February 12 - Andre Nautøy

Andre Nautøy visited our studio, he was talking about his book project; Norwegian Thrash & Death Metal from the 80 and 90s.

01.EQUINOX: Fine by me
02.DARK SARAH: Attack of Orym
03.SAINT DEAMON: At break of dawn
04.NAZARETH: Love hurts
05.RUSSKAJA: Shapka
06.LEFT HAND SOLUTION: Worn away
07.METALLICA: Screaming suicide
08.WIG WAM: High n dry
09.HYPOCRISY: On the edge of madness
10.RAGE IN EDEN: Dysfunctional
11.RED HARVEST: Righteous majority
12.GRAVHEIM: Unborn
13.GHSS: The sickness within
14.SYMPHONIUM: Wisdom of darkness
15.OVERKILL: The surgeon
16.SLAAMASKIN: Forfall
17.DARKTHRONE: Natassja in eternal sleep
18.CADAVER: Decomposed metal skin

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

February 5 - Frostbitt

Ivan Hansen & Kevin Solheim from Frostbitt visited our studio

01.D.A.D.: Sleeping my day away
02.AUTOGRAPH: Beautiful disaster
03.THE IRON MAIDENS: Wasted years
04.ACCEPT: No shelter
05.KATATONIA: Austerity
06.INGLORIOUS: Bring me to life
07.ALICE COOPER: Billion dollar babies
08.POWERTRIPPIN’: Powertrippin
09.BON JOVI: Roller coaster
10.FROSTBITT: Machine destroy
11.FROSTBITT: Masked ghost host
12.FROSTBITT: Cyber walk
13.FROSTBITT: 106
14.GODFLESH: Crush my soul
15.IN FLAMES: Meet your maker
16.OBITUARY: The wrong time
17.WORMROT: Seizures
18.LEPER COLONY: Flesh crawl demise
19.SATYRICON: To the mountains


Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 29 - Wartex

Marius Paulsen from Wartex visited our studio

01.DEF LEPPARD: Photograph
02.ARC OF LIFE: Don’t look down
03.KAMELOT: One more flag in the ground
04.KISS: She
05.SHAKRA: Invincible
06.WILDNITE: Hero
07.IRON MAIDEN: 2 minutes to midnight
08.ATROCITY: Here comes the rain again
09.TAKIDA: Goodbye
10.WARTEX: Into oblivion
11.WARTEX: Pull the plug
12.WARTEX: Going south
13.SOCIAL DISTORTION: All the answers
14.NATT: Appell
15.CHILDREN OF BODOM: Needled 24/7
16.PERIPHERY: Wildfire
17.GEHENNA: Death to them all
18.SLAGMAUR: Bestemor sang djevelord
19.NILE: Ithyphallic

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 22- Powerdong

Ola Moum from Powerdong visited our studio

01.RUNNING WILD: Port royal
02.YESTERDAZE: Out of ammo
03.WALK IN DARKNESS: No oxygen in the west
04.KISS: Sure know something
05.POWERDONG: The prophecy of the dong / Tolkien and the elf
06.POWERDONG: Sanctuary
07.POWERDONG: The friar
08.SEVEN IMPALE: Helix
09.WARTEX: Into oblivion
10.EPICA: The essence of silence
11.APOCALYPTICA: Rise again
12.CELESTIAL SCOURGE: Moon dweller
13.ARCH ENEMY: Wings of tomorrow
14.ENTROPIA: Retox
15.REVOCATION: Dismantle the dictator
16.FLOATING: Pile of birds
17.VREDEHAMMER: Violator

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 15

01.WARLOCK: Burning the witches
02.PIL & BUE: Spesial agents
03.THRESHOLD: Haunted
04.ROUGH CUTT: Piece of my heart
05.RUMAHOY: Harambe, the pirate gorilla
06.GLORYHAMMER: Gloryhammer
07.ALESTORM: The sunk’n Norwegian
08.ENEMY EYES: Peace and glory
09.NAGA SIREN: Cut & run
10.THE CARBURETORS: Burning rubber
11.SABATON: Father
12.FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: Welcome to the circus
13.SEX PISTOLS: I’m a lazy sod
14.ETERNAL BLUE: The missing piece
15.FILTHDIGGER: Rapid descend
16.BLODKVALT: Decapitation
17.HANGING GARDEN: The four winds
18.DEFY THE CURSE: The tower of suffering
19.SLEGEST: Forløysning og rus
20.KAMPFAR: Mylder
21.NIGHTFALL: Lesbian show
22.LIONHEART: Hell on earth
23.CRADLE OF FILTH: Funeral in Carpathia

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

January 8

01.ANTHRAX: Time
02.ENUFF Z’ NUFF: Steal the light
03.TWILIGHT FORCE: Twilight force
04.SEX PISTOLS: My way
05.MANTRIC MOMENTUM: Final warning
06.AEROSMITH: Mama kin
07.BRUCE DICKINSON: Shoot all the clowns
08.GUNS N’ ROSES: Anything goes
09.RING OF FIRE: Run for your life
10.HEAVEN’S GATE: Always look on the bright side of life
11.MARILYN MANSON: Antichrist superstar
12.WATAIN: Storm of the antichrist
13.UNFORMULAS: Post mortem visionary
14.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Clouded frame
15.ENSLAVED; Caravans to the outer worlds
16.BOLT THROWER: Final revelation
17.VITTRA: Satmara
18.STORMRULER: Upon frozed shores
19.PALACE OF WORMS: Winterbird
20.AVATAR: Legend of the king

Raymond

January 1 - Top 2022

Out Personal top 5 album of 2022

01.EUROPE: The final countdown

Jan Erik Johansen:
02. 05.HOUSE OF LORDS: Saints and sinners – Saint And Sinners
03. 04.GRAVE DIGGER: Battle cry – Symbols Of Eternity
04. 03.AUDREY HORNE: Animal – Devil’s Bell
05. 02.UNDER THE OAK: Our own choice – Rattus Norvegicus
06. 01.CANDLEMASS: Sweet evil sun – Sweet Evil Sun

Knut Ivar Jacobsen:
07. 05.DARKTHRONE: Impeccable caverns of Satan – Astral Fortress
08. 04.UNDER THE OAK: Total thrash metal – Rattus Norvegicus
09. 03.HAMMERFALL: Hammer of dawn – Hammer Of Dawn
10. 02.CANDLEMASS: Scandinavian gods – Sweet Evil Sun
11. 01.ARCH ENEMY: The watcher - Deceivers

Oddgeir Gitlestad:
12. 05.KREATOR: Strongest of the strong – Hate Über Alles
13. 04.HAMMERFALL: Brotherhood – Hammer Of Dawn
14. 03.CANDLEMASS: Goddess – Sweet Evil Sun
15. 02.MUNICIPAL WASTE: Electrified brain – Electrified Brain
16. 01.WATAIN: The howling – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

Raymond Smith:
17. 05.KHOLD: Apostel – Svartsyn
18. 04.ARCH ENEMY: Handshake with hell – Deceivers
19. 03.KREATOR: Hate über alles – Hate Über Alles
20. 02.RAMMSTEIN: Zick zack – Zeit
21. 01.OZZY OSBOURNE: Mr. Darkness – Patient Number 9

22.AYREON: The truth is in here

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen
Oddgeir Gitlestad
Jan Erik Johansen

December 25

01.BON JOVI: I wish everyday could be like Christmas
02.HOUSE OF LORDS: Road warrior
03.THE NEW DEATH CULT: Superglue
04.THE DREAM SYNDICATE: Let it rain
05.YESTERDAZE: Know no better
06.WITHIN SILENCE: Flame of peace
07.LEVIATHAN: Dark side down
08.KISS: I love it loud
09.BACKSTREET GIRLS: Hizbollah rock ‘n rollah
10.KING DIAMOND: The poltergeist
11.CLEANBREAK: Still fighting
12.DRAGGED UNDER: This holiday
13.KORPHJÄRTA: Lock på vredens tunna
14.BATHORY: Son of the damned
15.DARKTHRONE: Caravan of broken ghosts
16.WARTEX: Deathroll
17.DESTRÖYER 666: Guillotine
18.WARKINGS: Hellfire
19.CONSTELLATIA: Palace
20.T.O.M.B.: Frost tyrants
21.HELGRIND: Through the Helgrind gates
22.SATYRICON: Min hyllest til vinterland

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 18

01.TWISTED SISTER: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
02.PALACE: Too old for this
03.ZERO HOUR: Technocracy
04.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: Microphone fiend
05.CHEZ KANE: I just want you
06.RONNY PØBEL: Gå rundt et jævla juletre
07.ALLEN OLZON: Carved into stone
08.ACCEPT: Metal heart
09.METALLICA: Lux æterna
10.STRYPER: Rise to the call
11.CELTIC FROST: Dawn of Meggido
12.MAJOR PARKINSON: Behind the next door
13.OSLO ESS: Bislett stadion
14.MÖK: Voodoo pantics
15.MUNICIPAL WASTE: Crank the heat
16.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.2
17.NIFELHEIM: Desecration of the dead
18.OBITUARY: The wrong time
19.VOID MOON: Waste of mind
20.TROLLFEST: Fjøsnissens fjaseri

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 11

01.KING DIAMOND: No presents for Christmas
02.ALAN PARSONS: Uroboros
03.TURMION KÄTILÖT: Isä meidän
04.U.D.O.: What a hell of a night
05.CANDLEMASS: Angel battle
06.RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE: I’m housin’
07.OZZY OSBOURNE: Degradation rules
08.GENERATION RADIO: Why are you calling me now
09.TREAT: Skies of Mongolia
10.HERBST: Ein letzter abend
11.THE CULT OF DESTINY: The reaper
12.TROUBLE: Seven
13.LILLEBROR: Røver
14.AHAB: Prof. Arronax’ descent into the vast oceans
15.BLODSKAM: Sharpening the knives
16.EISREGEN: Wiedergänger
17.THYRFING: Digerdöden
18.OBITUARY: Dying of evrything
19.SLAUGHTER THE GIANT: Ritual abuse
20.DESTRUCTION: Tormented soul
21.KREATOR: Winter martyrium

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

December 4 - Knock Out Festival

Part of the show was about Knock Out Festival 2022

01.AC/DC: Mistress for Christmas
02.ICONIC: Ready for your love
03.ULTIMA GRACE: Powers of north and east
04.OF VIRTURE: Hypocrite
05.HELLOWEEN: Out for the glory
Knock..
06.BRAINSTORM: Shiva’s tears
07.ECLIPSE: Saturday night (hallelujah)
08.THE NEW ROSES: 1st time for everything
09.ORDEN OGAN: Gunman
10.DORO: Unholy love
11.HAMMERFALL: Brotherhood
..Out Festival.
12.SAHG: Fall into fire
13.L.A. GUNS: Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight
14.PICTURE ANN: I named those monstrous bones after you
15.IN THE WOODS: We sinful converge
16.IMMINENCE: Heaven in hiding
17.AT THE GATES: Heroes and tombs
18.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.1
19.SADUS: It’s the sickness
20.JUST BEFORE DAWN: Drowned
21.DJEVEL: Kronet av en væpnet haand
22.TESTAMENT: Low

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 27

01.IRON MAIDEN: Another rock and roll Christmas
02.LEATHERWOLF: Madhouse
03.WEDNESDAY 13: Good day to be a bad guy
04.JUDAS PRIEST: Rapid fire
05.THERION: Pazuzu
06.STAGE DOLLS: Commandos
07.RETURN: Change the attitude
08.EPICA: Sensorium
09.AYREON: Ride the comet
10.KISS: Creatures of the night
11.GRAND: Stone cold
12.ALANNAH MYLES: Hurry make love
13.NAILED TO OBSCURITY: Liquid mourning
14.DARK TRANQUILITY: What only you know
15.ELUVEITIE: Exile of the gods
16.AMORPHIS: Black winter day
17.BATHORY: Ring of gold
18.IMPUGNER: Morass
19.DEMONICAL: Fallen mountain
20.TAAKE: I am the black wizards
21.ABORTED: Infinte terror
22.ATROCITY: Born to kill
23.NILE: Long shadows of dread

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 20

01.PANTERA: I’m broken
02.H.E.A.T.: Hollywood
03.IRON ALLIES: Full of surprises
04.DOKKEN: From the beginning
05.URIAH HEEP: Easy livin’
06.JETHRO TULL: Aqualung
07.SABATON: Father
08.JOURNEY: Live to love again
09.WARKINGS: Monsters
10.MOTORPSYCHO: The ladder
11.BLACK DEBBATH: Hobby dommedagsprofet
12.THE CROWN: Godeater
13.THE HALO EFFECT: Shadowminds
14.ATENA: Slip away
15.AURORA BOREALIS: The house of Nimrod
16.BRYMIR: Voices in the sky
17.DESTRÖYER 666: Wildfire
18.NOXIUM FERUS: Cut off from God
19.WITCHMASTER: All-consuming hate
20.IN PAIN: Witchcraft
21.TILINTETGJORT: Vinter og høst

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 13 - Metal Hammer Paradise

Part of the show was about Metal Hammer Paradise

01.SYSTEM OF A DOWN: Aerials
02.POWER TRIPPIN’: Gustav the gun
03.LED ZEPPELIN: Stairway to heaven
04.WIZRD: Lessons
05.AVATARIUM: God is silent
06.FAIR WARNING: In the ghetto
Metal Hammer…
07.CLAWFINGER: Rosegrove
08.CROWBAR: I feel the burning sun
09.SODOM: Ausgebombt
10.SACRED REICH: Surf Nicaragua
11.SEPULTURA: Guardians of earth
12.TIAMAT: The sleeping beauty
13.EISBRECHER: 1000 narben
14.CREMATORY: Break down the walls
15.THE UNITY: Hands of time
16.PRIMAL FEAR: Metal is forever
17.DORO: All for metal
18.RHAPSODY OF FIRE: Chains of destiny
19.IN EXTREMO: Liam
…Paradise.
20.THE CARBURETORS: Fire it up
21.MGLA: Age of excuse IV
22.CADAVER: During the end

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

November 6

01.DORO: Raise your fist in the air
02.XANDRIA: Reborn
03.AD INFINITUM: Afterlife
04.BUTCHER BABIES: Korova
05.BEYOND THE BLACK: Winter is coming
06.AMARANTHE: Strong
07.BONFIRE: Freedom is my belief
08.TRIXTER: Pump it up
09.SAHG: Black cross on the moon
10.IRON MAIDEN: Sea of madness
11.RAGE: Down
12.GOTHMINISTER: Norge
13.LAST MINUTE 1.1.: Anymore
14.IN FLAMES: Foregone pt.1
15.WOLFHEART: The king
16.MASTER: Who is left to decide
17.XENTRIX: Seven words
18.LIONHEART: Death comes in 3’s
19.ANTROPOFAGUS: Hymns of acrimony
20.FOREST NOCTURNE: Not fit to survive
21.CANNIBAL CORPSE: Stripped, raped and strangled
22.MORBID ANGEL: Angel of disease

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 30

01.HELLOWEEN: Halloween
02.KERION: Final race
03.THRESHOLD: King of nothing
04.BLACK DEBBATH: Hvor i helvete blir det av Satan?
05.HÄLLAS: Earl’s theme
06.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Saturday night’s all right for fighting
07.CORROSION OF CONFORMITY: L.S.
08.PARADISE LOST: Darker thoughts
09.WHIPLASH: Last man alive
10.I SWEAR DAMNATION: I am despair
11.FINTROLL: Jaktens tid
12.SLAUGHTER THE GIANT: The undead
13.CARCASS: Kelly’s meat emporium
14.BEHEMOTH: Versvs Christvs
15.ARCH ENEMY: Handshake with hell
16.PICTURE ANN: The mist of words
17.OMNIUM GATHERUM: Nail
18.FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE: The violation
19.VIRCOLAC: The long trail
20.EXMORTUS: Oathbreaker
21.KING DIAMOND: Halloween

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 23 - The Abyss Festival

Part of the show was about The Abyss Festival

01.WARLOCK: I rule the ruins
02.STARCHASER: Starchaser
03.SUNSTORM: Games we play
04.MÖTLEY CRÜE: Wild side
05.ANVIL: Metal on metal
06.WIZRD: Fire & water
07.THE HU: Yuve yuve yu
08.SKILLS: Blame it on the night
09.VAN HALEN: Ice cream man
10.LINKIN PARK: Drawbar
11.AUDREY HORNE: Danse macabre
12.VREID: Into the mountains
The Abyss…
13.RAM: Gulag
14.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
15.NIFELHEIM: Satanic sacrifice
16.WATAIN: The howling
17.DARK QUARTERER: Retributioner
18.SACRILEGIA: Reactionary angel
19.GEHENNAH: Rocking through the kill
20.RAZOR: Punch your face in
21.SAMAEL: Moonskin
22.HELLHAMMER: Triumph of death
…Festival.

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 16

01.EUROPE: Sign of the times
02.GRAHAM BONNET BAND: Day out in nowhere
03.SAGA: On the loose
04.MAJOR PARKINSON: Moma
05.FANS OF THE DARK: Fantasia
06.PAIN: Here is the news
07.DIAMOND HEAD: Am I evil?
08.SAXON: Crusader
09.TANKARD: Beerbarians
10.ARABS IN ASPIC: High-tech parent
11.THE CRUEL INTENTIONS: Kerosene
12.TAKIDA: Haven stay
13.FAITH NO MORE: Rv
14.VULTURE INDUSTRIES: Pills of conformity
15.ESCHATOLOGY: Cataclysm I
16.VENOM INC.: Come to me
17.AENAON: Psyche
18.BLODHEMN: Farvel Feiøy
19.OBLITERATION: Goat skull crown
20.I: Warriors
21.DISINCARNATE: Entranced

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 9

Radio Fresh FM
Northern Metal Radio
Symphonium
9th October 2022

01.SACRED REICH: Surf Nicaragua
02.TREAT: Wake me when it’s over
03.DORO: Raise your fist in the air
04.JEFF SCOTT SOTO: Don’t look back
05.ALTER BRIDGE: Sin after sin
06.DEF LEPPARD: Release me
07.GINEVRA: We belong to the stars
08.VAN HALEN: Ain’t talkin’ ‘bout love
09.ARENA: Hanging tree
10.GAUPA: Ra
11.BOKASSA: So long idiots!
12.SHAKRA: Get it all out
13.IN FLAMES: Cloud connected
14.ENSLAVED: Kingdom
15.DENOUNCEMENT PYRE: Hung like swine
16.FULLMÅNE: Fly through the city
17.LIKHEIM: Smerte
18.OBITUARY: Body bag
19.GWENDYDD: One step more
20.BLODHEMN: Velg din gift
21.EXHUMED: Drained of color
22.FEAR FACTORY: Disobey
23.BENEDICTION: Nervebomb

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen

October 2

01.MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: Welcome to the black parade
02.JANI LIIMATAINEN: Haunted house
03.AFTER FOREVER: Sweet enclosure
04.INGLORIOUS: Holy water
05.THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA: Turn to Miami
06.HOMER: Scared
07.LIV KRISTINE: Trapped in your labyrinth
08.OZZY OSBOURNE: Patient number 9
09.PENTAGRAM: Sign of the wolf (Pentagram)
10.MOTÖRHEAD: Leaving here
11.SLADE: Keep you hands off my power supply
12.GRAVEYARD: The fox
13.THE MOTH GATHERER: Utopia
14.BISMARCK: Oneiromancer
15.FILTHDIGGER: Rapid descend
16.BLODHEMN: Fraa djupet
17.FALLUJAH: Radian ascension
18.BØLZER: Into the temple of spears
19.TRIBULATION: Funeral pyre
20.ABBATH: Dream cull
21.WATAIN: The howling

Raymond Smith
Knut Ivar Jacobsen