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

July 13 - Backstreet Girls

Interview with Martin H-Son, Bjørn Müller & Dan Thunderbird from Backstreet Girls. 
Recorded at the Tons Of Rock Festival

01.MOTÖRHEAD: Ace of spades
02.GUN BARREL: Damage dancer
03.MEDUSA'S CHILD: Empty sky
04.KISS: Rise to it
05.NIGHT RANGER: St. Bartholomew
06.STUKA PARTY: Bandit approaching
07.GAMMA RAY: Avalon
08.BACKSTREET GIRLS: It ain't easy
09.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Speed demon
10.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Devolicious boys
11.SERJ TANKIAN: The unthinking majority
12.66CRUSHER: A place to hide
13.KILLER BE KILLED: Melting of my marrow
14.KATAKLYSM: A soulless god
15.CREMATORY: Tears of time
16.HATEBREED: Never let it die
17.EMPEROR: I am the black wizards
18.EFREETI: The saffarid dynasty
19.VINTERBRIS: The aurora of despair

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporters:
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

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June 25 - Bloodthorn

We had a direct phone interview with Ihizahg from Bloodthorn

  • 01.DEF LEPPARD: When love & hate collide

  • 02.HELL DÔRMER: Dead man

  • 03.AVIAN: Black masquerade

  • 04.GUNS N’ROSES: Live and let die

  • 05.EDENBRIDGE: Evermore

  • 06.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Don’t let me down

  • 07.METAL CHURCH: Disappear

  • 08.BULLET: Heading for the top

  • 09.INNER WISH: Bleeding soul

  • 10.GLEN HUGHES: Black light

  • 11.LUCA TURILLI: Mother nature

  • 12.SLUG SYNDICATE: Poison bitch

  • 13.RAISE HELL: Open your mind

  • 14.FALL OF SERAPHIM: Hope extinguished

  • 15.KOLDBRANN: I suveren forakt

  • 16.BLOODTHORN: They will arise

  • 17.BLOODTHORN: Sacrifical slaughter

  • 18.KAMPFAR: Ravenheart

  • 19.ENSLAVED: Essence

  • 20.DISSECTION: Black dragon

  • Knut Ivar Jacobsen

  • Raymond Smith

  • Jørn Livrud

January 15 - Circus Maximus

We had an interview with Mads Haugen from Circus Maximus.

The interview was done at Baråtti in Strømmen after the Sweden Rock Kick Off.

01. FREEDOM CALL: We are one
02. MAN MADE MACHINE: Burn to something new
03. BACKSTREET GIRLS: Any minute now
04. AMPLIFIER: Everyday combat
05. EDGUY: Save me
06. SILENT VOICES: Once lost life
07. MAD MAX: To hell and back again
08. AFTER ALL: Reasonable doubt
09. GAMMA RAY: Hell is thy home
10. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Sin
11. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Biosfear
12. CIRCUS MAXIMUS: Why am I here
13. IN FLAMES: Take this life
14. AS WE FIGHT: Bringing it all together
15. SACRIFICUM: I am the enemy
16. THE BLOODLINE: Remember
17. BORKNAGAR: Future reminiscence
18. SINCE BY MAN: Young America
19. SCORNGRAIN: 24/7 hell
20. CEASE.AND.DESIST : We take you for shit
21. DEATHCHAIN: Napalm Satan
22. MÖRK GRYNING:Ingen dyrkan

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Reporters:
Jørn Livrud
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 23 - Arch Enemy

We had an interview with Michael Amott from Arch Enemy.

01. KAMELOT: Nights of Arabia
02. THE AUDITION: Dance halls turn to ghost towns
03. NIGHTWISH: End of all hope
04. THE RAMONES: Sheena is a punk rocker
05. BACKSTREET GIRLS: Panic in pussyland
06. MOHAMMED: 1973
07. STREAM OF PASSION: Haunted
08. ANGEL CREW: Life sentence
09. PRIMAL FEAR: When the night comes
10. FLAGSHIP: Hold on to your dream
11. HELLFUELED: Look out
12. STRATOVARIUS: Maniac dance
13. BONGZILLA: Kash under glass
14. DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
15. AUDIOPAIN: Thrash mental
16. ARCH ENEMY: I am legend/out for blood
17. ARCH ENEMY: Skeleton dance
18. ARCH ENEMY: Nemesis
19. SOLEFALD: Sun I call
20. AKERCOCKE: Eyes of the dawn
21. VULTURE INDUSTRIES: The benevolent pawn

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

August 7 - Nevermore

Jørn had a phone interview with Jeff Loomis from Nevermore.

01. STAGE DOLLS: soldier's gun
02. EVEREVE: desire
03. WIG WAM: in my dreams
04. NEVERMORE: sentient 6
05. NEVERMORE: my acid words
06. NEVERMORE: final product
07. BACKSTREET GIRLS: don't let me down
08. HONCHO: some say
09. TURBONEGER: are you ready
10. STONEGARD: hunter
11. SATYRICON: fuel for hatred
12. EL CACO: substitute
13. THULSA DOOM: kick me
14. SCUM: protest life
15. AMULET: profane wishes
16. DONNYBROOK: get real
17. FRAMFERD: ulvetid
18. ARSIS: seven whispers fell silent
19. DARKANE: layers of lies
20. ALARUM: sustained connection
21. OBITUARY: the end complete
22. BLOOD RED THRONE: tortured soul appearance
23. DISIPLIN: ultimatum

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Interview: Jørn Livrud
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

April 24 - Amon Amarth/Working Class Hero

We had a direct phone interview with Eigil Moe from Working Class Hero Festival.

We had an interview with Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth. We did it at the Inferno festival.

01.SOUNDGARDEN: pretty noose
02.EL CACO: the small hours
03.RHAPSODY: the magic of the wizard's dream
04.FRANTIC BLEEP: but a memory
05.FREEDOM CALL: the rhythm of life
06.AUDREY HORNE: listening
07.ATOMIC SOUL: gaia
08.PAGANS MIND: enigmatic
09.ETERNAL OATH: behind tomorrow

Working Class …
10.THULSA DOOM: hold the parade
11.BACKSTREET GIRLS: don't let me down
12.WE: toothgottago
13.GAYPIRAYA: teenage heaven
14.DEAD SHERIFF: barrel of wood
15.1349: pitch black)
…Hero festival

16.KHOLD: død
17.AMON AMARTH: an ancient sign of coming storm
18.AMON AMARTH: valkyries ride
19.AMON AMARTH: the pursuit of Vikings
20.SUSPERIA: the bitterman
21.LAST TO REMAIN: pay the price
22.CRIONICS: final inversion
23.MESHUGGAH: entrapment
24.MINDGRINDER: war solution

Jørn Livrud
Raymond Smith
Engineer: Jørn Kruse

March 6 - Insense

We had a phone interview with Tommy from Insense.

01.BACKSTREET GIRLS: any minute now
02.IRON MAIDEN: number of the beast
03.CAMAROS: babe, you got me down
04.JUDAS PRIEST: painkiller
05.IN FLAMES: touch of red
06.ETERNAL REIGN: light the light
07.INSENSE: gasping for air
08.INSENSE: making up for lost time
09.INSENSE: soothing torture
10.TRISTANIA: circus
11.EXTOL: void
12.CULT OF LUNA: leave me here
13.SLAYER: hell awaits
14.MAYHEM: buried by time and dust
15.VARATHRON: creation of satan
16.RUNEMAGICK: nebulous
17.ROTTEN SOUND: seeds
18.DEFLESHED: abstinence for turbulence
19.GREEN CARNATION: the quiet offspring

Cecilie Nilsen
Raymond Smith
Jørn Livrud