September 15

01.ANTHRAX: Metal thrashing mad
02.SEIGMEN: Dyret
03.DAN DARK: Bring down the wall
04.INGLORIOUS: I am the fire
05.GLORYHAMMER: The land of the unicorns
06.APOCALYPTICA: Harvester of sorrow
07.GRAND MAGUS: Skybound
08.SERIOUS BLACK: High and low
09.TUNGSTEN: King of shadows
10.FIREWIND: Salvation day
11.SONATA ARCTICA: California
12.SOILWORK: This momentary bliss
13.EVIG NATT: Når lyset svikte
14.NATTSJÄL: The last voyage
15.ODIO DEUS: The con man
16.ELDAMAR: Akt I; …with forces good and evil
17.DEN SAAKALDTE: Å skjende en engel
18.TULUS: Frossen skog
19.MORK: Utbrent
20.BÖDEL: Grisarna och snuten
21.PONTE DEL DIAVOLO: Nocturnal veil

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 8 - Octohawk

Steffen Overaa from Octohawk visited our studio

01.AC/DC: Who made who
02.RITUAL: The inn of the haunted owl
03.JADED HEART: Intuition
04.JOE LYNN TURNER: 14 years
05.NIGHTWISH: The day of…
06.CYHRA: Aslight
07.EVERGREY: Falling from the sun
08.JUDAS PRIEST: Rocka rolla
09.MEER: Chains of changes
10.BLOMST: Dans til du dør
11.ERADIKATED: Hazardous
12.OZZY OSBOURNE: I don’t want to change the world
13.OCTOHAWK: Arcane dawn
14.OCTOHAWK: Decode
15.OCTOHAWK: Momentum
16.ATENA: Hard day
17.AURA NOIR: Hell’s fire
18.KOLDBRANN: Fortærer av minne og form
19.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: Labyrinth of disfigurement

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 1 - Drammen Metalfest

Ola Flatebø Sørensen og Jonathan Hamre from Drammen Metalfest visited our studio

01.BON JOVI: Runaway
02.MARILYN MANSON: Raise the red flag
03.VAN HALEN: It’s about time
04.GIRLSCHOOL: Race with the devil
05.AGENT STEEL: Agents of steel
Drammen..
06.KINGSEEKER: Butterflies
07.FORCEHEAD HORSEHEAD: Iri
08.OCTOHAWK: Quantum age
09.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: The wolf of Bedburg
10.ZUSTAND NULL: Existence nihil
11.ASPHERIUM: Architects of the hollowed
12.THEFALLS: Nadir (I)
13.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host
…Metalfest
14.FIRTAN: Contra vermes
15.ATENA: Full force to the heart
16.CANCER: Tasteless incest

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 25 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knut Ivar’s top 5 of Wacken Open Air 2024

01.SAXON: 747 (strangers in the night)
02.GREENLEAF: Avalanche
03.AVATARIUM: Long black waves
04.LAUREN HARRIS: Steal your fire
05.KOSMODOME: Fatigue
06.W.A.S.P.: Love machine
07.BLACK TOOTH: Iron clad
08.YOB: Original face
Wacken…
09.BLUES PILLS: Birthday
10.WATAIN: Malfeitor
11.MESSIAH: Choir of horrors
12.VREID: Pitch black
13.BLIND GUARDIAN: Violent shadows
..Open Air revisited.
14.IOTUNN: Laihem’s golden pits
15.INSOMNIUM: While we sleep
16.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Shining
17.THEFALLS: Patterns emerge (II)
18.IN VAIN: To the gallows
19.DWAAL: All masters, all servants

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 18 - Hellbotn Metalfest

01.BONFIRE: Starin’ eyes
02.YESTERDAZE: Beehive
03.HAMMERFALL: Freedom
04.DEVIL’S TRAIN: American woman
05.THE DOGS: I’m done with fucking, I just want to dance
06.POWERTRIPPIN’: Rock on
07.GLORYHAMMER: The land of unicorns
08.RITUAL: Chichikov bogd
09.CHARLOTTE WESSELS: Dopamine
10.PETRA: He came, he saw, he conquered
11.MEER: Golden circle
12.CUSTARD: Black Friday
13.WARFARER: Heir uncrowned
14.PICTURE ANN: A dark stretch between there and home
Hellbotn..
15.FUNERAL HARVEST: Fire sermon
16.LOWEST CREATURE: Under the night sky
17.SLAGMAUR: Lange knivers natt
18.NEKROMANTHEON: Rise, vulcan spectre
19.TORMENTOR: Damned grave
20.HORRIFIER: Hooks in flesh
21.SMOULDER: Spellforger
22.NACHASH: Fleshtemple incineration
23.SODOM: Remember the fallen
..Metalfest.

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 11 - Midgardsblot

Silje Brekke from Midgardsblot Festival visited our studio.

01.GRAND MAGUS: Kingslayer
02.KALANDRA: Are you ready?
03.AMON AMARTH: Shield wall
04.INCULTER: Diabolic forest
05.VADER: Helleluyah!!! (God is dead)
06.GÅTE: Ulveham
07.MORTAL FEAR: Capital punishment
08.TESTAMENT: Do or die
09.VULTURE INDUSTRIES: This hell is mine
10.EREB ALTOR: Vargtimman
11.DESTROYER 666: Wildfire
12.SEIGMEN: Berlin
13.NATTVERD: Det stormer i Norge
14.TEXAS CORNFLAKE MASSACRE: Give them water guns
15.LUMSK: Ormin lange
16.UNLEASHED: The king lost his crown
17.DWAAL: Pseudanthium aionios
18.EMPEROR: Into the infinity of thoughts

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 4

01.SLAYER: South of heaven
02.FIXATION: Random acts of violence
03.HALESTORM + I PREVAIL: Can you see me in the dark?
04.JULIE CHRISTMAS: Silver dollars
05.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: No one knows
06.BAILTAK: Kjemp
07.HAMMERFALL: The end justifies
08.NAZARETH: Beggars day
09.GRAND MAGUS: Hammer of the north
10.NEW HORIZON: Before the dawn
11.SIMONE SIMONS: In love we rust
12.ASCENSION THEORY: The way of death
13.EISREGEN: Schmutzliebe
14.ALARM: For lost times
15.NILE: Chapter for not being hung upside down on a stake in the underworld and made to eat feces by the four apes
16.PICTURE ANN: Indistinct
17.DESTROYER 666: Black city- black fire
18.ILLDISPOSED: Lay low
19.DISINCARNATE: Stench of paradise burning
20.AS I LAY DYING: The cave we fear to enter
21.ALCEST: Flamme jumelle
22.1349: Maggot fetus
23.AMON AMARTH: Guardians of Asgard

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 28

01.RAVEN: On and on
02.ACCEPT: Frankenstein
03.KAASIN: We are one
04.DEEP PURPLE: Any fule kno that
05.ISSA: Armed & dangerous
06.CRYSTAL VIPER: See you in hell
07.MYLES KENNEDY: Say what you will
08.MR. BIG: Addicted to that rush
09.BEASTO BLANCO: Machine girl
10.URIAH HEEP: Sweet Lorraine
11.KALANDRA: The state of the world
12.ZELBO: Small town girl
13.PRIMORDIAL: No grave deep enough
14.NOCTURNUS AD: Hod, the stellar light
15.CULT OF FIRE: Kali ma
16.EVILYN: Limits
17.ULVEHUNGER: Consumed by hate
18.DEVOURER: Spirit of the north
19.VIO-LENCE: Calling in the coroner
20.VEMOD: True north beckons

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 21 - Beyond The Gates

Radio Fresh FM
Northern Metal Radio
21st July 2024  

Part of the show was about Beyond The Gates 2024

01.DIO: Rainbow In the dark
02.WICKD: No rest
03.UNLEASH THE ARCHER: Green & glass
04.SILVERSTEIN: The ballad of Wilhelm Fink
Beyond…
05.WHOREDOM RIFE: A thousand graves endured
06.WATAIN: Reaping death
07.BLACK ANVIL: Ten talons deep
08.MAYHEM: Bad blood
09.TRELLDOM: Between the world
10.RITUAL DEATH: Black metal terror
11.VENOM: Don’t burn the witch
12.BEHEMOTH: The deathless sun
13.DEATH SS: Heavy demons
14.OLD TOWER: Storms of the dragon’s spells
15.OWL WOODS GRAVES: Return of Satan
16.DØDHEIMSGARD: The snuff dreams are made of
17.DJEVEL: Kronet av en væpnet haand
18.ENSLAVED: Forest dweller
19.AURA NOIR: Hell’s fire
20.VREID: Flammen
21.SATYRICON: Mother north
..The Gates.
22.BATHORY: Raise the dead

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 14 - Wacken Open Air

All the show was about Wacken Open Air 2024

01.THE DARKNESS: I believe in a thing called love
02.EVILE: The unknown
03.ARMORED SAINT: Mad house
04.RAGE: Days of December
05.MESSIAH: Christus hypercubus
06.KK’S PRIEST: One more shot at glory
07.INCANTATION: Fury’s manifesto
08.ACCEPT: The reckoning
09.SCORPIONS: Rock you like a hurricane
10.TRELLDOM: Til minne
11.BLUES PILLS: High class woman
12.EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY: Orgies of the inseminated
13.LIV KRISTINE: Love decay
14.EINHERJER: Odin owns ye all
15.BLIND GUARDIAN: Bright eyes
16.VREID: Pitch black
17.TANKARD: Rectifier
18.EMIL BULLS: The devil made me do it
19.BOKASSA: The ending starts today
20.TESTAMENT: Low
21.BEHEMOTH: Blow your trumpets Gabriel
22.MISTER MISERY: Hand of death
23.MAYHEM: Buried by time and dust

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 7

01.ALCATRAZZ: God blessed video
02.P.O.D.: I got that
03.POWERWOLF: 1589
04.VAN CANTO: Rebellion
05.VICTORY: Count on me
06.THE HELLACOPTERS: Stay with you
07.EVERGREY: Cold dreams
08.TUSMØRKE: Dwarven lord
09.TESSIA: Voidwalker
10.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Black wizard
11.OVERKILL: Promises
12.THE TROOPS OF DOOM: The impostor king
13.MESSIAH: Morte al dente
14.ALTERTUM: Glimmer of steel
15.UNLEASHED: Violent ecstasy
16.ATVM: Cancer
17.BEHEMOTH: No sympathy for fools
18.ZORNHEYM: None for all
19.AURA NOIR: Hades rise
20.BOLT THROWER: The IVth crusade

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 30

01.ACCEPT: Fast as a shark
02.PRAYING MANTIS: Defiance
03.LOCH VOSTOK: The great wide open
04.PEARL JAM: Down
05.NIGHTWISH: Dark chest of wonders
06.VANDEN PLAS: My icarian flight
07.DROPKICK MURPHYS: Rose tattoo
08.JULIE CHRISTMAS: Supernatural
09.GOTHMINISTER: I am the devil
10.BAD LUCK 13: White lines (don’t do it)
11.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Monsters
12.IQ: Until the end
13.BAILTAK: Finnmark
14.ILLDISPOSED: Spitting your pain
15.MESSIAH: Battle in the ancient north
16.EXPULSION: Lain hidden
17.NIFELHEIM: Possessed by evil
18.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Muuntautuja
19.ARCH ENEMY: Dead eyes see no future
20.AS I LAY DYING: Burden
21.INCANTATION: Impending diabolical conquest

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 23

01.WARLOCK: Burning witches
02.MARKO HIETALA: Left on Mars
03.BETTER LOVERS: The flowering
04.MARTY FRIEDMAN: Dead of winter
05.AIRBAG: Awakening
06.ROB ZOMBIE: We’re an American band
07.NOVA TWINS: Antagonist
08.METALLICA: Creeping death
09.DARK MILE: The boy
10.STONED: Homecoming
11.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Primal
12.EINHERJER: Deaf forever
13.ASINHELL: Desert of doom
14.DISKORD: Shivering, as we shed our hides
15.BATUSHKA: Yekteniya III
16.PESTILENCE: Sinister
17.MESSIAH: Living with a confidence
18.CAVALERA: Nightmares of delirium
19.GJENDØD: Død manns skygge
20.IMMORTAL: One by one
21.MORBID ANGEL: Blessed are the sick

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 16 - Tons of Rock

The show was about Tons Of Rock 2024

01.BLACK DEBBATH: Tons of rock
02.SAXON: Denim and leather
03.EUROPE: Rock the night
04.ROTTING CHRIST: Apage Satana
05.METALLICA: Lux æterna
06.DORO: Raise your fist in the air
07.EXTREME: Get the funk out
08.W.A.S.P.: Tormentor
09.MR. BUNGLE: Anarchy up your anus
10.TSJUDER: Gamle-Erik
11.TOOL: Schism
12.URIAH HEEP: Easy livin’
13.ABBATH: Ashes of the damned
14.JUDAS PRIEST: Panic attack
15.PIL OG BUE: Special agents
16.CAVALERA: Escape to the void
17.KREATOR: Betrayer
18.EINHERJER: Mine våpen mine ord
19.AVANTASIA: Dying for an angel
20.ZZ TOP: Gimme all your lovin’
21.SATYRICON: K.i.n.g
22.GRETA VAN FLEET: The archer

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 9 - Working Class Hero Festival

Tania Illum-Iden from Working Class Hero Festival visited our studio.

01.METALLICA: For whom the bell tolls
02.BLOMST: Dans til du dør
03.SIMONE SIMONS: Aeterna
Working Class..
04.REVAALVER RAACK: Drammenser
05.LOVECAST: Wonder
06.KJÖTER: Jeg vil ha en liten hund
07.HOMER: Skaters paradise
..Hero Festival
08.NIGHTWISH: Perfume of the timeless
09.SILVERSTEIN: Good intentions
10.ROB ROCK: Judgement day
11.KHOLD: Hundre år gammal
12.SUSPERIA: The bitter man
13.NECRONOMICON: Total rejection
14.MESSIAH: Lycantropus erectus
15.VREDEHAMMER: Death becomes the new day
16.CAVALERA: Escape to the void
17.NORTHERN KRIG: Arma capere
18.FORGOTTEN TOMB: Nightfloating
19.MORBID ANGEL: I am morbid

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 2

01.WINGER: Can’t get enuff
02.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: Krenk it up!
03.RETURN: Change the attitude
04.STAGE DOLLS: Heart to heart
05.JOURNEY: Wheel in the sky
06.AYREON: Ride the comet
07.THE CRUEL INTENSIONS: Sunrise over sunset
08.POWERTRIPPIN’: Circles of hell
09.BRUCE DICKINSON: Many doors to hell
10.URIAH HEEP: Something or nothing
11.HALCYON WAY: Night crawling
12.BLACK STONE CHERRY: In my blood
13.GLORYHAMMER: Holy flaming hammer of unholy cosmic frost
15.SOUNGARDEN: Hands all over
16.TRAIL OF TEARS: Winds of disdain
17.PICTURE ANN: Manden og havet
18.MESSIAH: Psychomorphia
19.DAEMONIAC: Human relic
20.UNHOLY CRAFT: Evig er nattehimmelen
21.KREATOR: Hordes of chaos
22.NAZGHOR: Esoteric bloodline
23.EINHERJER: Mine våpen mine ord

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 26 - Sweden Rock Festival

The Show was about Sweden Rock Festival 2024

01.DREAM EVIL: The book of heavy metal
02.CRYPTA: The other side of anger
03.DISMEMBER: When hatred killed the light
04.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Got your six
05.MEGADETH: Peace sells
06.PRIMAL FEAR: In metal we trust
07.IRON SAVIOR: Heavy metal never dies
08.SWEDISH EROTICA: We’re wild young and free
09.KERRY KING: Idle hands
10.W.A.S.P.: Love machine
11.SATYRICON: Black crow on a tombstone
12.TREAT: World of promises
13.CARCASS: Kelly’s meat emporium
14.BATTLE BEAST: Where angels fear to fly
15.EVANESCENCE: Going under
16.THY ART IS MURDER: Until there is no longer
17.JUDAS PRIEST: Electric eye
18.DIMMU BORGIR: Dødsferd
19.PAIN: Party in my head
20.STEEL PANTHER: Eyes of a panther
21.LUCIFER: The dead don’t speak
22.HAMMERFALL: (We make) Sweden rock
23.ALICE COOPER: Lock me up
24.AVANTASIA: Mystery of a blood red rose
25.VLTIMAS: Epic

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 19

01.SLAYER: Angel of death
02.ACCEPT: The reckoning
03.XANDRIA: Universal
04.KAL-EL: Mothership
05.EVERGREY: Say
06.CHROME DIVISION: One last ride
07.THE CARBURETORS: Burning rubber
08.SILVERSTEIN: You gotta stay positive
09.IVANHOE: Headnut
10.THE CHRONICLE OF FATHER ROBIN: Magical chronicle
11.LUMSK: Det døde barn
12.BEARDFISH: The hunter
13.STARGAZER: The sky is the limit
14.NASHVILLE PUSSY: Speed machine
15.NOCTURNUS AD: Yesod, the dark side of the moon
16.KAMBODSJA: Hellvetikke
17.BATHORY: Born for burning
18.MY DYING BRIDE: Her dominion
19.NAZGHOR: Primordial lineage
20.ATENA: Oil rigs
21.ASINHELL: Desert of doom

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 12

01.TESTAMENT: Souls of black
02.MISTER MYSERY: Survival of the sickest
03.EVERGREY: Falling from the sun
04.LED ZEPPELIN: Good times bad times
05.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: This is the way
06.NESTOR: Victorious
07.ANVIL: Feed your fantasy
08.SEIGMEN: Når alle skjermer går i svart
09.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: A brave new hope
10.WHITE LION: Radar love
11.METALLICA: Battery
12.ALESTORM: Over the seas
13.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Shining
14.DARKTHRONE: Black dawn affiliation
15.OBERST: Bad run
16.DEICIDE: Sever the tongue
17.THE TROOPS OF DOOM: Chapels of the unholy
18.MESSIAH: Extreme cold weather
19.EXODUS: Fabulous disaster
20.EONIAN: The emperor’s hounds
21.OPETH: Ghost of perdition

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 5

01.DREAM EVIL: The book of heavy metal
02.BALANCE OF POWER: Abyss
03.BLUES PILLS: Don’t you love it
04.NAZARETH: Shanghai’d in Shanghai
05.ATLANTIS DRIVE Way back when
06.THEATRES DES VAMPIRES: Mater tenebrarum
07.MARILLION: Don’t hurt yourself
08.MONOLORD: The weary
09.SUPERLYNX: Apocalypse
10.BISMARCK: Sky father
11.EYEHATEGOD: Jack ass in the will of god
12.SLOMOSA: Rice
13.EARTHSHAKER: 愛しき人
14.KERRY KING: Idle hands
15.NECROPHAGIA: Moribounds grim
16.DISCHARGE: New world order
17.DARKESTRAH: Kök oy
18.FROSTBITT: Death god
19.FURZE: Forsee his infernal rites
20.MORTIIS: The grudge
21.MAYHEM: Freezing moon

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen