November 30 - Espen + Helene

Espen Rock Nørvåg Slapgård & Helene Landmark visited our studio

01.KAMELOT: March of Mephisto
02.IDA MARIA: Lust
03.CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Fire and water
04.GEORGE LYNCH: People get ready
05.LORD OF THE LOST: One of us will be next
06.POWERWOLF: Stossgebet
07.THE HELLACOPTERS: By the grace of God
08.KONGER OG KEISERE: Bedragersk verden
09.KJÖTER: Kjøttkaker
10.ORDEN OGAN: Conquest
11.GRAVE DIGGER: Bark to hell
12.HAMMERFALL: Man on the silver mountain
13.ADX: Notre-Dame de Paris
14.FUNERAL HARVEST: Angel of violence
15.BIOHAZARD: Eyes on six
16.BULLDOZER: Mad man
17.DEUS MORTEM: Krawawy swit
18.SUFFOCATION: Perpetual deception
19.CRADLE OF FILTH: Malignant perfection
20.EXODUS: Deathamphetamine
21.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Lower purpose
22.KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: The arms of sorrow

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 23 - Metal Hammer Paradise

01.VOLBEAT: Still counting
02.CHEZ KANE: Reckless
03.TILL LINDEMANN: Zunge
04.HELLOWEEN: Magnetic fields
05.WILDNITE: One and lonely
06.ELECTRIC BOYS: Hangover in Hannover
Metal Hammer…
07.IRON SAVIOR: In the realm of heavy metal
08.ENDSEEKER: Count the dead
09.BRAINSTORM: The sheperd girl (gitavoginda)
10.KANONENFIEBER: Z-vor!
11.APOCALYPTICA: Enter sandman
12. NESTOR: In the name of rock’n’roll
13.TANKARD: Beerbarians
14.D.A.D: The ghost
15.BENEDICTION: Crawling over corpses
16.SAXON: Heavy metal thunder
..Paradise.
17.CLUTCH: Escape from the prison planet
18.PAIN OF SALVATION: Martius/nauticus II
19.POSSESSED: Death Metal
20.LILLMÅNS: Blinded
21.NEKROMANTHEON: Twelve depths of Hades
22.THE HALO EFFECT: I wanna be somebody
23.VLTIMAS: Invictus

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 16

01.LED ZEPPELIN: Black dog
02.BEYOND THE BLACK: The art of being alone
03.FEUERSCHWANZ: Valhalla
04.KISS: Dark light
05.ELDER: Dream state return
06.MIKE TRAMP: Fight to survive
07.THE VINTAGE CARAVAN: Alone
08.MISS MAY I: Run this town
09.BROTHERS OF METAL: Flight of the ravens
10.BLACK DEBBATH: Pils!
11.DANKO JONES: Everyday is saturday night
12.MOTÖRHEAD: Killed by death
13.THE STRAP-ONS: Virgin sluts
14.MEGADETH: Tipping point
15.LAMB OF GOD: Walk with me in hell
16.TESTAMENT: Shadow people
17.PURIFIED IN BLOOD: Key and stone
18.PARADISE LOST: Lay a wreath upon the world
19.DJEVEL: Englene som falt ned I min seng, skal jeg sette fri med brukne vinger og torneglorier
20.SOULFLY: Nihilist
21.HEIMLAND: Vagrant
22.MORBID ANGEL: Rapture

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 9 - Spetakkelfestivalen

Pål Borgersen from Spetakkelfestivalen visited our studio

01.DIAVOLA: Black tooth grin
02.ULVHEDNER: Solnedgang
03.WYRUZ: Carved in stone
04.IN VAIN: At the going down of the sun
05.SUSPERIA: Chemistry
06.DEFECTO: Sacred alignment
07.SEIGMEN: Dissonans
08.BASTARIZED: Nothing left to say
09.GROWN: You never see me
10.BEFOULED: Chapel of bones
11.ISTAPP: Frostbiten
12.BEYOND THE BARRICADE: Bleeding
13.DECEPTION: Monophobic
14.PAGAN’S MIND: Alien kamikaze
15.MAYFIRE: A sense of purpose
16.TAAKE: Hordalands doedskvad 2

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 2

01.QUIET RIOT: Metal health
02.LÜT: Bindingstid på livstid
03.TURBONEGER: I got erection
04.GOTTHARD: Ride the wave
05.MAD MAX: Piece of candy
06.FUNHOUSE: Celebrate
07.SPIDERGAWD: The grand slam
08.MOTÖRHEAD: Ace of spades
09.MAJESTICA: A story in the night
10.DOMINUM: Immortalis dominum
11.BATTLE BEAST: Angel of midnight
12.DARE: Home
13.BEAST IN BLACK: Enter the Behelit
14.HELLOWEEN: A little is a little too much
15.HONEYMOON SUITE: Into me, into you
16.LACUNA COIL: Blood, tears, dust
17.SLAYER: Dead skin mask
18.JORDSJUK: Til ettertids plage
19.1914: 1914 (the siege of Przemysl)
20.DYING FETUS: Into the Cesspool
21.ARCH ENEMY: Break the spell
22.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: It comes for you
23.MRSA: Savage feast
24.DEICIDE: From unknown heights you shall fall
25.ISTAPP: Ödemarkens son

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 26

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.CLAWFINGER: Ball & chain
03.DANKO JONES: Everyday is Saturday night
04.BLACK DEBBATH: Til hælvete med Munchmuseet
05.SABATON: Crossing the Rubicon
06.MAGICK TOUCH: The Judas cross
07.RAZORBATS: Kids of the 70’s
08.BREATHE CAROLINA: Down
09.THUNDERMOTHER: Speaking of the devil
10.DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG: Hellbreaker
11.IRON SAVIOR: Eye of the world
12.SEVENTH CRYSTAL: Delirium
13.AVDAGATA: Fireborn tyrant
14.AMORPHIS: Bones
15.MUDWAYNE: Hurt people hurt people
16.DECEASED: Children of the morgue
17.SEPTICFLESH: The vampire from Nazareth
18.ELDFÖDD: Risen from the flames
19.SEPTEMBERWOLF: Together we hang
20.SOULFLY: Storm the gates
21.CARACH ANGREN: Bloodstains on the captain’s log

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 19 - Høstsabbat

Linda Melsom & Elisabeth Horne from Høstsabbat visited our studio

01.KISS: Shock me
Høssabbat:
02.CROUCH: Domesticate the weak
03.BLODKVALT: Decapitation
04.LIVING GATE: To cut off the head of the snake
05.HIPPOTRAKTOR: Silver tongue
06.NAGIRCAALMMIID: Souviva
07.GNOME: Old soul
08.KAMBODSJA: Basement prophet
09.RUUN: Tendency to decompose
10.LLNN: Imperial
11.ARV: Victim
12.AHAB: Colossus of the liquid graves
13.WITCH CLUB SATAN: You wildflower
14.NEW MONEY: Nithing pole (olè olè)
15.FIGHTS: Asbestos high
16.YOB: Upon the sight of the other shore

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 12

01.STRATOVARIUS: Millennium
02.AFI: Behind the clock
03.MOB RULES: Back to savage rules
04.RAMONES: Pet sematary
05.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Trivia goddess
06.THE HIVES: Main offender
07.BARNABAS SKY: The sign of the wolf
08.VAN HALEN: Hot for teacher
09.MEDIEVAL STEEL: War cry
10.ANNISOKAY: Stfu
11.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: The end
12.MAYDAY PARADE: In my head
13.VOLBEAT: For evigt
14.WEDNESDAY 13: Rotting away
15.LA GUNS: I am alive
16.THE HALO EFFECT: If you were here
17.ILLVILJE: Svartsinn
18.KREATOR: Seven serpents
19.I PREVAIL: Rain
20.ARCTURUS: Evacuation code deciphered
21.ULVHEDNER: Frostnatt
22.FULLMÅNE: High again
23.DEMOLITION HAMMER: 44 caliber brain surgery

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 5 - Southern Discomfort

Part of the show was about Southern Discomfort 2025.

01.TWISTED SISTER: Tear it loose
02.BURNING WITCHES: High priestess of the night
03.FM: Living on the run
04.THE OFFSPRING: Self esteem
05.THE DARKNESS: Friday night
06.ANUBIS GATE: Still life in mobile homes
07.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
08.THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY: Song for a prepper
09.LORD OF THE LOST: Bazaar bizarre
10.JETHRO TULL: One for John Gee
Southern…
11.NITHE: Chains of the abyss
12.BISMARCK: Sky father
13.BEATEN TO DEATH: Eternal punished septic
14.IN THE WOODS…: A wonderful crisis
15.BELPHEGOR: Baphomet
16.IRONFISTER: Pleasure at will
17.DISKORD: Shivering, as we shed our hides
18.AFSKY: Et sidste farvel
19.TRAIL OF TEARS: Ecstatic
20.THYRFING: Digerdöden
…Discomfort.
21.MYSTIC CIRCLE: The bible of witch chase
22.DIMMU BORGIR: Kings of the carnival creation

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 28

01.SWEET: Ballroom blitz
02.CROWNE: Waiting for you
03.LILY LÖWE: Puppet master
04.JETHRO TULL: Locomotive breath
05.HELLOWEEN: This is Tokyo
06.BLACK INGVARS: Tiotusen röda rosor
07.ABRAMIS BRAMA: Kejsarens nya kläder
08.SEIGMEN: Så nært
09.LORD OF THE LOST: Raveyard
10.ALTER BRIDGE: Silent divide
11.BONSAI KITTEN: I love that you hate me
12.STEELHEART:You got me twisted
13.CORONER: Renewal
14.MISTER BIRDMAN: Roots bloody roots
15.DYING WISH: I’ll know you’re not around
16.BETTER LOVERS: The flowering
17.TAAKE: Hordalands doedskvad II
18.GJENDØD: En elv av kjøtt
19.MÅNEGARM: En blodvittneskrans
20.I Prevail: Annihilate me
21.DEICIDE: Dead but dreaming
22.COLOSALIST: Creeping frost
23.IN MOURNING: North star
24.EINHERJER: West coast groove

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 21

01.BLIND GUARDIAN: The bard’s song: the hobbit
02.BATTLE BEAST: Here we are
03.KADAVAR: Lies
04.BIG CITY: The tower
05.HEAVY LOAD: Heavy metal angels
06.OF MICE AND MEN: Blame it
07.THE PRETTY RECKLESS: For I am death
08.MOONSPELL: Vampiria
09.THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: Where the flowers never grow
10.LAST AUTUMN’S DREAM: My mistake to make
11.DREAMSLAIN: I am Spartacus
12.UAAR: Galgeås
13.KAL-EL: Dilithiom
14.DESSPO: Ozone
15.THE TRUE RAT LORD: In conspiracy with Satan
16.POISON VOID: Realm of the dead
17.RIBSPREADER: The pig in you
18.SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL: Russian grizzly in America
19.BELPHEGOR: Sanctus diaboli confidimus
20.AT THE GATES: Neverwhere

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Harald Eilertsen

September 14 - Andrè Nautøy

Andre Nautøy the author of Født Dødt Norsk Death Metal 1986 – 1999 visited our studio

01.BONFIRE: Don’t touch the light
02.LÜT: Smil & vink
03.BEYOND THE BLACK: Rising high
04.THE PLOT IN YOU: Let it go
05.FEUERSCHWANZ: Same the brave
06.WILDNITE: One and only
07.PRETTY BOY FLOYD: Rock and roll outlaws
08.MÖTLEY CRÜE: Live wire
09.COMMUNIC: Conspiracy in mind
10.JORN: Stormcrow
11.SHADOWMAN: Gravity
12.SOULFLY: Storm the gates
13.SKABB: Inside your own doom
14.VIDAR VANG: Stench of chaos
15.GORETEX: Point break
16.EUTHANASIA: Euthanasia
17.BEYOND DAWN: Nemosis symphosi
18.CADAVER: Mr. Tumors misery

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

September 7

01.THIN LIZZY: The boys are back in town
02.BATTLE BEAST: Steelbound
03.THE GASÖLINES: Rock and roll is dead
04.FASTER PUSSYCAT: Bad things
05.LJUNGBLUT: Ut til munkene
06.JETHRO TULL: Thick as a brick
07.GREEN CARNATION: The shores of melancholia
08.ANTHRAX: Indians
09.HELLOWEEN: Giants on the run
10.ART NATION: Need you to understand
11.DYNAZTY: Call of the night
12.CONCEPTION: Roll the fire
13.DIMENSION F3H: The disciplined
14.TESTAMENT: Infanticide A.I.
15.1914: 1916 (the Südtirol offensive)
16.FIT FOR A KING: Witness the end
17.MESSHUGGAH: Future breed machine
18.SUBLIME EYES: Emperor’s mountain
19.KANONENFIEBER: Sturmtrupp
20.UNLEASHED: To my only son
21.VILLMARK: Skogbrann
22.ATENA: Ultra ultimate opus power
23.FÈLETH: Usa

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 31 - Drammen Metalfest

Ola Flatebø Sørensen, Jonathan Hamre & Jo Aslak Aspås from Drammen Metalfest visited our studio

01.YNGWIE J.MALMSTEEN: Rising force
02.I PREVAIL: Violent nature
03.KISS: Calling Dr. Love
04.KAL-EL: Cocaine
05.SYRON VANES: On your knees
06.:BOLVERK:: Time for chaos
07.IOTUNN: Earth to sky
Drammen..
08.BERZERKBREATH: Despondency
09.HAUNTED BY SILHOUETTES: Jakta
10.VILLMARK: Fossegrim
11.CONFESS: Slaughterhouse
12.OSKAAL: Refused
13.KAMBODSJA: Basement prophet
14.FELETH: Majesty
15.ATENA: Oil rigs
…Metal Fest
16.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 24 - Wacken Open Air revisited

Knuts top 5 from Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SAVATAGE: Edge of thorns
02.RUSS BALLARD: Resurrection
03.LORD OF THE LOST: Ghosts
04.MOTÖRHEAD: (We are) the road crew
05.SABATON: Lightning at the gates
06.THIN LIZZY: Thunder and lightning
07.THE GASÖLINES: Let’s go
08.THE WHO: My generation
09.YEAR OF THE GOAT: Alucarda
10.GIANT: A night to remember
11.VICK LECAR: Witches brew
12.HONEYMOON SUITE: Lookin’ out for number one
13.TANKARD: Centerfold
Wacken..
14.05.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
15.04.MACABRE: Vampire of Düsseldorf
16.03.MINISTRY: Rio Grande blood
17.02.FORBIDDEN: Out of body (out of mind)
18.01.GRAVE DIGGER: Excalibur
Open Air revisited
19.PARADISE LOST: Tyrants serenade
20.THYRFING: Angestens högborg

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 17 - Harald Eilertsen

01.ACCEPT: London leatherboys
02.WE CAME AS ROMANS: Culture wound
03.CRISIX: W.N.M. united
04.ARCH ENEMY: Aces high
05.IMBALANCE: On your knees
06.GORR: På gravens stille rand
07.PROSELYTISM: Strange god rising
08.AUDRVIN: Med renker og pisk
09.SKUGGIMADR: Siste andedrag
10.IF I WERE THE DEVIL: Traitor to the cross
11.FETTERS: Skunk
12.FETTERS: Self-hatred
13.CARCASS: No love lost
14.HELVITNIR: Void of emptiness
15.DESTROYER 666: Rise of the predator
16.BATHORY: Woman of dark desires
17.THE HAUNTED: Brute force
18.THORNS: Lovely children
19.MORBID ANGEL: Chapel of ghouls

Raymond Smith
Harald Eilertsen

August 10 - Midgardsblot

All the show was about Midgardsblot 2025.
Silje Brekke from the festival visited our studio.

01.THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN: Fire
02.KIRKEBRANN: En slaves frihet
03.GAAHLS WYRD: Time and timeless timeline
04.EIVØR: Jardartrà
05.THE 3RD AND THE MORTAL: Why so lonely
06.JORDSJUK: Siste skanse
07.ORANSSI PAZUZU: Valotus
08.HYPOCRISY: Pleasure of molestation
09.ISKALD: The atrocious horror
10.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
11.TNT: As far as the eye can see
12.MORK: Den lukkede porten
13.SIGH: Me-devil
14.MAYHEM: Deathcrush
15.SVARTTJERN: Determination
16.RUÏM: The black house
17.BENEDICTION: Crawling over corpses
18.TSJUDER: Gods of black blood

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

August 3

01.FREEDOM CALL: Warriors
02.VULVARINE: Equal, not the same
03.CREMATORY: Banished forever
04.THE PRETTY RECKLESS: Only love can save me now
05.AC/DC: Highway to hell
06.HAREM SCAREM: Better the devil you know
07.GUS G: My premonition
08.REFUSED: Elektra
09.HONNINGBARNA: Fri Palestina
10.QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: Songs for the dead
11.AMENRA: Forlorn
12.MR. DEATH: Stillborn in a dying world
13.PICTURE ANN: A place of concealment for stolen internation property
14.ASHES OF ARES: From hell he rides
15.VADER: Rampage
16.SLAYER: In-a-gadda-da-vida
17.BIOHAZARD: Forsaken
18.BOLT THROWER: The ivth crusade
19.THE HALO EFFECT: How the gods kill
20.DEATHHAMMER: Abyssic thunder
21.LEPRA: In silence she lay still
22.HELVITNIR: Dread biter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 27 - Beyond The Gates

Part of the show was about Beyond The Gates festival

01.TNT: Intuition
02.LITA FORD: Kiss me deadly
03.URIAH HEEP:  Easy livin’
04.WEDNESDAY 13: Devil inside
05.BLODSMAK: Giljotin
06.SLADE: When the chips are down
Beyond The Gates:
07.HELLRIPPER: All hail the goat
08.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
09.DESTRUCTION: Bestial invasion
10.KOLDRBANN: Totalt sjelelig bankerott
11.LUCIFER: At the mortuary
12.PARADISE LOST: Faith divides us - death unites us
13.KING DIAMOND: Welcome home
14.ETERNAL EVIL: Eternal evil
15.HEXVESSEL: Spirit masked wolf
16.TRIBULATION: Strange gateways beckon
17.CANDLEMASS: Crystal ball
18.OPETH: §1
19.HELHEIM: Nidr ok nordr liggr helvegr
20.GEHENNA: Deadlights
21.TAAKE: Hordalands doedskvad 4

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 20 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2025

01.SKYLINE: This is W.O.A.
02.WARBRINGER: Hunter-seeker
03.TORTURE SQUAD: Horror and torture
04.TARJA: I walk alone
05.BEYOND THE BLACK: Heart of the hurricane
06.IN THE WOODS…: The crimson crown
07.PENTAGRAM CHILE: La fiura
08.PRONG: Unconditional
09.NIGHTMARE: Saviours of the damned
10.GRAVE DIGGER: Bark to hell
11.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
12.GUNS N’ ROSES: Live and let die
13.1349: I am abomination
14.SETYØURSAILS: Bad blood
15.FORBIDDEN: Step by step
16.PAPA ROACH: Braindead
17.SCHANDMAUL: In der hand
18.DIMMU BORGIR: Stormblåst
19.TROLLFEST: Dance like a pink flamingo
20.WARKINGS: Hangman’s night
21.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
22.OBITUARY: Find the arise
23.EXHORDER: Legions of death
24.FIT FOR AN KING: No tomorrow

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen