January 10

01.URIAH HEEP: Gypsy
02.AVATARIUM: The girl with the raven mask
03.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen
04.RIBOZYME: Bronze
05.KISS: Rock and roll hell
06.ANTHRAX: Evil twin
07.FOR TODAY: Bitter roots
08.MOTORHEAD: Overkill
09.POINT BLANK (N): Camoflage
10.PICTURE ANN: Moody sucker
11.AMORPHIS: Under the red cloud
12.MEGADETH: Mary Jane
13.GRAVEYARD: Too much is not enough
14.MINISTRY: Roadhouse blues
15.ULVER & TROMSØ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Shri schneider
16.DIAMOND LANE: The enemy
17.LOST SOCIETY: I am the antidote
18.SATYRICON: Forhekset
19.DAUDEN: My soul will be damned forever
20.BLOOD RED THRONE: Dødens makt
21.SOILWORK: Enemies in fidelity
22.DISCHARGE: New world order
23.SARKOM: Bestial supremacy

Raymond Smith

January 3

Jørn presents his top 5 albums of 2015

01.A.R.K.: Burn the sun
02.LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY: Il cigno nero (reloaded)
03.MOTORHEAD: Motorhead
04.MEAT LOAF: Bat out of hell
05.AVANTASIA: Mystery of a blood red rose
06.PIL & BUE: Fire
07.EL CACO: Sickness
08.KING DIAMOND: Is anybody here?
Jørn Livrud:
09.05.KYLESA: Lost and confused – Exhausting Fire
10.04.ENSLAVED: One thousand years of rain – In Times
11.03.ANEKDOTEN: Get out alive – Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
12.02.STEVEN WILSON: Home invasion – Hand Cannot Erase
13.01.GHOST: Absolution – Meloria
14.THURSDAY: Standing on the edge of summer
15.SATYRICON: The dawn of a new age
16.LAMB OF GOD: 512
17.FEAR FACTORY: Regenerate
18.NILE: Liber stellae rubae
19.MY DYING BRIDE: To shiver in empty halls

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith

December 27 - Top 2015

Our personal top 5 albums of 2015

01.EUROPE: The final countdown

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
02.05.BLIND GUARDIAN: The holy grail – Beyond the red mirror
03.04.MARDUK: Thousand-fold death – Frontschwein
04.03.SLAYER: Repentless – Repentless
05.02.IRON MAIDEN: Speed of light – The Book Of Souls
06.01.SAXON: Battering ram – Battering Ram
Raymond Smith:
07.05.IRON MAIDEN: Death or glory – The Book Of Souls
08.04.PARADISE LOST: No hope in sight
09.03.CRADLE OF FILTH: Right wing of the garden triptych – Hammer Of The Witches
10.02.KAMELOT: Revolution – Haven
11.01.SOILWORK: All along the echoing paths – The Ride Majestic
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
12.05.SLAYER: Take control – Repentless
13.04.CARACH ANGREN: There's no place like home – This Is No Fairytale
14.03.MARDUK: 503 – Frontschwein
15.02.CHILDREN OF BODOM: My bodom (I am the only one) – I Worship Chaos
16.01.NIGHTWISH: My walden – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

17.SONATA ARCTICA: Christmas spirits
18.MEANSTREAK: Roadkill
19.KING DIAMOND: Welcome home
20.EKTOMORF: Set me free
21.ENDEAVOUR: Just against myself
22.STONE TEMPLE PILOTS: Vasoline
23.DISSECTION: Frozen

Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 20

01.TWISTED SISTER: White Christmas
02.PIL & BUE: No is the answer
03.REVERENCE: Gods of war
04.BACKSTREET GIRLS: One for the road
05.AVANTASIA: Death is just a feeling
06.MCAULEY SCHENKER GROUP: Gimme' your love
07.MACHINÆ: Never coming back
08.PICTURE ANN: Moody sucker
09.STEAK NUMBER EIGHT: Knows sees tells all
10.KAMELOT: The great pandemonium
11.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Silver moonlight
12.JJ72: Glimmer
13.MORBO: Behind me
14.HELHEIM: Raunijar
15.MARDUK: The blonde beast
16.THE MOTH GATHERER: Probing the descent of man
17.IMAGES AT TWILIGHT: Lograttin part II
18.TRIOXIN: Spiteful remain
19.BATHTUB SHITTER: Little drummer boy
20.ALL WILL KNOW: Home
21.DARKTHRONE: Hans siste vinter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 13

01.AC/DC: Mistress for Christmas
02.SERGANT STEEL: Dirty habits
03.CAGE: Behind the walls of newgate
04.STONE TEMPLE PILOTS: Vasoline
05.FATAL IMPACT: Too many years
06.MÖTLEY CRÜE: Piece of your action
07.TARJA: I walk alone
08.THE CARBURETORS: Burnout
09.UGLY KID JOE: Hell ain't hard to find
10.OSLO ESS: Midnatt
11.MESSENGER: Sword of the stars
12.BLACK DEBBATH: Til hælvete med Munchmuseet!
13.IRON MAIDEN: The great unknown
14.PERFECT NME: Dead end space
15.UNCHAINED: Like the candle
16.TANTARA: Based on evil
17.DESTRUCTION: Hate is my fuel
18.EXTREME COLD WINTER: Siberian darkness
19.EINHERJER: Far far north
20.MAYHEM: Freezing moon
21.THE 3RD ATTEMPT: Beast within
22.IN FLAMES: December flower

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 6

01.KING DIAMOND: Christmas
02.JON BON JOVI: Blaze of glory
03.NIGHTWISH: Stargazers
04.BLACK DEBBATH: Det er problemer innad i Høyre
05.IVANHOE: Light up the darkness
06.DUNDERBEIST: Punktum mortale
07.METAL ALLEGIANCE: Can't kill the devil
08.PICTURE ANN: Gasmask ballet
09.RETURN: To the top
10.STAGE DOLLS: Commandos
11.CANDLEMASS: Mirror mirror
12.MANOWAR: Black wind, fire and steel
13.LOST EDEN: Before burning to ashes
14.ZEROZONIC: Deathclock
15.CHILDREN OF BODOM: I hurt
16.GREY SEASON: Reflections
17.DISKORD: Lethargic regression
18.HATESPHERE: Crossed lives lost
19.ASPHERIUM: Guardian of the gates
20.BLOOD RED THRONE: Proselyte virus
21.AMORAL: Nothing daunted

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 29

  01.TWISTED SISTER: Let it snow, let it snow
    02.JUNKSTARS: Romance of death
    03.SYMPHONY X: Underwold
    04.METALLICA: Stone cold crazy
    05.MAMMOTH: Fatman
    06.PICTURE ANN: The devestating loneliness of dante
    07.IRON MAIDEN: No more lies
    08.SKINDRED: Volume
    09.DRAGONFORCE: Ring of fire
    10.GIRLSCHOOL: C'mon let's go
    11.SAXON: Battering ram
    12.MOTÖRHEAD: When the sky comes looking for you
    13.GEHENNA: Slowly being poisoned
    14.ENDEAVOUR: Just against myself
    15.SYLOSIS: Sands of time
    16.CHILDREN OF BODOM: I hurt
    17.DRACONIAN: The wretched tide
    18.ANTHRAX: Indians
    19.SLAYER: Implode
    20.ZEROZONIC: Humane
    21.KAMPFAR: Profanum
    22.PLACENTA: All things runnable
    23.BLOOD RED THRONE: The burning
    24.KREATOR: Winter martyrium

    Raymond Smith

November 22

01.EAGLES OF DEATH METAL: I got a feelin
02.RENDEZVOUS POINT: The hunger
03.HAMMERFALL: Hector's hymn
04.MAMA'S BOYS: Hot blood
05.DIVIDED MULTITUDE: Proud
06.TURBONEGER: Are you ready
07.PERIPHERY: Alpha
08.METALLICA: King nothing
09.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Pillars of the south
10.BLACK DEBBATH: Trygghetstyrraniet
11.PIL & BUE: Nevermind
12.SHINING (N): Last day
13.CULPRIT: Tears of repentance
14.GRAI: In the arms of Mara
15.SKALDMOLD: Kvadning
16.ELUVEITE: A rose for Epona
17.PESTILENCE: Traitors gate
18.ZEROZONIC: Temptations
19.SHINING (S): Förtvivlan, min arvedel
20.SODOM: Ausgebombt
21.DARKTHRONE: In the shadow of the horns

Raymond Smith

November 15

01.RAINBOW: Man on the silver mountain
02.WILD FRONTIER: Alive
03.MARIUS DANIELSEN: Raise your shields
04.MADAM X: High in high school
05.GRAVE DIGGER: Shoot her down
06.TURBONEGER: Don't say motherfucker, motherfucker
07.TIEBREAKER: Early morning love affair
08.BIG CITY: Wintersleep
09.MOTÖRHEAD: Orgasmatron
10.TERAMAZE: For the innocent
11.MUSTASCH: Breaking up with disaster
12.IN FLAMES: In plain view
13.ARCTURUS: The bodkin & the quietus
14.NOTHING MORE: Jenny
15.NILE: Call to destruction
16.BLOOD RED THRONE: In hell I roam
17.AMORPHIS: Death of a king
18.CRADLE OF FILTH: Right wing of the garden triptych
19.VREDEHAMMER: Spawn tyrant
20.VREID: Storm frå vest
21.KEEP OF KALESSIN: The spiritual relief

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 8

01.KING DIAMOND: The family ghost
02.BARBARIAN FIST: No brakes on the rape train
03.STRYPER: Pride
04.LIZZY BORDEN: Me against the world
05.GHOST: From the pinnacle to the pit
06.RENDEZVOUS POINT: Wasteland
07.GUS G.: We are one
08.DEAD SHERIFF: King of this nation
09.DEF LEPPARD: Let's go
10.MOONSPELL: Extinct
11.PURE INC: I'll let you know
12.FOR I AM KING: The beast within
13.AVATARIUM: Run killer run
14.BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: Hand of blood
15.DEN SAAKALDTE: Forbanna idioter
16.PENTAGRAM: Dead bury dead
17.NOCTURNUS: Standing in blood
18.AUDIOPAIN: Hellbound
19.TORCHE: Loose men
20.BRING ME THE HORIZON: Doomed
21.ENDEZZMA: Krossing rubikon

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 1

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.TIEBREAKER: Nicotine
03.OPERATION MINDCRIME: Burn
04.MOTORPSYCHO: Nothing to say
05.QUEENSRYCHE: Arrow of time
06.RAZORBATS: Desolation highway
07.IRON MAIDEN: Man on the edge
08.LITA FORD: Kiss me deadly
09.SATAN: The devil's infantry
10.METALLICA/LOU REED: Mistress dread
11.LOWDOWN: Your god failed
12.PAPA ROACH: She loves me not
13.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Jekyll and Hyde
14.KORODED: Phobos
15.KOLLWITZ: Dispirit
16.SEPULTURA: Propaganda
17.OVERKILL: Feeding frenzy
18.TEMPLE OF BAAL: Magna gloria tua
19.VIPER SOLFA: War of zion

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 25

01.SAVATAGE: Streets
02.MICHAEL MONROE: Good old bad days
03.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: No one knows
04.MONSTER MAGNET: Gods and punks
05.NIGHTWISH: Yours is an empty hope
06.GARTNERLOSJEN: Japan gartnerheavy
07.RENDEZVOUS POINT: Through the solar storm
08.LEPROUS: Third law
09.MOTORHEAD: Fire storm hotel
10.LED ZEPPELIN: Whole lotta love
11.AMBERIAN DAWN: Ladyhawk
12.HELLOWEEN: My god-given right
13.RAWHEAD REXX: Rawhead rexx
14.FALL OF GAIA: Kronos
15.AMON AMARTH: Vs. the world
16.PICTURE ANN: Secret noir agent
17.HIGH ON FIRE: Devilution
18.1349: Celestial deconstruction
19.ANCESTOR: Iron liver
20.ZEROZONIC: Aftersane
21.SEPULTURA: Dead embronic cells

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 18 - Atena

Simen & Vebjørn from Atena visited our studio

01.KAMELOT: Forever
02.BIG CITY: Innocence of a ki!!
03.TERAMAZE: Out of subconscious
04.GEORGIA SATELITES: Every picture tells a story
05.WIZARD: Thor's hammer
06.RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: Otherside
07.GAMMA RAY: Space eater
08.GILBY CLARKE: Alien
09.VAN HALEN: Runnin' with the devil
10.LONELY KAMEL: White lines
11.THULSA DOOM: Kick me
12.APRIL WINE: Anejo
13.SLAYER: When the stillness comes
14.ZEROZONIC: Symptoms
15.ATENA: Divorce
16.ATENA: Violent
17.ATENA: Black lounges
18.KAMPFAR: Icons
19.ALL WILL KNOW: Still, cold and lost
20.ENTOMBED: Crawl

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 11

01.SKID ROW: Monkey business
02.FLORA CASH: Shout it out loud
03.ENTWINE: Fortune falls
04.BLACK SABBATH: War pigs
05.LEATHERWOLF: Wicked ways
06.RENDEZVOUS POINT: Wasteland
07.W.A.S.P.: Golgotha
08.MINISTRY: Bang a gong
09.DA VINCI: Tarquinia
10.CHILDREN OF BODOM: My bodom, (I am the only one)
11.SLOANE SQUARE: Invictus
12.SOLSTAFIR: Bloodsoaked velvet
13.ZEROZONIC: Back to me
14.MYSTIC CIRCLE: Wings of death
15.PARADISE LOST: No hope in sight
16.DEADPOINT: Give me the power
17.THE 3RD ATTEMPT: Sons of the winter
18.VREID: Solverv
19.NETHERFELL: Towards fertile lands
20.CALLENISH CIRCLE: Soul messiah

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 4

01.ACCEPT: Metal heart
02.THE ANSWER: The other side
03.HEAVENS GATE: The neverending fire
04.Y&T: Midnight in Tokyo
05.XANDRIA: Voyage of the fallen
06.FAITH NO MORE: We care a lot
07.SYMPHONY X: To hell and back
08.LUCID DREAMS: Absence of innosence
09.DANKO JONES: Had enough
10.RONNIE LE TEKRØ: Jesus Chrysler supercar
11.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Ice queen
12.IMMORTAL: One by one
13.CRADLE OF FILTH: Blackest magick in practice
14.VADER: Come and see my sacrifice
15.SOILWORK: Death in general
16.ENSLAVED: The dead stare
17.OPETH: The grand conjuration
18.TRELLDOM: From this past

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 27 - Trondheim Metal Fest

01.PANTERA: I'm broken
02.AMARANTHE: Drop dead cynical
Trondheim..
03.SAHG: Firechild
04.ISKALD: A fading horizon
05.CRUCIFIED BARBARA: Lunatic #1
06.EVILE: Thrasher
07.CIRCUS MAXIMUS: I am
08.BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Alaska
09.KHOLD: Hundre år gammal
10.SABATON: Resist and bite
11.ROTTING CHRIST: In domine sathana
12.TANKARD: We still drink the old ways
13.SUSPERIA: Devil may care
14.THE HATE COLONY: Lies
15.AURA NOIR: Hell's fire
16.KORPIKLAANI: Tuoppi oltta
17.PRIMORDIAL: The coffin ships
18.DØDHEIMGARD: The snuff dreams are made of
19.STRATOVARIUS: Hunting high and low
..Metalfest.
20.BRUTAL TRUTH: Choice of a new generation
21.KVELERTAK: Bruane brenn
22.TROLLFEST: Villanden
23.ENTOMBED: Evemaster

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 20

01.MOTÖRHEAD: Ace of spades
02.THE TERRACES: Victim of circumstance
03.HELLOWEEN: Creatures in heaven
04.EUROPE: Rock the night
05.KRAKOW: Genesis
06.IRON MAIDEN: If eternity should fail
07.PICTURE ANN: Shore sermons
08.TRIOSPHERE: Trinity
09.JORN: Stormcrow
10.MEGADETH: Hangar 18
11.W.A.S.P.: Scream
12.KAMELOT: Revolution
13.HOMER: What is beyond
14.WHILE HEAVEN WEPT: Destroyer of solace
15.LUCIFER'S CHILD: Spirits of amenta
16.EINHERJER: Nord & ner
17.SOULBOUND: Break away
18.AGONIZER: I don't care
19.BLOOD RED THRONE: Proselyte virus
20.ARCH ENEMY: War eternal
21.DIMMU BORGIR: Den gjemte sannhets hersker

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 13

01.METALLICA: Battery
02.REFUSED: Dawkins christ
03.NIGHTWISH: My walden
04.DRAGONHAMMER: Believe
05.SYMPHONY X: Kiss of fire
06.KROKUS: Out of control
07.RUSSKAJA: Rock'n roll today
08.DRAKKAR: Run with the wolf
09.ANIMA MUNDI: Flying to the sun
10.SPOCK'S BEARD: The planet's hum
11.RAISE HELL: Six feet under
12.GREY SEASON: Tartarus
13.AURA NOIR: Gaping grave awaits
14.MYRKUR: Hævnen
15.WOLFHEART: Last of all winters
16.MOMENTUM: Between two worlds
17.RIWEN: Stalking a wounded wolf
18.OBITUARY: Final thoughts
19.STERBHAUS: Necrostabbing the corpsefinder
20.NECROPHAGIA: Children of the vortex

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 6 - Massive Destruction / Southern Discomfort

Steffen Overaa from Massive Destruction Festival visited our studio
and some part of the show was about Southern Discomfort Festival.

01.KING DIAMOND: Sleepless night
02.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Pillars of the south
03.DREAM THEATER: 6:00
Massive..
04.DRAUG: Begravd
05.TOTEM MOON: Totem moon
06.CAUSING THE EXILE: Dawn of the new era
07.KONGH: Sole creation
08.MYRKSKOG: Indisposable deaths
09.FLESHMEADOW: A vexing mural
10.ENSLAVED: Thurisaz dreaming
...Destruction
11.FOUCALT: United forces
Southern....
12.TRIOSPHERE: The sphere
13.ROTTING CHRIST: A dead poem
14.DEN SAAKALDTE: Du selvproklamerte misjonær
15.GUARDIANS OF TIME: Payback
16.PRIMORDIAL:  The seed of tyrants
17.MADDER MORTEM: Where dream & day collide
...Discomfort


Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 30 - 1349

Interview with Archaon from 1349 recorded at Midgardsblot 2015.

01.DIO: Holy diver
02.VEISLAKT: Kula i kosmos
03.AC/DC: Rock n' roll train
04.MINDTECH: Lords of war
04.RAZORBATS: Internal war
05.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: No one knows
06.W.A.S.P.: Last runaway
07.KREATOR: When the sun burns red
08.MAGAZINE: Shot by both sides
09.ALFAHANNE: Besatt
10.WATCH OUT STAMPEDE: Tides
11.AHAB: Red foam
12.1349: Cauldron
13.1349: Postmortem
14.1349: Slaves
15.PLACENTA: Schwarze tauben steigen
16.MAN THE MACHETES: De sier nei
17.DISARMONIA MUNDI: Resurrection
18.ENSLAVED: Isa

Raymond Smith

Reporters:
Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad