February 5

01.DEEP PURPLE: Burn
02.JOHN GARCIA: Kylie
03.FREEDOM CALL: Metal is for everyone
04.STAGE DOLLS: Wings of steel
05.THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM: Never machine
06.GLENN HUGHES: Flow
07.XANDRIA: Call of destiny
08.DARIO MOLLO'S CROSSBONES: Rock the cradle
09.SAVIOUR: The quiet calm
10.ACCEPT: Dark side of my heart
11.DARK TRANQUILITY: Crimson winds
12.TOMB MOLD: Twisted trail
13.DANA: My mortal remains
14.ABORTED: Retrogore
15.SOILWORK: Figure number five
16.SEPULTURA: Phantom self
17.KREATOR: Satan is real
18.CIRITH GORGOR: The luciferian principle
19.MARDUK: Darkness it shall be
20.INFERNAL ANGELS: Paimon - the secret of mind
21.RED HARVEST: Godtech

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 29

01.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Burning for you
02.LIV SIN: Let me out
03.SABATON: Rorke's drift
04.BLACK STONE CHERRY: In our dreams
05.PAIN OF SALVATION: Full throttle tribe
06.SPINAL TAP: The majesty of rock
07.ARMORED DAWN: William Fly (the pirate)
08.HELMET: Wilma's rainbow
09.GRAVE DIGGER: Call for war
10.HELLOWEEN: Mirror mirror
11.FM: American girls
12.GRAND LUX: Eye of the storm
13.THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: Symptom of terminal illness
14.ANTHRAX: Suzerain
15.MARDUK: Glorification of the black god
16.HELHEIM: Baklengs mot intet
17.DARKNESS AND BLIZZ: Satan is with you
18.CHRONOSPHERE: Be the best
19.DEUS MORTEM: Receiving the impurity of Jeh
20.DREAMING DEAD: Funeral twilight
21.MOONSPELL: Mephisto

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 22

01.GORKY PARK: Bang
02.GHOST AVENUE: Impact
03.PAIN: Coming home
04.ATROCITY: Let's dance
05.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges
06.SPELLBOUND: Rockin' reckless
07.GREEN DAY: American idiot
08.FIGHT THE FIGHT: Fight the fight
09.BLACK LABEL SOCIETY: Suicide messiah
10.EPICA: Beyond the matrix
11.AYREON: Waking dreams
12.MARILLION: Living with the big lie
13.KREATOR: Satan is real
14.EX DEO: The rise of Hannibal
15.BRUJERIA: Viva presidente Trump
16.NEOPLASMA: Imperium
17.MARDUK: Glorification of the black god
18.THYRANE: Black harmony
19.CARCASS: No love lost
20.CRUSHER: Sell the Vaticans wealth

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 15

01.HAMMERFALL: Crimson thunder
02.FOREVER STILL: Miss madness
03.THE DOORS: Break on through
04.HALFORD: Resurrection
05.BATTLE BEAST: Familiar hell
06.MINDTECH: Black heart
07.TRIOSPHERE: The heart's dominion
08.MARILYN MANSON: The fight song
09.XANDRIA: We are murderes
10.ACCEPT: Stampede
11.SENTENCED: Shadegrown
12.YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Winds of war (invasion)
13.OVERKILL: Mean, green, killing machine
14.SOILWORK: Late for the kill, early for the slaughter
15.MARDUK: Infernal eternal
16.NEOPLASMA: Alt som var
17.SWITCH: Votaciones
18.SEPULTURA: Phantom self
19.SAMAEL: Into the pentagram
20.DJEVELSANG: Englestøv
21.KHONSU: A dream of earth

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 8 - Mudrod

Raymond Olsen from Mudrod visited our studio

01.WASP: The real me
02.ACCEPT: Pandemic
03.TYGERS OF PAN TANG: Blood red sky
04.MUDROD: Riverdead
05.MUDROD: Shanghai tunnels
06.BATTLE BEAST: King for a day
07.DREAM THEATER: Pull me under
08.TNT: Everyone's a star
09.DEEP PURPLE: Time for bedlam
10.QUEENSRYCHE: Empire
11.SIX FEET UNDER: Beneath a black sky
12.GROOVENOM: Shut the f#ck app
13.SERPENT: Nightflyer
14.SLAYER: South of heaven
15.USURPRESS: Across the dying plains
16.CODE: On blinding larks
17.MARDUK: Beyond the grace of god
18.HAIL SPIRIT NOIR: Riders to Utopia
19.ANAAL NATHRAKH: On being a slave

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 1 - Top 2016

Our personal 2016 top 5 albums

01.EUROPE: FInal countdown
Top 5
Raymond Smith:
02. 05.DIMENSION F3H: The dreaming - This Mechanical World
03. 04.RAGE: The devil strikes again - The Devil Strikes Again
04. 03.IN FLAMES: Drained - Battles
05. 02.METALLICA: Atlas, rise - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
06. 01.TESTAMENT: The pale king - Brotherhood Of The Snake
Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.METALLICA: Spit out the bone - Hardwired...To Self Destruct
08. 04.AMON AMARTH: One thousand burning arrows - Jomsviking
09. 03.DESTROYER 666: Hounds at ya back - Wildfire
10. 02.TESTAMENT: Black jack - Brotherhood Of The Snake
11. 01.SABATON: Blood of Bannockburn - The Last Stand
Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.SODOM: -In retribution - Decision Day
13. 04.MEGADETH: Post american world - Dystopia
14. 03.HATEBREED: Looking down the barrel of today - The Concrete Confessional
15. 02.DESTRUCTION: Generation nevermore - Under Attack
16. 01.TESTAMENT: Brotherhood of the snake - Brotherhood Of The Snake
..2016
17.SLAUGHTER: Reach for the sky
18.LOATHE: Hellfire
19.DEHUMAN: Crypts of blood
20.PICTURE ANN: Insight
21.KREATOR: Pleasure to kill

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

December 25

Raymond Olsen from Mudrod visited our studio

01.TWISTED SISTER: Have yourself a merry little Christmas
02.BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: Don't need you
03.MUDROD: Riverdead
04.MUDROD: Shanghai tunnels
05.ETERNAL IDOL: Another night comes
06.SKID ROW: Slave to the grind
07.ENUFF Z'NUFF: Runaway
08.BLACK STONE CHERRY: Blue Christmas
09.BRAINSTORM: Falling spiral down
10.BACKSTREET GIRLS: One for the road
11.MARIUS BIRKELAND DANIELSEN: White Christmas
12.HEL: Mörker
13.BLACK HOLE GENERATOR: Beneath a chemical sky
14.KATATONIA: Murder day
15.ENSLAVED: Nordlys
16.BLINDFOLDED: She lies in the river
17.RECITATIONS: The first of the listeners
18.UNLIGHT DOMAIN: Waiting
19.DARKTHRONE: The pagan winter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 18 - Few Dollars More

Espen Klausen & Odd Thomas Tandberg from Few Dollars More visited our studio.

01.VENOM: Welcome to hell
02.SONIC SYNDICATE: Start a war
03.RAGE: War
04.NITERAIN: Lost and wasted
05.SEX PISTOLS: My way
06.SHY: My apollo
07.SKADA: Bymåka
08.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen
09.FEW DOLLARS MORE: Cosmic noise
10.FEW DOLLARS MORE: California river queen
11.FEW DOLLARS MORE: Destination unknown
12.IMPERIAL STATE ELECTRIC: Break it down
13.OSLO ESS: Midnatt
14.NIGHTWISH: Shudder before the beautiful
15.RED FANG: Cut it short
16.EVANESCENCE: Going under
17.REAPTER: Omega revolution
18.SOGGY: Waiting for the war
19.DYING FETUS: Fate of the condemned
20.RAM-ZET: Queen
21.MADDER MORTEM: Blood on the sand
22.MY DYING BRIDE: The snow in my hand

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 11 - Loxodrom

Thomas Green & Christian Skaug from Loxodrom visited our studio.

01.LED ZEPPELIN: Immigrant song
02.WARLOCK: All we are
03.HARDLINE: Nobody's fool
04.THE CARBURETORS: Burnout
05.LOXODROM: Nordavind
06.LOXODROM: Labyrint
07.LOXODROM: Brutalt elegant
08.TWILIGHT FORCE: Riders of the dawn
09.SEX PISTOLS: God save the queen
10.MERCURY MOON: Endless roads
11.PERFECT NME: Legion
12.KISS: Deuce
13.VOLBEAT: River queen
14.ROOT: Moment of fright
15.AURA NOIR: Hades rise
16.DEAD POINT: Palabras vacias
17.GRAND MAGUS: Varangian
18.BEHEMOTH: Furor divinus
19.AMON AMARTH: On a sea of blood
20.NORDJEVEL: Djevelen i nord
21.AVATAR: Hail the apocalypse
22.DISSECTOR: Rebuild on better days
23.POSSESSED: No will to live

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 4

01.AEROSMITH: Livin' on the edge
02.ACCEPT: Restless and wild
02.DEATHSTAR: White wedding
03.KEE MARCELLO: On the radio
04.RETURN: Sing me a song
05.STAGE DOLLS: Soldier's gun
06.SKALMÖLD: Midgardur
07.BLACK INGVARS: De sista ljuva åren
08.SHAMAN ELEPHANT: Crystals
09.IN FLAMES: Drained
10.OZZY OSBOURNE: Crazy train
11.METALLICA: Atlas, rise!
12.VANDERHOOF: Sonic blur in time
13.PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARDS SONS: Spiders
14.KREATOR: Gods of violence
15.SEPULTURA: Roots bloody roots
16.LAMB OF GOD: The duke
17.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
18.VIRUS: Rogue fossil
19.ENSLAVED: 793 (slaget om Lindisfarne)

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 27

01.AC/DC: Mistress for christmas
02.BIG JESUS: Floating past you
03.EL DOOM & THE BORN ELECTRIC: The hook
04.THULSA DOOM: Kick me
05.BLACK DEBBATH: The vikings (pioneers of rock)
06.SLEGEST: I fortida sitt lys
07.CIVIL WAR: America
08.SCORPIONS: Don't stop at the top
09.SONIC SYNDICATE: Start a war
10.COME TASTE THE BAND: Burn
11.GLENN HUGHES: Heavy
12.PIL & BUE: Fire
13.HEDVIG MOLLESTAD TRIO: The rex
14.EUROPE: Lights and shadows
15.SIRENIA: Cloud nine
16.MADDER MORTEM: Stones for eyes
17.CHLOVER: ...0
18.PESTILENCE: Out of the body
19.DYING FETUS: Raping the system
20.DEATH: Living monstrosity
21.INFESTDEAD: JesuSatan
22.ODIUM: Winterpath

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 20

01.RAGE: Don't fear the winter
02.ALTER BRIDGE: This side fate
03.FREAK KITCHEN: Murder groupie
04.PICTURE ANN: Blindness
05.HAMMERFALL: Hammer high
06.SAXON: Never surrender
07.TURBONEGER: Rock against ass
08.TARJA: Demons in you
09.BLACK INGVARS: Mitt eget blue Hawaii
10.SHAMAN ELEPHANT: Shaman in the woods
11.STARKWEATHER: Silken garotte/the infinity coil
12.TESTAMENT: Seven seals
13.GROOVENOM: Stay awsome!
14.BLINDFOLDED: God forbidden me to live
15.IMAGES AT TWILIGHT: Zatholach
16.DIMENSION F3H: Cyberqueen
17.MESHUGGAH: Nostrum
18.BRING ME THE HORIZON: Throne
19.MORBID ANGEL: 10 more dead

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 13 - Mercury Moon

Rune Antonsen & Roar Foss Pedersen from Mercury Moon vistited our studio.

01.SEPULTURA: Troops of doom
02.THE ANSWER: Battle cry
03.MERCURY MOON: Endless roads
04.MERCURY MOON: Picking up the pieces
05.MERCURY MOON: Sleight of hand
06.SABATON: Gott mitt uns
07.PENTAGRAM: Sign of the wolf
08.SAVATAGE: When the crowds are gone
09.ALTER BRIDGE: Show me a leader
10.OZZY OSBOURNE: Miracle man
11.OLD: Lust in red
12.CREST OF DARKNESS: Borrowed life
13.THE CRAWLING: The right to crawl
14.MAYHEM: De mysteriis dom sathanas
15.EXECRATION: Ritual hypnosis
16.REPTILIAN: Possessed by the eyes of the living god
17.DEAD LORD: Mindless

Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Raymond Smith

November 6 - I Swear Damnation

Mats Lerberg from I Swear Damnation visited out studio

01.MEGADETH: Peace sells
02.SUM 41: War
03.SAGA: Let it go
04.THEOCRACY: The wonder of it all
05.MILLENCOLLIN: Sense & sensibility
06.CULT OF LUNA & JULIE CHRISTMAS: A greater call
07.MÖTLEY CRÜE: Live Wire
08.NITERAIN: Come out
09.MIKE TRAMP: Already gone
10.GRAHAM BONNET BAND: Dead man walking
11.AMARANTHE: Boomerang
12.SCARE CULTURE: Vision
13.TARNKAPPE: Winterwaker
14.SATYRICON: Tro og kraft
15.FUNERAL: In the fathoms of wit and reason
16.I SWEAR DAMNATION: I am despair
17.DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: Wanting not so much
18.MAYHEM: Buried by time and dust
19.REVOCATION: Dismantle the dictator
20.OBSCURA: Akroasis

Raymond Smith

October 30

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.DEE SNIDER: Head like a hole
03.ANVIL: Metal on metal
04.ACCEPT: Restless and wild
05.SABATON: In the army now
06.VOLA: Gutter moon
07.TOTALT JÄVLA MÖKER: Samma jävla skit
08.SLEGEST: Wolf
09.SONIC SYNDICATE: Confessions
10.CATHEDRAL: Midnight mountain
11.METALLICA & LOU REED: Brandenburg gate
12.OPETH: Will O the wisp
13.SOBER: Loaded
14.HAIL SPIRIT NOIR: Riders to Utopia
15.ARCH ENEMY: Bury me an angel
16.SARKOM: Inferior bleeding
17.PRIMORDIAL: The seed of tyrants
18.MAYHEM: From the dark past
19.DISKORD: Lethargic regression
20.ANGEL CORPSE: Eat me alive
21.KING DIAMOND: Halloween

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 23

01.CINDERELLA: Gypsy road
02.BIG JESUS: Oneirica
03.BLUES PILLS: I felt a change
04.SEIGMEN: Monsun
05.RUNNING WILD: Blood moon rising
06.BLACK DEBBATH: Problemer innad i Høyre
07.CROBOT: Not for sale
08.AIRBOURNE: Breakin' outta hell
09.VOLBEAT; The devil's bleeding crown
10.SAMMY HAGAR: Three lock box
11.KATATONIA: Old heart falls
12.MADDER MORTEM: Fallow season
13.VAN HALEN: Runnin' with the devil
14.AKERCOCKE: Summon the antichrist
15.BLODSPOR: The clown
16.SICK OF IT ALL: Road less traveled
17.LACUNA COIL: Downfall
18.MAYHEM: Life eternal
19.DREAMARCHER: Impending doom
20.VREID: Storm frå vest
21.KAMPFAR: Tornekratt
22.KVELERTAK: Svartmesse
23.ORDER: Torquemada

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 16 - 1001 Watt

Part of the show was about 1001Watt festival

01.MOTÖRHEAD: Ace of spades
02.PAIN: A wannabe
03.HONNINGBARNA: Født fri
04.BRUCE DICKINSON: Tattooed millionaire
05.ÅRABROT: Scopes monkey - the jack
06.PELANDER: Umbrealla
07.BARE EGIL BAND: Tagging
1001...
08.TIMEWAVES: Resurrection
09.PANZERGEIL: Solarbed crackhead
10.RIBOZYME: Bronze
11.THE CARBURETORS: God damn (it's good to be right)
12.ATENA: Firstborn
13.VINGULMORK: Hold your ground
14.ENGEL: Denial
15.CORRODED: Time and again
16.AMARANTHE: That song
..Watt.
17.AC/DC: Heatseeker
18.SABBAT: Do dark horses dream of nightmares
19.WIG WAM: Gonna get you someday
20.THE LEGION GHOST: Carry the cross
21.MAYHEM: Pagan fears
22.BRUJERIA: No aceptan imitaciones
23.ANCESTOR: From the heights to the abyss
24.BLOOD RED THRONE: Ravenous war machine

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 9

01.PANTERA: Cemetery gates
02.SAXON: Heavy metal thunder
03.NARNIA: Who do you follow
04.TIEBREAKER: Killer
05.NIGHTWISH: Yours is an empty hope
06.TNT: Break the ice
07.SONATA ARCTICA: Life
08.SABATON: Gott mit uns
09.MESHIAAK: Drowning, fading,falling
10.AIRBOURNE: Rocked like this
11.HANSEN & FRIENDS: Contract song
12.OPETH: The wilde flowers
13.EPICA: Edge of the blade
14.DEEP PURPLE: Knocking at your backdoor
15.METALLICA: Moth into flame
16.NOT ABOVE EVIL: When the day comes
17.NEMESIS: Angel of the damned
18.MAYHEM: Cursed in eternity
19.VINGULMORK: (I am) the darkness you can touch
20.THE CRAWLING: Catatonic

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 2

01.AYREON: Age of shadows
02.SONATA ARCTICA: Closer to an animal
03.STAND BY: War and misery
04.HONNINGBARNA: Drep meg
05.MARILYN MANSON: Coma white
06.AMARANTHE: That song
07.JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS: I love rock'n roll
08.CROBOT: Not for sale
09.MAMA KIN: In the city
10.THE BARONS: Live fast, die loud
11.S.O.D.: Kill yourself
12.OPETH: Will o the wisp
13.VEIL OF MAYA: Mikasa
14.BORN OF OSIRIS: Illuminate
15.QUAKE THE EARTH: The ash of phoenix
16.HOUR OF ANGUISH: Farewell to the flesh
17.SAGNTID: Flesh, and for what?
18.MAYHEM: Freezing moon
19.BRUJERIA: Plata o plomo
20.MESHIAAK: Chronicles of the dead
21.RINGWORM: Snake church
22.URGEHAL: Cut their tongue shut their prayer

Raymond Smith

September 25 - Massive Destruction

Steffen Overaa from the festival Massive Destruction visitied our studio.

01.DIO: The last in line
02.KISS: War machine
03.SEIGMEN: For evig og alltid
04.BLACK SABBATH: The wizard
05.TURBONEGER: Prince of the rodeo
06.RUNNING WILD: Port royal
07.SAXON: If I was you
08.TIEBREAKER: Pan american grindstone
Massive..
09.SKYBRUDD: The will of god
10.NAUMACHIA: Schorced earth
11.TOMBSTONES: Barren fields
12.BLOOD RED THRONE: Revecation of humankind
13.SAHG: Firechild
14.KEEP OF KALESSIN: The grand design
..Destruction.
15.ENTOMBED: Crawl

Raymond Smith