February 14

01.OVERKILL: I hate
02.W.E.T.: The moment of truth
03.MSG: In search of the peace of mind
04.ARC OF LIFE: Just in sight
05.AFI: Twisted tongues
06.BAD WOLVES: Zombie
07.HUMAN FORTRESS: Vain endeavour
08.MONOLORD: I’m staying home
09.SABATON: In the name of God
10.INGLORIOUS: Medusa
11.NORMANDIE: Babylon
12.ROLLINS BAND: Obscene
13.THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: Radio
14.CODE OF PERFECTION: Hearts in Atlantis
15.SODOM: Nicht mehr mein land
16.ENDEZZMA: Wild gloriour death
17.NECROTTED: My mental castration
18.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
19.PHLEBOTOMIZED: No surrender
20.CELESTIAL SANCTUARY: Wretched habits
21.ACT OF CREATION: Violet red
22.MARDUK: Departure from the mortal

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 7

01.CANDLEMASS: Solitude
02.WIG WAM: Hypnotized
03.NACHTBLUT: Leierkinder
04.GARY MOORE: The loner
05.THERION: Tuonela
06.EPICA: Rivers
07.ANNIHILATOR: Denied
08.VESTINDIEN: Null
09.RONNIE ATKINS: Real
10.IRON MAIDEN: Revelations
11.AMORPHIS: Brother and sister
12.CATHEDRAL: The caravan
13.DEMONIAC: Equilibrio fatal
14.EINHERJER: The blood and the iron
15.EKTOMORF: Smashing the past
16.DEATH: Suicide machine
17.AUGUST BURNS RED: Standing the storm
18.NEKROMANTHEON: The visions of Trismegistos
19.MARA: Born to die
20.SIRENIA: We come to ruins
21.RAVAGE MACHINERY: March of the consumed

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 31

01.SLAYER: South of heaven
02.CREYE: Carry on
03.LABYRINTH: Den of snakes
04.FIVE THE HIEROPHANT: Fire from frozen cloud
05.KING BAAL: Immortality
06.ARABS IN ASPIC: Madness and magic
07.SATAN’S FALL: There will be blood
08.ACCEPT: Too mean to die
09.GODSEND: In the bitter waters
10.TURBONEGER: All my friends are dead
11.DEAD SOUL TRIBE: The gossamer strand
12.MAJESTIC MASS: Thy ravenous storm
13.STASS: Fear of the living dead
14.IMMORTAL: Tragedies blows at horizon
15.MARIANAS REST: Glow from the edge
16.GRAVE: Black dawn
17.ANNISOKAY: Bonfire of the millenials
18.ENDEZZMA: Formless and void
19.PARANORM: Lost cause
20.GRIMFIST: Reap the fire

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 24 - The Norseman Company

Rudi Remme from The Norseman Company visited our studio

01.SAVAGE: Let it loose
02.CELLAR DARLING: Dance
03.JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13: Hard to say goodbye
04.FALCONER: Grimasch om morgonen
05.WHITE VOID: This apocalypse is for you
06.THE NORSEMAN COMPANY: Master of the dark
07.THE NORSEMAN COMPANY: Since you’ve been gone
08.JADED HEART: Stand your ground
09.JORN: Faith bloody faith
10.NIGHTWISH: Planet hell
11.STRANGE LAND: Marionette
12.OF MICE & MEN: Obsolete
13.MEMORIAM: Onwards into battle
14.KAMPFAR: Troll, død og trolldom
15.ENDEZZMA: The archer, fjord and the thunder
16.EX DEO: I, Caligvla
17.(0): Skarntyder
18.TREYHARSH: Agoraphobic
19.MORDKAUL: Dress code blood
20.HYPOCRISY: 44 double zero

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 17

01.MANOWAR: Blood of my enemies
02.ALTER BRIDGE: Last rites
03.ANTI-FLAG: A dying plea vol.1
04.FEUERSCHWANZ: Im bauch des wals
05.EPICA: Abyss o’time
06.NASHVILLE PUSSY: First I look at the purse
07.GAIA EPICUS: From ashes to fire
08.MARK BOALS: Broken heart
09.RAGE: Twenty one
10.HELLOWEEN: Eagle fly free
11.LÜT: Lütetro
12.IN FLAMES: Coerced coexistense
13.INFILTRATION: Missing in bodycount
14.RELENTLESS AGGRESSION: End of religion
15.NERVOSA: Perpetual chaos
16.SYLOSIS: Worship decay
17.TRAIL OF TEARS: Bloodstained endurance
18.BLAKKPHANG: Deep cuts, deep
19.WEHRMACHT: The beer is here! – Drink beer be free
20.MORBID ANGEL: God of emptiness
21.SCULPTOR: Born to be slave
22.ABBERATION: I
23.MOONSORROW: Kivenkantaja

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 10

01.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needles 24/7
02.WIG WAM: Kilimanjaro
03.NIGHT LEAGUE: Wheels of the warrior
04.FAITH NO MORE: Easy
05.SIRENIA: Addiction no.1
06.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Then came the last days of may
07.ARANIA: The void
08.HURRA TORPEDO: Kald
09.MAZE OF TORMENT: Breach the wall

Vega Tanas top 5 albums of 2020
10.05.SODOM: Sodom & Gomorrah – Genesis XIX
11.04.ROSS THE BOSS: Born of fire – Born Of Fire
12.03.UADA: The great mirage – Djinn
13.02.NECROPHOBIC: Tartarian winds – Dawn Of The Damned
14.01.TESTAMENT: WWIII – Titans Of Creation

15.CADAVER: Let me burn
16.HINSIDES: Frälst i dödsstöten
17.MONSTRAAT: When it ends
18.EKTOMORF: And the dead will walk
19.HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY: And oceans between us
20.ILLT: Scythian king
21.NILE: Eat of the dead

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

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