January 3

01.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges
02.W.E.T.: Big boys don’t cry
03.TESSIA: The seed
04.ANUBIS GATE: Atlas
05.VANDEN PLAS: Under the horizon
06.METAL CHURCH: Badlands
07.MSG: After the rain
08.RAGA ROCKERS: Sukker
09.KNOGJÄRN: Älskar ingen
10.WEDNESDAY 13: Devil inside
11.SEETHER: Wasteland
12.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Angelface
13.GOD DETHRONED: Book of lies
14.MOONSPELL: The greater good
15.EINHERJER: Stars
16.FULLMÅNE: Torch in the night
17.IMMORTAL: Tyrants
18.UTBYRD: Sjøormen
19.BLOODLETTER: Absolution denied
20.EX DEO: I, Caligvla
21.FURIOUS TRAUMA: Plague of the new world
22.BATHORY: Baptised in fire and ice

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 27 - Top 2020

Our personal top 5 of 2020

01. EUROPE: The final countdown

Jan Erik Johansen:
05.RISING STEEL: Mystic voices – Fight Them All
04.IGNITION: Warrior of the night – Call Of The Sirens
03.SORCERER: The hammer of witches – Lamenting Of The Innocent
02.UNDER THE OAK: Tribulation – Ripped Up By The Roots
01.AMBUSH: Hellbiter – Infidel

Raymond Smith:
05.AYREON: Get out now – Transitus
04.OZZY OSBOURNE: Scary little green men – Ordinary Man
03.PARADISE LOST: Forsaken – Obsidian
02.TESTAMENT: Children of the next level – Titans Of Creation
01.CONNECT THE CIRCLE: Black feathers – This Is Madness

Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
05.IRON SAVIOR: Welcome to the new world – Skycrest
04.NIGHTWISH: Tribal – Human. :II: Nature
03.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit – Ripped Up By The Roots
02.CARACH ANGREN: The necromancer – Franckensteina Strataemontanus
01.MESSIAH: Children of faith - Fracmont

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
05.CONCEPTION: The mansion – State Of Deception
04.THE DEVIL’S REJECTS: Seven women for Satan – Blood Feast
03.HJELVIK: Father war – Welcome To Hel
02.GAMA BOMB: Electric pentacle – Sea Savage
01.HAVOK: Fear campaign – V

22.CRO-MAGS: Age of quarantine

Jan Erik Johansen
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

December 20

01.KING DIAMOND: Christmas
02.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Stairway to the stars
03.ETERNAL IDOL: Dark eclipse
04.MAJESTICA: The joy of Christmas
05.AC/DC: Hells bells
06.BØRGE OLSEN: Bloody moon
07.MEDIVAL STEEL: Medival steel
08.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Release my symphony
09.DAMN FREAKS: Bullets for u
10.Q5: Pull the trigger
11.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen
12.CRYSTAL EYES: Confessions of the maker
13.KORPIKLAANI: Mylly
14.LOUDBLAST: The promethean fire
15.SOILWORK: A whisp of the atlantic
16.MORK: Skarpretterens øks
17.ABORYM: Hellraiser
18.FUMING MOUTH: Master of extremity
19.TAETRE: Paint it black
20.MY DYING BRIDE: The snow in my hand

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan-Erik Johansen

December 13

01.AC/DC: Mistress for christmas
02.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Papermoon
03.PALACE: Rock and roll radio
04.EPICA: Freedom the wolves within
05.PERSUADER: Raise the dead
06.THE CULT OF DESTINY: The armageddon is here
07.RAVN: Evighet
08.WICKED SMILE: We fall
09.THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: Confessions of a dopamine addict
10.DRAGGED UNDER: This holiday
11.SONATA ARCTICA: Fullmoon
12.TYGERS OF PAN TANG: Love potion no. 9
13.VEIL OF SECRETS: The last attempt
14.DREAM THEATER: A savior in the square
15.STÄLKER: Black majik terror
16.THE HU: Sad but true
17.INSIDIOUS DISEASE: Soul excavation
18.DARKNESS: Every time you curse me
19.SCOUR: Doom
20.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
21.ENTOMBED: Demon
22.PROFANITY: Progenitor of the blaze
23.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit
24.ODIUM: Winterpath

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan-Erik Johansen

December 6

01.TWISTED SISTER: Have yourself a merry little christmas
02.PALACE: Way up here
03.MOON SHOT: Big bang
04.DORO: Burn it up
05.MSG: Drilled to kill
06.BØRGE OLSEN: Question
07.DEF LEPPARD: Photograph
08.MAJESTICA: Ghost of Marley
09.THERION: Leviathan
10.RIOT: Devil woman
11.TUNGSTEN: Lock and load
12.ALICE COOPER: Santa claws is coming to town
13.ARCH ENEMY: Scream of anger
14.PARADISE LOST: Ending days
15.SERPENT OMEGA: Land of darkness
16.CADAVER: Reborn
17.SKAM: When liquid is the new solid
18.MY DYING BRIDE: Macabre cabaret
19.HJELVIK: Glory of Hel
20.HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY: Sing for the damage we’ve done
21.REVEREND: Stealing my mind
22.PARADIGMA: Pome winter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 29

01.BLIND GUARDIAN: Imaginations from the other side
02.VAK: How low
03.ORIANTHI: Crawling out of the dark
04.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS: Born to roam
05.ALESTORM: Keelhauled
06.WOBBLER: By the banks
07.MOTÖRHEAD: Victory or die
08.SILVERCHAIR: London’s burning
09.PERSUADER: The curse unbound
10.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
11.AUDREY HORNE: Midnight man
12.THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM: Howl
13.INCULTER: Impending doom
14.UNDER THE OAK: Hymn for the fallen
15.KATAPULT: Load the katapult
16.TULUS: Frossen skog
17.OBLITERATION: Cenotaph obscure
18.VED BUENS ENDE: Autumn leaves
19.KILLER BE KILLED: From a crowded wound
20.SISTER: Primal rage
21.MESSIAH: Battle in the ancient north

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 22

01.BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: Demise of sanity
02.ACCEPT: Too mean to die
03.JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Living a dream
04.FASTER PUSSYCAT: These boots were made for walking
05.LORDS OF BLACK: Into the black
06.DIO: Time to burn
07.COMMUNIC: Hiding from the world
08.KISS: God of thunder
09.WITCHWOOD: A taste of winter
10.JORN: The day the earth caught fire
11.PLANET MASTERGOD: Shrine
12.TED NUGENT: Everything matters
13.HJELVIK: Helgrinda
14.JINJER: Retrospection
15.CARCASS: Slaughtered in Soho
16.LIONHEART: Trail by fire
17.VEIL OF SECRETS: The last attempt
18.THY ART IS MURDER: Killing season
19.IMMORTAL The sun no longer rises
20.MERCYLESS: In league with Satan
21.PSYCROPTIC: A fragile existence
22.SATYRICON: Mother north

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 15

01.URIAH HEEP: Return to fantasy
02.ECLIPSE: Blood enemies
03.GAIA EPICUS: Invisible enemy
04.SCARLET: #bossbitch
05.JUDAS PRIEST: Firepower
06.DOOMSWORD: Nadsokor
07.IRON SAVIOR: Our time has come
08.BLOMST: Mine hender brenner
09.AMARANTHE: Boom!
10.YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS: Drawn and quartered
11.ROB ZOMBIE: The triumph of king freak
12.PINK CREAM 69: Let the thunder reside
13.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Bodom after midnight
14.CLIFFORD: You’re fired (By a lot)
15.MACABRE: The wheels on the bug
16.MACHINE HEAD: My hands are empty
17.EMPEROR: Ye entrancemperium
18.VARG: Fara til rànar
19.THE CROWN: In the name of death
20.VREID: Milorg
21.EKTOMORF: Reborn
22.DARKTHRONE: Kathaarian life code

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 8

01.RAGE: Don’t fear the winter
02.THE 69 EYES: Change
03.MAJESTICA: Ghost of christmas past
04.ERIK NORLANDER: Children of Sanchez overture
05.NORMANDIE: Holy water
06.DEEP PURPLE: Any fule kno that
07.RICKY WARWICK: Fighting heart
08.KORPIKLAANI: Sudenmorsian
09.ACCEPT: Princess of the dawn
10.WIG WAM: Never say die
11.CRUACHAN: The hawthorn
12.GREY SEASON: Captain trips
13.INSIDIOUS DISEASE: An end date with the world
14.CELESTIAL SEASON: For eternity
15.INCINERATED: Fleshtemple sanctify
16.SLAYER: South of heaven
17.KING PARROT: Banished, flawed then docile
18.CADAVER: Reborn
19.PUTRID OFFAL: Barber butcher
20.DEMONICAL: My kingdom done
21.SACRAMENTUM: Pagan fire
22.SATYRICON: The pentagram burns

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 1

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Love’s blind
03.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Living the dream
04.THE WHO: My generation
05.SABATON: 82nd all the way
06.KHEMMIS: Down in a hole
07.LION’S SHARE: Aim higher
08.JUDAS PRIEST: Johnny B. Goode
09.ALTER BRIDGE: Native son
10.DEEP PURPLE: Après vous
11.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
12.TROLLFEST: Der jegermeister
13.JINJER: The prophecy
14.ASPHYXIATOR: True fucking hate
15.NAPALM DEATH: Mechanics of deceit
16.ENSLAVED: Jettegryta
17.BRUJERIA: Viva presidente Trump
18.DRACONIAN: Sleepwalkers
19.BENEDICTION: Tear off these wings
20.SISTER: Die with a smile
21.KING DIAMOND: Halloween

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 25

01.ALICE IN CHAINS: Man in the box
02.LÜT: Strictly business
03.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Release my symphony
04.ATROCITY: Relax
05.WAIL: Through the ice
06.WOBBLER: By the banks
07.LEAVES’ EYES: Chain of the golden horn
08.POWERWOLF: Power and glory
09.GODSEND: Autumn leaves
10.LIMP BIZKIT: Break stuff
11.SKELETAL REMAINS: Congregation of flesh
12.PICTURE ANN: A barren doctrine
13.ENSLAVED: Isa
14.BPMD: D.O.A.
15.PURGATORIUM: Titan
16.CRADLE OF FILTH: Tonight in flames
17.THE UNGUIDED: Never yield
18.SKÀLMÖLD: Ad vetri
19.NERVOSA: Guided by evil
20.HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO: Jurasek

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 18

01.VAN HALEN: Runnin’ with the devil
02.GAIA EPICUS: Gods of metal
03.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: That was me
04.REMISSION INTERNATIONAL: Tos2020
05.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS: We are the bastards
06.IRON MAIDEN: Run to the hills
07.ORIANTHI: Impulsive
08.ABAKAS: Runaway
09.AC/DC: Shot in the dark
10.TOMMY LEE: Tommy Lee (remix)
11.MANDRAKE: Falling away
12.MY DYING BRIDE: A secret kiss
13.HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY: I, pallbearer
14.ENTOMBED: Hellraiser
15.DEAD HEAD: Souls of ice
16.DEATH: Spiritual healing
17.NIGHTRAGE: Frozen halflight atmosphere
18.AZARATH: Sancta dei meretrix
19.ANAAL NATHRAKH: The age of starlight ends
20.EMPEROR: The burning shadows of silence

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 11

01.TANK: Echoes of a distant battle
02.AYREON: Condemned without a trial
03.BÜRNER: Run like hell
04.ACE FREHLEY: She
05.SCHWARZER ENGEL: Teufel
06.WOBBLER: Five rooms
07.HELLOWEEN: Pumpkins united
08.SAXON: Ride like the wind
09.LÜT: Viepå
10.ONE AND A HALF DOG: Game over
11.RONNI LE TEKRØ: The devil’s blood
12.MAGICA: Black lace
13.MONSTROSITY: Cosmic pandemia
14.KATAKLYSM: Cut me down
15.MAYHEM: Freezing moon
16.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Triggerfinger
17.CARACH ANGREN: Franckensteina strataemontanus
18.NOUMENA: Seula
19.HORDE OF HEL: Totalitarian regime
20.TESTAMENT: False prophet
21.MESSIAH: Fracmont

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 4

01.MANILLA ROAD: Necropolis
02.SCOTT STAPP: World I used to know
03.HELSTAR: Black wings of solitude
04.RETROMONSTER: Kongen på haugen
05.DJERV: (We don’t) hang no more
06.AXEL RUDI PELL: Stone
07.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Impossibile
08.ARABS IN ASPIC: Madness and magic
09.UNDER THE OAK: War of attrition
10.ACCEPT: The undertaker
11.DEVILDRIVER: Wishing
12.SEX PISTOLS: Johnny B. Goode
13.BELPHEGOR: Necrodaemon terrorsathan
14.DRACONIAN: Moon over sabaoth
15.HJELVIK: North Tsar
16.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Hatebreeder
17.WARFECT: Left to rot
18.CADAVER: Morgue ritual
19.AISUMASEN: Ocean desert
20.NIGHTRAGE: Poems doomed to oblivion
21.THORNS: Shifting channels

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 27 - Unlike The Fallen

Vegard & Håvard from Unlike The Fallen visit Symphonium

Vegard Nilsen & Håvard Reffhaug Hulbak from Unlike The Fallen visited our studio.

01.SYMPHONY X: Serpent’s kiss
02.CORY MARKS: Out in the rain
03.VICIOUS RUMORS: Cold blooded
04.BRUCE DICKINSON: Starchildren
05.CONNECT THE CIRCLE: The king is dead
06.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Godzilla
07.VALKYRIE: Afraid to live
08.THE HELLACOPTERS: By the grace of God
09.WHITESNAKE: Fool for you loving
10.IN FLAMES: Wicked game
11.MY DYING BRIDE: Follower
12.UNLIKE THE FALLEN: Dead echoes
13.UNLIKE THE FALLEN: Through anger and insanity
14.UNLIKE THE FALLEN: Choosing fate
15.SLIPKNOT: People = shit
16.GAAHLS WYRD: From the spear
17.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit
18.VARATHRON: Tenebrous
19.THE VICE: White teeth rebellion
20.GOREFEST: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 20

01.AVENGED SEVENFOLD: Hail to the king
02.TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN: Crazy days
03.TUNGSTEN: King of shadows
04.ROUGH CUTT: Never gonna die
05.LORD OF THE LOST VS. SWISS & DIE ANDERN: Schwarz tot gold
06.AIRBAG: Sunsets
07.RISING STEEL: Steel hammer
08.GREEN DAY: Oh yeah!
09.METALLICA: For whom the bell tolls
10.FEUERSCHWANZ: Amen & attack
11.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS: Son of a gun
12.MAZE OF TORMENT: Tyrannizer
13.CULT OF LILITH: Comatose
14.CLIFFORD: All might to Tegnell
15.CARDIAC ARREST: Plague ridden destiny
16.JINJER: Teacher, teacher!
17.ENTARTUNG: Bortförd
18.MORBID ANGEL: Rapture
19.THE UNGUIDED: Never yield
20.UNLIKE THE FALLEN: Manipulation
21.THYRANT: Dunes of desolation
22.MYSTICUM: Annihilation

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 13

01.METALLICA: Seek & destroy
02.STRYPER: Make love great again
03.NORMANDIE: Jericho
04.GOTHMINISTER: Thriller
05.PRIMAL FEAR: I am alive
06.JIMI HENDRIX: Foxy lady
07.HALFORD: Resurrection
08.SILVERSTEIN: Quit your job
09.DEVILDRIVER: Nest of vipers
10.SHOTGUN RODEO: The devil on your shoulder
11.ZAKK SABBATH: Black sabbath
12.ASTROSAUR: Fishing for Kraken
13.SEPULTURA: Means to an end
14.BRUJERIA: Viva presidente Trump
15.IN FLAMES: Only for the weak
16.VINGULMORK: (I am) the darkness you can touch
17.IN MOURNING: The smoke
18.INCANTATION: Black fathom’s fire
19.PIG DESTROYER: The cavalry
20.DISSECTION: A land forlorn

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 6 - Southern Discomfort

01.ACCEPT: Metal heart
02.ELECTRIC MOB: Devil you know
03.ALESTORM: Big ship little ship
04.HAMMERFALL: Never forgive, never forget
05.ORIANTHI: Sinner’s hymn
06.BLACK SABBATH: Fairies wear boots
07.SISTER: Vengeance ignited
08.HULDRA CROSS: Storytime
09.NIGHTMARE: Lights on
10.SIXX A.M.: Maybe it’s time
11.ARCTIC RAIN: Night after night
12.METALITE: Afterlife
13.MESSIAH: Fatal grotesque symbols – darken universe
14.SOULFLY: Sangue de bairro
15.YOU SUFFER: Taushetens gapestokker
16.ZEROZONIC: Bad circles
17.PYRRHIC: Deafening the light
18.DECEPTION: Memento mori
19.KATAKLYSM: Underneath the scars
20.SAGNTID: They speak
21.ENSLAVED: Urjotun
22.SKÀLMÖLD: Ad hausti
23.SIX FEET UNDER: Amputator
24.PECCATUM: No title for a cause

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 30

01.MASTERPLAN: Enlighten me
02.SHINING BLACK: The carousel
03.FIXATION: Neurosis
04.BLACK DEBBATH: Til hælvete med Munchmuseet!
05.SINSID: Hail to the gods
06.KISS: Charisma
07.SERPENT OMEGA: Land of darkness
08.ANTHRAX: Big eyes
09.ONSLAUGHT: Bow down to the clowns
10.JETHRO TULL: Aqualung
11.NAVIAN: Multiplayer
12.RAINAREA: Desolate desolation
13.ONCE AWAKE: Live life on
14.ZEROZONIC: Road tale
15.SAGNTID: Dismal gates
16.NAPALM DEATH: Amoral
17.DRACONIAN: The sacrificial flame
18.MY DARKEST HATE: Eye for an eye
19.BEGRAFVEN: Döden är helig
20.VOKODLOK: The weak
21.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Ritual
22.MEMORIAM: War rages on

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 23

01.SKID ROW: Slave to the grind
02.LION’S SHARE: Shotgun messiah
03.SHAAM LAREIN: Lunar crater
04.KAMELOT: Under grey skies
05.DEEP PURPLE: Drop the weapon
06.HAMMERFALL: Angel of mercy
07.RAMMSTEIN: Puppe
08.KVELERTAK: Rogaland
09.NIGHT: Burning sky
10.CORRODED: Burn
11.HANK VON HELL: Disco
12.BLINK 182: M&M’s
13.IN FLAMES: Only for the weak
14.TRIVIUM: Catastrophist
15.MEGASCAVENGER: Nothing but the feet remains
16.PICTURE ANN: Idris and isolation
17.TESTAMENT: WWIII
18.ENTOMBED: But life goes on
19.IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT: City swine
20.BATHORY: Enter the eternal fire

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen