January 15 - Circus Maximus

We had an interview with Mads Haugen from Circus Maximus.

The interview was done at Baråtti in Strømmen after the Sweden Rock Kick Off.

01. FREEDOM CALL: We are one
02. MAN MADE MACHINE: Burn to something new
03. BACKSTREET GIRLS: Any minute now
04. AMPLIFIER: Everyday combat
05. EDGUY: Save me
06. SILENT VOICES: Once lost life
07. MAD MAX: To hell and back again
08. AFTER ALL: Reasonable doubt
09. GAMMA RAY: Hell is thy home
10. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Sin
11. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Biosfear
12. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Why am I here
13. IN FLAMES: Take this life
14. AS WE FIGHT: Bringing it all together
15. SACRIFICUM: I am the enemy
16. THE BLOODLINE: Remember
17. BORKNAGAR: Future reminiscence
18. SINCE BY MAN: Young America
19. SCORNGRAIN: 24/7 hell
20. CEASE.AND.DESIST : We take you for shit
21. DEATHCHAIN: Napalm Satan
22. MÖRK GRYNING:Ingen dyrkan

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporters:
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

January 1 - Delirium X Tremens

Had a phone interview with Lorenzo from Delirium X Tremens

01.SEPULTURA: Refuse/resist
02.AVIAN: Final frontier
03.PANTERA: This love
04.MALPRACTICE: Colours in between
05.TØMMERMENN: Sorte menn
06.RAMMSTEIN: Rosenrot
07.DREAMLAND: Hearts like lions
08.DYECREST: Hollow
09.YARGOS: The guilded cage
10.SOUL RELIC: Sears of deceit
11.BLACK DEBBATH: Dødsstraff uansett forbrytelse
12.HIGHLAND GLORY: Break the silence
13.SWALLOW THE SUN: Descending winters
14.MINDGRINDER: Warhead
15.EVILDOER: Day of torment
16.HEVEIN: Beg to differ
17.DELIRIUM X TREMENS: 1000 Wolves
18.DELIRIUM X TREMENS: Science
19.IN FLAMES: Take this life
20.L.O.S.T.: Ziua ce vine
21.HATE: Fountains of blood to reach heavens
22.CHAIN COLLECTOR: Fallen angel

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud

Interview: Raymond Smith

December 25 - Helloween

We had an interview with Sascha Gertsner and Dani Loeble from Helloween, Kenneth Brastad did the interview at Rockefeller 01/12-05

01.TWISTED SISTER: I wanna rock
02.EPICA: Quietus
03.SHIRLEY’S TEMPLE: complicated
04.PERSUADER: Escape
05.AXXIS: Dance with the dead
06.EDGUY: Wasted time
07.NIGHTWISH: Higher than hope
08.THE GATHERING: Souvenirs
09.HELLOWEEN: The invisible man
10.HELLOWEEN: Mrs.God
11.HELLOWEEN: The king for a 1000 years
12.ELVENKING: The wanderer
13.SENCIROW: Burn it down
14.THE DEVIANT: Merciless
15.DELIRIUM X TREMENS: Cyberhuman
16.GRIMFIST: Unborn
17.INFENSUS: A lecture in sin
18.ARCH ENEMY My apocalypse
19.VADER: This is the war

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Reporter:
Kenneth Brastad

December 18

01. TNT: Forever shine on
02. SAVAGE CIRCUS: Evil eyes
03. OCTAVIA SPERATI: Icebound
04. ANGRY BREW: Cruizin’
05. BLOODPIT: Bad echo
06. ESCAPETOR: The search
07. GALLOGLASS: Perished in flames
08. SHIRLEY’S TEMPLE: She’s so fine
09. KING DIAMOND: Christmas
10. DUNGEON: Resurrection
11. RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER: Orange and black attack
12. SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE: Wolf among sheep
13. ARCTURUS: Hibernation sickness complete
14. PROJECT HATE: I see nothing but flesh
15. CHILDREN OF BODOM: In your face
16. SCARS OF TOMORROW: The false love in lust
17. VADER: What colour is your blood
18. A TRAITOR LIKE JUDAS: You rip our guts out
19. THE WAKE: The elbow of Zeus
20. ALOOP: Insomnia
21. DAWN OF RELIC: Night on earth
22. HURTLOCKER: Symptoms
23. BOLT THROWER: Forever fallen

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Raymond Smith

December 11 - No Prayer Records

Arne Christian Grøtterud from the new started Heavy Metal shop in Drammen "No Prayer Records" came to our studio for talking about the shop.

01. CONTROL DENIED: When the link becomes missing
02. ROINE STOLT: Head above water
03. INQUEST: Headless
04. TNT: Sometimes
05. CASUS BELLI: I’m your master
06. HANOI ROCKS: In my darkest moment
07. LOUDNESS: Belive it or not
08. AMORPHIS: Leaves scar
09. OFFPIST: Without permission
10. IRON MAIDEN: Prowler
11. TANK: Shellshock
12. AURA NOIR: Upon the dark throne
13. AMORAL: Tiebreaker
14. NAILDOWN: Evil deeds
15. INTEGRITY: In contrast of sin
16. AKERCOCKE: Dying in the sun
17. FEAR FACTORY: 540,000 fahrenheit
18. THYRANE: Decay of Christian empire
19. SWALLOW THE SUN: Descending winters
20. ENSLAVED: Isa
21. ARCTURUS: Nocturnal vision revisited

Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 4 - Primal Fear

Had an interview with Ralf Scheepers from Primal Fear, Knut did the interview at Rockefeller in Oslo.

01: CELTIC FROST: Circle of the tyrants
02: DIO: Dream evil
03: URIAH HEEP: Rainbow Demon
04: LEGS DIAMOND: King of speed
05: THE STORYTELLER: Eyes of the dead
06: TURBONEGER: Are you ready?
07: SPOCK’S BEARD: Surfing down the avalanche
08: DEEP PURPLE: Rapture of the deep
09: PAGANIZE: Chain breaks
10: HELLOWEEN: Shade in the shadow
11: PRIMAL FEAR: Demons and angels
12: PRIMAL FEAR: Rollercoaster
13: PRIMAL FEAR: Seven seals
14: MÖRK GRYNING: The sun
15: NEBULAR MYSTIC: Legions
16: 1349: Pitch Black
17: VILE: Suicide warfare
18: FALKENBACH: Roman land
19. FATAL DEMEANOR: Rotting saints
20: FORGERY: Liar
21.RAGNAROK: The black mass
22.CHAIN COLLECTOR: And then there was none
23.HATE: Razorblade
24.MESHUGGAH: Dehumanization

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

November 27 - Cutthroat

Endre Moe and Thor Ø from Cutthroat came to our studio for an interview.

01.URIAH HEEP: firefly
02.CLAWFINGER: hate yourself with style
03.DREAM THEATER: these walls
04.STORMCROW: the grievous story of mary grace
05.ZENSOR: nothing
06.DAWNRIDER: guarding the gate
07.HELLFUELED: friend
08.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: sin
09.PRIMAL FEAR: the immortal ones
10.HELLOWEEN: the invisible man
11.DRAGONLORD: until the end
12.HATE: necropolis
13.INFENSUS: from pale skin to fuckin
14.CUTTHROAT: face of death
15.CUTTHROAT: butchering
16.CUTTHROAT: my anger, your suffering
17.DARK FUNERAL: godhate
18.SEVERE TORTURE: unconditional annihilation
19.GOJIRA: the heaviest matter of the universe

Cecilie Nilsen
Raymond Nilsen
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jørn Livrud

November 20 - Ragnarok Open Air

We had an interview with Bjørn Henrik Berger from Ragnarock Open Air Festival.

01. STAGE DOLLS: It’s only love
02. VANISHING POINT: If only I
03. NEAL MORSE: In the fire
04. EL CACO: Substitute
05. BATTLEROAR: Sword of Crom
06. SATANIC SURFERS: Don’t fade away
07. EDDIE OJEDA: Evil duz
08. W.A.S.P.: Come back to black
09. WHERE ANGELS FALL: Hollow
10. SILENT VANQUISH: The obscure entity in man
11. FACEDOWN: Blood tiles
12. BLINDFAULT: Superstar
13. INSENSE: Making up for lost time
14. EISBLUT: Überreste
15. CUTTHROAT: Hatch me if you can
16. RAGNAROK: Blackdoor miracle
17. EMANCER: Pallid eyes
18. MINDGRINDER: Pathetic submission
19. EPHEL DUATH: I killed Rebecca
20. SCARS OF TOMORROW: Murderers and madmen
21. SATYRICON: Fuel for hatred
22. LUCID FEAR: Greef for my death

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 13 - Regin

Inhuman and Grimme from Regin came to our studio to talk about their first demo.

01. TWISTER SISTER: Burn in hell
02. GUN BARREL: Dear Mr. Devil
03. CHALICE: Shotgun alley
04. DEAD SHERIFF: Barrel of woods
05. HELLOWEEN: Occasion avenue
06. JR EWING: When you’re gone
07. JOHN 5: Damaged
08. WOLFCRY: On the edge
09. PRIMAL FEAR: The immortal ones
10. DESTRUCTION: The alliance of hellhoundz
11. CANDLEMASS: Born in a tank
12. HEVEIN: Bleed the day
13. BURST: Slave emotion
14. REGIN: Dødslengsel
15. REGIN: Mannefall
16. REGIN: Her hvor intet lys finnes
17. IN-QUEST: The comatose quandary
18. OLD MAN’S CHILD: In torment’s orbit
19. MÖRK GRYNING: Into oblivion
20. DIMMU BORGIR: Dødsferd

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 6 - Stratovarius

Knut Ivar Jacobsen did an interview with Timo Kotipelto from Stratovarius at Rockefeller

01. MANOWAR: All men play on 10
02. THE BRONX CASKET CO: Everything I got
03. DIVINEFIRE: Hero
04. AIDEN: Genetic design for dying
05. SAMAEL: On earth
06. STREAM OF PASSION: Embrace the storm
07. STRATOVARIUS:Maniac dance
08. STRATOVARIUS: Back to madness
09. STRATOVARIUS: United
10. IMBALANCE: Burial of consciousness
11. SOLEFALD: Where birds have never been
12. BLOOD RED THRONE: Altered genesis
13. AKERCOCKE: Seduced
14. BYZANTINE: Faking up serpents
15. ZEENON: Post absurd
16. GRIMFIST: The power
17. GOREFEST: The call
18. LAST TO REMAIN: World of greed
19. AUDIOPAIN: Fraud machine
20. MANIFEST: Third eye ricochet

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

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

October 23 - Arch Enemy

We had an interview with Michael Amott from Arch Enemy.

01. KAMELOT: Nights of Arabia
02. THE AUDITION: Dance halls turn to ghost towns
03. NIGHTWISH: End of all hope
04. THE RAMONES: Sheena is a punk rocker
05. BACKSTREET GIRLS: Panic in pussyland
06. MOHAMMED: 1973
07. STREAM OF PASSION: Haunted
08. ANGEL CREW: Life sentence
09. PRIMAL FEAR: When the night comes
10. FLAGSHIP: Hold on to your dream
11. HELLFUELED: Look out
12. STRATOVARIUS: Maniac dance
13. BONGZILLA: Kash under glass
14. DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
15. AUDIOPAIN: Thrash mental
16. ARCH ENEMY: I am legend/out for blood
17. ARCH ENEMY: Skeleton dance
18. ARCH ENEMY: Nemesis
19. SOLEFALD: Sun I call
20. AKERCOCKE: Eyes of the dawn
21. VULTURE INDUSTRIES: The benevolent pawn

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

October 16 - Morgana Lefay

We had an interview with Charles Rytkönen from Morgana Lefay.

01. ANTHRAX: Antisocial
02. MAJESTIC VANGUARD: The great eternity
03. CONFESSOR: The downside
04. CAMAROS: Hell-o-hell
05. HELLOWEEN: Mrs. God
06. MY INSANITY: Cocaine
07. SHAKRA: Take me now
08. ARCTURUS: Evacuation code deciphered
09. MORGANA LEFAY: Hollow
10. MORGANA LEFAY: I roam
11. MORGANA LEFAY: Grand materia
12. LUMSK: Trolltind
13. HATESPHERE: Sickness within
14. BURST: Slave emotion
15. MINDGRINDER: Warhead
16. SUSPERIA: Wild child
17. CHILDREN OF BODOM: In your face
18. MILLENCOLLIN: Twenty two
19. DISKORD: Public static viod
20. GRIMFIST: Breed apart
21. SEARING I: True identity
22. VITAL REMAINS: Dechristianize
23. RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER: Let the fools cheer

Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

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

October 2 - Anathema

We had an interview that Knut Ivar Jacobsen and Jørn Livrud did with Daniel Cavanagh and John Douglas from Anathema. They did that at Hole In The Sky Festival.

01.MOTORHEAD: doctor rock
02.HARDCORE SUPERSTAR: things on fire
03.GAIA EPICUS: sieze the day
04.BESEECH: the outpost
05.THE HELLACOPTERS: by the grace of god
06.THE TEA PARTY: the empty glass
07.WARMEN: accept the fact
08.UDO: 24/7
09.HIGHLAND GLORY: break the silence
10.SLUG SYNDICATE: poison bitch
11.THE OLD DEAD TREE: so be it
12.ARCTURUS: deamonpainter
13.ANATHEMA: fragile dreams
14.ANATHEMA: leave no trace
15.ANATHEMA: balance
16.ANATHEMA: closer
17.MERCENARY: everblack
18.DEW SCENTED: inwards
19.ROTTEN SOUND: revenge
20.NIDINGR: makashanah
21.NILE: lashed to the slave stick
22.EMPEROR: ensorcelled by rhaos

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

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

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