.HAMMERFALL: born to rule
11.STRATOVARIUS: fight
12.QUESTOR: stormrider
13.SVÖLK: carved in stone
14.IMBALANCE: burial of consciousness
15.SILENT VANQUISH: the obscure entity in man
16.FROSTHARDR: ravneskrik
17.RAM-ZET: left behind as pieces
18.CRIMSON MOONLIGHT: reflections upon the distress and agony of faith
19.GOREFEST: the new gods
20.GOJIRA: backbone
21.MAYHEM: whore

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

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 4 - Nile / Kiss Army

Raymond had a direct phone interview with Stig Karlsen from Kiss Army Norway.
We also had an interview with Karl Sanders from Nile that we recorded in Hole In The Sky.

01. ROYAL HUNT: Cold city lights
02. NIGHTWISH: Wish I had an angel
03. HIGHLAND GLORY: Break the silence
04. BLACK DEBBATH: Vi må redde Geirfuglen!
05. GENE SIMMONS: Asshole
06. THE CARBURATORS: Burning rubber
07. KURT NILSEN: Crazy crazy nights
08. WIG WAM: In my dreams
09. LUCID MOON: Mr. Desire
10. KORN: Got the life
11. MORTIIS: The grudge
12. DEAR JOHN LETTER: Heart grown weary
13. FUNERAL: Hunger
14. KHOLD: Åtselgraver
15. NILE: Cast down the heretic
16. NILE: Lashed to the slave stick
17. NILE: Annihilation of the wicked
18. KOLDBRANN: Kaos manifest
19. THROWDOWN: Burn
20. ANSUR: Through shadowlands
21. THE ESOTERIC: Make fine dreams
22. LUNA FIELD: Camouflage

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

June 5 - Arcturus

We had an interview with Tore Morèn from Arcturus. An interview we did at the Inferno Festival.

01.KANSAS: carry on wayward son
02.THE DIRTY CALLAHANS: can’t help it
03.GODIVA: hellraiser
04.D.A.D.: empty heads
05.JENNIE TEBLER: silverwing
06.MOHAMMED: 1973
07.THE CARBURETORS: alright, alright
08.NIGHTWISH: wish I had an angel
09.MÖTLEY CRÜE: dr. feelgood
10.MORTAL LOVE: adoration
11.EL CACO: suffocate
12.STONEGARD: barricades
13.RAM-ZET: the final thrill
14.ARCTURUS: naar kulden tar
15.ARCTURUS: alone
16.ARCTURUS: radical cut
17.CASSIDY: sea of green
18.MANIFESTATION: the king of god and gospel
19.SLAYER: south of heaven
20.UNSANE: backslide
21.MALSAIN: they never die

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

May 15 - Audrey Horne

Jørn had a phone interview with Toschie from Audrey Horne

01.AC/DC: hells bells
02.THE CARBURETORS: allright allright
03.WILD WILLY’s GANG: goliath
04.HANGFACE: down
05.JETHRO TULL: fallen on hard times
06.THIN LIZZY: jailbreak
07.TURBONEGER: zillion billion sadist
08.ISRAELVIS: accelerator
09.MOHAMMED: 1973
10.MARILLION: these chains
11.EL CACO: the small hours
12.AUDREY HORNE: dead
13.AUDREY HORNE: get a rope
14.AUDREY HORNE: candystore
15.OCTAVIA SPERATI: provenance of hate
16.WHERE ANGELS FALL: hollow
17.LUMSK: nøkken
18.NEBULAR MYSTIC: necrotic
19.URGEHAL: possessed (raped by evil)
20.KOLDBRANN: koldbrann
21.ANSUR: through snowlands
22.SINAI BEACH: the god I would be
23.WITH PASSION: darkness doth bring mortality
24.BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED: she speaks to me

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