April 16

01.IRON MAIDEN: 22 acacia avenue
02.ALFAHANNE: Dödsmaskin
03.SAXON: Princess of the night
04.ECLIPSE: Never look back
05.DEEP PURPLE: On top of the world
06.TANKARD: Arena of true lies
07.BLACK STAR RIDER: Dancing with the wrong girl
08.RAGE: The final curtain
09.PICTURE ANN: Trade
10.SONIC SYNDICATE: Fire
11.TESTAMENT: Souls of black
12.LIFE OF AGONY: World gone mad
13.MAGICK TOUCH: Wildfire
14.SAPPHIRE EYES: A man the world can do without
15.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Midnight flyer
16.MADDER MORTEM: Fallow season
17.SOEN: Lucidity
18.FORBIDDEN FOREST: Ville vakre skoger
19.DEMOLITION HAMMER: .44 caliber brain surgery
20.DARK TRANQUILITY: Dream oblivion
21.CADAVER DISPOSAL: The ancient order
22.WATAIN: Kiss of death

Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 9

01.TANKARD: The morning after
02.AYREON: Into the ocean
03.KREATOR: World war now
04.DUM DUM BOYS: Shout it out loud
05.MAGICK TOUCH: Joker vs. ace
06.TESLA: Makin' magic
07.AVATARIUM: Into the fire/into the storm
08.KISS: Detroit rock city
09.SKID ROW: Monkey business
10.PICTURE ANN: Katarsis
11.ANGEL WITH NO ARMS: Sick of this shit
12.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: No place for disgrace
13.SULPHUR: Plague and pestilence
14.SLEGEST: Som i eit endelikt
15.SARKOM: Infekted
16.HAIL SPIRIT NOIR: Riders to utopia
17.VESEN: See you in hell
18.RED HARVEST: Absolut dunkel:heit
19.BORKNAGAR: The dawn of the end
20.WHIP: Uh!
21.FURZE: Avail the autocrat of evil
22.WHOREDOM RIFE: Fyrstens land
23.NACHASH: A necromancer's lament


Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 2 - Inferno Metal Fest

Runar Pettersen from Inferno Metal Festival visited out studio

01.HELHEIM: Jernskogen
02.VENOM: Harder than ever
03.AZARATH: Let my blood become his flesh
04.DESTRUCTION: Nailed to the cross
05.CARCASS: Corporal jigsore quandary
06.INSIDIOUS DISEASE: Rituals of bloodshed
07.ANAAL NATHRAKH: Powerslave
08.SAMAEL: Baphoment's throne
09.CROWBAR: Fixation
10.GORGOROTH: Profetens åpenbaring
11.AUDN: Landvættur
12.SLAGMAUR: Ja vi elsker dette landet
13.ZHRINE: Spewing gloom
14.PRIMORDIAL: Empire falls
15.KONTINUUM: Kyrr
16.BELPHEGOR: Gasmask terror
17.SVARTIDAUDI: Deathtrip
18.ABBATH: Ashes to the damned

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 26

01.SLAYER: Seasons in the abyss
02.SOUNDGARDEN All your lies
03.THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM: Hand of hell
04.KISS: I was made for lovin' you
05.DUNDERBEIST: Terpentin
06.BARE EGIL BAND: Tagging
07.SABATON: The lost battalion
08.LIFE OF AGONY: A place where there's no more pain
09.MANOWAR: Hail and kill
10.LIONVILLE: I will wait
11.GRAVE DIGGER: Healed by metal
12.KING'S X: We were born to be loved
13.AKLO SABBOATH: Phantom of ancient
14.OBITUARY: End it now
15.KVELERTAK: Blodtørst
16.TERRORIZER: After world obliteration
17.NIGHTRAGE: Bemoan
18.WOLFHEART: World on fire
19.DARK TRANQUILITY: Misery's crown
20.I SWEAR DAMNATION: I am despair
21.RED HARVEST: The lone walk

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 19

01.DESTRUCTION: Nailed to the cross
02.NORSK RÅKK: Skarpladd
03.PLACE VENDOME: Falling star
04.TED NUGENT: Car scratch fever
05.EDENBRIDGE: Until the end of time
06.JOE LYNN TURNER: Losing you
07.WASP: The real me
08.UPSTROKES: JFK
09.TWILIGHT FORCE: To the stars
10.ACCEPT: Dying breed
11.SABATON: Sparta
12.CORRODED: Fall of a nation
13.BILLY IDOL: Love calling
14.VIRUS: Gravity seeker
15.EX DEO: Crossing of the Alpes
16.ASTRONOID: Air
17.METALLICA: Halo on fire
18.DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT: Offer your light
19.DARK TRANQUILITY: Lost to apathy
20.DISSECTION: Unhallowed

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 12

01.KING DIAMOND: Mirror mirror
02.THE ANSWER: In this land
03.TATTOOED LOVE BOYS: Why waltz when you can rock 'n' roll
04.APOCALYPSE ORCHESTRA: The garden of earthly delights
05.BON JOVI: Bad medicine
06.NITERAIN: Come out
07.AMMUNITION: Wrecking crew
08.MINDTECH: Feed you my love
09.KISS: Cold gin
10.AMORPHIS: Her alone
11.HELL: Let battle commence
12.RAMMSTEIN: Feuer frei
13.KVELERTAK: Blodtørst
14.DIMMU BORGIR: Mourning palace
15.DARK TRANQUILITY: Hours passed in exile
16.MEMORIAM: Surrounded by death
17.KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: My curse
18.LIK: Only death is left alive
18.VESEN: Hate
19.DØDHEIMSGARD: Monumental possession
20.AZARATH: The slain god
21.STYGGMYR: Necromasturbation

Raymond Smith

March 5 - Norsk Urskog

Harald Eilertsen visited our studio. He talked about Norsk Urskog compilation cd.

01.EUROPE: Rock the night
02.STEEL PANTHER: Poontang boomerang
03.BATTLE BEAST: Bringer of pain
04.KAMELOT: Forever
05.KREATOR: Fallen brother
06.ACCEPT: Shadow soldiers
07.BULLET: Bite the bullet
08.TANKARD: Space beer
09.DISTURBED: Immortalized
10.AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Angels
11.KREATOR: Slave machinery
12.I SWEAR DAMNATION: I am despair
13.GOLDEN CORE: Sword of darkness
14.SVART LOTUS: 3rd rite
15.BLASTERED: Desperate sorrow
16.DARK TRANQUILITY: The wonders at your feet
17.GOJIRA: Silvera
18.MEDULA: Hablar de frente
19.MORK: Ravnens natterike kaller
20.NIDINGR: On dead body shore
21.DISIPLIN: Ultimatum

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 26 - Bylarm

Part of the show was about Bylarm 2017.

01.HELIX: Rock u
02.DUNDERBEIST: Kometen kom
03.RIVAL SONS: Keep on swinging
04.AMMUNITION: Wrecking crew
05.ANNIHILATOR: Set the world on fire
06.SKUNK ANANSIE: Secretly
07.NIRVANA: Smells like teen spirit
08.NEW MECANICA: Play the madmen
09.SABATON: Shiroyama
10.SUICIDIAL TENDENCIES: Waking the dead
By..
11.OKKULTOKRATI: No light for mass
12.ALFAHANNE: Skallerorm
13.TIEBREAKER: Commando
14.FIGHT THE FIGHT: This is war
15.HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO: Blood witch
16.HONNINGBARNA: La alarmane gå
17.DREAMARCHER: Impending doom
18.SAHG: Baptism of fire
19.TAAKE: Kongsgaard bestaar
20.KAMPFAR: Fortapelse
..Larm
21.ROTTEN SOUND: Doom
22.DARK TRANQUILITY: Nether novas
23.PETRIFICATION: The headless one master
24.DIABOLUS INCARNATE: Shadows fall

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 19

01.DEF LEPPARD: Rocket
02.IMMINENCE: This is goodbye
03.BLACK STAR RIDERS: Heavy fire
04.STRYPER: In God we trust
05.DAN REED NETWORK: Save the world
06.IRON MAIDEN: From here to eternity
07.BABYMETAL: Karate
08.IRON MAGAZINE: Queen of hell
09.PRIMAL FEAR: Six times dead (16.6)
10.THE DEVILS REJECTS: Season of the witch
11.DREAM THEATER: Take the time
12.BLOODBOUND: Fallen from grace
13.SHVPS: Skin & bones
14.SIKTH: Scent of the obscene
15.TRIVIUM: Pillars of serpents
16.TAETRE: Paint it black
17.MESHUGGAH: Born in dissonance
18.BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Alaska
19.DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT: Juular
20.DARK TRANQUILITY: Scythe, rage and rose
21.MARDUK: Dracul va domni din nou in Transilvania
22.ABBATH: Winterbane

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 12

01.ANTHRAX: Among the living
02.FIGHT THE FIGHT: The edge
03.THUNDER: She likes the cocaine
04.STATUS QUO: No contract
05.SAXON: 747 (Strangers in the night)
06.AYREON: The day that the world breaks down
07.ENBOUND: Crossroad
08.SONIC SYNDICATE: Still believe
09.FORBIDDEN FOREST: Ville vakre skoger
10.THE JUNIOR VARSITY: Everyone's got something they're running out of
11.SICK OF IT ALL: Us vs. them
12.WATCH OUT STAMPEDE: Sharks
13.SED: Establo
14.OBITUARY: Turned to stone
15.MARDUK: The black tormentor of Satan
16.IMMOLATION: Destructive currents
17.DARK TRANQUALITY: The dividing line
18.ONCE HUMAN: Mass murder frenzy
19.THE CRAWLING: An immaculate deception
20.GORGOROTH: Of ice and movement

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 5

01.DEEP PURPLE: Burn
02.JOHN GARCIA: Kylie
03.FREEDOM CALL: Metal is for everyone
04.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
05.THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM: Never machine
06.GLENN HUGHES: Flow
07.XANDRIA: Call of destiny
08.DARIO MOLLO'S CROSSBONES: Rock the cradle
09.SAVIOUR: The quiet calm
10.ACCEPT: Dark side of my heart
11.DARK TRANQUILITY: Crimson winds
12.TOMB MOLD: Twisted trail
13.DANA: My mortal remains
14.ABORTED: Retrogore
15.SOILWORK: Figure number five
16.SEPULTURA: Phantom self
17.KREATOR: Satan is real
18.CIRITH GORGOR: The luciferian principle
19.MARDUK: Darkness it shall be
20.INFERNAL ANGELS: Paimon - the secret of mind
21.RED HARVEST: Godtech

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 29

01.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Burning for you
02.LIV SIN: Let me out
03.SABATON: Rorke's drift
04.BLACK STONE CHERRY: In our dreams
05.PAIN OF SALVATION: Full throttle tribe
06.SPINAL TAP: The majesty of rock
07.ARMORED DAWN: William Fly (the pirate)
08.HELMET: Wilma's rainbow
09.GRAVE DIGGER: Call for war
10.HELLOWEEN: Mirror mirror
11.FM: American girls
12.GRAND LUX: Eye of the storm
13.THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: Symptom of terminal illness
14.ANTHRAX: Suzerain
15.MARDUK: Glorification of the black god
16.HELHEIM: Baklengs mot intet
17.DARKNESS AND BLIZZ: Satan is with you
18.CHRONOSPHERE: Be the best
19.DEUS MORTEM: Receiving the impurity of Jeh
20.DREAMING DEAD: Funeral twilight
21.MOONSPELL: Mephisto

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 22

01.GORKY PARK: Bang
02.GHOST AVENUE: Impact
03.PAIN: Coming home
04.ATROCITY: Let's dance
05.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges
06.SPELLBOUND: Rockin' reckless
07.GREEN DAY: American idiot
08.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Fight the fight
09.BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: Suicide messiah
10.EPICA: Beyond the matrix
11.AYREON: Waking dreams
12.MARILLION: Living with the big lie
13.KREATOR: Satan is real
14.EX DEO: The rise of Hannibal
15.BRUJERIA: Viva presidente Trump
16.NEOPLASMA: Imperium
17.MARDUK: Glorification of the black god
18.THYRANE: Black harmony
19.CARCASS: No love lost
20.CRUSHER: Sell the Vaticans wealth

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 15

01.HAMMERFALL: Crimson thunder
02.FOREVER STILL: Miss madness
03.THE DOORS: Break on through
04.HALFORD: Resurrection
05.BATTLE BEAST: Familiar hell
06.MINDTECH: Black heart
07.TRIOSPHERE: The heart's dominion
08.MARILYN MANSON: The fight song
09.XANDRIA: We are murderes
10.ACCEPT: Stampede
11.SENTENCED: Shadegrown
12.YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Winds of war (invasion)
13.OVERKILL: Mean, green, killing machine
14.SOILWORK: Late for the kill, early for the slaughter
15.MARDUK: Infernal eternal
16.NEOPLASMA: Alt som var
17.SWITCH: Votaciones
18.SEPULTURA: Phantom self
19.SAMAEL: Into the pentagram
20.DJEVELSANG: Englestøv
21.KHONSU: A dream of earth

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 8 - Mudrod

Raymond Olsen from Mudrod visited our studio

01.WASP: The real me
02.ACCEPT: Pandemic
03.TYGERS OF PAN TANG: Blood red sky
04.MUDROD: Riverdead
05.MUDROD: Shanghai tunnels
06.BATTLE BEAST: King for a day
07.DREAM THEATER: Pull me under
08.TNT: Everyone's a star
09.DEEP PURPLE: Time for bedlam
10.QUEENSRYCHE: Empire
11.SIX FEET UNDER: Beneath a black sky
12.GROOVENOM: Shut the f#ck app
13.SERPENT: Nightflyer
14.SLAYER: South of heaven
15.USURPRESS: Across the dying plains
16.CODE: On blinding larks
17.MARDUK: Beyond the grace of god
18.HAIL SPIRIT NOIR: Riders to Utopia
19.ANAAL NATHRAKH: On being a slave

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 1 - Top 2016

Our personal 2016 top 5 albums

01.EUROPE: FInal countdown
Top 5
Raymond Smith:
02. 05.DIMENSION F3H: The dreaming - This Mechanical World
03. 04.RAGE: The devil strikes again - The Devil Strikes Again
04. 03.IN FLAMES: Drained - Battles
05. 02.METALLICA: Atlas, rise - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
06. 01.TESTAMENT: The pale king - Brotherhood Of The Snake
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.METALLICA: Spit out the bone - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
08. 04.AMON AMARTH: One thousand burning arrows - Jomsviking
09. 03.DESTROYER 666: Hounds at ya back - Wildfire
10. 02.TESTAMENT: Black jack - Brotherhood Of The Snake
11. 01.SABATON: Blood of Bannockburn - The Last Stand
Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.SODOM: -In retribution - Decision Day
13. 04.MEGADETH: Post american world - Dystopia
14. 03.HATEBREED: Looking down the barrel of today - The Concrete Confessional
15. 02.DESTRUCTION: Generation nevermore - Under Attack
16. 01.TESTAMENT: Brotherhood of the snake - Brotherhood Of The Snake
..2016
17.SLAUGHTER: Reach for the sky
18.LOATHE: Hellfire
19.DEHUMAN: Crypts of blood
20.PICTURE ANN: Insight
21.KREATOR: Pleasure to kill

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

December 25

Raymond Olsen from Mudrod visited our studio

01.TWISTED SISTER: Have yourself a merry little Christmas
02.BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: Don't need you
03.MUDROD: Riverdead
04.MUDROD: Shanghai tunnels
05.ETERNAL IDOL: Another night comes
06.SKID ROW: Slave to the grind
07.ENUFF Z'NUFF: Runaway
08.BLACK STONE CHERRY: Blue Christmas
09.BRAINSTORM: Falling spiral down
10.BACKSTREET GIRLS: One for the road
11.MARIUS BIRKELAND DANIELSEN: White Christmas
12.HEL: Mörker
13.BLACK HOLE GENERATOR: Beneath a chemical sky
14.KATATONIA: Murder day
15.ENSLAVED: Nordlys
16.BLINDFOLDED: She lies in the river
17.RECITATIONS: The first of the listeners
18.UNLIGHT DOMAIN: Waiting
19.DARKTHRONE: The pagan winter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 18 - Few Dollars More

Espen Klausen & Odd Thomas Tandberg from Few Dollars More visited our studio.

01.VENOM: Welcome to hell
02.SONIC SYNDICATE: Start a war
03.RAGE: War
04.NITERAIN: Lost and wasted
05.SEX PISTOLS: My way
06.SHY: My apollo
07.SKADA: Bymåka
08.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen
09.FEW DOLLARS MORE: Cosmic noise
10.FEW DOLLARS MORE: California river queen
11.FEW DOLLARS MORE: Destination unknown
12.IMPERIAL STATE ELECTRIC: Break it down
13.OSLO ESS: Midnatt
14.NIGHTWISH: Shudder before the beautiful
15.RED FANG: Cut it short
16.EVANESCENCE: Going under
17.REAPTER: Omega revolution
18.SOGGY: Waiting for the war
19.DYING FETUS: Fate of the condemned
20.RAM-ZET: Queen
21.MADDER MORTEM: Blood on the sand
22.MY DYING BRIDE: The snow in my hand

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 11 - Loxodrom

Thomas Green & Christian Skaug from Loxodrom visited our studio.

01.LED ZEPPELIN: Immigrant song
02.WARLOCK: All we are
03.HARDLINE: Nobody's fool
04.THE CARBURETORS: Burnout
05.LOXODROM: Nordavind
06.LOXODROM: Labyrint
07.LOXODROM: Brutalt elegant
08.TWILIGHT FORCE: Riders of the dawn
09.SEX PISTOLS: God save the queen
10.MERCURY MOON: Endless roads
11.PERFECT NME: Legion
12.KISS: Deuce
13.VOLBEAT: River queen
14.ROOT: Moment of fright
15.AURA NOIR: Hades rise
16.DEAD POINT: Palabras vacias
17.GRAND MAGUS: Varangian
18.BEHEMOTH: Furor divinus
19.AMON AMARTH: On a sea of blood
20.NORDJEVEL: Djevelen i nord
21.AVATAR: Hail the apocalypse
22.DISSECTOR: Rebuild on better days
23.POSSESSED: No will to live

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 4

01.AEROSMITH: Livin' on the edge
02.ACCEPT: Restless and wild
02.DEATHSTAR: White wedding
03.KEE MARCELLO: On the radio
04.RETURN: Sing me a song
05.STAGE DOLLS: Soldier's gun
06.SKALMÖLD: Midgardur
07.BLACK INGVARS: De sista ljuva åren
08.SHAMAN ELEPHANT: Crystals
09.IN FLAMES: Drained
10.OZZY OSBOURNE: Crazy train
11.METALLICA: Atlas, rise!
12.VANDERHOOF: Sonic blur in time
13.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARDS SONS: Spiders
14.KREATOR: Gods of violence
15.SEPULTURA: Roots bloody roots
16.LAMB OF GOD: The duke
17.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
18.VIRUS: Rogue fossil
19.ENSLAVED: 793 (slaget om Lindisfarne)

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen