July 26

01.CRIMSON GLORY: Azrael
02.SELF DECEPTION: Don’t belong
03.ELEINE: Empire of lies
04.WHITESNAKE: Ready an’ willing
05.ELECTRIC WIZARD: Witchcult today
06.DEF LEPPARD: He’s gonna step on you again
07.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Eye of the storm
08.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Hitter
09.METALITE: In case of emergency
10.KISS: Calling dr. love
11.DOMINUM: Dark melodies
12.DARKTRHONE: Toward(s) the thornfields
13.DRAKKAR: Invasion
14.GJENDØD: Dødsrikets pinsler
15.TESTAMENT: Practice what you preach
16.TRUEANDTRUE: Blood in the seams
17.THE RUINS OF BEVERAST: Day of the poacher
18.LEFT TO DIE: Archangel
19.MARDUK: Baptism by fire
20.SAMAEL: Hail to the sun
21.1349: I am abomination
22.BEHEMOTH: I, sculptor
23.EMPEROR: I am the black wizards5

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 19

01.AIRBOURNE: Too much, too young, too fast
02.ROB ZOMBIE: The black scorpion
03.THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT: Dark thoughts
04.DEEP PURPLE: Diablo
05.SEVENDUST: Construct
06.BLIND GUARDIAN: You’re the voice
07.MOB RULES: Balance of power
08.QUEEN: Keep yourself alive
09.EVERGREY: Leaving the emptiness
10.BOBBY AND THE CREW: Dark forces
11.DRACONIAN: Anima
12.METAL CHURCH: Watch the children pray
13.XANDRIA: The Shannon’s home
14.ABBATH: Dream cull
15.BEHERIT: Pagan moon
16.ANTHRAX: Indians
17.DEFECT DESIGNER: Body count of my cow tail
18.EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME: Confessions
19.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Hostage
20.ENEVELDE: Langt fra umaken verdt
21.KVAEN: In silence
22.PESTILENCE: Land of tears

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 12 - Wacken Open Air

The show was about Wacken Open Air 2026

01.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Monsters
02.LACUNA COIL: Blood, tears, dust
03.THE TROOPS OF DOOM: Chapels of the unholy
04.THERAPY?: Teethgrinder
05.EUROPE: Sign of the times
06.BLOOD RED THRONE: Arterial lust
07.SAVATAGE: Jesus saves
08.ANAAL NATHRAKH: Forward!
09.TURBONEGRO: All my friends are dead
10.DEF LEPPARD: Rocket
11.VREID: The skies turn black
12.PARADISE LOST: The last time
13.PIG DESTROYER: Trojan whore
14.SAXON: Princess of the night
15.HATEBREED: Looking down the barrel of today
16.JUDAS PRIEST: All guns blazing
17.EMPEROR: Wrath of the tyrant
18.RUNNING WILD: Under Jolly Roger
19.SEPULTURA: Troops of doom
20.BLOOD COMMAND: Forever soldiers of Esther
21.ARCH ENEMY: To the last breath
22.CASTLE RAT: Fresh fur
23.EINHERJER: Bloodborn
24.SABATON: Templars
25.ALESTORM: Zombies ate my pirate ship

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

July 5 - Despair

Dennis Utrimark, Mats Løver & William Kismar from Despair visited our studio

01.MÖTLEY CRÜE: Live wire
02.ASIA: Heat of the moment
03.CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: You or me
04.GARTNERLOSJEN: Hvor mange kål er det i posen?
05.THE DOGS: Back to fucking
06.VAN HALEN: Ice cream man
07.CHEZ KANE: Love tornado
08.ACE FREHLEY: Ript it out
09.BJØRN RIIS: Gone
10.DEAD KOSMONAUT: View from the future
11.EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME: Age of deviation
12.ACCEPT: Fast as a shark
13.SEVENTH CRYSTAL: Delirium
14.V.R.I.L.: Void vehicle
15.SVARTILAAGEN: Tyrann over Norge
16.DESPAIR: From the darkest pits of hell
17.HALCYON DAYS: My heart is my compass
18.VORNOFF: Alsdybet II
19.TRIPTYKON: Altar of deceit

Raymond Smith

June 28

01.CRIMSON GLORY: Azrael
02.TEMPLE BALLS: Tokyo love
03.SABOTØR: Flagget
04.SLAAMASKIN: Stigma
05.WARNING: Stations
06.FAITH NO MORE: Midnight cowboy
07.MOB RULES: Above the maelstrom
08.BLACK SWAN: Cold wind blow
09.KAI HANSEN: Feeding the beast
10.HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD: 1X1
11.THE CRUEL INTENTIONS: When Eden burn
12.PREDATORY VIOLENCE: Pillage and plunder
13.HEATHEN: Never a god
14.ERADIKATED: Mortality
15.THE HAUNTED: D.O.A.
16.MORK: Torden
17.OPETH: Burden
18.DIMMU BORGIR: Ascent
19.TEMPLE OF THE ABSURD: Prayer
20.DEVILDRIVER: Dead in the water
21.RAM-ZET: For the sake of mankind

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 21 - Bravewords.com

Interview with Metal Tim from bravewords.com, recorded at Inferno Festival

01.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Killing in the name
02.SEVENDUST: Threshold
03.LEX LEGION: Gypsy tears
04.AEROSMITH: Baby, please don’t go
05.DIE SPITZ: Riding with my girls
06.AYREON: Into the black hole
07.SABATON: The duelist
08.MICHAEL SWEET: The master plan
09.DDR: Mein arsch
10.SLEGGEFETT: De nære ting
11.CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Asleep on the killing floor
12.UGLY KID JOE: Sandwich
13.BEHEMOTH: The shit ov God
14.ENSLAVED: Entroper
15.PRO-PAIN: Scorched earth
16.RAZOR: Cut Throat
Interview
17.ENTOMBED: Hollowman
18.BLODTØRST: Atter rir vinteren
19.A.H.P.: In endless disgust
20.BEWITCHED: By Satan enslaved
21.GATECREEPER: Grotesque operations

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporter: Oddgeir Gitlestad

June 14 - Tons Of Rock

The show was about Tons Of Rock

01.BLACK DEBBATH: Tons of rock
02.BABYMETAL: Pa pa ya
03.JORDSJUK: Parasitt
04.THE OFFSPRING: Original prankster
05.BRING ME THE HORIZON: The house of wolves
06.AUDREY HORNE: Insanity
07.D.A.D.: Sleeping my day away
08.SUICIDAL TENDENCIES: Pledge your allegiance
09.ANTHRAX: Metal thrashing mad
10.ALICE COOPER: Brutal planet
11.IRON MAIDEN: Aces high
12.QUEENSRYCHE: Revolution calling
13.AVATAR: Let it burn
14.ELDER: Blighted age
15.KOCO FRANCO: Mom, I am a rich man
16.YUNGBLUD: Zombie
17.MAYHEM: Realm of endless misery
18.RIVAL SONS: Secret
19.POSSESSED: Death metal
20.SEPULTURA: All souls rising
21.W.A.S.P.: I wanne be somebody
22.BLOOD RED THRONE: Unleashing hell
23.A PERFECT CIRCLE: Blue
24.LIMP BIZKIT: My way

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

June 7 - Powertrippin'

Interview with Tor Ivar Johansen, Odd Inge Rygh & Philip Rygh from Powertrippin’, recorded at their rehearsal room.

01.ALESTORM: Keelhauled
02.VOIDANTH: Sirens call
03.AMBERIAN DAWN: Temptations gates
04.TRIUMPH: Rocky mountain way
05.FOO FIGHTERS: Monkey wrench
06.POWERTRIPPIN’: Evil city
07.POWERTRIPPIN’: Holy war
08.POWERTRIPPIN’: 2000 man
09.POWERTRIPPIN’: Illusions
10.EXTREME: It (‘s a monster)
11.ANTHRAX: It’s for the kids
12.AVATARIUM: Pearls and coffins
13.HALCYON DAYS: Watch me burn
14.BATHORY: Woman of dark desires
15.DISGRACEFUL LIFE: Banished from existence
16.DRACONIAN: Misanthrope river
17.ERADIKATED: Mortality
18.BEHEMOTH: Ora pro nobis Lucifer
19.JINJER: Tantrum
20.FIRESPAWN: Lucifer has spoken

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporter: Raymond Smith

May 31 - Mörkekraft

Böne Syrdal, Roger Henriksen, Tommy Jansen Loennechen from Mörkekraft visited our studio.

01.SHA-BOOM: Rock
02.THE CRUEL INTENTIONS: Living out of line
03.TRIOSPHERE: Of tyrants
04.JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13: You can give
05.ROB ZOMBIE: F.T.W. 84
06.NAZARETH: I want to do everything for you
07.THE HELLACOPTERS: By the grace of God
08.MÖRKEKRAFT: Follow the spiders
09.MÖRKEKRAFT: Evil eyes
10.MÖRKEKRAFT: Soul confusion
11.EPICA: Cross the divide
12.L.A. GUNS: Never enough
13.AVATAR: Bloody angel
14.ENSLAVED: Fire marengo
15.ABANDON AGONY: Writing on the wall
16.URGEHAL: Satanic black metal in hell
17.FESTER: Winter of sin
18.GOUGE: Sadist
19.EINHERJER: Gone
20.AUGUST BURNS RED: The nameless
21.KANONENFIEBER: Waffenbrüder

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 24 - Sweden Rock Festival

The show was about Sween Rock Festival 2026

01.DOWN: Right place, wrong time
02.BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: Broken and blind
03.CORONER: Symmetry
04.VOLBEAT: Still counting
05.THE CROWN: Deathexplosion
06.SELF DECEPTION: Break
07.EVERGREY: The world is on fire
08.MASTERPLAN: Chase the light
09.SAVATAGE: Edge of thorns
10.IRON MAIDEN: Infinite dreams
11.UNPEOPLE: Clouds
12.THE GATHERING: Fear the sea
13.OVERKILL: Rotten to the core
14.GRAVE: Soulless
15.VREID: The skies turn black
16.JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS: I love rock n’ roll
17.HELLOWEEN: I want out
18.CLAWFINGER: Scum
19.CANDLEMASS: Solitude
20.YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Rising force
21.SKYCLAD: Earth mother , the sun and the furious host
22.THE HALO EFFECT: March of the unheard
23.BRING ME THE HORIZON: The house of wolves

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 17

01.STORM: Oppi fjellet
02.SLAAMASKIN: Stridshaud
03.LORD OF THE LOST: My funeral
04.JORN: Stormcrow
05.THE PRETTY RECKLESS: When I wake up
06.DØD DRØM: Pulverprinsen
07.GLITTERTIND: Norge i rødt, hvitt og blått
08.BLODSMAK: Svart fugl
09.SABATON: Yamato
10.DEEP PURPLE: Hush
11.PAPA ROACH: Wake up calling
12.DANKO JONES: I love it louder
13.DOMINUM: The circus is in town
14.IRON MAIDEN: Caught somewhere in time
15.GOD DETHRONED: Fail to exist
16.DRAKEN: Of demise and men
17.EXODUS: Goliath
18.ERADIKATED: Precipice
19.SLAGMAUR: Ja vi elsker dette landet
20.FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: The wretch
21.DEVILDRIVER: Dig your own grave
22.AURORA BOREALIS: Night cannibals
23.THE CROWN: Under the whip
24.SATYRICON: Vikingland

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 10 - Blodsmak

Steinar Evant from Blodsmak visited our studio.

01.MASTERPLAN: Enlighten me
02.THE HELLACOPTERS: Her strut
03.THE GEMS: Happy water
04.LOVECAST: Learn how to feel
05.DOWN: Ghosts along the Mississippi
06.JOE LYNN TURNER: Let the music do the talking
07.BLODSMAK: Ormetungetale
08.BLODSMAK: Svart fugl
09.BLODSMAK: Ikkje eit ord
10.RAINBOW: Since you’ve been gone
11.REBELLION: Queen of spades
12.PRO-PAIN: March of the giants
13.MALUM: Hollow
14.TRUEANDTRUE: Prayin’ with the boys
15.SAGNTID: We were quite alone
16.HELLBUTCHER: The sword of wrath
17.DIMMU BORGIR: Ulvgjeld & blodsodel
18.ILDFAR: Under maanen
19.IMMOLATION: Attrition
20.SYLOSIS: All glory, no valour
21.RAVENTONGUE: Økserock

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

May 3 - Desertfest

Preben Astrup & Elisabeth Horne from Desertfest visited our studio

01.WHITE TUNDRA: Third floor
02.THULSA DOOM: Why do you keep on (watching the porno) after you came
03.PELICAN: The creeper
04.NEBULA: Come down
05.KING BUFFALO: Centurion
06.-(16)-: Hat on a bed
07.RUSSIAN CIRCLES: Tupilak
08.HOWLING GIANT: Beholder I downfall
09.EARTHLESS: Gifted by the wind
10.MOONSTONE: Mushroom king
11.BOTTENHAVET: Fimpa alla ljusen
12.CONAN: Eye to eye to eye
13.DOZER: Supersoul
14.PRIMITIVE MAN: Seer
15.THE SWORD: Iron swan

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 26 - Karmøygeddon

The show was about Karmøygeddon Metal Festival 2026

01.MAYFIRE: Shadows
02.WOLFHEART: Ancestor
03.DJERV: (We don’t) hang no more
04.OLD MAN’S CHILD: Doommaker
05.BEFORE THE DAWN: As above, so below
06.BEYOND THE BLACK: Ravens
07.DARK TRANQUILLITY: Punish my heaven
08.IOTUNN: Earth to sky
09.VINTERSORG: Till fjälls
10.KISSIN’ DYNAMITE: Raise your glass
11.HARDCORE SUPERSTAR: Moonshine
12.SETYØURSAILS: Bad blood
13.SEPTICFLESH: Enemy of truth
14.ACCEPT: The reckoning
15.SELF DECEPTION: The wedding
16.AMBUSH: Evil in all dimensions
17.ANNISOKAY: Like a parasite
18.MUSTASCH: Down in black
19.CLAWFINGER: Going down (like Titanic)
20.THRONE OF KATARSIS: Lysets endeligt
21.ABBATH: Dream cull
22.INSOMNIUM: The killjoy

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 19 - Pål Borgersen

Interview with Pål Borgersen from Spetakkelfestivalen recorded at Inferno Metal Festival

01.KAMELOT: When the lights are down
02.CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: Gimme some moore
03.SABOTØR: Sabotør
04.JOE LYNN TURNER: Rescue you
05.WHEEL: Empire
06.RAMONES: California sun
07.METALITE: Our time has come
08.JIMI HENDRIX: Foxy lady
09.LEX LEGION: Sleep eternally
10.MAGIC PIE: Everyday hero
11.PATRIARCHS IN BLACK: Destroyer
12.KATATONIA: My twin
13.BODY COUNT: Voodoo
14.RAM-ZET: Cranium
15.ENTOMBED: Wreckage
16.HELVITNIR: Black flame triad
interview
17.IOTUNN: Earth to sky
18.NAILS: You will never be one of us
19.EXODUS: 3111
20.CARCASS: Incarnated solvent abuse
21.KREATOR: Seven serpents
22.SEPTICFLESH: Martyr

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Reporter: Raymond Smith

April 12 - Oskaal

Jonathan Hamre & Jo Aslak Aspås from Oskaal visited our studio

01.MANOWAR: Kings of metal
02.KAASIN: The real world
03.TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK: Wait for the sun
04.AUSTEN STARR: Running out of time
05.LOST SOCIETY: Is this what you wanted
06.ANTHRAX: Got the time
07.MUSTASCH: Down in black
08.IRON SAVIOR: Take on me
09.TWILIGHT FORCE: Magic of a new dawn
10.SLAAMASKIN: Hoggspekker
11.BLOODBOUND: The nine crusaders
12.BLACK OLD SCRATCH: The calling
13.NERVOSA: Ghost notes
14.OSKAAL: Hymn
15.OSKAAL: Slaughter the divine
16.OSKAAL: Necrosis
17.OSKAAL: Refused
18.THE SPIRIT: Pillars of doom
19.DEICIDE: Sacrifical suicide

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 5

01.OVERKILL: Hello from the gutter
02.THE GEMS: Gravity
03.ALICATE: Don’t turn around
04.DRAKEN: The great deceiver
05.SONATA ARCTICA: Freedom concept
06.JETHRO TULL: Aqualung
07.SELF DECEPTION: The wedding
08.HALESTORM: I hate myself for loving you
09.EVERGREY: Architects of the new weave
10.POPPY: Time will tell
11.CRIMSON GLORY: Chasing the hydra
12.POWERTRIPPIN’: Jack the ripper
13.SILVERSTEIN: Apologize
14.EXODUS: Promise you this
15.EXHUMED: The iron graveyard
16.ERADIKATED: British petroleum
17.CREMATORY: Ravens calling
18.JORDSJUK: Klangbunn fra helvete
19.AUGUST BURNS RED: Behemoth
20.FIT FOR A KING: Witness the end
21.DRACONIAN: Cold heavens
22.VREID: The skies turn black
23.POSSESSED: The exorcist
24.ODIUM: Towards the forest horizon

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 29 - Motorpsycho

Hans Magnus «Snah» Ryan from Motorpsycho visited our studio

01.GHOST: Dance macabre
02.TUNGSTEN: Bite my tongue
03.MASTERPLAN: Chase the light
04.RAGA ROCKERS: Noen å hate
05.NITE: Crow (fear the night)
06.MOTORPSYCHO: Fanny again, or
07.MOTORPSYCHO: The hornet
08.MOTORPSYCHO: The gaia II space corps
09.JUDAS PRIEST: Diamonds and rust
10.GODSMACK: Speak
11.CULT OF LUNA: Ghost trail
12.CAVERN DEEP: Queen womb
13.FEVERSEA: Until it goes away
14.DARKTHRONE: In the shadow of the horns
15.SADISTIC INTENT: Ancient black earth
16.SWARTZHEIM: Wounds
17.BIZARREKULT: Løslatt

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

Interview by: Raymond Smith & Jørn Livrud

March 22 - Inferno Metal Festival

Runar Pettersen from Inferno Metal Festival visited our studio

01.1914: 1916 (the Südtirol offensive)
02.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
03.INCANTATION: Golgotha
04.TORMENTOR: Elisabeth Bathory
05.CARNIVORE: Carnivore
06.MÙR: Frelsari
07.THE KOVENANT: The sulphur feast
08.MAYHEM: Realm of endless misery
09.SAMAEL: Baphomet’s throne
10.KANONENFIEBER: Menschenmühle
11.ENSLAVED: Isa
12.MORK: I hornens bilde
13.OLD MAN’S CHILD: Towards eternity
14.DEICIDE: Scars of the crucifix
15.PRIMORDIAL: Wield lightning to split the sun

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 15

01.METALLICA: Master of puppets
02.COURSE OF FATE: Behind the eclipse
03.STORM THE CASTLE: Rome falls
04.CLAWFINGER: Going down (like Titanic)
05.FM: American girls
06.NOFX: Minnesota nazis
07.TURBONEGER: Her kommer vinteren
08.TAILGUNNER: War in heaven
09.LYNYRD SKYNYRD: Simple man
10.UFO: Doctor doctor
11.FIREWÖLFE: Battle of the living dead
12.MELECHESH: Raptors of Anzu
13.AGABAS: Kill
14.PRO-PAIN: Oceans of blood
15.JORDSJUK: Parasitt
16.MØL: Hud
17.OSKAAL: Hymn
18.DEVINE DEFILEMENT: Terror tales
19.SYLOSIS: Lacerations
20.THE HALO EFFECT: Lest we fall
21.ABHORRATION: Invoke them

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen