February 27

01.BLACK SABBATH: Electric funeral
02.LAND OF GYPSIES: Shattered
03.SHAMELESS: Shout it out
04.ÅSKVÄDER: Let you down
05.BOKASSA: Hereticules
06.CHEAP TRICK: The in crowd
07.ANGEL NATION: Seraph
08.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Motorhellway
09.BAD WOLVES: If tomorrow never comes
10.DRAGONFORCE: Ring of fire
11.AUDREY HORNE: Devil’s bell
12.BÅÅÅV: (Faen meg) ring på spring
13.BATTLE BEAST: Enter the metal world
14.PICTURE ANN: Guilt(part II)
15.PHANTOM FIRE: Sweet Jezebel
16.VORBID: Zombie
17.EINHERJER: West coast groove
18.GOD DETHRONED: Hordes of Lucifer
19.AMON AMARTH: Runes to my memory
20.CHUGGER: Five feet down
21.AGATHODAIMON: Wolf within
22.EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY: Upon the Mayan throne
23.KAMPFAR: Fortapelse

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 20

01.TESTAMENT: Do or die
02.THE FERRYMEN: Shut it out
03.DAWN OF SOLACE: Event horizon
04.KISS: I was made for lovin’ you
05.LIAR THIEF BANDIT: Better days
06.SAVAGE GRACE: Age of innocence
07.GREEN DAY: American idiot
08.KNOGJÄRN: Hur mänga dagar kvar
09.VOIVOD: Planet eaters
10.EDGE OF FOREVER: Breath of life
11.MÄRVEL: Sound of life slipping away
12.METALLICA: Free speech for the dumb
13.CASANOVA: Lady luck
14.DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Wilde kinder
15.CENTINEX: Armageddon
16.THE DEVILS REJECTS: Color me blood red
17.WATAIN: The howling
18.CADAVER: Mr. Tumor’s misery
19.MAYHEM: Bad blood
20.THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: Watchtower
21.THE CROWN: Deathexplosion
22.COMEBACK KID: Face the fire
23.AUTOPSY: Slaughter at beast house

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 13

01.OZZY OSBOURNE: Mama, I’m coming home
02.TREAT: Home of the brave
03.DARE: Born in the storm
04.VORNOFF: Taagens klokkeklang
05.THE HELLACOPTERS: Reap a hurricane
06.TOMMY LEE: Knock me down
07.JORN: Faith bloody faith
08.KRAKEL: Endless night
09.STEVE DALTON: Rise above victory
10.HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO: All flights cancelled
11.CRYSTAL BALL: I am rock
12.ANTHRAX: Snap/I’d rather be sleeping
13.MONO INC.: Time to go
14.KAL-EL: Dark majesty
15.EINHERJER: The blood and the iron
16.DJEVEL: Maanen skal være mine øine, den skinnende stierne mine ben og her skal jeg vandre til evig tid
17.NEKROMANTHEON: Scorched death
18.KREATOR: Hate über alles
19.THE HALO EFFECT: Feel what I believe
20.ARCH ENEMY: We will rise
21.THE VIOLENT INZIDENT: Brazil is great
22.GOREFEST: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 6

01.KING DIAMOND: The family ghost
02.CAP OUTRUN: Run before we walk
03.MERCURY X: Until the break of day
04.GUS G.: Money for nothing
05.DREAM THEATER: Disappear
06.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Rattlesnake Charlie
07.GIANT: Let our love win
08.OVERDRIVE: Black revenge
09.SAVAGE GRACE: Sins of the damned
10.SCHWARZER ENGEL: Ring frei
11.WITHIN TEMPTATION: Paradise (what about us?)
12.OPETH: Cusp of eternity
13.CREDIC: Vermillion oceans
14.FULLMÅNE: Started a war
15.CYNIC: 6th dimensional archetype
16.1914: Pillars of fire (The battle of Messines)
17.KVAEN: In silence
18.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
19.IBARAKI: Tamashii no houkai
20.MORBID ANGEL: Radiokult

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 30

01.HALESTORM: I miss the misery
02.LION’S SHARE: Knock on wood
03.BILLYBIO: One life to live
04.ALICE IN CHAINS: A little bitter
05.HAMMERFALL: Venerate me
06.OVERDRIVE: Heart of stone
07.POWER QUEST: Now is the time
08.STATUS QUO: Runaround Sue
09.OH HIROSHIMA: Humane
10.ACCEPT: Overnight sensation
11.LAZY QUEEN: Alcohol
12.WICKED LESTER: She
13.CONCERTO MOON: Fall down
14.TROLLFEST: Dance like a pink flamingo
15.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Liquid mourning
16.CLIFFORD: En sång för Andersson
17.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: A higher level of hate
18.PICTURE ANN: Missings and captures
19.KREATOR: United in hate
20.NIGHTRAGE: Falsyfying life
21.SETYØURSAILS: Nightfall
22.SPACE OF VARIATIONS: Someone else
23.EMPEROR: The loss and curse of reverence

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 23

01.ALESTORM: The sunk’n norwegian
02.THE HELLACOPTERS: Eyes of oblivion
03.LANA LANE: Remember me
04.CHELSEA: Hard rock music
05.VOIDANTH: Devil’s own
06.AEROSMITH: Jaded
07.RUNNING WILD: Crossing the blades
08.SIXX:A.M.: Life is beautiful
09.EUROPE: Bad blood
10.BLIND GUARDIAN: Don’t talk to strangers
11.MANOWAR: Secret of steel
12.ELEGY OF MADNESS: Agony part 2 (sad wind)
13.ABBATH: Dream cull
14.NECROPHAGOUS: The plague and the arts
15.HELLFROST AND FIRE: Across the bridge of tyrants
16.MINNERIKET: Hvil i fred
17.ARCH ENEMY: As the pages burn
18.CURSE OF EIBON: The call
19.CATACOMB: Nemesis
20.AS THE WORLD DIES: Until you’ve bled
21.LIMBONIC ART: A void of lifeless dreams

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 16

01.BAD RELIGION: 21st century (digital boy)
02.JADE: Forget everything
03.GRAULAR: Dark triad
04.F.O. THE SMACKMAGNET: The humpty dance
05.FLAMES OF FIRE: Gloria
06.BIG CITY: Irreversible
07.GUILD OF OTHERS: New world disorder
08.CONNECT THE CIRCLE: Flat moon army
09.SHOTGUN MESSIAH: Violent new breed
10.ZELBO: Next flight to Venus
11.TROLLFEST: Dance like a pink flamingo
12.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Magic signs
13.DEADSOUL TRIBE: Let the hammer fall
14.DARK MILLENNIUM: Threshold
15.AGATHODAIMON: Ain’t death grand
16.KEEP OF KALESSIN: The dragontower
17.GODLESS TRUTH: The decision
18.ATROCITY: Unspoken names
19.EDGE OF SANITY: Blood-coloured
20.STONEMAN: Als ich bei meinen schafen wacht
21.EREB ALTOR: Den dighra döden
22.ENSLAVED: Heimdallr

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Northern Metal Radio - only

January 9 - Memoria Avenue

Jan Le’Brandt from Memoria Avenue visited our studio

01.SYMPHONY X: Set the world on fire (the lie of lies)
02.FANS OF THE DARK: Life kills
03.FEUERSCHWANZ: Memento mori
04.MEMORIA AVENUE: Stuck
05.MEMORIA AVENUE: Sometimes
06.MEMORIA AVENUE: High as a kite
07.MEMORIA AVENUE: Waiting forever
08.BATTLE BEAST: Eye of the storm
09.ACCEPT: Balls to the wall
10.CIVIL WAR: Gangs of New York
11.DESTRUCTION: Diabolical
12.UNANIMATED: As the night takes us
13.WARS: I don’t feel a thing
14.KHEMMIS: House of Cadmus
15.METALLICA: Am I evil?
16.DETEST: Fear attracts the fearless
17.REPENTANCE: No innocence
18.ISENGARD: I kamp med kvitekrist

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 2 - Top 2021

Our Personal top 5 of 2021

Jan-Erik Johansen:
05.FORTRESS: Devil’s wheel – Don’t Spare The Wicked
04.MANIMAL: Burn in hell – Armageddon
03.ACCEPT: Sucks to be you – Too Mean To Die
02.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits – Access All Worlds
01.WICKED SMILE: Wait for the night – Wait For The Night

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
05.ACCEPT: Too mean to die – Too Mean To Die
04.IRON MAIDEN: Stratego – Senjutsu
03.HELLOWEEN: Robot king – Helloween
02.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Inhumane harvest – Violence Unimagined
01.EXODUS: The beatings will continue – Persona Non Grata

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
05.THE CROWN: Let the hammering begin! – Royal Destroyer
04.EINHERJER: West coast groove – North Star
03.IRON MAIDEN: The writing on the wall – Senjutsu
02.VREID: Shadows of Aurora – Wild North West
01.HELLOWEEN: Skyfall – Helloween

Raymond Smith:
05.EXODUS: The years of death and dying – Persona Non Grata
04.HELLOWEEN: Indestructible – Helloween
03.HYPOCRISY: Children of the gray – Worship
02.CRADLE OF FILTH: Necromantic fantasies – Existence Is Futile
01.ACCEPT: Symphony of pain – Too Mean To Die

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Jan-Erik Johansen

December 26

01.EUROPE: The Final countdown
02.WE ARE THE CATALYST: Järtecken
03.ME AND THAT MAN: Under the spell
04.TURBONEGER: The age of pamparius
05.AD INFINITUM: Animals
06.OF MICE & MEN: Fighting gravity
07.GLORIOUS BANKROBBERS: Dynamite sex doze
08.MANOWAR: Metal daze
09.AUTUMN’S CHILD: Heaven can wait
10.CRAZY LIXX: The power
11.LORD OF THE LOST: The gospel of Judas
12.OCCULT: Darkness begins
13.ROTTING CHRIST: Orders from the dead
14.SYLOSIS: Immovable stone
15.CRADLE OF FILTH: Necromantic fantasies
16.FURZE: Black psych tormentor
17.PATHOLOGY: A pound of flesh
18.MARDUK: Within the abyss
19.GOMORRAN: Hopeless endeavor
20.IMMINENCE: Ghost
21.GOREFEST: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 19

01.AC/DC: Mistress for Christmas
02.MONOLORD: I’ll be damned
03.ENFORCER: At the end of the rainbow
04.A PERFECT CIRCLE: Freedom of choice
05.THE VIOLENT INZIDENT: Trigged (the snowflake anthem)
06.HIMMELLEGEME: Shaping mirrors like smoke
07.BULLET: Dusk til dawn
08.MEMORIA AVENUE: Run with me
09.LORDS OF BLACK: Death dealer
10.ALICE COOPER: Santa claws is coming to town
11.YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS: Carol of bellows
12.STORMWARRIOR: Sword of Valhalla
13.EPICA: Sovereign of the sun spheres
14.BLOOD: Poison for the soul
15.COMEBACK KID: Crossed
16.DARK TRANQUILLITY: The wonders at your feet
17.CROWEN: Seer’s prohecy
18.MINNERIKET: Sorg og savn
19.DEATH: Zombie ritual
20.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: In shadows
21.BORKNAGAR: The winter eclipse

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 12

01.THIN LIZZY: Jailbreak
02.ECLIPSE: Bite the bullet
03.ALTZI: Motherless child
04.KISS: Bad, bad lovin’
05.VICTORY: Mad
06.GREEN DAY: American idiot
07.AVATAR: What I don’t know
08.PAIN: Gimme shelter
09.NORTHTALE: Midnight bells
10.KING DIAMOND: Christmas
11.AMARANTHE: Pvp
12.SILVERSTEIN: It’s over
13.HARDLINE (N): Sweet reverie
14.SIRENIA: Voyage voyage
15.HALCYON DAYS: Keep myself from sinking
16.POLTERGEIST: Writing on the wall
17.ARCH ENEMY: Deceiver, deceiver
18.INQUESTED: Human failure
19.VATICAN: Decemeta
20.NIGHTRAGE: Nauseating oblivion
21.UNANIMATED: Blackness of the fallen star
22.THE LAST OF LUCY: Agni
23.SCHIZOPHRENIA: Cranial disintegration
24.SEPULTURA: From the past comes the storms

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 5

01.PANTERA: Cemetery gates
02.NEW HORIZON: We unite
03.JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Callin’ all girls
04.MAJESTICA: This christmas
05.HELLOWEEN: Sole survivor
06.DEEP PURPLE: Smoke on the water
07.FRANK GILCHRIEST: Rise again
08.KISS: I
09.BLIND GUARDIAN: Deliver us from evil
10.SILVERSTEIN: Coffee mug
11.ACACIA AVENUE: Calling out
12.PICTURE ANN: Anna liked dying places
13.OBSCURA: When stars collide
14.DEATH ANGEL: Absence of light
15.ARCH ENEMY: Dead eyes see no future
16.HELHEIM: Åndsfilosofen
17.ZORNHEYM: Keep the devil away
18.EYES WIDE OPEN: Eraser
19.ACHERON: Seven deadly sins
20.THULCANDRA: Scarred grandeur
21.NIGHTSHADE: Zero matter gravity
22.PESTILENCE: Lost souls

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 28

01.RAMMSTEIN: Links 2 3 4
02.MAJESTICA: Glory of Christmas
03.BATTLE BEAST: Master of illusion
04.ATROCITY: People are people
05.ABSTRAKT ALGEBRA: Shadowplay
06.PERFECT PLAN: Don’t leave me here alone
07.RETURN: To the top
08.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
09.MERCURY CIRCLE: Call on the dark
10.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Chains of destiny
11.LEPROUS: From the flame
12.GIRLSCHOOL: When your blood runs cold
13.HATE: Saturnus
14.WE CAME AS ROMANS: Daggers
15.WOMBBATH: The age of death
16.KVESTA: Sadistic goat regime
17.MORK: Født til å herske
18.HYPOCRISY: Children of the gray
19.CADAVER: Reborn
20.MAYHEM: Falsified and hated
21.NECROPHAGOUS: Traitors and the pendulum
22.TESTAMENT: Throne of thorns

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 21

01.TWISTED SISTER: Come out and play
02.HOUSTON: Heartbreaker
03.YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS: Sulphur ahoy
04.HANK VON HELL: Disco
05.THE OTHER: Demon eyes
06.BLACK DEBBATH: Norsk barsk metal
07.ACCEPT: Koolaid
08.HIMELLEGEME: Agafia
09.EXODUS: The years of death and dying
10.PICTURE ANN: A subtle musical nod to the author of sagnlore
11.LUCIFER: Crucifix (I burn for you)
12.OPETH: Porcelain heart
13.JINJER: Disclosure
14.THE HELLACOPTERS: Electrocute
15.AMULET: Nosebleed
16.THE HALO EFFECT: Shadowminds
17.PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERN’S APSÛ: Caliginous whorl
18.ENTOMBED: Crawl
19.JUST BEFORE DAWN: The hours before the dawn
20.IMMINENCE: Ghost
21.TRIBULATION: Nightbound
22.PATHOLOGY: Dirge for the infected
23.LENG TCH’E: Tightrope propaganda

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 14

01.LED ZEPPELIN: Immigrant song
02.JERRY CANTRELL: Siren song
03.BEAST IN BLACK: Hardcore
04.SEIGMEN: Hjernen er alene
05.STONEMAN: Es brennt ein licht
06.NAVIAN: Temple
07.KISSIN’ DYNAMITE: Good life
08.TURMION KÄTILÖT: Hengitä
09.DEATH SS: Under Satan’s sun
10.ACCEPT: The undertaker
11.MERCURY MOON: Standing by the river
12.GHOST AVENUE: Hero
13.PERFECT NME: Legion
14.HOLLOW ILLUSION: Now or never
15.SACRIFICIUM: Shivering
16.COMEBACK KID: Heavy steps
17.ATONEMENT: Axe of death
18.OBITUARY: Final thoughts
19.1914: Pillars of fire (the battle of Messines)
20.UNLEASHED: Where can you flee?
21.CRADLE OF FILTH: Discourse between a man and his soul
22.GORE BRIGADE: A wretched taste
23.MY DARKEST HATE: Eye for an eye

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 7 - Metal Hammer Paradise

Part of the show was about Metal Hammer Pradise

01.ZODIAC MINDWARP: Backseat education
02.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Terial the hawk
Metal Hammer….
03.TANKARD: The morning after
04.IRON SAVIOR: Soul eater
05.STORMWARRIOR: Ragnarök
06.XENTRIX: Reasons for destruction
07.SAXON: Wheels of steel
08.BRAINSTORM: Shiva’s tears
09.GRAVE DIGGER: Healed by metal
10.AVATARIUM: Rubicon
11.BLIND GUARDIAN: Journey through the dark
..Paradise.
12.ALICE IN CHAINS: Would?
13.HEX A.D.: Positively draconian
14.JANI LANE: Photograph
15.NIGHTWISH: How’s the heart
16.LOVEX: Crash my world
17.SODOM: Napalm in the morning
18.OCEANS: Sulfur
19.DISKORD: The endless spiral
20.KATTLIK: Lamentation
21.MYRKSKOG: Morphinemangled torture

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 31

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.BETWEEN WORLDS: Soul chaser
03.HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS: Ohio is for lovers
04.EPICA: Unchain utopia
05.WASP: Burn
06.FEANOR: Boundless I am free
07.BEAST IN BLACK: One night in Tokyo
08.VINNIE VINCENT INVASION: Ashes to ashes
09.MINISTRY: Disinformation
10.RENEGADE ANGEL: Damnation
11.FUMING MOUTH: Master of extremity
12.LITHIK: New moon
13.HALCYON DAYS: Better days
14.ADDIKTION: Anthem for the year 2020
15.UNIVERSAL DISORDER: An eternal balancing of the scale
16.HYPOCRISY: Dead world
17.HELHEIM: Tankesmed
18.THULCANDRA: Nocturnal heresy
19.THOUGHTCRIMES: Punk rock guilt
20.BLOOD RED THRONE: Transparent Existence
21.KING DIAMOND: Halloween

Raymond Smith

October 24

01.STRATOVARIUS: Phoenix
02.HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS: The rain just follows me
03.FEUERSCHWANS: Untot im drachenboot
04.SIXX:A.M.: The first 21
05.BRAINSTORM: Where ravens fly
06.KAASIN: Hidden
07.LEFT HAND SOLUTION: For the hallowed blood
08.TONY MITCHELL: Hot endless summer nights
09.NEKROMANT: Behind the veil of eyes
10.HIMMELLEGEME: Let the mother burn
11.AD INFINITUM: Afterlife
12.LANFEAR: Twilight
13.THE KOVENANT: Bringer of the sixth sun
14.COGAS: Ettagramma
15.CRESCENT: Neb-pehti-ra
16.BLOOD GOD: Monster metal
17.OCCULSED: Thou butcherer of human folly
18.NERVOCHAOS: The urge to feel pain
19.DARK FUNERAL: When angels forever die
20.THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: Sacrifice
21.BAL-SAGOTH: When rides the scion of the storm

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 17

01.GRAVE DIGGER: Heavy metal breakdown
02.LION’S SHARE: Baptized in blood
03.RUSSKAJA: Russki style
04.MYLES KENNEDY: A thousand words
05.SKINTRADE: Sick as a dog
06.INGLORIOUS: Fighter
07.NORTHTALE: Only human
08.TNT: As far as the eye can see
09.PARADOX: Escape from the burning
10.PICTURE ANN: Gleams and shifting shadows
11.DAWN OF SOLACE: White noise
12.WE ARE THE CATALYST: Drowning
13.FACESHIFT: The craving
14.OF MICE & MEN: Mosaic
15.KREATOR: Violent revolution
16.DECEMBER: Seemingly endless time
17.IMPERIALIST: Parallax descends
18.WOLFTOPIA: Hound of war
19.PATHOLOGY: As the entrails wither
20.BLOOD RED THRONE: Itika
21.DEATHCVLT: Santa muerte
22.DYING WISH: Hollowed by affliction
23.UNSPOKEN: Among the carnage

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen