January 25 - Norsk Urskog

Harald Eilertsen with his Norsk Urskog in studio

01.GOTTHARD: Angel
02.KLOGR: Bleeding
03.THE GEMS: Year of the snake
04.KISS: Rise to it
05.-JAIME-: Event horizon
06.HEAVY PETTIN’: Sole survivor
07.URIAH HEEP: Sunrise
08.THERION: The rise of Sodom and Gomorrah
09.MANOWAR: Hail and kill
10.W.A.S.P.: Locomotive breath
11.APOTHEOSIS: The maimed god
12.MANIFEST: Manufactured lie
13.MANIFEST: The origins
14.FORCEFED HORSEHED: The will of the many
15.SHAVING THE WEREWOLF: Junk Food
16.TUNGTRØDD: Ella
17.ANERAXT: No title they killed more than 12,000 in 4 days
18.DYING FETUS: Wrong one to fuck with
19.SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL: Viking

Harald Eilertsen
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 18 - Kongsberg Rock & Metall Klubb

Rune Kjørstad og Geir Wolland Jacobsen from Kongsberg Rock & Metall Klubb visited our studio

01.NIGHTWISH: Nemo
02.PETER CRISS: In the dark
03.POPPY: Bruised sky
04.UUHAI: Uuhai
05.CHEZ KANE: Night of passion
06.WARRANT (DE): Falling down
07.ECLIPSE: Roses on your grave
08.A COLD PARADISE: Waking up
09.BLACK LIGHT BURNS: The art of self defense
10.MOONLIT MASQUERADE: Wreckage
11.DONNYBROOK!: Check your chest
12.IN MOURNING: Moonless sky
13.MORTAL FEAR: Fear gas
14.JORDSJUK: Grovt skadeverk
15.HARABALL: Toska
16.SYLOSIS: Erased
17.TÅRFÖDD: The blizzard of revelation
18.TORMENTOR: Elisabeth Bathory

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 11

01.TAD MOROSE: No mercy
02.RONNIE ROMERO: Keep on falling
03.CIVIL DAZE: Top of the world
04.MOONSCAPE: Relapse
05.KADAVAR: Explosions in the sky
06.SEVENDUST: Denial
07.DAUGHTRY: The day I die
08.ALTER BRIDGE: What lies within
09.EVERGREY: Oxygen!
10.SABOTØR: Skyggens frekvens
11.SAINTED SINNERS: Lost in a storm
12.LANFEAR: In silence
13.HAIMAD: When night rode across the north
14.ENTOMBED: Lost
15.SLAGMAUR: Huldergeist
16.ADEPT: Blood covenant
17.MACTÄTUS: King of the dark side
18.MEZZROW: Sleeping cataclysm
19.AS I LAY DYING: If I fall
20.BLOOD RED THRONE: Beneath the means
21.DARKTRHONE: In the shadow of the horns

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 4

01.OZZY OSBOURNE: Crazy train
02.ROB ZOMBIE: Punks and demons
03.AD INFINITUM: Regicide
04.HIGH NOON: (Welcome into) my dominion
05.SUICIDIAL TENDENCIES: You can’t bring me down
06.THE STARTING LINE: I’m real
07.CHARLOTTE WESSELS: Backup plan
08.WISHBONE ASH: Blowin’ free
09.THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: Everybody knows
10.DØD DRØM: Bjørn Müller
11.TAILGUNNER: Guns for hire
12.MANOWAR: The power
13.AGNOSTIC FRONT: Sunday matinee
14.RELENTLESS AGGRESSION: Mindbolted
15.PRIMITIVE MAN: Seer
16.HORRIFIER: Injected corpse
17.MALEFIC THRONE: The voice of my ghost
18.GRYLA: Imposer
19.DEUS MORTEM: Down the scorched paradise
20.BULLDOZER: The derby
21.DEATH ANGEL: Cult of the used
22.MORBID ANGEL: God if emptiness

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 28 - Top 2025

Our personal top 5 albums of 2025

01.EUROPE: The final countdown

Jan Erik Johansen:
02.05.CHASING DEMONS: Fly into the clouds – Echoes From The Past
03.04.CORONER: Renewal – Dissonance Theory
04.03.AMBUSH: Evil in all dimensions – Evil In All Dimensions
05.02.HELVITNIR: Void of emptiness – Wolves Of The Underworld
06.01.GREEN CARNATION: In your paradise – A Dark Poem,Pt.I: The Shores of Melancholia

Raymond Smith:
07.05.1914: 1914 (the siege of Przemsyl) - Viribus Unitis
08.04.BEHEMOTH: Lvciferaeon – The Shit Ov God
09.03.PARADISE LOST: Tyrants serenade – Ascension
10.02.CRADLE OF FILTH: White hellebore
11.01.MACHINE HEAD: Bønescraper - Unatøned

Oddgeir Gitlestad
12.05.UNLEASHED – Hold your hammers high – Fire Upon Lands
13.04.GREEN CARNATION: In your paradise – A Dark Poem,Pt.I: The Shores of Melancholia
14.03.1914: 1916 (The Sudtirol offensive) – Viribus Unitis
15.02.HELLOWEEN: We can be gods – Giants & Monsters
16.01.TESTAMENT: Infanticide A.I. – Para Bellum

Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
17.05.SABATON: Hordes of Khan – Legends
18.04.TESTAMENT: High noon – Para Bellum
19.03.ARCH ENEMY: Illuminate the path – Blood Dynasty
20.02.HELLOWEEN: This is Tokyo – Giants & Monsters
21.01.CORONER: Consequence - Dissonance Theory

Jan Erik Johansen
Raymond Smith
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 21

01.ALICE COOPER: Santa claws is coming to town
02.DANKO JONES: Diamond in the rough
03.IN VIRTURE: Desolation throne
04.JORN: Just the same
05.ALISSA: The room where she died
06.TNT: All the way to the sun
07.WARRANT (GER): Torture in the tower
08.STRYPER: The greatest gift of all
09.3 HEADED SNAKE: Catharsis
10.POWERTRIPPIN’: 2000 man
11.EYE OF MELIAN: Blackthorn winter
12.AC/DC: Mistress of Christmas
13.DUST BOLT: Leave nothing behind
14.SUBWAY TO SALLY: Kämpfen wir!
15.CORONER: Semtex revolution
16.MORPHEUS: Thoughts of distrust
17.MESSIAH: Living with a confidence
18.KVAD: Storm
19.SAMAEL: Black matter manifesto
20.VREID: From these woods
21.ANAAL NATHRAKH: Forward!
22.VREDEHAMMER: Vinteroffer

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 14 - Orgivm

Espen Rock Nørvåg Slapgård & Helene Landmark from Orgivm visited our studio

01.WHITESNAKE: Here I go again
02.THE GASÖLINES: Riding shotgun
03.SCHATTENMANN: Besser als der rest
04.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen!
05.BLOODBOUND: As empires fall
Orgivm..
07.UNHOLY CRAFT: Saa mørkt, saa mektig
08.VORTEX OF END: Perdition whorl
09.FAUSTCOVEN: Curse of the voodoo priest
10.DEUS MORTEM: Remorseless beast
11.SINMARA: Katabasis
12.HEXENBRETT: Um mitternacht
13.DEATHLESS VOID: The shattered realms of men become the abyss
14.LVCIFYRE: Tribes of Khem
15.DESASTER: Metalized blood
16.BULLDOZER: Misogynist
Festival.
17.BEATEN TO DEATH: Dere er herved oppløst

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 7

01.TWISTED SISTER: Have yourself a merry little Christmas
02.OLA ENGLUND: The guillotine
03.CURSE OF CAIN: Mirror mirror
04.W.A.S.P.: Somebody to love
05.THE GASÖLINES: Ace in the hole
06.SABATON: Hordes of Khan
07.SISTER: Tanz der toten
08.SUICIDE BOMBERS: Where time always goes
09.BLIND GUARDIAN: Mirror mirror
10.MURDER MAIDS: Waste away
11.ANGUS MCSIX: The fire of yore
12.GEEZER BUTLER: Area code 51
13.UNDER THE OAK: The last of a dying breed
14.KAL-EL: Mothership
15.CANDLEMASS: Darkness in paradise
16.TRUEANDTRUE: Softskullseason
17.MARDUK: Cold mouth prayer
18.RELENTLESS AGRESSION: Minbolted
19.1914: 1918 pt: 3 ade (a duty to escape)
20.TESTAMENT: High noon
21.ROTTING CORPSE: Neck breaking fury
22.GOREFEST: To hell and back

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

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