April 25

01.W.A.S.P.: I wanna be somebody
02.JORDSJØ: Mellom mjødurt, marisko og søstermarihånd
03.SABATON: The royal guard
04.KISS: Then she kissed me
05.SIGNUM REGIS: Flag of hope
06.ALESTORM: Keelhauled
07.CROWNE: Sharoline
08.ALL GOOD THINGS: For the glory
09.THE RAINBIRD: My sambuca baby
10.3.2: Killer of hope
11.SWEET OBLIVION: Once again one sin
12.MEGADETH: Peace sells
13.DECAPITATED: The fury
14.HEDVIG MOLLESTAD: A stone’s throw
15.SCAR OF THE SUN: I am the circle
16.BRUTALITY: Hell on earth
17.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Surround, kill, devour
18.SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE: Alone
19.DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER: Tiki
20.KONKHRA: The dying art
21.DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL: Signal fire
22.DEICIDE: In hell I burn

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 18

01.VICTORY: Power strikes the earth
02.THE END MACHINE: We walk alone
03.BOKASSA: So long, idiots
04.STATUS QUO: Bula bula quo – kua ni lega
05.MERCURY CIRCLE: You open up the earth
06.STIAN PIAN: Vampires empire
07.THE VINTAGE CARAVAN: Can’t get you off my mind
08.SUBWAY TO SALLY: Veitstanz
09.HELLOWEEN: Skyfall
10.MYLES KENNEDY: The ides of march
11.ZEBRA: Free
12.OCTOHAWK: Weather the storm
13.1349: I am abomination
14.HATEBREED: All I had I gave
15.MYRONATH: Evigt mörker
16.CRO-MAGS: Violence and destruction
17.HELGRIND: Through the Helgrind gates
18.ILLT: Sons of the northern lights
19.OKKULTOKRATI: Freezing vortex death dreamer
20.MAYHEM: Slaughter of dreams

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 11

01.KING DIAMOND: The family ghost
02.KORPIKLAANI: Sanaton maa
03.GRIEF COLLECTOR: Wintersick
04.QUEENSRYCHE: Almost cut my hair
05.JO BELOW: Ms. Death
06.NIRVANA: In bloom
07.HEART HEALER: Evil’s around the corner
08.SUPERLYNX: Laws of nature
09.TURBULENCE: Madness unforseen
10.MYSTIC PROPHECY: We will kill, you die
11.LETZTE INSTANZ: Ouvertüre
12.PICTURE ANN: Strange blood (Part II)
13.OLDSKULL: None shall live
14.MYRKSKOG: Deathmachine
15.MORBID BREATH: Hellbringer
16.THULCANDRA: Night eternal
17.NORDJEVEL: Rovdyr
18.NOCTIFERIA: Now you will pay
19.VETTER: Morgensolens rike
20.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
21.FEED THEM DEATH: Displeasure in pleasure
22.CARACH ANGREN: Bitte tötet mich

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

April 4

01.YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: Rising force
02.PAUL STANLEY’S SOUL STATION: You are everything
03.BURNING WITCHES: Flight of the valkyries
04.HAMMER KING: Hammerschlag
05.ISSA: The way out
06.LION’S SHARE: Under attack
07.MOTORPSYCHO: The waning (pt.1)
08.LORDI: Bringing back the balls to rock
09.ELECTRIC HAZE: Too close to the truth
10.NEIL MERRYEATHER & THE SPACE RANGERS: Star rider
11.SIRENIA: This curse of mine
12.BLACK SABBATH: Sabbath bloody sabbath
13.THE MOTH GATHERER: The failure design
14.BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT: Paint the sky with blood
15.HYPNOSIA: Circle of the flesh
16.HATEBREED: It’s the limit
17.NIGHTFALL: Darkness forever
18.PICTURE ANN: Film widow
19.DJEVEL: Englene som falt ned i min seng, skal jeg sette fri med brukne vinger og torneglorier
20.NIGHTRAGE: Abyss rising
21.DIMMU BORGIR: Blessings upon the throne of tyranny
22.GOREFEST: Chameleon

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 28

01.TURBONEGER: City of Satan
02.RONNIE ATKINS: Picture yourself
03.SECRET SPHERE: Life survivors
04.MORGANA LEFAY: Lost reflection
05.WHITE VOID: There is no freedom but the end
06.OZZY OSBOURNE: Ordinary man
07.CLIVE NOLAN: Dragon fire
08.RISE AGAINST: Nowhere generation
09.IVY GOLD: Face of deceit
10.THE DOGS: Try harder
11.IMPERIA: To Valhalla I ride
12.SISTER: Walk with me
13.THERION: Powerdance
14.TROLLFEST: Happy
15.THE CROWN: Let the hammering begin!
16.VIDEO NASTY: Nightmare beach
17.VALDAUDR: Den evige ild
18.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Hammer smashed face
19.THYRFING: Döp dem i eld
20.GOLDEN RUSK: Blood spawn
21.PROFANITY: Ceremony of the rotten
22.ATREYU: Warrior
23.CARPATHIAN FOREST: The well of all human tears

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 21

01.ACCEPT: Balls to the wall
02.ARC OF LIFE: You make it real
03.ALMANAC: Kingdom of the blind
04.PAPA ROACH: Broken as me
05.EVERTURE: The rivers flows
06.DOBBELTGJENGER: Living in overdrive
07.ARTILLERY: Khomaniac
08.KISS: Psycho circus
09.EVERGREY: In the absence of sun
10.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Looking out my backdoor
11.PIL & BUE: Everyone’s just a kid
12.MANOWAR: Secret of steel
13.OPETH: The drapery falls
14.ILLT: Blood of the unbeliever
15.ATREYU: Underrated
16.PANDO: In god we trust with our cold dead hands
17.BIZARREKULT: Ut i skogen
18.OBITUARY: Rotting ways
19.PHALLOSOPHER: Black light of creation
20.ENTOMBED: Out of hand
21.SAMAEL: The black face

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 14

01.OVERDRIVE: Let the metal do the talking
02.NEONFLY: Venus
03.WIZARD: 30 years of metal
04.ACE FREHLEY: White room
05.VALCATA: Tower
06.TROUBLE: Manic frustration
07.BLACK & DAMNED: Liquid suicide
08.KISS: Love gun
09.FIREFORCE: Firepanzer
10.FIVE THE HIEROPHANT: Fire from frozen cloud
11.POUNDER: Hard road to home
12.PANTERA: I’m broken
13.DREAD SOVEREIGN: The great beast we serve
14.FEUERSCHWANZ: Schubsetanz
15.BLOODRUST: Novichok death squad
16.GORR: Ditt uendelege raseri
17.AETHERIAN: Primordial woods
18.BORKNAGAR: The genuine pulse
19.NEKROMANTHEON: Thanatos
20.MEMORIAM: Failure to comply
21.EKTOMORF: And the dead will walk
22.MESHUGGAH: Electric red

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

March 7

01.GREAT WHITE: Rock me
02.HELSTAR: Black wings of solitude
03.NEIL MERRYWEATHER & THE SPACE RANGERS: Eight miles high
04.BLACK JUJU: Hiawatha
05.LED ZEPPELIN: Stairway to heaven
06.ANDREW W.K.: Babalon
07.SABATON: Livgardet
08.OZZY OSBOURNE: Fire
09.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit
10.TROUBLE: Fear no evil
11.SISTER SIN: All systems go
12.EINHERJER: West coast groove
13.ANGSTKRIG: Skyggespil
14.TROLLFEST: Happy heroes
15.DEAD SUN: Night terrors
16.MORBID ANGEL: God of emptiness
17.GROMTH: Killing
18.VALDAUDR: Evig langt inn i tiden
19.FESKARN: Parasite
20.DECLINE OF THE I: The veil of splendid lies
21.WINDS: Bloodstained and sworn

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 28

01.EXCITER: Heavy metal maniac
02.RAVN: Hulderlokk
03.ROYAL HUNT: Burn
04.HELIX: Gimme gimme good lovin’
05.FIST: Crazy on you
06.TROUBLE: Assassin
07.MYLES KENNEDY: In stride
08.SLAVES TO FASHION: The power of metal
09.NORMANDIE: Jericho
10.GREENLEAF: Tides
11.RICKY WARWICK: When life was hard and fast
12.ALICE COOPER: Social debris
13.MEAT LOAF: Rock’n’roll merceneries
14.OCTOHAWK: Iconoclast
15.INCARCERATION: Psychic totality
16.ENDEZZMA: The name of the night is a strong tower
17.AMON AMARTH: Vs. the world
18.SHADOWS: Ghosts of old
19.EVILE: Hell unleashed
20.KHOLD: Med nebb og klør
21.THULCANDRA: Fallen angel’s dominion
22.PESTIFIER: Swallower of worlds
23.OLD MAN’S CHILD: The last chapter

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan Erik Johansen

February 21 - Viking Queen

Robert Hoffstaetter from Viking Queen visited our studio

01.RAMMSTEIN: Rammstein
02.WHITE VOID: The shovel and the cross
03.MARIUS DANIELSEN: Stars will light the way
04.TROUBLE: The wolf
05.MARA: Blessed shores
06.MALICE: License to kill
07.VIKING QUEEN: Hammer of the gods
08.VIKING QUEEN: Empire of death
09.VIKING QUEEN: Trail of a viking
10.JORN: Faith bloody faith
11.AOR: Blueprint for love
12.MORK: Svartmalt
13.CLIFFORD: En svensk jävla tragedi
14.NEKROMANTHEON: The visions of Trismegistos
15.ENEMY AWAKE: Hate
16.OF MICE & MEN: Timeless
17.NORDJEVEL: Fenriir
18.DROTT: Dance of the Mylings
19.PESTILENCE: Out of the body
20.WHILE SHE SLEEPS: You are all you need
21.SHINING (S): Yttligare ett steg närmare total jävla utfrysning

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan Erik Johansen

February 14

01.OVERKILL: I hate
02.W.E.T.: The moment of truth
03.MSG: In search of the peace of mind
04.ARC OF LIFE: Just in sight
05.AFI: Twisted tongues
06.BAD WOLVES: Zombie
07.HUMAN FORTRESS: Vain endeavour
08.MONOLORD: I’m staying home
09.SABATON: In the name of God
10.INGLORIOUS: Medusa
11.NORMANDIE: Babylon
12.ROLLINS BAND: Obscene
13.THEATRE OF TRAGEDY: Radio
14.CODE OF PERFECTION: Hearts in Atlantis
15.SODOM: Nicht mehr mein land
16.ENDEZZMA: Wild gloriour death
17.NECROTTED: My mental castration
18.AUTOPSY: In the grip of winter
19.PHLEBOTOMIZED: No surrender
20.CELESTIAL SANCTUARY: Wretched habits
21.ACT OF CREATION: Violet red
22.MARDUK: Departure from the mortal

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 7

01.CANDLEMASS: Solitude
02.WIG WAM: Hypnotized
03.NACHTBLUT: Leierkinder
04.GARY MOORE: The loner
05.THERION: Tuonela
06.EPICA: Rivers
07.ANNIHILATOR: Denied
08.VESTINDIEN: Null
09.RONNIE ATKINS: Real
10.IRON MAIDEN: Revelations
11.AMORPHIS: Brother and sister
12.CATHEDRAL: The caravan
13.DEMONIAC: Equilibrio fatal
14.EINHERJER: The blood and the iron
15.EKTOMORF: Smashing the past
16.DEATH: Suicide machine
17.AUGUST BURNS RED: Standing the storm
18.NEKROMANTHEON: The visions of Trismegistos
19.MARA: Born to die
20.SIRENIA: We come to ruins
21.RAVAGE MACHINERY: March of the consumed

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 31

01.SLAYER: South of heaven
02.CREYE: Carry on
03.LABYRINTH: Den of snakes
04.FIVE THE HIEROPHANT: Fire from frozen cloud
05.KING BAAL: Immortality
06.ARABS IN ASPIC: Madness and magic
07.SATAN’S FALL: There will be blood
08.ACCEPT: Too mean to die
09.GODSEND: In the bitter waters
10.TURBONEGER: All my friends are dead
11.DEAD SOUL TRIBE: The gossamer strand
12.MAJESTIC MASS: Thy ravenous storm
13.STASS: Fear of the living dead
14.IMMORTAL: Tragedies blows at horizon
15.MARIANAS REST: Glow from the edge
16.GRAVE: Black dawn
17.ANNISOKAY: Bonfire of the millenials
18.ENDEZZMA: Formless and void
19.PARANORM: Lost cause
20.GRIMFIST: Reap the fire

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 24 - The Norseman Company

Rudi Remme from The Norseman Company visited our studio

01.SAVAGE: Let it loose
02.CELLAR DARLING: Dance
03.JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13: Hard to say goodbye
04.FALCONER: Grimasch om morgonen
05.WHITE VOID: This apocalypse is for you
06.THE NORSEMAN COMPANY: Master of the dark
07.THE NORSEMAN COMPANY: Since you’ve been gone
08.JADED HEART: Stand your ground
09.JORN: Faith bloody faith
10.NIGHTWISH: Planet hell
11.STRANGE LAND: Marionette
12.OF MICE & MEN: Obsolete
13.MEMORIAM: Onwards into battle
14.KAMPFAR: Troll, død og trolldom
15.ENDEZZMA: The archer, fjord and the thunder
16.EX DEO: I, Caligvla
17.(0): Skarntyder
18.TREYHARSH: Agoraphobic
19.MORDKAUL: Dress code blood
20.HYPOCRISY: 44 double zero

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 17

01.MANOWAR: Blood of my enemies
02.ALTER BRIDGE: Last rites
03.ANTI-FLAG: A dying plea vol.1
04.FEUERSCHWANZ: Im bauch des wals
05.EPICA: Abyss o’time
06.NASHVILLE PUSSY: First I look at the purse
07.GAIA EPICUS: From ashes to fire
08.MARK BOALS: Broken heart
09.RAGE: Twenty one
10.HELLOWEEN: Eagle fly free
11.LÜT: Lütetro
12.IN FLAMES: Coerced coexistense
13.INFILTRATION: Missing in bodycount
14.RELENTLESS AGGRESSION: End of religion
15.NERVOSA: Perpetual chaos
16.SYLOSIS: Worship decay
17.TRAIL OF TEARS: Bloodstained endurance
18.BLAKKPHANG: Deep cuts, deep
19.WEHRMACHT: The beer is here! – Drink beer be free
20.MORBID ANGEL: God of emptiness
21.SCULPTOR: Born to be slave
22.ABBERATION: I
23.MOONSORROW: Kivenkantaja

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 10

01.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needles 24/7
02.WIG WAM: Kilimanjaro
03.NIGHT LEAGUE: Wheels of the warrior
04.FAITH NO MORE: Easy
05.SIRENIA: Addiction no.1
06.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Then came the last days of may
07.ARANIA: The void
08.HURRA TORPEDO: Kald
09.MAZE OF TORMENT: Breach the wall

Vega Tanas top 5 albums of 2020
10.05.SODOM: Sodom & Gomorrah – Genesis XIX
11.04.ROSS THE BOSS: Born of fire – Born Of Fire
12.03.UADA: The great mirage – Djinn
13.02.NECROPHOBIC: Tartarian winds – Dawn Of The Damned
14.01.TESTAMENT: WWIII – Titans Of Creation

15.CADAVER: Let me burn
16.HINSIDES: Frälst i dödsstöten
17.MONSTRAAT: When it ends
18.EKTOMORF: And the dead will walk
19.HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY: And oceans between us
20.ILLT: Scythian king
21.NILE: Eat of the dead

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 3

01.ARTCH: Burn down the bridges
02.W.E.T.: Big boys don’t cry
03.TESSIA: The seed
04.ANUBIS GATE: Atlas
05.VANDEN PLAS: Under the horizon
06.METAL CHURCH: Badlands
07.MSG: After the rain
08.RAGA ROCKERS: Sukker
09.KNOGJÄRN: Älskar ingen
10.WEDNESDAY 13: Devil inside
11.SEETHER: Wasteland
12.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Angelface
13.GOD DETHRONED: Book of lies
14.MOONSPELL: The greater good
15.EINHERJER: Stars
16.FULLMÅNE: Torch in the night
17.IMMORTAL: Tyrants
18.UTBYRD: Sjøormen
19.BLOODLETTER: Absolution denied
20.EX DEO: I, Caligvla
21.FURIOUS TRAUMA: Plague of the new world
22.BATHORY: Baptised in fire and ice

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 27 - Top 2020

Our personal top 5 of 2020

01. EUROPE: The final countdown

Jan Erik Johansen:
05.RISING STEEL: Mystic voices – Fight Them All
04.IGNITION: Warrior of the night – Call Of The Sirens
03.SORCERER: The hammer of witches – Lamenting Of The Innocent
02.UNDER THE OAK: Tribulation – Ripped Up By The Roots
01.AMBUSH: Hellbiter – Infidel

Raymond Smith:
05.AYREON: Get out now – Transitus
04.OZZY OSBOURNE: Scary little green men – Ordinary Man
03.PARADISE LOST: Forsaken – Obsidian
02.TESTAMENT: Children of the next level – Titans Of Creation
01.CONNECT THE CIRCLE: Black feathers – This Is Madness

Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
05.IRON SAVIOR: Welcome to the new world – Skycrest
04.NIGHTWISH: Tribal – Human. :II: Nature
03.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit – Ripped Up By The Roots
02.CARACH ANGREN: The necromancer – Franckensteina Strataemontanus
01.MESSIAH: Children of faith - Fracmont

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
05.CONCEPTION: The mansion – State Of Deception
04.THE DEVIL’S REJECTS: Seven women for Satan – Blood Feast
03.HJELVIK: Father war – Welcome To Hel
02.GAMA BOMB: Electric pentacle – Sea Savage
01.HAVOK: Fear campaign – V

22.CRO-MAGS: Age of quarantine

Jan Erik Johansen
Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad

December 20

01.KING DIAMOND: Christmas
02.BLUE ÖYSTER CULT: Stairway to the stars
03.ETERNAL IDOL: Dark eclipse
04.MAJESTICA: The joy of Christmas
05.AC/DC: Hells bells
06.BØRGE OLSEN: Bloody moon
07.MEDIVAL STEEL: Medival steel
08.VISIONS OF ATLANTIS: Release my symphony
09.DAMN FREAKS: Bullets for u
10.Q5: Pull the trigger
11.RONNY PØBEL: Penga går som faen
12.CRYSTAL EYES: Confessions of the maker
13.KORPIKLAANI: Mylly
14.LOUDBLAST: The promethean fire
15.SOILWORK: A whisp of the atlantic
16.MORK: Skarpretterens øks
17.ABORYM: Hellraiser
18.FUMING MOUTH: Master of extremity
19.TAETRE: Paint it black
20.MY DYING BRIDE: The snow in my hand

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan-Erik Johansen

December 13

01.AC/DC: Mistress for christmas
02.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Papermoon
03.PALACE: Rock and roll radio
04.EPICA: Freedom the wolves within
05.PERSUADER: Raise the dead
06.THE CULT OF DESTINY: The armageddon is here
07.RAVN: Evighet
08.WICKED SMILE: We fall
09.THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: Confessions of a dopamine addict
10.DRAGGED UNDER: This holiday
11.SONATA ARCTICA: Fullmoon
12.TYGERS OF PAN TANG: Love potion no. 9
13.VEIL OF SECRETS: The last attempt
14.DREAM THEATER: A savior in the square
15.STÄLKER: Black majik terror
16.THE HU: Sad but true
17.INSIDIOUS DISEASE: Soul excavation
18.DARKNESS: Every time you curse me
19.SCOUR: Doom
20.SVARTTJERN: Prince of disgust
21.ENTOMBED: Demon
22.PROFANITY: Progenitor of the blaze
23.UNDER THE OAK: Chaos in the pit
24.ODIUM: Winterpath

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Jan-Erik Johansen