April 10 - Inferno Metal Festival

Runar Petterson from Inferno Metal Festival visited out studio.

01.IRON MAIDEN: Flight of Icarus
02.NIRVANA: In bloom
03.AMORPHIS: Light my fire
04.FUNERAL: Demise
05.NATTEFROST: Sluts of hell
06.NORDJEVEL: Gnavhol
07.KONVENT: Pipe dreams
08.SYLVAINE: Nowhere, still somewhere
09.BØLZER: The archer
10.ULVEHYRDE: Englemakersken
12.ASAGRAUM: Hate of Satan’s hammer
13.BENEIGHTED: Slut
14.VENOM: In league with Satan
15.XENOBLIGHT: Descension
16.VALKYRJA: Crowned serpent
17.TULUS: Tunge dråper fra et mørkt hjerte
18.FROM THE VASTLAND: Khan e sevom
19.KREATOR: Strongest of the strong

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 3 - Inferno Metal Festival

The show was about Inferno Metal Festival 2022

01.DJERV: Headstone
02.CADAVER: Circle of morbidity
03.KAMPFAR: Swarm norvegicus
04.IHSAHN: A grave inversed
05.HELLHAMMER: Triumph of death
06.ULVEHYRDE: Likbålet
07.HAMFERD: Frosthvarv
08.EINHERJER: The blood and the iron
09.VED BUENS ENDE: You, that may wither
10.GORGOROTH: Krig
11.BENIGHTED: The starving beast
12.VENOM: Black metal
13.DARK FORTRESS: Pulling at threads
14.ASPHYX: Botox implosion
15.VREID: Shadows of aurora
16.MARDUK: Viktoria
17.MAYHEM: Bad blood
18.WHOREDOM RIFE: A thousand graves endured
19.MYRKSKOG: Sinthetic lifeworm
20.KREATOR: Hate über alles
21.ORDER: My pain
22.TAAKE: Havet i huset

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 27

01.FOO FIGHTERS: Best of you
02.EVERGREY: Midwinters call
03.ANGEL NATION: Life is a war
04.DEEP PURPLE: Smoke on the water
05.CHILDREN OF THE SÜN: Blood boils hot
06.RICOCHETS: The ghost of our love
07.THE DOGS: Fuck it, let’s go
08.STRYPER: Jesus is just alright
09.CONFIDENTIAL: Devil inside
10.ELEINE: All shall burn
11.KALIDIA: Black sails
12.AEROSMITH: Love in an elevator
13.MOTORPSYCHO: A shrug and a fistful
14.DEMONICAL: Fallen mountain
15.DECAPITATED: Cancer culture
16.MARIANAS REST: Glow from the edge
17.ENSIFERUM: Tale of revenge
18.DARK TRANQUILITY: Focus shift
19.FOR THE STORMS: Just another skull
20.BOLT THROWER: At first light
21.DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Euer gott ist der tod
22.KREATOR: Betrayer

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 20

01.TRANCE: Shock power
02.BILLYBIO: Turn the wounds
03.RIOT ACT: Straight for your heart
04.KISS: Unholy
05.BIBLE BLACK: Metal man
06.ANNISOKAY: Coma blue
07.COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS: No connection
08.MYSTIC PROPHECY: Hot stuff
09.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Servants of the air
10.DEE SNIDER: Stand
11.HAMMERFALL: Brotherhood
12.OZZY OSBOURNE: Ordinary man
13.THEOCRACY: Sinner
14.DESTRUCTION: No faith in humanity
15.GRAVE: Into the grave
16.TROLLFEST: Kjettaren mot strømmen
17.WATAIN: Serimosa
18.BISMARCK: The seer
19.GOLGOTHAN REMAINS: A shrouded longing for promethean fire
20.AL-NAMROOD: Sun of liberation
21.WHOREDOM RIFE: Einride

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 13 - Tyr

Interview with Heri Joensen from Tyr. Recorded at John Dee, Oslo.

01.VENOM: Poison
02.DARE: Only the good die young
03.EVERGREY: Save us
04.OVERDRIVE: High infidelity
05.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Legion of the seas
06.LEFT HAND SOLUTION: Jolene
07.WINGS OF DESTINY: Rise above them all
08.TYR: Ragnars kvædi
09.TYR: Torkils Døtur
10.TYR: Hold the heathen hammer high
11.WOLFEN: Soul collector
12.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: The evil sheikh
13.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Pit of zombies
14.WARPATH: Parasite
15.1914:…And a cross now marks his place
16.HEARSE: Groans below
17.CRYPTA: I resign
18.EUCHARIST: A vast land of eternal night
19.MALEVOLENCE: On broken glass
20.DEICIDE: Repent to die

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporter: Siri Hagen

March 6

01.DROPKICK MURPHYS: Rose tattoo
02.LANA LANE: Under the big sky
03.NAZARETH: Strange days
04.VANDEN PLAS: Kiss of death
05.DEGREED: Higher
06.KRAKEL: Frau Blucher
07.TEN: Hurricane
08.AVANTASIA: Promised land
09.LIONVILLE: Only the brave
10.AC/DC: T.N.T.
11.BULLET RIDE: Point of no return
12.SODOM: Iron fist
13.MYSTIC CIRCLE: Hell demons rising
14.TROLLFEST: Der Jegermeister
15.MÅNEGARM: Ulvhjärtat
16.IBARAKI: Akumu
17.LUCIFER’S CHILD: Satan’s wrath
18.VARATHRON: The grim palace
19.SCIZOPHRENIA: Inside the walls of madness
20.MARRASKUUN LAPSET: Pahuuden siemen
21.ILD: Vuggevise
22.IMMORTAL: Hordes to war

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

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