January 28

01.BRUCE DICKINSON: Jerusalem
02.FIREWIND: Fallen angel
03.THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN: Magical chronicle
04.POWERTRIPPIN’: Booze and beer
05.LEAVES’ EYES: Realm of dark waves
06.WOBBLER: By the banks
07.MADDER MORTEM: Towers
08.THE HELLACOPTERS: Throttle bottom
09.BOKASSA: The ending starts today
10.WISHBONE ASH: Phoenix
11.SANVOISEN: Under permission
12.SPIRITBOX: The void
13.ARCHITECTS: Animals
14.DUST BOLT: Leave nothing behind
15.VOMIT FORTH: Seething malevolence
16.DEAD EARTH: Speaking silence
17.HYPOCRISY: New world
18.ABORTED: Death cult
19.GORGOROTH: Kala brahman

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 21 - Wickd

Ragnar Farsjø & Isac Kalmo from Wickd visited our studio

01.SYSTEM OF A DOWN: Aerials
02.ARKADO: You make me feel
03.RAVENSTINE: A long way home
04.PRETTY MAIDS: Det bedste til mig og mine venner
05.GOLDEN CORE: Tåkeheimen
06.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Bulls on parade
07.WICKD: Eclipse
08.REVAALVER RAACK: Drammenser
09.DEVILLE: Serpent days
10.ANTHRAX: Metal trashing mad
11.PICTURE ANN: Astray
12.FUNERAL WINDS: Cast the gauntlet of doom
13.SOILWORK: Kvicksilver
14.RYUJIN: Gekokujo
15.RAVE THE REQVIEM: Zero solace
16.PARADOGMATA: The cleansing flood
17.JORDSJUK: Siste skanse
18.UMBRA CONSCIENTIA: Resonatia diaboli

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 14

01.DIO: Rainbow in the dark
02.SHAKRA: Angels landing
03.NIGHTMARE: Eternal winter
04.GOTHMINISTER: We come alive
05.BLODSMAK: Plagar ikkje meg
06.LUMSK: Abschied
07.SUM 41: Rise up
08.MADDER MORTEM: Unity
09.AVANTASIA: Mystery of a blood red rose
10.SOCIAL DISORDER: Dancing in the rain
11.THE HELLACOPTERS: (Gotta get some action) now!
12.SCULPTOR: Empty space
13.KINGSEEKER: Butterflies
14.BEYOND THE BARRICADE: Bleeding
15.VOID: When Lucifer dies
16.IN VAIN: Season of unrest
17.HIRAES: We owe no one
18.EKTOMORF: The best of me
19.NIFELHEIM: Black curse
20.COMEBACK KID: Trouble in the winner’s circle
21.SOLBRUD: Sjæleskrig
22.SAMAEL: Jupiterian vibe
23.CATTLE DECAPITATION: Scourge of the offspring

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 7

01.SAXON: Crusader
02.SOLEDRIVER: Pieces of forever
03.BLOMST: Schtøgg
04.WEDNESDAY 13: Films
05.LORD OF THE LOST: Turbo lover
06.GLORYHAMMER: Sword lord of the Goblin horde
07.BEAST IN BLACK: Blade runner
08.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Godzilla
09.METALITE: Aurora
10.THERION: Nummo
11.JOURNEY: Colors of the spirit
12.EQUINOX: Fine by me
13.SAGNTID: Omsider kom november
14.VARATHRON: Crypts in the mist
15.DWAAL: Pseudanthium aionios
16.SUICIDE CIRCLE: The prince of darkness
17.BOLT THROWER: Dying creed
18.OBERST: Mules on a mountain
19.DEFECT DESIGNER: Shine shine
20.DETHRONED: Colour out of space
21.KAMPFAR: Fandens trall

Raymond Smith

December 31 - Top 2023

01.EUROPE: The final countdown
Jan Erik Johansen:
02. 05.IN FLAMES: Meet your maker – Foregone
03. 04.FLIGHT: Echoes of the journeys past – Echoes Of The Journeys Past
04. 03.SACRED OUTCRY: The voyage – Towers Of Gold
05. 02.CROWN LANDS: Citadel – Fearless
06. 01.OBLIVION PROTOCOL: This is not a test – The Fall Of The Shires
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.OVERKILL: Twist of the wick – Scorched
08. 04.METALLICA: Lux æterna – 72 Seasons
09. 03.PRIMORDIAL: Nothing new under the sun – How It Ends
10. 02.ALICE COOPER: I’m Alice – Road
11. 01.IRON SAVIOR: In the realm of heavy metal – Firestar
Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.GAMA BOMB: Don’t get your hair cut – Bats
13. 04.LEGION OF THE DAMNED: Contamination - The Poison Chalice
14. 03.MARDUK: Heart of the funeral – Memento Mori
15. 02.OBITUARY: Dying of everything – Dying Of Everything
16. 01.OVERKILL:  The surgeon – Scorched
Raymond Smith:
17. 05.OBITUARY: The wrong time – Dying Of Everything
18. 04.IMMORTAL: Wargod – War Agains All
19. 03.METALLICA: If darkness had a son – 72 Seasons
20. 02.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.1 – Foregone
21. 01.OVERKILL: Scorched - Scorched

Jan Erik Johansen
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Raymond Smith

December 24

01.220 VOLT: Heavy Christmas
02.LION’S SHARE: Life on Mars
03.THE RODS: Shockwave
04.TEMPLE BALLS: No reason
05.RUSSKAJA: Last Christmas
06.NIGHTWISH: Over the hills and far away
07.ZZ TOP: Gimme all your lovin’
08.KORPIKLAANI: Gotta go home
09.RAZORBATS: Kids of the 70’s
10.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Too cool for you
11.POWERDONG: Tolkien and the elf
12.STEEL PANTHER: Sexy Santa
13.THERION: Ruler of Tamag
14.CARE OF NIGHT: Street runner
15.EBBA GRÖN: Turist i tilvaron
16.FIGHT THE FIGHT: In memory
17.ARCH ENEMY: Handshake with hell
18.OVERKILL: Scorched
19.CANDLEMASS: Sweet evil sun
20.KING DIAMOND: No presents for Christmas
21.MINISTRY: Goddamn white trash
22.CHUCK BILLY: Silent night

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 17

01.KING DIAMOND: Christmas
02.BÜRNER: Warrior
03.GRAVE DIGGER: Shadows of a moonless night
04.TED NUGENT: Stormtroopin’
05.MYRKUR: Mothlike
06.NANOWAR OF STEEL: Protocols of love
07.EVERGREY: Recreation day
08.SEIGMEN: Berlin
09.OSLO ESS: Bislett stadion
10.ALL THAT REMAINS: The thunder rolls
11.DRAGONFORCE: Doomsday party
12.PROPHETS OF RAGE: Hands up
13.IHSAHN: Pilgrimage to oblivion
14.CARNIFEX: Infinite night terror
15.PRIMORDIAL: Victory has 1000 fathers, defeat is an orphan
16.GO AHEAD AND DIE: Drug-o-cop
17.ALFAHANNE: Alfa omega
18.AETERNUS: Wresting worm
19.GOTHONY: Patient 2442
20.ENTOMBED: Hollowman
21.NYRST: Hrímvíti
22.DARKTHRONE: Hans siste vinter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 10 - Knock Out Festival

Part of the show was about Knock Out Festival 2023

01.LEMMY KLIMISTER: Run Rudolph run
02.SCHATTENMANN: Ewigkeit
03.SERENITY: The end of Babylon
04.DIE TOTEN HOSEN: Lesbische, schwarze behinderte
05.SECRET SPHERE: Bloody Wednesday
06.NOTÖRIOUS: All night
Knock..
07.ALL FOR METAL: Raise your hammer
08.VANDENBERG: Your love is in vain
09.THE DEAD DAISIES: Mexico
10.GOTTHARD: What you get
11.ACCEPT: Fast as a shark
Out Festival.
12.TWISTED SISTER: White Christmas
13.SWEET: Ac/dc
14.LIV SIN: Devil’s plaything
15.DEATHSTARS: Everything destroys you
16.ICE NINE KILLS: Meat & greet
17.SLAYER: Dead skin mask
18.ATREYU: Warrior
19.VREDEHAMMER: The joker
20.IGNEA: Dunes
21.BUTCHER BABIES: Last December
22.FEAR FATORY: Martyr
23.BORKNAGAR: A tale of pagan tongue

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 3 - Beyond The Barricade

Kajsa Sivertsen & Vincent Older fra Beyond the Barricade visited our studio

01.MAGNUM: On Christmas day
02.ARABS IN ASPIC: Magic of sin
03.FIREWIND: Salvation day
04.BLACK SABBATH: Sabbath bloody sabbath
05.JUDAS PRIEST: Panic attack
06.AMARANTHE: Insatiable
07.LOST HORIZON: Sworn in the metal wind
08.MOB RULES: How the gypsy was born
09.NATTSJÄL: Höstmåne
10.BEYOND THE BARRICADE: A late night in September
11.BEYOND THE BARRICADE: Colours
12.BEYOND THE BARRICADE: Incalescent
13.SUICIDAL ANGELS: When the lions die
14.FULLMÅNE: They’re not real
15.SADUS: Scorched and burnt
16.THE HALO EFFECT: The defiant one
17.ORBIT CULTURE: Vultures of north

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 26

01.THE CULT: Fire woman
02.NATTSVERMER: Lost in life
03.OZ: Undercover
04.POWERTRIPPIN’: Powertrippin’
05.TAKIDA: Your blood awaits you
06.METALLICA: The thing that should not be
07.SKYEYE: Book of life
08.THE DOGS: I’m done with fucking, I just want to dance
09.OSLO ESS: Alt jeg trenger
10.THE VINTAGE CARAVAN: Can’t get you off my mind
11.RETURN: Change the attitude
12.DUDES: Burning
13.BLACK DEBBATH: Hvor i helvete blir det av Satan?
14.LILLIAN AXE: 5
15.HORRIFIER: Hooks in flesh
16.LAMB OF GOD: Evidence
17.MORTUARY DRAPE: Rattle breath
18.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
19.DISKORD: Bionic tomb eternal
20.ZORNHEYM: Slumber comes in time
21.IN FLAMES: Food for the gods
22.FROSTBITE ORCKINGS: Orcs don’t cry
23.VLTIMAS: Something wicked marches in

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 19 - Kometen

Stian Særnmo from the venue "Kometen" visited out studio

01.ANTHRAX: Caught in a mosh
02.SEIGMEN: Berlin
03.QUEENRYCHE: Revolution calling
04.THE RODS: Rattle the cage
05.DANKO JONES: Get high
06.JORN: I know there's something going on
07.SOLSTAFIR: Fjara
08.FIERCE JUSTICE: End of time
09.RANDY: You can't keep a good band down
10.DEFTONES: 7 words
11.SMÅJÄVLAFÖTTER: knulla skiten ur dem
12.TURBONEGER: No beast so fierce
13.RAISED FIST: Killing it
14.MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP: I'm gonna make you mine
15.CAVALERA CONSPIRACY: Bestival devastaion
16.DWAAL: Pseudanthium aionios
17.ROTTING CHRIST: Khronos

Raymond Smith

November 12 - Metal Hammer Paradise

Part of the show was about Metal Hammer Paradise

01.MOTÖRHEAD: Damage case
02.THE CHRONICLES OF FATHER ROBIN: The grand reef
03.AXENSTAR: Through the fire and brimstone
04.NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE: Fresh
05.OSLO ESS: Alt jeg trenger
06.KISS: Dark light
07.HALESTORM: I miss the misery
08.BABYMETAL: Gimme chocolate
09.RIVAL SONS: Keep on swinging
Metal Hammer..
10.NERVOSA: Endless ambition
11.DEATH ANGEL: The moth
12.AMORPHIS: Silver bride
13.KREATOR: Hate über alles
14.FREEDOM CALL: Warriors
15.MOB RULES: Rain song
16.ALL FOR METAL: All for metal
17.HIRAES: Solitary
18.DESTRUCTION: Nailed to the cross
19.RAGE: Higher than the sky
20.EPICA: Beyond the matrix
..Paradise
21.AMULET: We are thunders
22.NATTEFROST: Sluts of hell
23.KEEP OF KALESSIN: Throne of execration

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 5

01.KREATOR: Violent revolution
02.GOTHMINISTER: Battle of the underworlds
03.POWERWOLF: Wolves of war
04.KISSIN’ DYNAMITE: Warriors
05.LUCIFER: At the mortuary
06.SUPERSUCKERS: Pretty fucked up
07.KINGS CROWN: Servant
08.HOMER: The dream
09.RUSH: Tom Sawyer
10.PRONG: Unconditional
11.LIFE OF AGONY: River runs red
12.ALIEN: Headbangin’
13.EKTOMORF: I’m your last hope (the rope around your neck)
14.UNHOLY CRAFT: Med øks & hammer
15.SUFFOCATION: Perpetual deception
16.DJEVEL: Kronet av en væpnet haand
17.AMON AMARTH: The way of vikings
18.EXTOL: Labyrinth of ill
19.AETERNUS: Existentialist hunter
20.ERADIKATED: Flames
21.VARATHRON: Hegemony of chaos
22.TESTAMENT: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 29

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.RONNIE ATKINS: Sister sinister
03.EDGE OF FOREVER: Water be my path
04.ACE FREHLEY: Fire & water
05.UNDER THE OAK: Total thrash metal
06.CONCEPTION: Roll the fire
07.KRASHKARMA: Wake them up
08.BURNING WITCHES: Burning witches
09.AGENT STEEL: The day at Guyana
10.PAIN: Revolution
11.BOKASSA: All out of dreams
12.CHICKENFOOT: No change
13.GOLDEN CORE: Kosmos brenner
14.DWAAL: Pseudanthium aionios
15.KREATOR: Flag of hate
16.DIMMU BORGIR: Black metal
17.AVDAGATA: Cold seed of the dragon
18.JORD: Vilddjurets hjärta
19.BEFORE THE DAWN: The dark
20.KING DIAMOND: Halloween

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 22

01.SAXON: Princess of the night
02.VEGA: Battlelines
03.BAD WOLVES: Legends never die
04.POWERTRIPPIN’: Djengis Khan
05.WARLOCK: Hellbound
06.THE CRUEL INTENSION: Kerosene
07.TRENCH DOGS: A little overdressed
08.THE NEW ROSES: The usual suspects
09.ECLIPSE: Children of the night
10.AVANTASIA: In my defense
11.WYTCH HAZEL: Dry bones
12.CRIMSON MOONLIGHT: The suffering
13.BLIND GUARDIAN: The curse of Feanor
14.PICTURE ANN: One of the quiet greats of modern art
15.ILD: Det trekker så kaldt
16.BEATEN TO DEATH: Agronomicon
17.FORCEFED HORSEHEAD: Iri
18.SIGH: Me-devil
19.WITCHCRAFT: Theory of consequence
20.SHINING (S): Fidelis ad mortem
21.TAAKE: Et uhyre av en kniv

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 15 - TheFalls

Kenneth Hestholm & Lasse Haugen from TheFalls visited our studio

01.DREAM THEATER: Pull me under
02.DANKO JONES: Get high
03.ECLIPSE: Children of the night
04.SUM 41: Landmines
05.BONFIRE: Ready 4 reaction
06.A DAY TO REMEMBER: Over my head
07.SONATA ARCTICA: Fullmoon
08.STRATOVARIUS: Eagleheart
09.NANOWAR OF STEEL: Metal boomer battalion
10.SEVEN IMPALE: Hydra
11.ANIMALS AS LEADERS: Monomyth
12.THEFALLS: Patterns emerge (I)
13.THEFALLS: The hardest part is over
14.THEFALLS: Nadir (I)
15.DISCREATION: Iron times
16.EQUILIBRIUM: Shelter
17.MERCENARY: Become the flame
18.KOLDBRANN: I eklipsens skimmer

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 8 - Kambodsja

Thorbjørn Ottesen from Kambodsja visited our studio

01.SABATON: Primo victoria
02.FIREWIND: Orbitual sunrise
03.OOMPH!: Richter und henker
04.ATROCITY: Relax
05.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS: Strike the match
06.GLORYHAMMER: Wasteland warrior hoots patrol
07.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges
08.EUROPE: Girl from Lebanon
09.EPICA: Consign to oblivion
10.THE HIVES: Main offender
11.THE WINERY DOGS: Damaged
12.WHITESNAKE: Here I go again
13.MNEMIC: Blood stained
14.KAMBODSJA: Idlemind
15.KAMBODSJA: Obstacles
16.KAMBODSJA: Basement prophet
17.IRONMASTER: Bringer of deception
18.EXTOL: The things I found

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 1

01.METALLICA: Master of puppets
02.JORDSJØ: Ura
03.U.D.O.: Touchdown
04.BLACKBIRD ANGELS: Shut up (you know I love you)
05.DORO: Bond unending
06.SEX PISTOLS: My way
07.SCREAMER: Shadow hunter
08.EUROPE: Ninja
09.ROXX GANG: Got my mojo workin’
10.SUPERLYNX: Rising flame
11.DWAAL: Repentance of a bastard
12.SUFFOCATION: Seraphim enslavement
13.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: A higher level of hate
14.THY ART IS MURDER: Until there is no longer
15.ALCEST: Protection
16.DYING FETUS: Feast of ashes
17.DEAD BY APRIL: Losing you
18.SYLOSIS: Poison for the lost
19.CELTIC FROST: Dawn of Meggido

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 24

01.RAGE: Don’t fear the winter
02.EVILE: Monolith
03.GRAVEYARD: Breathe in breathe out
04.DRAGONFORCE: Doomsday party
05.STAR ONE: Fate of man
06.DAG INGEBRIGTSEN: Tor with the hammer
07.BOKASSA: Garden of heathen
08.CYHRA: Aslight
09.KVELERTAK: Krøterveg te helvete
10.HELLOWEEN: Juggernaut
11.BLOOD FEAST: R.I.P.
12.SADUS: Ride the knife
13.UNFAIR FATE: Sealed in darkness
14.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host
15.ATENA: Subway anthem
16.NOCTURNAL BREED: Knights of denim
17.EISREGEN: Heckenschütze
18.WATAIN: Before the cataklysm
19.PESTILENCE: Stigmatized

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 17

01.STRATOVARIUS: Hunting high and low
02.OHMWORK: Adrift
03.OF MICE AND MEN: Castaway
04.KORPHJÄRTA: Ett hjärta så svart
05.NITA STRAUSS: The wolf you feed
06.KID ROCK: Sugar pie honey bunch
07.IRON SAVIOR: In the realm of heavy metal
08.THULSA DOOM: Kick me
09.WINTERSTORM: Future times
10.SAHG: Fall into the fire
11.BLOODRED HOURGLASS: How’s the heart
12.MYRKUR: Like humans
13.EDGUY: Fallen angels
14.SVALBARD: How to swim down
15.HJEMSØKT: Kongen begravd i fjellet
16.SYN: Layers void
17.MARDUK: Shovel beats sceptre
18.ASPEHRIUM: City of stone
19.ERADIKATED: Flood
20.INCATATION: Concordat (the pact)
21.KHOLD: Hundre år gammal
22.TESTAMENT: Throne of thorns

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen